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Yingmei Curious About Vincent Van Gogh

Curator:

Daily Live Art Performance in cooperation with Van Gogh House in London and Newcastle University

Venue:

13^th June – 20^th September 2024 (100 days, 1 hour per day)

www.vangoghhouse.co.uk

M+ Sigg Collection:

From Revolution to Globalisation

Curator:

M Plus Museum

Venue:

M Plus Museum in Hongkong, China
12 Nov 2021 – 23 July 2023

www.mplus.org.hk/en/exhibitions/

NO INTERMISSION

Curator:

MAI

Venue:

Royal Theater Carré, Amsterdam
24 – 30 October 2022

www.mai.art/projects/nointermission

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Multimedia Interactive Performance Installation

Curator:

Jürgen May

Venue:

KuFA Haus, Braunschweig, Germany
09.06.2022 – 12.06.2022

www.kufa.haus

Spirit Labor: Duration, Difficulty, and Affect

Curator:

Snejana Krasteva & Andrey Misiano

Venue:

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
10 Sep 2021 – 30 Jan 2022

www.garagemca.org/en/exhibition/i-spirit-labor-duration-difficulty-and-affect-i

Re-Think Performancefestival

Curator:

Helena Wikström & Sebastian Adolfsson

Venue:

Galleri Verklighetens gårdshus, Umea, Sweden, 3 – 5 Sep 2021

www.norrlandsoperan.se/forestallning/re-think-festivalen/

Journey to the East Festival

Curator:

Jian Yi (produced by JTTEProductions)

Venue:

Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK
27 – 29 August 2021

www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/journey-to-the-east-festival-yingmei-duan

Holzwege

Curator:

Jürgen Bernhard Kuck

Venue:

Malerkapelle am Elm Königslutter, Germany, 11.09.2015

www.paersche.org

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Nelson Mapako

A versatile Playwright/ Director, Performance artist, Theatre Trainer and Arts Administrator who strives on exploring the limits of creativity, Nelson Mapako has been practicing professional theatre arts since 1992. He was born in Zimbabwe in 1972 where he kicked off his artistic career with Tikwele Drama Group in Hwange. Later on he formed Ezemvelo Creative Artists. He has also worked for the Zimbabwe Association of Community Theatre as a field officer for the Matabeleland region, Amazulu Arts Consultants as Programs Officer, Theatre and Development Initiative as Artistic Director and Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo as the inaugural Festival Administrator.

Mapako has also worked for 6 years in Swaziland (Seconded by the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe’s Bulawayo province.) where apart from being the Programs and Training consultant for Swaziland Theatre for Children and Young People he was running individual theatre projects. While in Swaziland he established the Iphi ‘Africa Project. Of late 2011/ 2012 he has conducted Acting workshops for Intwasa Arts Festival ko Bulawayo in Zimbabwe as well as ParticNelson Mapako is a prolific artist who received training in Community Theatre between 1994 and 1998 through the mentorship of the late international acclaimed artist Ngugi wa Mirri. He is a holder of a Training of Trainers Certificate in Community Theatre, A General Certificate in Intellectual property from WIPO, A Diploma in Program Management and Monitoring. He has written/directed several stage & television productions including Television puppetry productions in Swaziland (Mantentekazane Swazi Television) and Zimbabwe (Khuluza ZTV) and has also featured as an actor both on stage and television. He is a recipient of the Zimbabwe’s prestigious National Arts Merit Award (NAMA) for Outstanding Theatrical Production (OUTCAST) in 2004. He was also a nominee for the NAMA award in 2003 for his production (SIX ALL OUT) Mapako’s other works have been performed at international arts festivals such as HIFA (Social Hanger 2003) in Zimbabwe, Matiwane Manana Arts Festival in Swaziland and Out the Box in Cape Town, South Africa. Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo,Ibumba Arts Festival in Zimbabwe as well as the SASOL Schools Arts Festival (A project for Grahamstown Arts festival)in Witbank South Africa. ipatory Theatre Workshops for PLAN Zimbabwe/Intwasa Arts Festival.

His international collaborations include working with Yingmei Duan – a performance artist from Germany as well as Laway arts South Africa/Netherlands. Nelson’s works are pregnant with artistic, social, developmental and political issues that affect the existence of humanity. His latest work is “A drop in the Land” done in collaboration with Laway Arts South Africa/Netherlands.

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Yingmei Curious About Vincent Van Gogh

M+ Sigg Collection:

From Revolution to Globalisation

NO INTERMISSION

Home

Spirit Labor: Duration, Difficulty, and Affect

Re-Think Performancefestival

Journey to the East Festival

Holzwege

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Nikhil Chopra

Johannes Zits

David Hancock

Di Lu

Beijing East-Village

Márcio Carvalho

Nelson Mapako

Xiaohan Han