Let’s Talk About Artist Residencies
Artist Talk by Natascha Borowsky and Minstrel Kuik
German artist Natascha Borowsky and Malaysian artist Minstrel Kuik Ching Chieh will each introduce their work. Though both artists work with a camera, their approach and ideas lead to quite a different body of images. Subsequently the artists will talk about their previous experiences with artist residencies in France and Germany, discuss the benefits/problems and share information on places to go.
Bio
Natascha Borowsky, born in Germany, is currently working as artist-in-residence at The Lost Generation Space on invitation of the Goethe Institute, Kuala Lumpur and The Lost Generation Space. She studied with Bernd and Hilla Becher at theAcademy of Arts, Düsseldorf, Germany, graduating as master student. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in Germany and abroad.
Since 2006, she has been teaching at the University of Krefeld, Germany.
The approach to her work being a conceptual one, the artist is engaged in an ongoing project, using found objects and material and an analogue large format camera.
Minstrel Kuik Ching Chieh, born Malaysian, has a bachelor degree in painting from the National Taiwan Normal University in Taiwan. Later, she went to France and graduated from The Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie of Arles and from The Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Versailles, France. She has been active in the Malaysian art scene since her return to the country by being featured in three collective exhibitions: “Sharing Space-Contemporary Photography of Malaysia + Japan” and “Pass the picture” at the Annex Gallery, “Entry Points” program at the 1948 art space, and one on going solo exhibition “See the water” at the Alliance Francaise in KL.
As a jet-lagged artist and photographer, Minstrel Kuik experiments with the syndrome of desynchronosis of her epoch. By using herself as the bridge of the in-betweens, she goes into the external conflicts between day and night, here and there, self and otherness, sex and gender, individual and nation… Recently, being and time.
A German Artist Residency Project collaboration with Goethe-Institut Malaysia
Date
13th Sep 2008
Time
8:00pm
Venue
Lost Gen Art Space
