Caroline Mesquita, Artist Talk — HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark

Artist Talk

Caroline Mesquita, *CuCO & CO*, 2024
Ausstellungsansicht, HAB gallery, Nantes, photo: Jean-Christophe Lett

In conversation with curator Jan Tappe, Caroline Mesquita will talk about her artistic practice and give an insight into her approach to the making of an exhibition. Mesquita’s practice is characterized by complex copper and brass figures, which she arranges into various scenarios and relationships. This results in fabulous exhibition architectures, as seen in Verdet Bath, her exhibition for the HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, where a combination of new works and almost ten-year-old figures are arranged to form a luxurious bath house landscape. This presentation also reveals how Mesquita’s sculptural practice has become increasingly precise over time. In earlier works, the figures often appeared as sketches peeling out from sheets of metal, while the current works are more detailed and multi-faceted. In this discussion with Jan Tappe, the artist will explore these and other aspects of her working method and her special techniques.

Artists

Participating artists

Solo exhibitions (selection): T293, Rom (2024, 2022, 2017), HAB Gallery, Nantes (2024), Bourse du travail Centre d’art, Valence (2023), Villa Medicis, Rome (2023), Le Parvis Centre d’Art contemporain, Tarbes (2022), CAN, Centre d’art Neuchâtel (2022), Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (2021), Statement, Art Basel, with Union Pacific (2021), Pivô, São Paulo (2020), Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain, Brest (2020), carlier / gebauer, Berlin (2019, 2015), Fondazione Arnoldo Pomodoro, Milan (2019), Galeria Municipal de Porto (2019), Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2018), Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Centre Pompidou, MAM, Paris (2018), SALTS, Basel (2017), 221A, Vancouver (2017), Kunstverein Langenhagen (2016), MOT International, Brussels (2016), SpazioA, Pistoia (2015), Union Pacific, London (2015).

Group exhibitions (selection): Contemporaine de Nîmes (with Laure Prouvost) (2024), Mucem, Marseille (2022), Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence (2022), Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara (2021), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019, 2012), Folkwang Museum, Essen (2019), Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2019), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main (2019), Parcours Art Basel (2018), La Loge, Brussels (2018), Fondation Ricard, Paris (2017, 2015, 2013), Sans Titre, Paris (2017), The Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2014).

is curator at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark. Until 2020, he was program coordinator at Galerie Wedding – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin. Prior to that, he worked at Hamburger Bahnhof — Museum für Gegenwart and Kunsthalle Wien, among others. After studying cultural studies in Hildesheim, he completed the master’s program Curatorial Studies – History – Theory – Criticism at the Städelschule and Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.