Beatrice Minda
Shift. Staatsbank der DDR / Hotel de Rome, C-Prints, 2003–2007
In her work Shift – Staatsbank der DDR / Hotel de Rome, Beatrice Minda shows the transformation of the former state bank of the GDR, which was used as a cultural space until a couple of years ago and has now been transformed into a luxury hotel. A representative building changes with society and with the function it has to fulfill within this society. Each change and conversion is accompanied by a more or less radical appropriation of the spaces. The unvisible hand of the particular capital deletes the preceding function. In this process, some of the traces are erased, others can be preserved. Minda presents phases of transition, history as sedimentation. Hereby she tries to make the change of atmospheres visible and perceptible. This work gets an additional dimension in the context of this exhibition, as the Hotel Dajti will be transformed into a ministery soon – a similar change of function. As an allusion to that concern, Beatrice Minda shows additionally one photograph of the room that she took in summer 2008. It is in this room where she presents her work in this exhibition.
Beatrice Minda
Born in 1968 in Munich, West-Germany.
Lives and works in Berlin.
Education:
1991–97 Studied fine arts. Hochschule der Künste
Berlin (UdK) 1997 Honor student at UdK
Selected solo exhibitions:
2009 Il dissento (mit Liz Glynn), O’ A.I.R, Milano, Italy ›››
Was bleibt, Prospekto galerija with Goethe Institut
Vilnius, Lithuania 2008 Heimat Hotel, Breda Museum,
Netherlands ››› Was bleibt, Gallery semina rerum,
Zurich 2007 inner world, Forum for contemporary
photography, Stadtmuseum Munich, Germany ››› inner
world, Gallery Nei Liicht, Dudelange, Luxembourg
2006 Vue de l’intérieur, part of L’Été photographique de
Lectoure 2006, Lectoure, France ››› Vue de l’intérieur,
Centre Culturel Français de Timis¸oara, Romania
Selected group exhibitions:
2008 Inside / / Outside, Museum Küppersmühle,
Duisburg, Germany ››› my space. Tirana-Berlin, Galerie
ZETA, Tirana, Albania 2006 MAGMA – goldrausch 2006,
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin ››› Nach und
Wald, Gallery Royal, Munich ››› Back & Forth, Wilhelm
Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany (Euregio-
Projekt »gap« as part of the exhibition Designing Truth)
Grants / Awards / Residencies
2007 Scholarship from Käthe Dorsch Foundation
2006 goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art IT, Berlin
2004–05 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
1999 French government Paris scholarship
