News (2011 – 2015)

The ‘Art of Encountering’

Curator:

PAErsche

Venue:

Paersche Aktionslabor, Cologne, Germany, 12.09.2015

www.paersche.org

Die Gelber Gefahr

Curator:

Jan Gottschalk

Venue:

Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, Germany, 05.06.2015-12.06.2015

www.kunsthalle.kunsthochschule-berlin.de

Die Gelber Gefahr

Curator:

Jan Gottschalk & Milchhof Berlin

Venue:

Milchhof, Berlin, Germany, 28.05.2015-04.06.2015

www.milchhofpavillon.de/

(CON)TEMPORARY

Curator:

Yun Ting-Hung, Lan Hungh and I Chen Tsou

Venue:

Month of Performance Art, Berlin, Germany, 25.05.2015

www.mpa-b.org

Infr‘action Venezia 3

Curator:

Jonas Stampe

Venue:

Venice, Italy, 06.05.2015-09.05.2015

www.infractionvenice.org/

Streiflichter

Curator:

Kunstverein Celle

Venue:

50 Jahre Kunstverein Celle e.V., Germany, 01.03.2015-26.04.2015

www.kunstverein-celle.de/

Double Vision: The Culture China Overseas Chinese Women’s Invitational Exhibition

Curator:

Boyi Feng

Venue:

He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, 08.11.2014-08.03.2015

www.hxnart.com/

Guangzhou Live 5

Curator:

Jonas Stampe

Venue:

Xiaozhou cun, Guangzhou, China, 01.12.2014-07.12.2014

www.guangzhoulive.org/

Schönheit!?

Curator:

Hans Gerd Hahn

Venue:

Galerie auf zeit, Braunschweig, Germany, 10.01.2015-31.01.2015

www.galerieaufzeit-bs.de/

Mother’s Tongue

Curator:

Willem Wilhelmus

Venue:

Universum Theater, Helsinki, Finland, 03.10.2014-21.11.2014

www.motherstongue.net/

The Artist is an Explorer

Curator:

Marina Abramovic

Venue:

Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 20.09.2014

www.fondationbeyeler.ch

PerFORM.Performance in der Stadt: antiform

Curator:

Helmut Lorscheid

Venue:

Königswinter, Germany, 09.08.2014-10.08.2014

www.koenigssommer.de

You Imagine What You Desire

Curator:

Juliana Engberg

Venue:

19th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia, 21.03.2014–09.06.2014

www.biennaleofsydney.com.au

OPTIMISM

Curator:

Katie Hill

Venue:

Office of Contemporary Chiense Art(OCCA), Oxford, UK, 31.01.2014-28.02.2014

www.occa-art.com

PRESENT TENSE SERIES I

Curator:

Chiara Cartuccia

Venue:

SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany, 24.01.2014

www.savvy-contemporary.com

EMERGE, Art14

Curator:

Heashin Kwak

Venue:

Hanmi Gallery, London, UK, 27.02.2014-02.03.2014

www.hanmigallery.co.uk

Zuflucht von der Sehnsucht des Paradieses

Curator:

Ahrenshoop

Venue:

Ahrenshoop, Germany

www.zuflucht2014.de

DIGITALIVE

Curator:

Jonas Stampe

Venue:

Guangzhou, China, 30.11.2013-26.01.2014

www.digitalive.org

GUANGZHOU LIVE 4

Curator:

Jonas Stampe

Venue:

YouYou Contemporary Art Centre, Guangzhou, China, 11.11.2013-17.11.2013
www.guangzhoulive.org

Let’s See What Happens…

Curator:

Karen Mackinnon

Venue:

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales, 28.09.2013–03.11.2013
www.glynnvivian.com

UPROOTED Fake Nations

Curator:

Willem Wilhelmus

Venue:

Helsinki, Finnland, 05.09.2013–07.09.2013
www.hiap.fi

Spur

Curator:

Ekaterina Krylova

Venue:

ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok,Russland, 22.08.2013–02.09.2013
www.zaryavladivostok.ru

24 Spaces

Curator:

Lilith PErformance Studio in Malmö

Venue:

Malmö Konsthall, Schweden, 02.05.2013-08.05.2013&04.07.2013–18.08.2013
www.konsthall.malmo.se

Live Action Göteborg

Curator:

Xxx

Venue:

Venice, Italy, 27.05.2013-03.06.2013
www.infractionvenice.org

Infr’action Venezia

Curator:

Jonas Stampe

venue:

Venice, Italy, 27.05.2013-03.06.2013
www.infractionvenice.org

LIVE AiR

Curator:

Xxx

Venue:

Gothenburg, Sweden, 18.05.2013-02.07.2013

www.liveair.org

Father and Mother(Part 1)

Curator:

Xxx

Venue:

China & Nordafrika, 15.03.2013–9.04.2013&26.04.2013–15.05.2013

PATHOLOGICAL AESTETICS

Curator:

Xxx

Venue:

University of Applied Sciences Nijmegen, Netherlands, 04.02.2013-07.02.2013

Art of Change: New Directions from China

Curator:

Stephanie Rosenthal

Venue:

Kurator:
Ort: Hayward Gallery, London, UK, 07.09.2012-09.12.2012
www.de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayward_Gallery

re.act.feminism #2 – a performing archive

Curator:

Bettina Knaup & Beatrice Ellen Stammer

Venue:

Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark, 16.06.2012–19.08.2012

www.reactfeminism.org

PAErsche –displacing Time

Curator:

Xxx

Venue:

Aktionslabor NRW, Germany, 19.06.2012-20.06.2012
www.paersche.org

Make Space Make Dust

Curator:

Xxx

Venue:

StattBerlin, Germany, 22.05.2012–30.05.2012
www.stattberlin.tk

PACKET–SOUP

Curator:

Claudia Lamas Cornejo

Venue:

Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany, 6.05.2012-02.06.2012
www.packet-soup.com

Endstation

Curator:

Xxx

Venue:

Königswinter, Germany, 21.04.2012-26.08.2012
www.endstation.wildscreen.de

Bergen International Performance Festival

Curator:

Kurt Johannesen

Venue:

Bergen, Norway, 21.04.2012
www.performanceartbergen.no

Who is the Party?

Curator:

Xxx

Venue:

Stockholm, Sweden, 06.03.2012-13.03.2012

Verkündigung

Curator:

Jürgen Berhard Kuck

Venue:

Verkündigung, Germany
www.jbkuck.de

‘BODY’ SOUND / collaboration between Yingmei Duan & Di Lu

Curator:

Hans Gerhard Hahn

Venue:

Galerie auf Zeit, Braunschweig, Germany, 18.11.2011-02.12.2011
www.galerie-auf-zeit-bs.de

Double Screens – Yingmei DUAN & Michael Jizhong ZHENG

Curator:

Xxx

Venue:

Verkündigung, Germany
www.jbkuck.de

NOMADIC SETTLERS – SETTLED NOMADS

Curator:

Xxx

Venue:

kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, 02.07.2011-28.08.2011
www.kunstraumkreuzberg.de

kunst…hierundjetzt

Curator:

Xxx

Venue:

Das Kunstfest der offenen Ateliers in Braunschweig und Region, 08.10.2011-09.10.2011
www.kunst-hierundjetzt.de

INFR’ACTION VENEZIA

Curator:

Jonas Stampe

Venue:

Venice, Italy, 01.06.2011-03.06.2011
www.infractionvenice.org

INFR’ACTION PARIS

Curator:

Xxx

Venue:

Swedish Cultural Center in Paris, 01.06.2011-03.06.2011
www.infractionparis.info

Lilith Performance Events 2011

Curator:

Xxx

Venue:

Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, Sweden, 27.05.2011-28.05.2011
www.lilithperformancestudio.com

BS.VISITE

Curator:

Xxx

Venue:

VRebenpark, Braunschweig, Germany, 22.05.2011-12.06.2011
www.bs-visite.de

Morgenland Festival

Curator:

Jürgen Fritz

Venue:

organized by the Theater am Kirchplatz in Liechtenstein, 17.05.2011-22.05.2011
www.morgenland.li

A-Y/Y-A

Curator:

Marta Ryczkowska

Venue:

Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland, 28.02.2011-20.03.2011
www.labirynt.com

New Terretories – INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LIVE ART, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND

Curator:

Xxx

Venue:

GLASGOW in SCOTLAND, 20.02.2011-26.02.2011
www.newmoves.co.uk/new-territories

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Nelson Mapako

A versatile Playwright/ Director, Performance artist, Theatre Trainer and Arts Administrator who strives on exploring the limits of creativity, Nelson Mapako has been practicing professional theatre arts since 1992. He was born in Zimbabwe in 1972 where he kicked off his artistic career with Tikwele Drama Group in Hwange. Later on he formed Ezemvelo Creative Artists. He has also worked for the Zimbabwe Association of Community Theatre as a field officer for the Matabeleland region, Amazulu Arts Consultants as Programs Officer, Theatre and Development Initiative as Artistic Director and Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo as the inaugural Festival Administrator.

Mapako has also worked for 6 years in Swaziland (Seconded by the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe’s Bulawayo province.) where apart from being the Programs and Training consultant for Swaziland Theatre for Children and Young People he was running individual theatre projects. While in Swaziland he established the Iphi ‘Africa Project. Of late 2011/ 2012 he has conducted Acting workshops for Intwasa Arts Festival ko Bulawayo in Zimbabwe as well as ParticNelson Mapako is a prolific artist who received training in Community Theatre between 1994 and 1998 through the mentorship of the late international acclaimed artist Ngugi wa Mirri. He is a holder of a Training of Trainers Certificate in Community Theatre, A General Certificate in Intellectual property from WIPO, A Diploma in Program Management and Monitoring. He has written/directed several stage & television productions including Television puppetry productions in Swaziland (Mantentekazane Swazi Television) and Zimbabwe (Khuluza ZTV) and has also featured as an actor both on stage and television. He is a recipient of the Zimbabwe’s prestigious National Arts Merit Award (NAMA) for Outstanding Theatrical Production (OUTCAST) in 2004. He was also a nominee for the NAMA award in 2003 for his production (SIX ALL OUT) Mapako’s other works have been performed at international arts festivals such as HIFA (Social Hanger 2003) in Zimbabwe, Matiwane Manana Arts Festival in Swaziland and Out the Box in Cape Town, South Africa. Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo,Ibumba Arts Festival in Zimbabwe as well as the SASOL Schools Arts Festival (A project for Grahamstown Arts festival)in Witbank South Africa. ipatory Theatre Workshops for PLAN Zimbabwe/Intwasa Arts Festival.

His international collaborations include working with Yingmei Duan – a performance artist from Germany as well as Laway arts South Africa/Netherlands. Nelson’s works are pregnant with artistic, social, developmental and political issues that affect the existence of humanity. His latest work is “A drop in the Land” done in collaboration with Laway Arts South Africa/Netherlands.

News (2011 – 2015)

The ‘Art of Encountering’

Die Gelber Gefahr

Die Gelber Gefahr

(CON)TEMPORARY

Infr‘action Venezia 3

Streiflichter

Double Vision: The Culture China Overseas Chinese Women’s Invitational Exhibition

Guangzhou Live 5

Schönheit!?

Mother’s Tongue

The Artist is an Explorer

PerFORM.Performance in der Stadt: antiform

You Imagine What You Desire

OPTIMISM

PRESENT TENSE SERIES I

EMERGE, Art14

Zuflucht von der Sehnsucht des Paradieses

DIGITALIVE

GUANGZHOU LIVE 4

Let’s See What Happens…

UPROOTED Fake Nations

Spur

24 Spaces

Live Action Göteborg

Infr’action Venezia

LIVE AiR

Father and Mother(Part 1)

PATHOLOGICAL AESTETICS

Art of Change: New Directions from China

re.act.feminism #2 – a performing archive

PAErsche –displacing Time

Make Space Make Dust

PACKET–SOUP

Endstation

Bergen International Performance Festival

Who is the Party?

Verkündigung

‘BODY’ SOUND / collaboration between Yingmei Duan & Di Lu

Double Screens – Yingmei DUAN & Michael Jizhong ZHENG

NOMADIC SETTLERS – SETTLED NOMADS

kunst…hierundjetzt

INFR’ACTION VENEZIA

INFR’ACTION PARIS

Lilith Performance Events 2011

BS.VISITE

Morgenland Festival

A-Y/Y-A

New Terretories – INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LIVE ART, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND

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