JUNGE AKADEMIE: Open Studios

The JUNGE AKADEMIE hosts Open Studios every three months. This time, two fellows provide insights into current ideas and projects. The artists are presenting photography, textile works, objects, performances and artistic research on current works.

Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo is a photographer based in Lawley, Johannesburg. He investigates themes of first-hand and generational trauma, violence and memory. During his residency, he further developed Umnyakazo – a term from isiZulu language  – which explores the notions of movement, stillness and moments in-between. In the studio, the artist presents a series of photographs as well as new experiments with materials examining the expression of movement, its continuation and temporality.

Sophie Seita is a London-based artist and researcher whose work swims in the muddy waters of language, and explores materiality, gesture, and the speculative potential of the archive. For the open studios event, she will install a series of textile works and sound pieces centred around experimental graphic scores for imaginary queer voices in Studio 2 as well as some “pitch exercises” in the elevator to the 3rd floor. Furthermore, the artist will present her performance "These Devices Became Law" for a second time at Akademie der Künste, invoking historical utopian fictions, contemporary biopolitical and ecologies realities, as well as José Muñoz’s queer performance theory.