Calendar

Period (opening hours):
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 10 am - 6 pm / Thursday, 2 pm - 8 pm / Saturday, Sunday, public holidays 11 am - 6 pm

Venue:
Villa Merkel
Galerie der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar
Pulverwiesen 25
73726 Esslingen am Neckar


Villa Merkel is organising the first solo museum exhibition of the Chilean-Peruvian artist Ivana de Vivanco (*1989 in Lisbon, lives and works in Berlin). In her works, she deals with the post-colonial heritage in Chile and Peru, religious and cultural practices, mythological themes, indigenous ways of knowing, sexuality and patriarchal power structures. She combines painting, video and sculpture with theatrical elements to unite historical research and fiction. The presentation at Villa Merkel focuses on the unique landscape of the Atacama Desert, lithium mining and the local living conditions. To this end, it uses the figure of the snake as a leitmotif, reinterpreting it from mythological, religious and visual-historical traditions and expanding it speculatively.