Brunch with the Artists
Anna K.E. and Roger Hiorns in conversation with Adam Budak and Curators
The artists Anna K.E. and Roger Hiorns in a conversation with the director Adam Budak and the curators Robert Knoke and Alexander Wilmschen.
On a collective and subjective body entangled within the hegemonic structures and systems of authority, on politics and ethics, truth and power, or a discipline and the means of correct training – these are the topics of the joint discussion between the artists Anna K.E. and Roger Hiorns, the director Adam Budak and the curators Robert Knoke and Alexander Wilmschen. An attempt at deciphering some possible connections between the two parallel exhibitions.
Anna K.E. was born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1986 in a family of well known Georgian artists Gia Edzgveradze and Keti Kapanadze. She currently lives and works between Düsseldorf and New York. The former student of the famous Georgian ballet school Vakhtang Chabukiani moved to Germany in 2000 and studied in Stuttgart at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste and in Düsseldorf, at the Kunstakademie. In 2010 she received Diploma and Meisterschülerin from Prof. Georg Herold and Prof. Christopher Williams.
Anna K.E. represented Georgia at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019 and has participated in numerous international solo and group exhibitions. Her works are represented in renowned public and private collections. Anna K.E. works in the fields of drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, video and sound. Her site-specific installations incorporate also performative elements of their afterthoughts and remnants. Moving freely between the different languages of architecture, design and art, her interest lies in the analysis and overcoming of existing and self-made cultural, social and artistic structures.
Roger Hiorns was born in Birmingham in 1975. He received his BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 1996. His primary media is painting, sculpture and installation, using a wide variety of materials, including metals, wood, brain matter, crystallization and plastics. He also works in the media of video and photography. Hiorns has been featured in a number of exhibitions at institutions throughout Europe and the Americas. Hiorns’ work is included in such institutional collections as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem; and Tate Modern, London. In 2009, Hiorns was nominated for the Turner Prize for his critically acclaimed work Seizure, a massive crystallization within the interior of a bedsit in a condemned South London council estate.
In 2011, Seizure was acquired by the Arts Council Collection and is currently for exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Yorkshire, England. Hiorns lives and works in London.