Artist Talk: Roma-non-Roma: in:visibilities and dis:connections
Artist Talk: Roma-non-Roma: in:visibilities and dis:connections
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (artist in residence, gd:c) in conversation with Sophie Eisenried (art cooperation, gd:c), Anna Fenia Schneider (curator, Haus der Kunst) and Wojciech Szymański (fellow, gd:c)
With an introduction by Burcu Dogramaci (director, gd:c)
The artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas and the curator Wojciech Szymański will present some selected works and projects, including the project History of Art/History of Violence: From the Belle Èpoque to the Genocide, which they are pursuing at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect.
Afterwards, Anna Fenia Schneider and Sophie Eisenried will talk with Małgorzata Mirga-Tas and Wojciech Szymański. The panel is dedicated to the lack of knowledge about the lives, networks and spaces of Sinti:zze and Roma:nja in Munich and what role art and research can play in making this gap(s) visible.
Location: Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, Library, Maria-Theresia-Straße 21, 81675 Munich
Time: Monday, December 9, 2024, 7:00 p.m., registration by December 6, 2024 HERE.
Speakers:
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (born 1978 in Zakopane, Poland) completed her art studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. The artist and activist lives in a Roma settlement in Czarna Góra in the Polish region of Spisz and mainly creates sculptural works from cardboard and textile collages. At the Venice Biennale 2022, she exhibited her work Re-enchanting the World in the Polish Pavilion. She is currently an artist in residence at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg global dis:connect.
Exhibitions (selection):
2021: 11th Berlin Biennale
2022: Re-enchanting the world, 59th Venice Biennale
2022: One day we shall celebrate again, group show, documenta 15, Fridericianum, Kassel
2023: 14th Gwangju Biennale
2023: I have a dream, Goteborgs Konsthall, Sweden
2023: Rooms with a View. Aby Warburg, Florence and the Laboratory of Images, group show, Uffizi, Florence
2023: Sivdem Amenge. Ich nähte für uns. I sewed for us, Brucke Museum, Berlin
2023/2024: Remembrance and Resignification, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville
2024/2025: Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Tate St Ives
2024/2025: This is not the end of the road, Bonnefanten, Maastricht
forthcoming solos:
2025: Kunsthaus Bregenz
2025: National Portrait Gallery, London
Wojciech Szymański
Wojciech Szymański is an art critic and historian, independent curator, author and editor of books and catalogues. He has curated several group and solo exhibitions of contemporary Romani artists, including Kali Berga at Galerie Kai Dikhas in Berlin (2017) and The Right to Look (with Delaine Le Bas) at Grey House Gallery in Krakow (2018). He has recently curated several exhibitions by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas: Out of Egypt (2021) at the Arsenal Gallery in Białystok, Travelling Images (2022) at the International Cultural Center in Krakow (together with Natalia Żak), and
Re-enchanting the World (together with Joanna Warsza) at the Polish Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2022). He is a lecturer at the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw. He is currently a fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg global dis:connect.
Anna Fenia Schneider
Anna Fenia Schneider is a curator, writer, and cultural organiser. With a background in postcolonial thought, her curatorial work pays particular attention to global sociocultural histories and how these inform the making, form, and meaning of artistic expression. She has been a curator at Haus der Kunst München since 2012 and is invested in making the museum a meaningful and lively space for critical thinking, agency, and care. She has recently collaborated with artists such as Michael Armitage, Theaster Gates, Meredith Monk, and Hamid Zénati, to name a few. Anna Schneider graduated with a master’s degree in Exhibition and Museum Studies from the San Francisco Art Institute as a Fulbright Scholar (2009) and holds a diploma in Kulturarbeit from the Fachhochschule in Potsdam (2007) and in Graphic Design from the Städtische Berufsfachschule für Mode- und Kommunikationsgrafik (2004) in Munich.
Sophie Eisenried
Sophie Eisenried is a curator, art scholar, and author. She works as a research associate for art cooperation and communication at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg global dis:connect at the LMU Munich. She is interested in intersectional art theories and institutional critique(s), the women’s movement, global protest and strike histories and the associated artistic-activist practices, as well as theories of space appropriation. In her dissertation, she is working on autonomous, feminist counter/publics since the 1970s.
Burcu Dogramaci
Burcu Dogramaci is a professor of art history at the LMU Munich and a director at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg global dis:connect. She conducts research on exile, migration and flight, photography, textile arts, cities and urban art histories, gender and knowledge, and the history of art.