Donna Huanca at Zuzeum Art Center
Highlighting the ART FOR CHANGE artist's ongoing exhibition
Installation images of Donna Huanca's exhibition, Utopic Cells, at the Zuzeum Art Center.
Donna Huanca is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Berlin. Exploring an interest in the natural cycles of birth, death, and time across mediums, her practice reintegrates previous works into the new—obscuring and expanding the lifespan of her paintings, sculptures and performances. On view now at Zuzeum Art Center, Huanca’s solo exhibition, Utopic Cells, presents a multi-dimensional landscape guiding the viewer through a translucent, biodegradable membrane that creates a new architecture within the open plan of Zuzeum, which holds the world's largest private collection of Latvian art.
In Utopic Cells, Huanca creates a versatile and dynamic space in which the visitor becomes an integral part of the installation, as their own movements interact with the reflective sculptures, in turn responding to the paintings.
In her 2022 limited edition print with ART FOR CHANGE, KARITA DE DIOSA, Huanca explores similar themes of ceremonial practice and the natural world.
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DONNA HUANCA
KARITA DE DIOSA, 2022
24 x 20 inches
Limited edition of 25 with 5AP + 1PP
Hand-embellished, signed and numbered by the artist
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KARITA DE DIOSA, named for a genus of spiders in Huanca’s home, is a new work pulled from a part of her site-specific, multimedia performance and installation at Copenhagen Contemporary, Lengua Llorona (2019). Translating to ‘crying tongue’ from Spanish, the exhibition space was transformed through a series of live painting actions. The performances mutate the space into a powerful, vibrant, sensory universe from her and her performer’s anthropomorphic gestural markings that bend and refract the physical experience in the newly abstracted space. Relying on raw color pigments, oils and other natural, even bodily, materials, her flowing, sweeping abstraction taps into humanity’s physical interconnectedness. Through these vibrant reds and dreamy royal blues, she translates and documents the biochemical heritage and the cultural history of the body. The artist has hand-embellished the work with additional details and texture in oil pastels, making each print a unique work.
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Donna Huanca with her 2022 ART FOR CHANGE print, KARITA DE DIOSA.
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Donna Huanca hand-embellishing her 2022 ART FOR CHANGE print, KARITA DE DIOSA.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Donna Huanca (b. 1980) lives and works in Berlin. She studied at Städelschule, Frankfurt, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Painting from the University of Houston. Huanca was also the recipient of the DAAD Artist Frankfurt and a Fulbright research grant. After taking on representation of the artist; Peres Projects presented her solo exhibition Surrogate Painteen at the gallery in 2016. Huanca presented a solo exhibition at the Zabludowicz Collection the same year, and subsequently opened solo exhibitions at the Yuz Museum, Shanghai (2018); Belvedere Museum, Vienna (2018); Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen (2019); and Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (2019).
Her work is featured in prominent international collections such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection, New York; Belvedere Collection, Vienna; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing; Yuz Museum, Shanghai; Zabludowicz Collection, London; Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles; the Rubell Museum, Miami; and the Perez Art Museum, Miami (PAMM). Huanca’s work is currently on view as part of a group exhibition at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, and her solo exhibition "Espejo Quemada" will open this June at Ballroom Marfa, Texas. Solo exhibitions at Dallas Contemporary; Arnolfini, Bristol; and Henry Gallery at the University of Washington, Seattle.
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Donna Huanca is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Berlin. Exploring an interest in the natural cycles of birth, death, and time across mediums, her practice reintegrates previous works into the new—obscuring and expanding the lifespan of her paintings, sculptures and performances. On view now at Zuzeum Art Center, Huanca’s solo exhibition, Utopic Cells, presents a multi-dimensional landscape guiding the viewer through a translucent, biodegradable membrane that creates a new architecture within the open plan of Zuzeum, which holds the world's largest private collection of Latvian art.
In Utopic Cells, Huanca creates a versatile and dynamic space in which the visitor becomes an integral part of the installation, as their own movements interact with the reflective sculptures, in turn responding to the paintings.
In her 2022 limited edition print with ART FOR CHANGE, KARITA DE DIOSA, Huanca explores similar themes of ceremonial practice and the natural world.
SHOP THE PRINT
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DONNA HUANCA
KARITA DE DIOSA, 2022
24 x 20 inches
Limited edition of 25 with 5AP + 1PP
Hand-embellished, signed and numbered by the artist
SHOP THE PRINT
KARITA DE DIOSA, named for a genus of spiders in Huanca’s home, is a new work pulled from a part of her site-specific, multimedia performance and installation at Copenhagen Contemporary, Lengua Llorona (2019). Translating to ‘crying tongue’ from Spanish, the exhibition space was transformed through a series of live painting actions. The performances mutate the space into a powerful, vibrant, sensory universe from her and her performer’s anthropomorphic gestural markings that bend and refract the physical experience in the newly abstracted space. Relying on raw color pigments, oils and other natural, even bodily, materials, her flowing, sweeping abstraction taps into humanity’s physical interconnectedness. Through these vibrant reds and dreamy royal blues, she translates and documents the biochemical heritage and the cultural history of the body. The artist has hand-embellished the work with additional details and texture in oil pastels, making each print a unique work.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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Her work is featured in prominent international collections such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection, New York; Belvedere Collection, Vienna; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing; Yuz Museum, Shanghai; Zabludowicz Collection, London; Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles; the Rubell Museum, Miami; and the Perez Art Museum, Miami (PAMM). Huanca’s work is currently on view as part of a group exhibition at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, and her solo exhibition "Espejo Quemada" will open this June at Ballroom Marfa, Texas. Solo exhibitions at Dallas Contemporary; Arnolfini, Bristol; and Henry Gallery at the University of Washington, Seattle.
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