Landscapes of Belonging / Michaela Melián: Red Threads

Landscapes of Belonging
Maschinenhaus M1/M1 VideoSpace

Artists: Pia Ârĸê, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Ewa Einhorn & Jeuno JE Kim, Birit Haarla & Katja Haarla & Outi Pieski, Julie Edel Hardenberg, Hanni Kamaly, Lap-See Lam, Britta Marakatt-Labba, Fatima Moallim, Hans Rosenström, Sara Rönnbäck, Elsa Salonen, Magnús Sigurðarson, Erika Stöckel, Lada Suomenrinne

Curators: Kathrin Becker, Christine Nippe

Decolonisation processes in northern Europe play a small role in public awareness, although the indigenous Sámi population in Fennoscandia—the area that is now Sweden, Norway, and Finland—and the Inuit population in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), which was colonised by Denmark, still struggle for recognition and self-determination. The group exhibition Landscapes of Belonging at the KINDL ties in with these processes and shows works by artists from northern Europe who deal with aspects of belonging and the collective design of locality in the sense of a lived experience. How can locality be reconceived, what role does the local environment play, and who has the rights and opportunities to participate in the social and cultural design of spaces?

The exhibition is supported by the Finnish Institute in Germany and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Berlin.

Michaela Melián: Red Threads
Maschinenhaus M2

Curators: Kathrin Becker, Ingrid Wagner

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 refer 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 brings to mind stories that have been missing, omitted, or buried. The focus of the solo exhibition at the KINDL is a newly developed installation on the myth surrounding the guerrilla Tamara Bunke, aka Tania, between Havana and Berlin.

This exhibition is supported by funds from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin.

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