07/02/2024
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February 29, 2024, 7 pm
Shelter from the Storm – ARTIST TALK with Thomas Renwart & Miriam Bettin
Thomas Renwart’s textile wall works, woven and partly embroidered, show ambivalent subjects. He weaves his pictures on a loom in his studio in Ghent, in an old monastery. For him, weaving has ameaning of ancestral and cultural heritage. His grandfather owned a weaving mill and his grandmother taught him how to embroider. The genre of wall tapestries also has a long tradition in Belgium. Renwart takes this up and translates it into the present. He mixes personal thoughts and feelings inpictorial form, often framed by text, with content from literature, science, history or pop culture. His references are a mixture of poetry and realism, memory and statement.
Miriam Bettin (she/her) .bettin is a Cologne based independent curator and writer with a focus on intersectional q***r feminism and postcolonial narratives. Most recent projects include Saint V. by Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju at [tart vienna], Poetics of Passing at Alte Tankstelle Deutz in Cologne (both 2023), and A*o là ´nkí, kí a tó ki ènìyàn – We greet the cloth before we greet its wearer at G.A.S. Farm House in Ikise, Nigeria (2022). In 2022, she has been a curatorial fellow at the G.A.S. Foundation in Lagos, Nigeria. Previously, she worked at Kölnischer Kunstverein, where she curated solo shows by José Montealegre and Emma LaMorte with accompanying publications. At Kunstverein Braunschweig, she curated solo exhibitions of Jasmin Werner, Marvin Luvualu António, and Hannah Weinberger, and worked with artists like Leda Bourgogne, Margaret Raspé, and Hassan Khan. Regularly, she writes for catalogs and online magazines such as Conceptual Fine Arts and KubaParis. She is a graduate of the Curatorial Studies program at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.
The talk and discussion will be in English.