Workshop for adults at the exhibition of Lin May Saeed
The workshop takes place within the exhibition dedicated to Lin May Saeed. We will leave the anthropocene for a utopian and ancestral place, in search of a possible deep interconnection. Animals will be protagonists on the stage of an imaginary Theater of Eden. The activity will be developed through graphic-pictorial and body languages.
Free activity: admission fee based on membership category.
Reservations required: biglietteria@gamec.it
Note biografiche
Lin May Saeed was born in 1973 in Würzburg, Germany and grew up in Wiesbaden a mid-sized city near Frankfurt/Main. She had a Jewish-German family background on her mother’s side and an Iraqi family background on her father’s side. Saeed studied sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Luise Kimme and Tony Cragg from 1995 to 2001. It was there that she became interested in animal rights, studied the animal rights philosopher Tom Regan and took part in corresponding actions (e.g. protests against the fur trade). She has lived vegan ever since. After moving from Düsseldorf to Berlin, she founded the exhibition space Center in Berlin-Tiergarten in 2003, which she ran until 2009. From 2008 to 2010, Lin May Saeed taught sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Lin May Saeed passed away on August 30, 2023 as a result of a brain tumor at the age of 50, two weeks before the opening of her solo exhibition at the Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin.
Solo shows (selection): (2023) In Paradise, the Snow falls Slowly, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin; Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles; (2021) Rami, Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt/Main; (2020) Arrival of the Animals, The Clark, Williamstown; (2019) Girl with Cat, Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt/Main; Lin May Saeed & Max Brand, What Pipeline, Detroit; (2028) Biene, Studio Voltaire, London; (2017) Djamil, Lulu, Mexico City. Group shows (selection): (2023) Der König ist tot, lang lebe die Königin, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden; Spark Birds, Kasteel Wijlre, Wijlre; (2021) Eurasia, MHKA Antwerp; Amsterdam Sculpture Biennale; Espressioni, Museo Castello di Rivoli; La Mer Imaginaire, Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles; (2020) Crack Up – Crack Down, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; (2019) City Prince/sses, Palais de Tokyo, Paris; (2018) Wilderness, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; Class Reunion – Works from the Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann Collection, mumok, Vienna; Metamorphosis, Museo Castello di Rivoli; (2017) La fin le Babylone, KölnSkulptur#9, Cologne; (2016) 9. Berlin Biennale (2016).
