Poetics of Encryption – Gespräch: 'Inhabiting SHEE' mit Juliana Cerqueira Leite und Dr. Barbara Imhof

In the organizer's words:

May 26, 24, 4 p.m.

In English language

Location: KW 4th floor

Registration via reservation@kw-berlin.de

On the last day of the exhibition, KW invites artist Juliana Cerqueira Leite and space architect Dr. Barbara Imhof to a conversation based on the artist's engagement with SHEE, the so-called Self-deploying Habitat for Extreme Environments. SHEE is a housing system that was developed by 7 partners as part of an EU project. Imhof was involved in the development with her company LIQUIFER. The discussion will focus on the intersection of new technologies, spatial design and human life.

As part of the exhibition Poetics of Encryption at KW, Leite's central sculpture explores the relationship between her own body and the SHEE architecture through a body-casting performance within a 1:1 model of the system.

Juliana Cerqueira Leite (* 1981, Yolanda) graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2006 as the first winner of the Kenneth Armitage Sculpture Prize. In 2019 she received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for her exhibition Orogenesis at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy. In 2016 she was awarded the Furla Art Prize for her contribution to the 5th Moscow Biennale of Young Art. Her work has been shown internationally in solo exhibitions, including at the National Archaeological Museum, Naples (2019); Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2018) and Arsenal Contemporary, New York (2018). Group exhibitions in which she has participated have taken place at the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture and Ecology, São Paulo (2021); Arsenal Contemporary, Montréal (2019) and Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul (2019). Her works have also been shown in the Antarctic Pavilion of the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), at the 5th International Biennale of Young Art in Moscow (2016) and at the Vancouver Biennale (2014).

Barbara Imhof has been co-managing director of LIQUIFER Vienna - Bremen since 2004 alongside managing partners Waltraut Hoheneder and René Waclavicek. LIQUIFER's globally recognized work is presented in a compendium recently published by PARK Books. Since September 2023, Barbara is also Professor of Integrative Design with a focus on extremes at the Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Trained as an architect and with a degree in Space Studies, she works with engineers, scientists and artists. Barbara Imhof was a simulation astronaut on the MOONWALK simulations, participated in expeditions to Antarctica and the South Pacific and was recently elected American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Associate Fellow of the Class of 2024.