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 point to a complex network of historical facts and their traces in the present day. Melián contrasts the history of places and people with phenomena of everyday culture and specially composed music, and thus invents a form of commemorative culture that surfaces stories that have been absent, omitted, or buried. The focus of the solo exhibition at the KINDL is a newly developed installation on the legends surrounding the guerrilla Tamara Bunke, aka Tania, between Havana and Berlin.

Curators: Kathrin Becker and Ingrid Wagner

Diskursprogramm

11 May, 7 pm
Michaela Melián in conversation with Joanna Warsza
In English

21 May, 3pm
Symposium with Nadja Abt, Elen Harutyunyan, Karin Harrasser, Jörg Heiser, Ruth May, Thomas Meinecke, Michaela Melián, Angelika Richter, and others

Limited-edition vinyl record
Michaela Melián, TANIA
45 rpm, 9:33 min., edition of 100, 2022

A vinyl record in an edition of 100 (12-inch EP, hand-stamped, signed, and numbered) is being offered for sale during Michaela Melián’s exhibition Red Threads. It features the nine-minute piece from the newly developed sound installation TANIA. The record will be available in the foyer of the KINDL for 65 euros.

Audio sample

Further Material:
Booklet Michaela Melián. Red Threads

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