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Beate Linne (*1967 in Germany)

As a visual artist I am working mainly in the field of performance art, including Video and installation. Beside my solo works, I have been collaborated in the artist Duo Linne&Vaara, with Black Market International, Bálint Sombathy and others. I give workshops and have been active as a co-curator for several international Performance art festivals like Transart Communication (HU), the International Performance Art Festival Blow! (DE) and the International Live Art Festival OPEN 19 (CN) and international performance art meeting NO W HERE (FI.) My academic studies rage from fine arts to architecture, German language and social work. This wide range of experiences and knowledge constitutes the basis of my art. I am a curious person and eager to exchange with other people and keen on working with artists from different disciplines and cultures. In the last years I have been travelling around the world and I am glad to have the opportunity to those exchanges and the associated incentives that challenges me to continue developing my art constantly. My art works have been presented in different context internationally.

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Performances

2020 Burnt of Snow, International Performance Art Festival, Xillamuren, Inner Mongolia, China.
2019 City Gallery, Pärnu, Estonia /Plato Gallery, Ostrava, Czech Republic/BLV, Central Municipal de Destricto San Francisco, Bilbao, Spain/ Gallery Casa Viva, Mexico City, Mexico.
2018 Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain/Rebel Art Space Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand/ Cemadok Cultural House, Nové Zámky, Slovakia/Kahlil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallha, Palestine.
2017 Today Art Museum, Beijing, China/International Multimedia Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia/4D Gallery, Slovakia/Contemporary Art Museum Oaxaca, Mexico.
2016 Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel/Contemporary Art Museum Valdivia, Chile/Hong Kong Art Week, Hong Kong/Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China/ Bangkok Art and Cultural Center, Thailand.
2015 Bone performance Art Festival, Bern, Switzerland/Transart Communication, Müszi, Budapest, Hungary/Streetlevel, Helsinki, Finland/ Encuentro Experiencias de la Carne Art Accion, Elgapon, Lima, Peru.
2014 Magyar Mühely Gallery, Budapest, Hungary/Vaanta Art Museum Myyrmäki, Finland
Transistory Acts, Frensh Institut Yangon, Myanmar.
2013 Sentiers de Résistance Urbane 2, Archive Municipales, Marseille, France/Open Art Space, Xi'an Banpo International Art District, Xi'an, China.
2012 Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany/Salt Galata Museum, Istanbul, Turkey.
 gusta, Helsinki, Finland.
 
Exhibitions

2019 Memory and Identity, solo exhibition, You and me space, Xiaozhou, Guangzhou, China
2017 Black-The horizontal eight II, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca, Mexico 
2016 Pentagramm, group exhibition, Parabiosis Communication and Coexistance, Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China.
2014 Black-The horizontal eight I, solo exhibition, Magyar Mühely Galeria, Budapest, Hungary/ five, “Our Street” group exhibition, Linne&Vaara, Vaanta Art Museum, Myyrmäki, Finland.
2013 Suitcase Exchange, group exhibition, Linne&Vaara. Digital Live. YouYou Contemporary Art Center, Xiaozhou, Guangzhou, China.
2012 Reflection C, GiftGötze, group exhibition, Produzentengallerie, Woltwiesche, Germany.

Statement

My art investigates core issues of life and the condition of being a human.
The performances often test the corporeal and mental limits of myself, questioning the social manners and learned norms of behavior. By using my body as a tool of creating powerful live-images, I consider performance as an opportunity to express myself in my ongoing examination into the ideas of freedom and conventionality of body and thought. My works can be seen as poetical compositions that transforms life in odd actions and living images. It’s not about presenting answers or concrete statements to social and politic subjects, but rather an offer activating the spectator to find their own interpretations or associations. At the heart of my work is an encounter and exchange between people: a possibility to initiate alternative and bold thinking processes.