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Artist Talk Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide)
Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide) (b.1977, Busan, Korea), lives in Berlin and Amsterdam
She was awarded the Theodora Niemeijer Prize in 2023, and was a fellow of the Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme (2022-2023). Since the late 1990s, Chang has created a rich body of work that traverses film, text, immersive film- and sound installations, performances, and painting. She combines spiritual evocations, historical research and the unraveling of colonial narratives creating works that act as historical repair, healing and belonging. Chang’s recent solo exhibitions include Moderna Museet (Stockholm, 2022-2023), Centraal Museum (Utrecht, 2023), A Rose is a rose is a rose (Amsterdam, 2023), ARGOS (Brussels, 2021) and CASCO (Utrecht, 2021). Two-person exhibition with Youngjoon Kwak at ARKO Arts Centre, Seoul (2022) She has participated in the Bihar Biennial (Patna, India, 2023), Busan Biennale (2022), 11th Berlin Biennale (2020), the 5th Dhaka Art Summit (2020), and Contour Biennale (2019). Chang was a participant at De Ateliers from 1999-2001.
This Artist Talk will be followed by the screening of Four Months, Four Million Light Years (35′).
Image by POC Stories.