TASTE & DISCERNMENT: ROOFTOP SCREENING AND CLOSING PERFORMANCE FILMS BY: Cristine Brache Vika Kirchenbauer Rita Macedo Max Göran MUSIC PERFORMANCE BY: Samuel Acevedo We're in the final throes of The “AQNB Presents: Taste & Discernment" duo exhibition with a closing rooftop screening & performance event at 7pm on Sunday, June 30. Curator Steph Kretowicz selects four films that both inspire and engage in dialogue with the themes explored in the show with video work by Vika Kirchenbauer, Cristine Brache and Rita Macedo. Exhibiting artists Max Göran and Samuel Acevedo also take part. Acevedo activates his work with his "Peasant Mannerisms" sound installation and accompanying live performance. Göran contributes a screening of his most recent short film, "Dieseline Dreams.” -- CRISTINE BRACHE is a New York-based artist, writer, and filmmaker. She received her MFA in Fine Art Media from the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Brache predominantly works in encaustic painting, sculpture, and film, often using obsolete media, acrylic, readymades, and textiles. Her work circulates around constructs of the female body and psyche, broken histories, masking, and the inevitable power dynamics accompanying these themes. The artist is also interested in mortality, nostalgia, and solitude. Select solo exhibitions include those held at anonymous gallery (New York); Locust Projects (Miami); and Anat Ebgi (Los Angeles). She has exhibited internationally at galleries and institutions like Berlinische Galerie, Perez Art Museum Miami, and ICA Miami. Her films have screened in festivals like the Florida Film Festival (Orlando); Miami Film Festival (Miami); and Slamdance (Park City). Her work has been critically reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. VIKA KIRCHENBAUER is an artist, writer and music producer based in Berlin. With particular focus on affective subject formation, she examines violence as it attaches to different forms of visibility and invisibility, and considers the ways in which subjects are implicated in and situated within institutional power structures. Comprehensive solo exhibitions of Kirchenbauer’s work have been presented at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf; and at Kunstverein Kevin Space, Vienna. Her videos and installations have been exhibited in group shows and screenings at, among others, d/p, Seoul; the Tainan Art Museum, Taiwan; the Whitechapel Gallery, London; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; the Berlin International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. Her first monograph is published by Mousse Publishing, and unites essays and works from the past ten years of her practice. Since 2022 she is Professor of Fine Art / Foundation Class ‘Film/Video’ at the Braunschweig University of Art. RITA MACEDO is a filmmaker and video artist based in Berlin. Fascinated by the poetic affinity between moving images and fluxes of thought, Rita’s works often operate within the realm of documentary and speculative fiction, with a focus on meaning, memory and history. Since 2018 she works as an artistic collaborator at the Braunschweig University of Art. Her work has been shown at numerous exhibitions and festivals, amongst others at Uppsala Short Film Festival, Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, European Media Art Festival, Berwick Film and Media Art Festival, Shortfilm Festival Hamburg, IndieLisboa International Film Festival, Kasseler Dokfest, São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, New Horizons International Film Festival, Curtas Vila do Conde, Encounters South Africa Documentary Film Festival. MAX GÖRAN is an artist and filmmaker who lives and works between Berlin and Sweden. He holds an MFA from Goldsmiths and has studied with Josephine Pryde at the Berlin University of the Arts. Göran has previously presented solo exhibitions at Cell Project Space in London and at Jenny’s Gallery in Los Angeles. His work has also been shown at festivals and in group exhibitions at galleries and institutions across Europe and the UK, such as Galerie Neu in Berlin; Copenhagen’s CPH:DOX, Kasseler Dokfest; the 7th Edition of the Athens Biennale; Kunstverein München, European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, and New Contemporaries in London. SAMUEL ACEVEDO is a Los Angeles-based artist and musician born in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Through both physical works and live performance, his practice concentrates on the exploration of the compulsive inclination towards ghoulish mental seclusion. Acevedo has presented art performances and installations throughout Europe, including the 59th Venice Biennale, Kaserne Space in Basel, Milan’s Terraforma Festival, and Unsound in Krakow. Visual art installations and group exhibitions appear at the Reykjavik Art Festival, Lomex Gallery in New York, Berlin’s Trauma Bar und Kino, and Berlin Art Week, among others. STWPH KRETOWICZ is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary writer, editor, and journalist specializing in music, contemporary art, and online culture. Her work has been published in Flash Art, Resident Advisor, FACT, and The Wire, as well as The Guardian, Dazed, and Oxford Artistic and Practice Based Research Platform, among others. Kretowicz is founder and editor of London arts publication AQNB, and writer and associate curator at Creamcake in Berlin. She is also author of 2017 novel and cross-media narrative Somewhere I’ve Never Been, published by TLTRPreß, and director of the 2021 radio play I hate it here, produced with Ben Babbitt and felicita, and released via CURL Recordings. More info & full exhibition press release: ceradon.gallery