Flock III: Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino
20/01/2025 19:00 Kunstverein Nürnberg
21/01/2025, 19:00 Kunstverein Nürnberg
Please feel warmly invited to the third iteration of “Flock“, which is co-organized by the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and the Kunstverein Nürnberg—Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft with Wisrah C. V. da Celestino. In their lecture performance “From Language“, the artists delved into their practice with particular attention to the linguistics of their work. Looking at elements such as translation, interpretation and mistyping and taking them as tools to conceive the work, Celestino examines how language operates as a material and conceptual means within their research.
Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino (b. 1989 in Buritizeiro, BR) is an artist. Their works are often defined by the immediate social, legal, and personal conditions of exhibition production. This involves delegating artistic decisions to family members or temporarily introducing personal objects into artistic contexts. Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino is one of this year’s winners of the ars viva prize and will show their work at Haus der Kunst, Munich in 2025 after an exhibition at Kunsthalle Bremen.
As part of a new cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and the Kunstverein Nürnberg—Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, artists, thinkers, and curators are invited to present their work at both institutions over two days. At Kunstverein the invitees introduce into their work in the form of a reading, a screening, a performance, a jam session, or similar, and a following conversation. The next day, academy students have the opportunity to exchange about their work with the guests in studio visits at the academy. The “Flock” format is centered around forms of collaboration and artistic self-organization. The first series, featuring Leonie Nagel, Fanny Hauser, and Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino, focuses on different possible collaboration partners.
