Magda Korsinsky

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Magda Korsinsky (* 1981 in Prague ) is a choreographer , artist and lecturer of Czech - Eritrean origin.

Life

Korsinsky studied fine arts from 2002 to 2010 at the Berlin University of the Arts , École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague . In addition, she passed the 1st state examination in the fine arts teaching profession .

With the help of the DAAD - postgraduate scholarship from 2009 to 2010 she studied dance and choreography as a guest at the Faculty of Music and Dance of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague . Since graduating as a master class student in summer 2007, she has been working as a freelance artist and has attended numerous exhibitions. In the summer of 2012, she also completed a choreography degree at the Inter-University Center for Dance Berlin .

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Since 2007 Magda Korsinsky has been the supervisor and lecturer of the screen printing workshop in the Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin. For her own screen printing work, she received the 2014 Screening Award from the Friends' Association for Fine Artists in the Hildesheim Region

As a performer she worked with Andrea Crews and Nevin Aladag, among others . Her first performance VRSTVY ​​with 9 performers and a musician was shown in 2009 in the AVU gallery, Prague. The play Lena is not there was premiered in November 2011 in the Uferstudios and u. a. shown at the dance days 2012 in the Sophiensaele . In November 2019, her performance Patterns premiered at Ballhaus Naunynstraße in Berlin . Together with ten black women, she examines “everyday behavior patterns, gestural routines, repetitions of the self”. She understands the performance as an “archive of self-determined gestures, a new composition of the different actions of black women”.

Korsinsky has been giving socio-cultural workshops since 2013. For the interdisciplinary and multi-part project STRICKEN , Korsinsky received project funding from the Berlin Senate, the Rudolf Augstein Foundation and the Capital Cultural Fund . The project is based on interviews with Afro-German women whose white grandmothers lived during the Nazi era .

Exhibitions

  • 2009 Skinprints , Spielraum, Berlin
  • 2014 Lingerie Diaries , Galerie Dengler and Dengler, Stuttgart
  • 2016 Landscapes , Galerie Dengler and Dengler, Stuttgart
  • 2017 STRICKEN, the installation , Savvy Contemporary, Berlin
  • 2018 STRICKEN , Galerie Dengler and Dengler, Stuttgart
  • 2018 STRICKEN, the installation , Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin
  • 2019 STRICKEN, the installation , House of Austrian History

Performances

  • 2009 VRSTVY , AVU Gallery, Prague
  • 2011 Lena is not there at the moment, Uferstudios, Berlin
  • 2019 Patterns , Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin

Award

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magda Korsinsky: short biography. Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Dance and School. Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg, accessed on May 15, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Magda Korsinsky. Lena is not here right now. In: tanzforumberlin.de. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ program. Performance PATTERNS. In: ballhausnaunynstrasse.de. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Stricken - The Installation by Magda Korsinsky | Art - BERLININDUSTRY. Accessed May 15, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ Magda Korsinsky: Knitting. In: WELTKUNST, the art magazine of ZEIT. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Art Alarm - DENGLER UND DENGLER - Gallery for Fine Arts. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
  8. ^ Ballhaus Naunynstrasse in Berlin - "Gazes that matter" by Magda Korsinsky. Deutschlandradio, accessed on May 15, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ STRICKEN, the installation by Magda Korsinsky. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Vienna: Installation KNITTING dealt with the Nazi legacy. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Vrstvy . Recording on Vimeo
  12. ↑ Art Prize 2014 - Magda Korsinsky. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Korsinsky, Magda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-Eritrean choreographer, artist and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague