Renée Green, Detail of Berlin Story, 2001; Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin
Geta Brătescu, The War (Mars / Wothan; With a Quote from An Engraving by Salvator Rosa’s, c. XVII), 1981; Courtesy National Museum of Art of Romania

Talk

The Berlin Sessions:
Talk between Renée Green and Iman Issa

Dates

Thu, 28.10.21

Time

20:00

Language

en

Venue

KW, 4th floor

Registration

Register via reservation@kw-berlin.de

In accordance with the current Covid-19 regulations the 2G-rule (vaccinated or recovered) applies for all KW events.

Building on their long-standing dialogue, artists and friends Renée Green (born in 1959, US) and Iman Issa (born in 1979, EG) join Associate Curator Mason Leaver-Yap to talk about their parallel exhibitions at KW, and consider the shared resonances between their work and thinking.

Iman Issa’s work often takes the form of displays featuring multiple elements and where text plays a central role. Understudies: I, Myself Will Exhibit Nothing is Issa’s first opportunity to reflect on her artistic methodology through the prism of a group exhibition. In order to unfold this introspective venture, the exhibition brings together works by artists, writers, and filmmakers, who each create their own parameters and universes within their practice. Many of the selected works touch upon notions of illustration, portraiture, and self-narration.

Since the late 1980s, Renée Green’s multifaceted practice has imagined and expanded the ways in which art can surface and give form to underwritten histories, collective memory, and circuits of cultural exchange. Her writing, installations, films, digital media, and sound works continue to trace and interrogate the power of cultural institutions and their relationships with language, knowledge, and constitutions of selfhood, while at the same time indicating other ways of being and becoming. In one of the largest exhibitions of her work since 2010, Inevitable Distances presents recent productions in conversation with some of Green’s earliest and rarely exhibited works.

Geta Brătescu, *The War (Mars / Wothan; With a Quote from An Engraving by Salvator Rosa’s, c. XVII)*, 1981; Courtesy National Museum of Art of Romania.

Part of project: The Berlin Sessions

Since February 2017, KW Institute for Contemporary Art organized a series of monthly public talks in collaboration with various institutions and organizations located in Berlin. The series entitled The Berlin Sessions explored the fabric of cultural producers in the city by inviting one Berlin-based speaker to give a presentation on another cultural producer that he/she/they find inspiring. The goal of the lecture series was to highlight the work of Berlin-based creatives from the perspective of their peers; to map connections between the various producers and fields and to strengthen the existing networks between locally based artists, authors, musicians, performers, researchers and other creative producers.