Artist Talks

Moderation: Clare Molloy (Curator, London & Berlin)

Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind

Larissa Sansour, born in East Jerusalem and raised in Bethlehem, is one of Palestine’s most popular and productive artists. Her work has often addressed the occupation of her country. Søren Lind is a Danish writer and artist. Is it possible to change thehistory of a country by changing or creating a national mythical narrative? The two artists talk about their exhibition piece and the possibilities of intervening in a culture’s history.

22 April, 19:00 h, Kunsthalle

Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind: "In The Future They Ate From The Finest Porcelain"

Jennifer L. Morone

The London artist talks about her new business model. Using a company controlled by her, she markets her own personal data herself. Jennifer Lyn Morone literally becomes a one-woman business, acting as its founder, management board, shareholder and even its product. JLM Inc. operates the profit-oriented utilisation of her performance-based, health-related, genetic and physical data in order to survive the inevitable next stage of capitalism.

22 April, 19:00 h, Kunsthalle

Jennifer Lyn Morone: "JLM Inc."

Verena Friedrich

Psychologists and neurologists assume that humans consider the now that we experience to last three seconds. This period, known as the psychological present, also plays a structuring role in music and verse.The history of art and culture, too, is full of examples that deal with the now and its transience. In The Long Now, Verena Friedrich reflects on this space of experience between memory and future that is so distinct to humans.

23 April, 19:00 h, Kunsthalle

Verena Friedrich: "The Long Now"

Rotraut Pape

The Berlin Wall was a strong reference andfocal point for Rotraut Pape, Berlin artist, filmmaker and professor of Film/Video at Offenbach University of Art and Design (HfG). In 'Die Mauer - Der vertikale Horizont', she documented German-German reunification in a visual long-term observation spanning a quarter of a century,noting how the disappearance of the Berlin Wall affects the city.

23 April, 19:00 h, Kunsthalle

Rotraut Pape: "Die Mauer"

Britta Thie

In the six-part web series “Transatlantics“, the artist Britta Thie sheds light on the inner conflict of a generation “post-internet“, that moves between its analogue past and modern aestheticism. The audiovisual means of representation generate a distinct impression of hyperreality. Her installation also comments on the habit on permanently making an own YouTube series of one‘s life.