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Matthew Crookes, 'When Vikki met Kristeva', installation view, Centrum, 2018, Photo: Ute Klein
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Matthew Crookes, 'When Vikki met Kristeva', installation view, Centrum, 2018, Photo: Ute Klein
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Matthew Crookes, 'When Vikki met Kristeva', installation view, Centrum, 2018, Photo: Ute Klein
Talk
Matthew Crookes in conversation with Heiko Pfreundt
24 Nov 2018
Event times
7 - 8 pm
Address
- Reuterstr. 7
- Berlin
Berlin - 12053
- Germany
Matthew Crookes alternately assumes the identities of two women; one based on a living person, the other an extension of the artist himself with a virtual identity of her own.
About
Vikki Chopper and the Kristeva Project are episodic, fragmented creatures that exist on social media – one on instagram, the other as a blog – each giving only a partial narrative at a time. In his exhibition at Centrum Crookes presents these two projects, which over several years have gradually grown together, and in many ways mirror one another. One a complete work fragmented, the other a series of fragments which summe up to an ‘identity’. One a text on the abject, the other a bid to present as something Other.
On the occasion of the last days of his exhibition, the artist will be in conversation with Heiko Pfreundt.
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Matthew Crookes is a UK-born writer and artist, who lives and works in Berlin and Newcastle, Australia. He has a BA in Fine Art from Leeds Metropolitan University, and an MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. In 2015 he completed his doctorate degree at the University of Auckland on ‘The Purpose of the Absurd in Contemporary and Recent Fine Art Practices.' He regularly contributes to creative and academic publications in Australasia, notably through the Clouds Publishing imprint and for Un magazine in Melbourne. From 2014 to 2015 he was a fellow at Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin and in 2012 he had a residency as curator and writer at Culturia, Berlin.
Heiko Pfreundt is an artist, writer and initiator of Kreuzberg Pavillon, a project space in Berlin, that just recently turned into an Escape Room Game. Together with artist Lisa Schorm he initiates exhibitions as curatorial play and collaborative settings of production. With an interest in art as referential system he was responsible for a variety of experimental exhibition formats in which contributions by artists do not necessarily have to be artworks, nor do they have to be produced by the artists alone, or, for that matter, by artists at all. He is a graduate of the University of Arts in Bremen and part of the curatorial team of Project Space Festival Berlin 2019.
