Mariana Castillo Deball

Su 20.2.10, 4 pm

Portrait Mariana Castillo Deball

Mariana Castillo Deball presents her artistic work in a dialogue with the directors of Kölnischer Kunstverein.

Mariana Castillo Deball was born 1975 in Mexico City and studied in Mexico City and Maastricht. In her installations and films the artist often links the dates of historical found objects with fictions of her own, in this way creating a fantastic polyphony in the representation of historical facts. The architecture of an archaeological museum can just as easily become material in her hands as a documented error in economic history. By treating both in her personal aesthetic idiom and skilfully analysing them, she gives the ponderous historical material a lightness that directs the viewer’s gaze to aspects of them that are seemingly peripheral or absurd yet always form part of the construction of history.

Lumpenball 2010

5.02.2010, ab 20 Uhr
Carnival party for members and friends of Kölnischer Kunstverein

Lumpenball Einladungskarte
August Sander "Köln wie es war",
Besitz: Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, © Rheinisches Bildarchiv

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Other countries, other institutions

Discussion with Henriette Bretton-Meyer
Do 1.7.10, 19 Uhr
Place: Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf

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Art association: today, tomorrow, yesterday

Discussion with Wulf Herzogenrath and Florian Waldvogel
We 7.7.10, 7 p.m.
Venue: Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf

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Positions - Visions II

Curatorial approaches for contemporary art biennials
with Kathrin Rhomberg and Vít Havránek
5.5.10, 7 p.m.

Kathrin Rhomberg (Foto: Manfred Unger), Vít Havránek (Foto: Abbe Libansky)

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Open studio day

at Kölnischen Kunstverein and at Schokoladenmuseum
Sat 5.6.10, 2-6 p.m.

Shruti Mahajan, Adapter/Adaptor, 2009, Gouache auf Papier

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China City

Mon 7.6.10, 8 p.m.
Kölnischer Kunstverein, cinema at "Die Brücke"

CHINA CITY, 2010, Filmstill

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Subject and Society. Melanie Gilligan and Polly Staple

Artist Talk
Su 27.6.10, 12 a.m.

Portrait Melanie Gilligan,
Photo: Alessandra Chila

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Altruism as a Working Principle for Independant Art Institutions in Czech Republic

Guided Tour and Talk with Noemi Smolik

30.6.10, 7pm
Place: Bonner Kunstverein

Poster, Last Chance to See, 2010,
Design: lange+durach

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