Online Artist Talk: Things that are there because they are not there, like a shadow or death
The Talk will be an introduction to Markus Vater’s work and some of the underlying ideas and processes.
Online Artist Talk: Things that are there because they are not there, like a shadow or death About the speaker Notes to HKBU students Registration
The talk will be an introduction to Markus Vater’s work and some of the underlying ideas and processes. His work is diverse and hard to categorize. Drawing is at its heart, but he also makes Paintings, Animation, Sculpture , Photographs and Performance. In this talk he will look at our world, that seems comprised of firmly structured, repeating systems ,with stories in place that constitute our beliefs. In his work, he calls out these stories and pulls the curtain away to reveal a rich, contradictive, humorous world: Full of possibilities and surprising connections.
Markus Vater (born 1970 in Düsseldorf) is a German artist. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and the Royal College of Art, London. From 2012 to 2016 he had been teaching at the Royal College of Art in London. In 2014 he had a guestprofessorship at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and from 2016 to 2019 at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe. Vater lives and works in London.
The talk is CCL accredited for HKBU students. An evaluation form will be e-mailed to the participated students after the talk. Please note that the CCL unit will only be given to those students who have registered the event and submitted with a completed evaluation form before 12 March (Thu).
Please sign up on or before 9 March 2020 and you will receive the zoom meeting room link through e-mail on 10 March 2020. Please contact
ava@hkbu.edu.hk if you have any questions.