Guest lectures by Xue Mu and Meggy Rustamova
Guest lectures by Xue Mu and Meggy Rustamova organized by Marina Grzinic, Post Conceptual Study Program.
Xue Mu: A Childish Nothingness
Like many, Xue Mu experiences the ideological confusion and identity struggle in the present time of globalization. She questions and reflects on the inevitable loss of current belief systems, and focus on doubt, curiosity and awareness regarding new value orientations and future potential. Underlining the unmediated experiences in life observations, Mu articulates the existence of unseen experiences in her art projects – these projects can be seen as footprints on an exploring path of fundamental subjects, such as the values of existential experience, and critical reflections on individuality within notions of cultural identity and ideology.
CV: Xue Mu (b. 1979 Nanjing, China) is a visual artist based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She received BFA from Gerrit Rietveld Academie, MFA from DAI (Dutch Art Institute), and art in residency at de Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in 2011 and 2012. Mu’s practice includes photography, installations, large drawing series, and collaborative performances, with each form carrying a particular purpose concerning her current research. Her recent projects have been presenting in de Apple Arts Centre in Amsterdam (2014), Gallerie Gabriel Rolt in Amsterdam (2012, 2014), YeoWorkshop in Singapoer (2014), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2013), Hexiangning Art Museum in ShenZhen CN (2013).
Meggy Rustamova: Interplay between film, photography and performance
Meggy Rustamova develops an interdisciplinary practice with films, installations and performances with deep poetic overtones. Personal knowledge forms are the basis of her work, roots for unfolding a poetic story or issue. She is looking for narratives – with absurd humor and a hint of melancholy – that float between imagination and authenticity.
CV: Meggy Rustamova, born 1985 in Tbilisi, Georgia, lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. Rustamova migrates as a child with her Assyrian mother from Georgia and after a few wanderings they eventually end up in Belgium. Rustamova obtains her master degree in visual arts at KASK in Ghent (2006-2011) with a stay at the Universität der Künste in Berlin (2010) and the HISK (2012-2013) where she obtains a post-graduate degree.
Recent exhibitions and screenings include: International Film Festival Rotterdam (2016), Tallinn Art Hall (2016), Beursschouwburg, Brussels (2015), Kunsthalle Wien (2015), Bureau des Réalités, Brussels (2015), 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015), Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2014) and Salzburger Kunstverein (2014). Her works are included in private and public collections of Belfius, Argos and S.M.A.K
These lectures are possible thanks to the Artists-in-Residence program of the Austrian Federal Chancellery and KulturKontakt Austria.