Talks
Michaela Melián
Red Threads
28 March 2025, 6pm
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In “Red Threads” the work on the work complex TANIA is presented. Tania is the fighting name of Tamara Bunke, who was born in 1937 to a German-Jewish family in exile in Chile. The family moved to the GDR and Tamara studied at Humboldt University. In the 1960s, she left for Cuba, where she joined the guerrilla struggle led by Che Guevara in Bolivia and was shot dead in 1967. The major themes of the 20th century come together in her life story: National Socialism/fascism, migration and exile, socialist modernity, emancipation and the post-colonial struggle for liberation. To this day, however, Tamara Bunke’s biography can only be pieced together on the basis of many stories and unreliable documents.
Michaela Melián, artist and musician, is known for her multimedia installations, radio plays and sound works. She is co-founder of the band F.S.K. and taught at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts in the Department of Time-Related Media until 2023. She lives in Munich and Marseille.
In recent years, her work has been exhibited at Lenbachhaus Munich, Fundació Juan Miró Barcelona, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Lentos Museum Linz, Cubitt London, Ludlow New York and The War and Women’s Human Rights Museum, Seoul, Kindl Berlin, among others. In 2010, she was commissioned by the City of Munich to realize Memory Loops, an acoustic memorial to the victims of National Socialism.