Talk Talk: SERAFINE1369 with Magnus Elias Rosengarten in English language
In the series Voices Unbound: Artists in Conversation by Magnus Elias Rosengarten
When:
Thu, May 8, 2025, 6pm – 7pm
Free admission
Duration:
approx. 1 hour
Meeting point:
Kunstbau
We regret to inform you that the event must be cancelled due to illness.
When:
Thu, May 8, 2025, 6pm–7pm
Free admission
Duration:
approx. 1 hour
Meeting point:
Kunstbau
We regret to inform you that the event must be cancelled due to illness.
We regret to inform you that the event must be cancelled due to illness. We will keep you informed should the event be rescheduled at a later date.
In cooperation with the Lenbachhaus, Magnus Elias Rosengarten curates a series of personal conversations with artists. Set in the artists’ studios, their exchanges address existential concerns, including questions of belonging, identity, and migration. Woven into the artists’ creative processes, "Voices Unbound: Artists in Conversation" charts an emotional approach to the works and affords public audiences more intimate insights than a conventional interview situation could. All participants share a strong focus on the human body as their medium and point of reference.
The entire series will feature artists from France, Guadeloupe and the UK who work across disciplines (performance, film/video, drawing and painting) and are primarily active within the global African diaspora: Jimmy Robert (Germany/France/Guadeloupe), Julien Creuzet (France/Martinique) and SERAFINE1369 (UK).
The first conversation with SERAFINE1369 will be held at the Lenbachhaus; the conversations with Jimmy Robert and Julien Creuzet, by contrast, will be streamed in short videos on the Lenbachhaus’s YouTube channel.
Magnus Elias Rosengarten is an author and curator focusing on the complex relationships between body and space in contemporary art. Central questions of his work are: Which spaces make some bodies a political subject and others not? Who has the power to define bodies and what realities are created in this sense? Rosengarten's work is informed by the rich knowledge archives and systems of the global African diaspora. Non-Western epistemologies are pillars and toolboxes for his work, especially when it comes to the urgent task of making visible bodies and narratives that are constantly moving in the diaspora.
SERAFINE1369 describes dance and movement as an “oracular practice” and continually works to raise awareness of the artificially shared space between performer and audience. Their creative practice is informed by their interest in the invisible systems and structures that guide our bodies in life. To create immersive atmospheres, they often employ sculptures, music, videos, storytelling, and states of trance.
