Michaela Melián in conversation with Joanna Warsza as part of the exhibition Michaela Melián. Red Threads
11 May, 7 pm
In English
Free admission

In her visual and acoustic collages, Michaela Melián (* 1956 in Munich) asks questions about the social, about memory, language, and identity. Her drawings, objects, multimedia installations, and audio works point to a complex network of historical facts and their traces in the present day. Melián contrasts the history of places and people with phenomena of everyday culture and specially composed music, and thus invents a form of commemorative culture that surfaces stories that have been absent, omitted, or buried. The focus of the solo exhibition at the KINDL is a newly developed installation on the legends surrounding the guerrilla Tamara Bunke, aka Tania, between Havana and Berlin.

Joanna Warsza is an interdependent curator, editor, and writer interested in how art functions beyond the protection of the white cubes. Currently, she is a co-curator of the Polish Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale with the work of Romani-Polish artist Malgorzata Mirga-Tas. Together with Övül Ö. Durmusoglu, she also co-curated the 3rd and the 4th Autostrada Biennale in Kosovo (2021and 2022), the 12th Survival Kit in Riga (2021), and Die Balkone in Berlin (2020 and 2021). Since 2014, she has been a Program Director of CuratorLab at Konstfack University of Arts in Stockholm. Her recent publications include Red Love. A Reader on Alexandra Kollontai (co-edited with Maria Lind and Michele Masucci 2020), and And Warren Niesłuchowski Was There: Guest, Host, Ghost (co-edited with Sina Najafi 2020).