María Linares
Born in 1970 in Bogotá, Colombia, María Linares lives and works in Berlin since 1999. Her main interests are interpersonal relations; in her own art pieces as well as in the projects she herself organizes and curates.
Linares is less concerned with the person who attends an exhibition of their own volition, but rather with those individuals she can take by surprise in the public sphere. Her projects are conceived and performed according to the premise of concrete collaboration with the ordinary citizen and citizens themselves - they work in terms of the shared exchange and active participation of exhibition visitors and passers-by.
As part of the "daily services" artist collective, Linares already pursued the aim of creating situations in which the aesthetic value of everyday experienced is accentuated in order to invite reflection on the causal social and economic nexus of contemporary consumer society.
Recent exhibitions: (Selection)
2010 Stadt EinBeAusrichten, Weltecho and public spaces, Chemnitz, Germany
2009 Zeigen. An Audio Tour through Berlin by Karin Sander, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
2009 7 Bienal do Mercosul - Projetáveis, Porto Alegre, Brasil
2009 »urgent urban ambulance | uuuuuuuaaaaah! Zustandsraum Stadt | up date«, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin.
2008 - 2009 »¡URGENTE! 41 Salón Nacional de Artistas« Cali, Colombia
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