Maria Linares

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María Linares (born May 5, 1970 in Bogotá ) is a Colombian action artist who has lived in Germany since 1996.

Live and act

Maria Linares studied fine arts and philosophy in Bogotá. This was followed by postgraduate studies in "Art and Public Space" at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and "Art in Context" at the Berlin University of the Arts .

The art projects that María Linares realizes and curates are aimed less at visitors to art exhibitions than at passers-by in the urban space, who surprise her and involve her in her actions. In doing so, she strives for the exchange and active participation of exhibition visitors, room users and passers-by. In 2003 she developed a double parasol for the Biennale of the Caribbean in the Dominican Republic , with which the porters could shade passers-by and chat with them. In the New Society for Fine Arts (NGBK) she set up hammocks and observed the reaction of the visitors.

In her art actions, Linares provokes the audience by confronting them with their prejudices. In 2009 she worked on a project with national stereotypes. She asked passers-by in Berlin about the clichés they associate with people from different countries of origin and documented the reactions in a video. The statements were then presented in photos of actors in public spaces.

Linares took a similar approach with the HIRSCH ROT project , which she carried out between 2010 and 2014 at the Julius Hirsch sports facility in Berlin-Charlottenburg . This project was intended to commemorate the German-Jewish national player Julius Hirsch , who was murdered in Auschwitz in 1943 . First, she conducted interviews with the football teams using the sports facility. Excerpts from the conversations were then broadcast in the corridor of the sports building with the help of a red LED ticker.

In collaboration with the visual artist Angélica Chio , she initiated the artist collective daily services , in which the artist Rosa Mesa is now also involved. Together with Stefan Krüskemper and Kerstin Polzin, María Linares has been developing the Citizen Art Days in Berlin since 2012 .

María Linares is a member of the German Association of Artists and was a board member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin from 2014-2016

Realizations and group projects (selection)

  • Since 1999: artist collective daily services , in collaboration with the Mexican artist Angélica Chio, since 2003 in changing compositions.
  • 2010: HIRSCH ROT , art in construction, realization, Julius Hirsch sports facility, Berlin
  • Since 2012: Co-initiator of the Citizen Art Days , together with Stefan Krüskemper and Kerstin Polzin

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2001: move away. Women's Museum Bonn , Germany
  • 2002: XI Muestra Internacional de Performance, 'fuera de campo', X-Teresa arte alternativo , Mexico City, Mexico
  • 2002: Mexican Contemporary Art Creation , MexArtFest, Umeda Sky Gallery, Osaka, Japan
  • 2002: Día del mar / by the sea , Community Day, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
  • 2003: V Bienal del Caribe. Museo de Arte Moderno . Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
  • 2004: Trans / Migrations: Graphics as Contemporary Art . San Juan Poly / Graphic Triennial: Latin America and the Caribbean. San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • 2008: ¡Urgente! 41 Salón Nacional de Artistas , Cali, Colombia
  • 2009: Show. An audio tour through Berlin by Karin Sander , Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
  • 2009: 7 ° Bienal do Mercosul - Projetáveis, Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • 2011: Creative Time “Living as Form” , New York, USA

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anna Pataczek: How the artist María Linares provokes passers-by. Der Tagesspiegel, April 19, 2009, accessed on June 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b DEER RED. María Linares, accessed June 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ daily services. Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Initiators. Citizen Art Days, accessed June 3, 2020 .
  5. ^ Members: María Linares. Deutscher Künstlerbund eV, accessed on June 3, 2020 .
  6. ^ History of bbk berlin: Board members since 2000. bbk berlin, accessed on June 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Linares, María
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian action artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bogotá