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Venues: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Gropius Bau
Born 1961 in Kinngait, CA – lives and works in Kinngait
Born into a family of revered Inuit women artists, Shuvinai Ashoona soon distinguished herself with an idiosyncratic style that combined traditional, naturalistic subject matter with fantastical elements and altered perceptions of reality. While her early monochromatic drawings sparsely recorded everyday Arctic scenes and landscapes from her family’s nomadic life in Canada’s far North, her imaginative and often eccentric artistic visions reached fruition in later work that introduced both color and an expanded thematic repertoire including popular culture and religious imagery. Like that of her cousin Annie Pootoogook (1969–2016), whose own successful artistic career was tragically cut short by her untimely death, Ashoona’s trajectory reflects a generational shift that reveals both the influence of the South as well as the contemporary Canadian art world’s belated acknowledgement of the vital artistic scene of her hometown, Kinngait (Cape Dorset).
In the presented selection of recent drawings, Ashoona juxtaposes and layers motifs found throughout her work—birthing mothers, human-animal hybrids, monsters, Inuktitut syllabics—in whimsical, sometimes unsettling vignettes that blur the lines between past and present, fiction and reality, traditional and globalized cultures. The works on display speculate upon the political potential of maternity—and matriarchy as a possible counterpoint to patriarchy. Ashoona also makes reference to the labor of drawing itself: Monsters Holding a Drawing (2015) shows a group of figures in hoodies enraptured not by the giant blue monster dangling a purple octopus by its tail, but by the drawing held between them—of a woman holding a tree branch with a hanging bat in one hand and yet another drawing in the other.
The pieces at the Gropius Bau testify to the inextricable ties between colonialism and modernity. Composition (Clock) (2014) suggests an Indigenous temporality that departs from a Western linear chronology, while in Salt Bones (2016) a cluster of whalebones, washed up on the shore and used in traditional Inuit carving practices, alludes both to the sea as a source of sustenance and artistic inspiration, as well as the circularity of life cycles.
Michèle Faguet
Touching Feeling. Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Monograph
Fragments of the Artist’s Diary, Berlin 11.2019–1.2020
Virginia de Medeiros
Diary
I: Junto a las curadoras de la XI Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado
Conversation
#fight4rojava
Graffiti
Weaving Solidarity
Renata Cervetto and Duygu Örs
Q&A
„Klaus Eckschen: Hörspiel“
Die Remise
Hörspiel
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Venues: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Gropius Bau
Born 1961 in Kinngait, CA – lives and works in Kinngait
Born into a family of revered Inuit women artists, Shuvinai Ashoona soon distinguished herself with an idiosyncratic style that combined traditional, naturalistic subject matter with fantastical elements and altered perceptions of reality. While her early monochromatic drawings sparsely recorded everyday Arctic scenes and landscapes from her family’s nomadic life in Canada’s far North, her imaginative and often eccentric artistic visions reached fruition in later work that introduced both color and an expanded thematic repertoire including popular culture and religious imagery. Like that of her cousin Annie Pootoogook (1969–2016), whose own successful artistic career was tragically cut short by her untimely death, Ashoona’s trajectory reflects a generational shift that reveals both the influence of the South as well as the contemporary Canadian art world’s belated acknowledgement of the vital artistic scene of her hometown, Kinngait (Cape Dorset).
In the presented selection of recent drawings, Ashoona juxtaposes and layers motifs found throughout her work—birthing mothers, human-animal hybrids, monsters, Inuktitut syllabics—in whimsical, sometimes unsettling vignettes that blur the lines between past and present, fiction and reality, traditional and globalized cultures. The works on display speculate upon the political potential of maternity—and matriarchy as a possible counterpoint to patriarchy. Ashoona also makes reference to the labor of drawing itself: Monsters Holding a Drawing (2015) shows a group of figures in hoodies enraptured not by the giant blue monster dangling a purple octopus by its tail, but by the drawing held between them—of a woman holding a tree branch with a hanging bat in one hand and yet another drawing in the other.
The pieces at the Gropius Bau testify to the inextricable ties between colonialism and modernity. Composition (Clock) (2014) suggests an Indigenous temporality that departs from a Western linear chronology, while in Salt Bones (2016) a cluster of whalebones, washed up on the shore and used in traditional Inuit carving practices, alludes both to the sea as a source of sustenance and artistic inspiration, as well as the circularity of life cycles.
Michèle Faguet
Hatred Among Us
Lisette Lagnado
Essay
Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism
Dani Karavan
Memorial
Feminist Health Care Research Group
Web archive
El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno
Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala
Chronicle
Flávio de Carvalho: Fazenda Capuava
Archive of Lisette Lagnado
Photographs
III: La familia son quiénes se alegran con nuestros actos diarios. Detrás de las curadoras de la XI
María Berríos, Agustín Pérez Rubio
Conversation
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Venues: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Gropius Bau
Born 1961 in Kinngait, CA – lives and works in Kinngait
Born into a family of revered Inuit women artists, Shuvinai Ashoona soon distinguished herself with an idiosyncratic style that combined traditional, naturalistic subject matter with fantastical elements and altered perceptions of reality. While her early monochromatic drawings sparsely recorded everyday Arctic scenes and landscapes from her family’s nomadic life in Canada’s far North, her imaginative and often eccentric artistic visions reached fruition in later work that introduced both color and an expanded thematic repertoire including popular culture and religious imagery. Like that of her cousin Annie Pootoogook (1969–2016), whose own successful artistic career was tragically cut short by her untimely death, Ashoona’s trajectory reflects a generational shift that reveals both the influence of the South as well as the contemporary Canadian art world’s belated acknowledgement of the vital artistic scene of her hometown, Kinngait (Cape Dorset).
In the presented selection of recent drawings, Ashoona juxtaposes and layers motifs found throughout her work—birthing mothers, human-animal hybrids, monsters, Inuktitut syllabics—in whimsical, sometimes unsettling vignettes that blur the lines between past and present, fiction and reality, traditional and globalized cultures. The works on display speculate upon the political potential of maternity—and matriarchy as a possible counterpoint to patriarchy. Ashoona also makes reference to the labor of drawing itself: Monsters Holding a Drawing (2015) shows a group of figures in hoodies enraptured not by the giant blue monster dangling a purple octopus by its tail, but by the drawing held between them—of a woman holding a tree branch with a hanging bat in one hand and yet another drawing in the other.
The pieces at the Gropius Bau testify to the inextricable ties between colonialism and modernity. Composition (Clock) (2014) suggests an Indigenous temporality that departs from a Western linear chronology, while in Salt Bones (2016) a cluster of whalebones, washed up on the shore and used in traditional Inuit carving practices, alludes both to the sea as a source of sustenance and artistic inspiration, as well as the circularity of life cycles.
Michèle Faguet
Solidarity and Storytelling. Rumors against Enclosure
María Berríos
Essay
Touching Feeling. Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Monograph
Struggle as Culture: The Museum of Solidarity, 1971–73
María Berríos
Essay
III: La familia son quiénes se alegran con nuestros actos diarios. Detrás de las curadoras de la XI
María Berríos, Agustín Pérez Rubio
Conversation
Being in Crisis together – Einander in Krisen begegnen
Feminist Health Care Research Group (Inga Zimprich/Julia Bonn)
Online workshop
Undocumented Rumours and Disappearing Acts from Chile
María Berríos
Essay
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Venues: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Gropius Bau
Born 1961 in Kinngait, CA – lives and works in Kinngait
Born into a family of revered Inuit women artists, Shuvinai Ashoona soon distinguished herself with an idiosyncratic style that combined traditional, naturalistic subject matter with fantastical elements and altered perceptions of reality. While her early monochromatic drawings sparsely recorded everyday Arctic scenes and landscapes from her family’s nomadic life in Canada’s far North, her imaginative and often eccentric artistic visions reached fruition in later work that introduced both color and an expanded thematic repertoire including popular culture and religious imagery. Like that of her cousin Annie Pootoogook (1969–2016), whose own successful artistic career was tragically cut short by her untimely death, Ashoona’s trajectory reflects a generational shift that reveals both the influence of the South as well as the contemporary Canadian art world’s belated acknowledgement of the vital artistic scene of her hometown, Kinngait (Cape Dorset).
In the presented selection of recent drawings, Ashoona juxtaposes and layers motifs found throughout her work—birthing mothers, human-animal hybrids, monsters, Inuktitut syllabics—in whimsical, sometimes unsettling vignettes that blur the lines between past and present, fiction and reality, traditional and globalized cultures. The works on display speculate upon the political potential of maternity—and matriarchy as a possible counterpoint to patriarchy. Ashoona also makes reference to the labor of drawing itself: Monsters Holding a Drawing (2015) shows a group of figures in hoodies enraptured not by the giant blue monster dangling a purple octopus by its tail, but by the drawing held between them—of a woman holding a tree branch with a hanging bat in one hand and yet another drawing in the other.
The pieces at the Gropius Bau testify to the inextricable ties between colonialism and modernity. Composition (Clock) (2014) suggests an Indigenous temporality that departs from a Western linear chronology, while in Salt Bones (2016) a cluster of whalebones, washed up on the shore and used in traditional Inuit carving practices, alludes both to the sea as a source of sustenance and artistic inspiration, as well as the circularity of life cycles.
Michèle Faguet
Glossary of Common Knowledge
L’Internationale Online
Glossary
Weaving Solidarity
Renata Cervetto and Duygu Örs
Q&A
Freiheit für Chile!
Anonymous
Photo album
THE MOBILIZATION
Nicolás Cuello
Text
Being in Crisis together – Einander in Krisen begegnen
Feminist Health Care Research Group (Inga Zimprich/Julia Bonn)
Online workshop
Feminist Health Care Research Group
Web archive
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