Murat Adash, Céline Berger, Syowia Kyambi

Opening
October 7, 2022, 7 pm

Live Performance
October 7, 2022, 7 pm - 10 pm

Co-created by
Murat Adash and Tarren Johnson.
Performed together with Katja
Cheraneva and Tümay Kılınçel.

Artist Talk
October 9, 2022, 3 pm - 4.30 pm
with Murat Adash, Céline Berger and Syowia Kyambi
Moderated by: Christian Grüny and Eike Walkenhorst, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics

Museum Angewandte Kunst
Schaumainkai 17
60594 Frankfurt am Main

Contact Zones – Murat Adash, Céline Berger, Syowia Kyambi is the first ever collaboration between the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics and the Museum Angewandte Kunst. The initiative for this joint exhibition was provided by INHABIT, the Institute’s artist in residence program, which every year invites three guest artists from different artistic disciplines to spend three months each pursuing their work in dialogue and exchange with researchers. This exhibition, which caps off the second iteration of INHABIT, presents works that Adash, Berger, and Kyambi created during their residencies, in the context of a scientific research institute. More information

Curator: Eike Walkenhorst

Murat Adash was born in Hanau (Germany) in 1985. He completed an MFA in Visual Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently working towards a PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London, with a practice-based research project on camouflage and choreography. In his artistic practice, Adash produces performative and choreographic works that investigate the relationship and interplay between physicality and spatiality using an expanded range of media (performance, video, text, sound, and installation). Through his movement-based practice, he creates choreographies that attempt to explore the ephemeral nature of physical boundaries—particularly in relation to the dynamic contours between bodies and the spaces in which they come together. More information

Céline Berger was born in Saint-Martin-d'Hères (France) in 1973. She first studied physics and materials science and completed her postgraduate degree at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in 2012. In her artistic practice, Céline Berger examines the linguistic and visual worlds of everyday professional life in a variety of work contexts. Her work revolves around the investigation of the specific processes, gestures, and behavioral patterns that characterize everyday working life in corporate structures. Her films and installations cast a critical eye on the spaces and architectures in which work processes take place. More information

Syowia Kyambi was born in Nairobi (Kenya) in 1979. She obtained her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from Transart Institute (accredited by the University of Plymouth, UK). In her artistic practice, Syowia Kyambi explores issues of gender, memory, and identity in the context of colonial history and cultural power structures. Her work investigates the ways in which the present is influenced by historical constructs and how the past shapes notions and ideas of the future. Questions as to what is remembered and archived, and which narratives about objects, bodies, and histories predominate are the starting point for both her artistic practice and her approach to countering normative accounts of history with alternative narratives. More information