19.10.2016 14:00 Klasse für Kunst & Medien, Semperdepot
Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo is one of the most interesting contemporary Cuban artists, engaging with performative and media practices. She will be in Vienna to present a performance in public space as part of the exhibition TOUCH THE REALITY. RETHINKING KEYWORDS OF POLITICAL PERFORMANCE which takes place at Kunstraum Niederösterreich. Her lecture will engage with her recent practice.
Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo lives and works in Havana City, Cuba. Between 2011 and 2013 she attended a Postgraduate course in New Media, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) with a DAAD Scholarship, Germany. Between 1998 and 2008 she studied at the Elemental school of Visual Art “José Antonio Díaz Pelaez”, the Fine Arts Academy “San Alejandro” and the High Institute of Arts (ISA) in Havana, Cuba.
Her work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions (selection):
Soloshows: Reclaiming meaning, Skövde Art Museum, Skövde, Sweden (2016); Tropiques Héritage in gallery André Arsenec, Tropiques Atrium, Fort de France, Martinique (2015), Dominadora inmaterial, Salle Zéro, Havana, Cuba (2014); Fiebre cerebral, Villa de Bank, Enschede, The Netherlands (2011); Llave maestra, Salle Zéro, Havana, Cuba (2010)
Group exhibitions: 2015 at Anclados en el territorio, galleria CONTINUA, Aguila de Oro, Havana, Cuba; Inversion: ART PRESENT project, Sometimes Art Space, Havana, Cuba; Devenir animal, devenir intenso, devenir imperceptible, FAC, Havana, Cuba; Intimate transgressions, White Box, New York, US; 12 Havana Biennale, Cuba and the 56th International Art Exhibition, Cuban Pavilion, Venice, Italy. In 2014 she took part in the collective show Variaciones contempladas en silencio, Museum of Cuban Art, Havana City, Cuba; Las otras narraciones, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo ¨Wifredo Lam¨, La Habana, Cuba; xl’2, 6o Salon of Contemporary Cuban Art, Centro de Desarrollo de Arte Visuales, Havana City, Cuba and Artists in Residence June 2014, Bundeskanzleramtes am Concordiaplatz, Vienna, Austria.
more information at:
http://susanapilardelahantematienzo.blogspot.co.at
The performance will take place on FR 21.10.2016, 19.00H:
Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo: „Puesto De Mando III“
(72-Stunden-Live-Performance, Treffpunkt: Kulturdrogerie Wien)
Exhibition: TOUCH THE REALITY. RETHINKING KEYWORDS OF POLITICAL PERFORMANCE
21.10.2016 – 03.12.2016
Curated by: Ursula Maria Probst
Akram Al Halabi, Catrin Bolt, Tania Bruguera, Lana Čmajčanin, Miss G (a.k.a. Giorgia Conceição), Pêdra Costa, Masha Dabelka, EsRAP , Kadir Fadhel, Fidel García, Markus Hiesleitner, Elvedin Klačar, Sylvi Kretschmar, Camila Lobos, Sandra Monterroso, Naïma Mazic & William Ruiz Morales, Leandro Nerefuh, Female Obsession, Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo, Jianan Qu, Dudu Quintanilha, Grethell Rasúa, Dania González Sanabria, Ela Spalding, Sofia Cruz, Anna Witt
Opening: DO 20.10.2016, 19.00H
Kunstraum Niederösterreich