Sunday, October 29, 2023
16 – 18 h
Admission free
Nicholas Grafia is blinded by the lights and struggles not to trip in front of a bar and it’s people — or the idea of it.
Nicholas Grafia (b. 1990, Angeles City, Philippines) stages interventions into the historical archive, by weaving research, popular culture, as well as personal and art histories into their visual practice. In the mediums of painting, moving image, sound and collaborative performance projects, often made with Amsterdam based Polish artist Mikołaj Sobczak, they are addressing themes of racial and sexual vulnerability by examining who is in- and excluded from official narratives. Grafia completed his MFA at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2019 and is currently based between Düsseldorf and Paris, where they recently participated in the Art Explora residency program. The artist is represented by Peres Projects (Berlin / Seoul / Milan), Silverlens (Manila / New York) and Andersen‘s Contemporary (Copenhagen).
_Put my words in your mouth
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“Inga Krüger is alias, cover, code, synonym, artist.”* “With the help of props, she presents a possible history and future in which she juxtaposes fact and fiction, myth and gossip.”** “Inga Krüger stages linguisticity and shifts the relations of the occupation of concepts by substituting, among other things, levels of meaning of routine encodings.”***
Inga Krüger (b. 1988, Iserlohn, Germany) studied at the Münster Art Academy in the class of Suchan Kinoshita and at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Most recently, her performances were shown at Emscherkunstweg, Urbane Künste Ruhe, Den Frie Copenhagen and at Neuer Aachener Kunstverein. Other selected exhibitions have taken place at Institut de Carton Brussels, Akademie der Künste der Welt Cologne, Galerie Fons Welters Amsterdam, Westfälischer Kunstverein, One Night Only Gallery Oslo, Kunsthalle Münster, Chert Berlin, true. Antwerp, Pleasant Copenhagen and Galleri Mejan Stockholm. Krüger lives and works in Düsseldorf and has 'a place' in Brussels.
- Inga Krüger is a spy ** Kristina Scepanski *** Luisa Schlotterbeck
