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Margareta Kern (born 1974) is a London based, interdisciplinary artist whose works question ways in which personal and intimate spaces are influenced by the socio-political movements in our contemporary lives. A graduate of Goldsmiths College (1998), Kern has shown her work nationally including the Tate Modern, Djanogly Gallery and the Courtauld Institute of Art and internationally including the Cecile Hunt Gallery, St Louis, USA and the recent solo exhibition at the Croatian Association of Artists HDLU Galleries in May 2008. She was the recipient of the Open Society Scholarship for students from the former Yugoslavia whose academic studies were disrupted by the civil war and has received funding from the Arts Council England (Clothes for Death, 2006/2007), the British Film Institute (Coffee and Desa, 2005) and most recently the British Council for the international tour of her solo exhibition Clothes for Living and Dying (2008). "My works have always negotiated between the outer boundaries of identity, its socio-political context and the inner, subtler workings and needs of the self. I explore a relational way of working, where the site of engagement with the personal narratives, becomes the context within which the process of art making takes place. In my current projects I use clothing and textiles as a way of opening and entering issues linked to gendered constructions of identity and its social, political and cultural contexts. My experience of migrating from one culture to another, rather abruptly at the beginning of the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, quietly underlines my work and interest in stories that resonate with unresolved questions of place, belonging, home and domesticity. In my research I draw on diverse sources, from Feminist and Gender theories and writing, Post-Colonial and Post-Communist writing, Anthropology and Ethnography, to Poetry, Creative writing, personal and collective Hi-stories…" "The exhibition “Clothes for Living & Dying” is a work of a young woman, from Banja Luka, who in 1992, without having her own graduation, fleeing the war, immigrated to the United Kingdom. She stayed there, finished her education and formed views on the world, and her own identity.
2007; 'What Remains' by Margareta Kern, Refugee Week Blog 2008: "Female Jesus of the photographer Margareta Kern", Miljenko Jergovic, Jutarnji List, Zagreb 29.05.08 2008: Pola Ure Kulture/Half Hour of Culture, Croatian TV/HTV, May 08. 2008: Review of Odavde/from here/Otuda/from there, for River Front Times, St Louis, Feb '08 2008: 'Cry me cats and dogs', a review by Alex Rotas of the Performing Rights Glasgow on Axis . 2008: Raimi Gbadamosi interviews Margareta Kern & Grace Ndiritu for Axis Dialogue
2007; The Big Issue, Review of Clothes for Death by Sarah Jane Downing AWARDS |
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