Archaeologies of the Future: Material Memory in Dialogue | Artist talk by Nika Neelova and Christian Kosmas Mayer

A collaboration with the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg

The British artist Nika Neelova’s (Moscow, RU, 1987; lives and works in London, UK) sprawling installations and other works transport us to what feels like a world unto itself and out of time. She revisits history and the stories of people both real and fictional who have long ceased to exist, lending them material reality in three dimensions.

Christian Kosmas Mayer’s cross-media and installation-based works and projects are the result of extensive artistic research and close collaboration with experts from various disciplines. His works aim at a critical re-evaluation of history and the present by placing evolutionary and natural phenomena within a cultural-historical and scientific framework. A central focus of his work is the exploration of questions surrounding archiving and conservation as acts of historical awareness.

Christian Kosmas Mayer, Nika Neelova and Harald Krejci will be speaking.