RESIDENCY PROGRAMME
Maria VMier
We are delighted to welcome our new resident MariaVMier to Cologne. Maria will be in the city until October 25, presenting her artistic practice in a public event at the Temporary Gallery and offering feedback sessions for cultural professionals. She will also visit several institutions, including Kunstlerhaus kat18, kaethe:k Kunsthaus, and Sammlung Zander.
Dinner and conversation with Maria VMier and Lisa Klosterkötter
Thu 23 October, 6 p.m.
Language: German
6 p.m. - Cooking together in the mobile kitchen of the Temporary Gallery. While cooking together, there will be an opportunity to get to know Maria in a personal conversation.
7 p.m. - Dinner and conversation with Maria VMier about her artistic and community-building work, moderated by Lisa Klosterkötter
Maria VMier is an artist who lives and works in New York and Munich. At the heart of MVM's multidisciplinary practice is a form of painting that develops from writing-like, idiosyncratic movements into complex structures that seem to be in constant motion. For MVM, painting is less a place of reification or expression and more a practice of research, experience, and (un)learning.
In addition, MVM's practice encompasses context-specific and community-building works as well as installations, artist books, and objects. At the center of their work is the idea of the body as a tool of knowledge, a site of political struggle and joy. Recurring themes include the conditions of artistic work, the dynamics of power and desire, institutions as malleable structures, nature, the invisible, and the unknown.
MVM studied painting and sculpture at Bard College, the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, and the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna. They have had exhibitions at MoMA PS1, the Museum Brandhorst, and the Pinakothek der Moderne (all in 2024), among others. Since her practice is based on community and collaboration, she regularly invites other artists to participate in her work, runs the artist book publisher Hammann von Mier Verlag together with Stefanie Hammann, and is also part of the Ruine München collective with Leo Heinik and Jan Erbelding.
The event is part of the Temporary Gallery's residency programme.
FEEDBACK MEETING FOR ARTISTS AND CURATORS
with Maria VMier
Fri 24 October
Cologne-based artists and curators have the opportunity to meet Maria in person for approximately one hour to present their own work or projects and receive feedback.
Individual registration with the day and time must be made by Thursday, September 11, 5 p.m. at info@temporarygallery.org.
About the residency programme:
It has become a declared, if often only half-heartedly pursued, goal of cultural institutions to question and renew their own structures with regard to diversity. However, diversity must not just be a temporary program or a hip agenda, but must go deeper. The question must not only be who gets access to cultural education and its institutions, but who is even able to consider cultural and/or creative work as a career perspective.
Although so-called "art brut" – art by people with a mental illness or a mental disability – is very well established and highly valued, "art brut" artists and their artworks are excluded from the usual art scene: "art brut" functions as a separate area of the art world with its own exhibitions in which only "art brut" artists participate. As a result, they very rarely meet with artists without disabilities. Although the intention behind "art brut" exhibitions is certainly positive and worthy of support, there is no real inclusion here – the artworks are "isolated" in separate exhibitions instead of being included in exhibitions of artists without illness or disability. In order to address this problem in the long term, the Temporary Gallery. Centre for contemporary art in Cologne, would like to implement an idea in 2024 that focuses on empowerment and inclusion at a deeper level: a residency program for cultural workers – in cooperation with several partners from Cologne – with the main goal: to counteract the exclusion of so-called "outsider art" in the long term to deal with this problem in the long term, the Temporary Gallery. Center for Contemporary Art in Cologne, initiated a project that focuses on empowerment and inclusion on a deeper level: a residency program for cultural workers with the main goal: to counteract the exclusion of so-called "Outsider Art" in the long term.
Photo:
Brooke Holm
