This group exhibition of 18 Myanmar artists presents interdisciplinary highlights of contemporary Myanmar art, combining installations and sculptures with paintings, photography, and illustrations. An accompanying program will also feature dance, performance art, literature readings, and documentary film.
Through We Are the Seeds—The Art of Myanmar’s Spring Revolution, participating artists are taking part in their country’s democratic revolution while reflecting deeply on their experience of exile and migration. They continue to represent the empowerment of women, the LGBTQI movement, and ethnic minorities in Myanmar achieved during the past 10 years, sketching a hopeful future for a democratic, inclusive, and peaceful Myanmar.
The project is designed to present leading contemporary artists from Myanmar to a European audience while supporting artists in exile to continue their work here. It aims to build a greater awareness of Myanmar’s forgotten conflict among German policymakers, media, and the public. We Are the Seeds—The Art of Myanmar’s Spring Revolution is curated by Nathalie Johnston and organized by German Solidarity with Myanmar Democracy e.V.
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![Two figures stand on a bridge dressed in hand-made Indigenous regalia.](https://opensocietyfoundations.imgix.net/uploads/159b6b06-17fa-4b0f-9528-715a3f62f17d/20231102-cannupa-hanska-luger-futureancestraltechnologies-welive-still1-3000.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=200&q=80&rect=0%2C125%2C3000%2C1875 "This still from Cannupa Hanska Luger's "Future Ancestral Technologies - We Live" (2021) illustrates the artist’s blending of Indigenous futurism, place, storytelling and documentation of living practice as two figures pledge accountability to the land and waters through their physical presence. Like many projects from this year’s art fellows, the work incorporates knowledge and practice from native communities that live in harmony with nature to imagine how the whole world can improve our relationship with the Earth. Photo credit: © Cannupa Hanska Luger")
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