Michaela Melián Red Threads

until 24.07. | #3369ARTatBerlin | KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst currently shows the solo exhibition Red Threads at Maschinenhaus M2 by artist Michaela Melián. In her visual and acoustic collages, Michaela Melián (*1956 in Munich) asks questions about the social, about memory, language, and identity. Her drawings, objects, multimedia installations, and audio works refer to a complex network of historical facts and their traces in the present day. Melián’s first retrospective in Berlin covers the entire range of her work as an artist. The updated works, including the sound sculptures Mannheim Chairs, the multimedia installation Heimweh (Else Lasker-Schüler), Mossberg Model Bullpup (a gun-shaped velvet sofa), and the tapestry from the installation Girl-Kultur, present a wide range of contexts. The centrepiece of the exhibition is the installation TANIA, which was developed specifically for the KINDL, on the multilayered myths surrounding the guerrilla Tamara Bunke (alias Tania), whose biography has been interpreted in a variety of ways in the East and West, including North and South America. While Tamara Bunke / Tania played a major role in the public consciousness in East Germany, in present-day Germany she has practically disappeared from public memory. The artist follows these various traces and condenses them into […]