D E S E R T E R S - an exhibition and website examining the relationship between illness and making

Beside my video work “the HEALING” which is part of the exhibition I will give a live performance and an artist talk with the title” A State Of Bared” on the opening day at 12 midday

D E S E R T E R S

03/04/2025 – 26/09/2025 - opening 03/04/2025, 11am - 3pm Monday to Friday from 10am – 5pm.

Oriel y Bont, Ty Crawshay Building at the Treforest,

Pontypridd Campus, CF37 1DL, Wales, UK

Life changing sickness is a commonality that connects many artists' otherwise disparate practices across decades, genres and lifetimes*.Deserters asks, ‘What is the relationship between illness and making? ‘Good health’ has obvious merit – but what about the value of ‘ill health’?’

"Frequenz." (Frequency)

Two of my works, a photographic work “Frequencies in Lines” and the video work “Birch Alley”, will be presented at:

“Frequenz” (Frequency)

23/03/2025 – 13/04/2025 -opening 23/03/25, 14 h

QQArt, Forststrasse 73, 40721 Hilden, Germany

 Since 2010, the QQArt gallery has hosted an annual, inter- nationally thematic exhibition – now a biennial – every two years. The selected themes focus on "art and technology," each featuring a word from physics. This year's exhibition theme is "Frequenz." (Frequency)

KITOKI video_dance exposition

Two works “View behind the Curtain” with Jana Schmück and “Dark Paths” with Tsai Hsin Ying are presented at

KITOKI video_dance exposition

23/02/2025 – 05/04/2025 opening 23/03/25 ,18-21h

auJUS /Avenue Jean Volders, 24 / Brussel 1060 / Belgium

open 16-20 h and by appointment / also online: kitoki.io

“Same but Different – Equinox to Equinox” 

I will be performing at “Same but Different – Equinox to Equinox” – a short performance festival

Time: Sunday 23 March 2025 from 13:00 to 14:00

Location: Het Hof Square in Dordrecht, Netherlands

There is no fixed programme with consecutive performances but everything takes place simultaneously, collaborations can arise spontaneously. 

Curator/ Organizer Frans van Lent

MATA HARI, - OUVERTURE CRI DE FEMMES 2025

13/03/2025 - 31/03/2025 

Galerie Emergenc'Art,

Entrée de Valombreuse, Petit-Bourg, Guadalope

My video work “Dark Paths” with Tsai Hsin Ying is presented in this exibition. MATA HARI is a prism, a gateway. Entirely subversive, the aim here isn't to celebrate her history, but to question all the small, common and redundant stories within our own, without trusting in the universal. Women in struggle are everywhere. Curator: Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette

“Collage Music 31”

My sound and music piece “Agua y Grava” (Water and Gravel) is included in the album Collage Music 31” (edition IFAR4’33”/277), Label Institute For Alien Research, Bath, UK

Released on February 21th, 2025.

Compiled and arrange by Shaun Robert.

More information:

https://ifarmusiqueconcretecompilation.bandcamp.com/album/collage-music-31

“Agua y Grava” (Water and Gravel)

The work does not follow a particular style or category. The piece combines the sounds of water and waves flowing over gravel and rhythms of a piano, forming a piece of music

Singletary Center Visual Music Festival; 

Saturday February 8th , 10am – 5pm;

Singletary Center for the Arts, University of Kentucky;

405 Rose St, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA

My work "q9" is presented 

The Singletary Center presents the inaugural Visual Music Fes-tival in the SCFA Recital Hall. A day of dynamic expressions of abstract art featuring a curated program of multimedia works from an international collection of contemporary artists. Expe-

rience the harmonies of light and sound as we explore what go- es on in the mind while listening to music! The films are made

entirely with abstract imagery, avoiding representation. That is: no cars, no people, no landscapes, no  texts, etc. • The sound-tracks do not feature any words, lyrics in any language.

MOVEMENT AND LIGHT

My video work “nothing will stay as it was” will be screened on February 6, 2025 at

MOVEMENT AND LIGHT

with film and video contributions from 61 filmmakers

Film and video screenings on four different days

06. Feb.- 13.Feb. - 20. Feb.. - 27.Feb. 2025 always starting 18.00 h

GISELA-Freier Kunstraum-Lichtenberg,

Giselastraße 12, 10317 Berlin,  Germany

Directions: S-Bhn. Nöldnerplatz /Bus 240 Open Tues.-Fri. 10am-4pm, Thurs. 10am-6pm, Sat. 2pm-5pm, Sun. and Mon. closed

“Transforming Here and Now”

presents a selec- tion of eight photographs from my socially and community-engaged art projects.

Transforming: Here and Now

31.01.2025 – 07.02.2025

Groundfloor, Faculty of Arts Building, University of Warwick, University Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL ,UK

The exhibition illustrates how individuals and communities as- sert their agency through environmental initiatives and creative expressions, from community-building environmental projects to reflections on urban, rural, and virtual spaces.

childhood interrupted

My work “hopscotch” is represented in the group exhibition 

childhood interrupted

01.02.2025 - 01.03.2025

The House of Smalls

103 Henderson Row,Stockbridge, Edinburgh EH3 5BB, Scotland, UK

~ childhood (noun):

the condition of being a child; the period of life before puberty 

~ interrupted (adjective):

broken, discontinued, or hindered

Curator Amy Oliver

LATITUDES 2025

The presentation of my video performance “meaning to be hidden” has been scheduled to be screened from Jan. 28 to Feb. 01, 2025 at LATITUDES 2025, at the Gallery of the Centro de la Cultura Plurinacional, CCP. Calle Rene Moreno #369, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia,

LATITUDES 2025  -  28.01.2025 – 01.02.2025

Centro de la Cultura Plurinacional (CCP), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Museo de la Ciudad Altillo Beni (MAB) and Alliance Francaise Santa Cruz (AFSCZ),

City of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia,

Director & Curator Hector Canonge.

Postcards from the Edge 

My contribution to Visual AIDS “Dark Red Cloth” / a motif from the Alex & Anna portfolio

Postcards from the Edge – Benefice for Visual AIDS

24.01.- 26.01.2024

Berry Campbell Gallery 524 West 26th Street New York, NY 10001, USA

Founded in 1988. VISUAL AIDS is the only organization fully committed to raising Aids awareness and creating dialogue around HIV issues today, by producing and presenting since 1998 the annual visual art project -Postcards from the Edge-

http://postcards.visualaids.org./

The Anthropocene Foundry Los Angeles 2025

My video work “disorientated displacement” is part of:

The Anthropocene Foundry Los Angeles 2025

January 18th – March 1st. 2025

Torrance Art Museum,

3320 Civic Center Drive, Torrance, CA 90503, USA

The Anthropocene Foundry Los Angeles 2025 – is consisting of 6 video programs, for each week another program composed of 2 parts. The sources for curating/selecting - of thematic and technical nature alike - are standing under the motto of “Finiteness /Infinity”: Curator Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

3rd International Print Triennial in Cieszyn

My print work “to the sky” will be presented at

3rd International Print Triennial in Cieszyn

Theme: City Horizons

15.01.2025 – 07.02.2025 (Opening 15.01.2025 at 13.15 h)

University Gallery, 62 Ul. Bielska , Cieszyn, Poland 

Solitude - 34Gallery.org

One of my works from the portfolio “Woman by the Sea” is part of the “34 Gallery” January event on the theme of “Solitude”. The “34 Gallery” is an international art initiative launched by the NGO SimukaAfrica.org in Norton, Zimbabwe, to promote mental health and overcome the related issues of mental disorders in Africa and globally. . “Solitude” will take place from January 3 to 31, 2025, mostly virtually, to reach as many different institions, experts and audiences as possible in different locations. www.34gallery.org &www.simukaafrica.org

Superpresent - Secrets and Mysteries

A Magazine of the Arts Volume 5, Number 1, -Winter 2025 issue is Secrets and Mysteries

ISSN 2767-5289 - Publisher Goupi Press, USA

Three of my photographic works “Mystery Light”, “A Time of Mystery and Secret” and “A Graves Mystery Light” are featured in the latest issue of the arts magazine Superpresent with the theme of “Secrets and Mysteries, Superpresent is a quarterly arts magazine. Superpresent is available online and in print copies for each issue. Superpresent publishes poetry, short stories, essays, visual artworks, experimental art, video art and sound art.

FILMROLLE

As a participant in the first FILMROLLE in 2022, my animation work PARALLEL UNIVERSES is shown again

Anonymous Drawings & Lines Fiction FILMROLLE 2024

November 16, 2024 – January 12, 2025

Kunstraum Kreuzberg | Bethanien

Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin, Germany

Anonymous Drawings – ANONYME ZEICHNER*INNEN – a project for original drawings, curated by Anke Becker and the FILMROLLE 2024 with 116 animations from all over the world by LINES FICTION – At the same time, there will also be a re-performance of the first FILMROLLE in 2022. FILMROLLE 2024 and 2022 are a project for drawings and artistic animations, curated by Bettina Munk

SMALL WORKS

“3347”, a small mixed media work on paper, is exhibited at

SMALL WORKS

At Fox Yard Studio

13/12/2024 – 03/01/2025 (opening Friday 13/12/2024, 6 pm)

6 Old Fox Yard, Stowmarket, IP14 1AB, UK

This exhibition  included a diverse display including photo- raphy, painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed media and digital works. It will invite viewers to reconsider how scale matters and shapes the way someone experiences art. 

“3347”

From time to time I work with mixed media. These can be artist books, objects or paper collages. The small-format work entitled “3347” is one of the works that are created with painting, chalk pencils and paper collages on paper.