15/5 - 29/5/2008
HDLU: PM & Bacva Galerija/Trg zrtava fasizma bb/Zagreb/Croatia
For information about the exhibition in Zagreb in Croatian please click here.
For images from the exhibition please click here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/margaretakern/
11/9 - 18/10/2008
Margaret Harvey Gallery/St Albans/UK
Clothes for Living and Dying/Odjeca za Zivot i Smrt brings together two interrelated projects, in order to raise questions and explore the relationship of clothing to social, cultural and gendered constructions of identity.
Graduation Dresses is an ongoing project consisting of a series of photographs Kern takes of young women, who have recently graduated from secondary schools in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Their dresses made by the artist's mother, are based on images found on the Internet and in fashion magazines, of celebrities wearing haute couture dresses.
Clothes for Death is an ongoing research based project documenting women in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina who prepare clothes in which they wish to be buried. Deeply moved upon hearing about this relatively unknown and quite private custom Kern set out to research it further. The resulting work intimately engages with the lives of women whose identities have been shaped by turbulent historical, political and cultural currents.
A fully illustrated catalogue with essays by Pennina Barnett, Dr Alex Rotas and Matthew Shoul is available at respective touring venues.
The exhibition has been kindly supported by: Gradski ured za obrazovanje, kulturu i sport grada Zagreba / Department of Education, Culture and Sport - City of Zagreb, Ministarstvo kulture Republike Hrvatske/ Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia, The British Council, Arts Council England, The University of Hertfordshire Galleries and Hrvatsko Drustvo Likovnih Umjetnika Zagreb/Croatian Association of Artists, Zagreb.
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A performative talk by Margareta Kern
Friday 20th June 2008, 7.30pm, free
The Courtauld Institute, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
'A Short Hi-story of My Family’ is a performative talk weaving threads between (hi)stories of the artist’s grandmother, mother and her self, through videos, photographs, personal documents, Gobelin embroideries and copies of haute couture dresses. By excavating stories and creating images, cutting and re-stitching them again, this live collage will explore the relationship between translation and language, labour and gender, migration and art. Wearing her own original copy of a haute couture dress, made by her mother, Kern will create new narratives and myths in an attempt to reorder, re-imagine and re-tailor History.
This performance within The Courtauld Institute of Art as part of East Wing VIII: On Time will situate itself along all the other works in the exhibition (from 3D lace installations, photography, painting,
video installations, sculpture and plaster casts), with famous names, such as Mark Wallinger and Antony Gormley, and up-and-coming artists, all drawn together by the theme of time.
To download the publicity poster in pdf please click here.
www.eastwing8.com
image: Grand Mother’s Gobelin (after Self-Portrait with Daughter, by Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun), 2008
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odavde/from here - otuda/from there
Alen Basic, Isak Berbic, Zlatko Cosic, Sejla Kameric, Margareta Kern, Damir Niksic and Nebojsa Seric Shoba
8 Feb - 14 March 2008
Webster University’s Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, USA
Curated by Dr. Jeffrey Hughes and Dana Turkovic
Artist Talk: Friday, 12pm, 29th February 2008, Webster University.
The exhibition brings together work by artists who incorporate issues of individual and group identity, land and politics, the laws of art and war, tradition, belonging and place.
The exhibition will provide an opportunity to engage the St. Louis public in a dialogue addressing the Bosnia-Herzegovina diaspora and will include works by seven contemporary artists born in Bosnia, including representatives of those who emigrated as a result of the Bosnian War (1992-1995).
Reviews: http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2008-02-06/culture/on-the-wall/2
http://www.stltoday.com
Artist Talk: Clothes for Living & Dying,
at Seton Hall University, New Jersey, USA
Tuesday 26th February, 5pm - 6pm
Supported by The Centre for Women's Studies, Russian and Eastern European Studies Program, The Slavic Club and the Office of International Programs. |
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Performing Rights Glasgow
Sunday 10th February 2008
The National Review of Live Art 2008 has invited the Live Art Development Agency to collaborate in creating Performing Rights Glasgow, a day of performances, presentations, discussions, screenings, and interventions around ideas of performance and human rights. Occupying a space between practice and discourse, The Performance Panel is led by the artist Lois Weaver and writer Adrian Heathfield and brings together the artists Guillermo Gómez-Peña (Mexico/USA), Jenny Sealey (UK), Adalet R Garmiany (Kurdistan-Iraq/UK), Margareta Kern (Croatia/Bosnia/UK), John Jordan (UK), Ange Taggart (UK), and Arvand DashtAray and Sara Reyhani of Virgule Performing Arts Company (Iran) for presentations, creative interventions, and discussions around questions of performance and human rights.
'Cry me cats and dogs', a review by Alex Rotas of the Performing Rights Glasgow on Axis .
Raimi Gbadamosi interviews Margareta Kern & Grace Ndiritu for Axis Dialogue - Artists Margareta Kern and Grace Ndiritu presented artworks at Performing Rights Glasgow this February. Shortly after the festival they met Raimi Gbadamosi in London to discuss their current projects, aspirations as artists, and the challenges and complexities of operating in today's art world. |
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CLOTHES FOR DEATH
ICIA Bath, 12 Sept 2007 - 4 Jan 2008
Photographs from Clothes for Death project are exhibited in a solo show at the Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts, University of Bath. The exhibition opened as part of an international conference 'The Social Contexts of Death, Dying and Disposal'. Documentation of the project can be seen on the 'Clothes for Death' Blog, part of a-n Artists projects unlimited http://www.a-nunedited.co.uk or read edited version in the July edition of a-n magazine. For further info on Clothes for Death Project please click here.
"The artist has depicted all her subjects with great dignity, allowing the images to speak for themselves, creating a real sense of these women's lives as well as their preparations for their deaths. " Review by a-n magazine, Nov 2007 issue, read more.
"Kern with a pure unstinting gaze and a creative empathy captures them in a moment of still contemplation, powerfully poignant in light of future stillness." The Big Issue, Oct 2007.
Beth Greenacre interviews Margareta Kern for ArtRabbit
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INTERNATIONAL TERRITORIES,
8th & 9th December 2007, Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge
Screening on 8th Dec: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Measures Of Distance by Mona Hatoum / Radionica (Coffee & Desa) by Margareta Kern / Haroldinho by Harold Offeh / Eyeballing by Rosalind Nashashibi and The Cave by Wael Shawky.
Sunday 9th Dec: MAPPING CONSTRAINT: Territories by Isaac Julien / Sideways by Lucy Harris and Legacy by Inge Blackman.
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