Residency at Museum der Kulturen Basel, June 2023

Artist Shiva Lynn Burgos is invited by the Museum der Kulturen Basel to access the museum’s archives and object reserves to create a new, contemporary body of work primarily focused on her cyanotype and photographic practice. Her residency in Basel takes place mid May – mid June 2023 The Museum der Kulturen Basel (MKB), one of five public museums in Canton Basel-Stadt is the largest anthropological museum in Switzerland and one of the most eminent of its kind in Europe. The MKB collections are renowned throughout the world and include over 340,000 objects, around 50,000 historical photographs, and roughly 200,000 documentary images. It collects and exhibits works and objects from around the world for the purpose of raising awareness and understanding for all cultures. Preserving the collections is just as much part of the MKB’s tasks as doing research on them. Findings are imparted by means of exhibitions, events, and publications. With its exhibitions and events, MKB seeks to enrich cultural life and awareness for all forms of culture. MKB publishes the findings of its research projects, thus making them accessible to a wider audience. Of course, they also feed into exhibitions and public events at the museum such as the gallery talk series: “Grasping anthropology”

On June 7th, 18h-19:30h:
New York – Mariwai: Werke einer Kunstkooperation (works from an art cooperation)

“Today, works by artists from Mariwai in Papua New Guinea and by the New York-based artist Shiva Lynn Burgos meet at the museum: what a colourful and impressive encounter! Shiva Lynn Burgos looks at Mariwai from an artistic perspective, Oceania curator Beatrice Voirol from an anthropological one.”

Artist Shiva Lynn Burgos, in dialogue with MKB Curator Beatrice Voirol will present an interactive workshop on the cyanotype process, the results of her research and artistic residency at the museum as well as a program of short films which highlight her work and interaction with the Kwoma people of Mariwai village Papua New Guinea.

_______________________________________________________

THE ART OF BUSINESS – Davos 2023

Climate Imagination: The Art of Adaptation and Regeneration in Times of Crisis

January 16th, 2023

Heimatmuseum Davos, Switzerland

Shiva Lynn Burgos is honoured to take part in The Art of Business Forum, sponsored by SAP during The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos Switzerland, Monday January 16th at the Heimatmuseum, a series of conversations with business leaders, scientists, and artists to imagine inclusive, sustainable futures.

“In an increasingly complex, fragmented world, the existing paradigms and solutions no longer suffice. Data, science, and technology are powerful tools, but looking at business as an art, as well as learning from the arts, can help us bring bolder imaginations to the challenges ahead”.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Mapping the Post Pandemic (Art) World – October 7th, 2022

IV: Women Making Waves

Synopsis: from Passion, to Process to the Power of
Art & Nature

In this excerpt Shiva Lynn Burgos showcases the efforts of The Mariwai Project alongside a group of internationally recognized women in the field of art

15:00BST/10:00EST/00:00PNG Friday, October 7th, 2022
● Shiva Lynn Burgos, artist, founder of The Mariwai Project, Papua New Guinea will speak in the panel discussion “Women Making Waves” alongside
● Sheikha Hoor Al-Quasimi, Director of Sharjah Art Foundation
● Bice Curiger, Art Historian and Critic
● Touria El Glaoui, Founding Director of 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
● Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, Philanthropist TBA21
● Karla Zerressen, Langen Foundation. (Moderated by Oscar Guardiola Rivera). The 4 part forum, Mapping the Post Pandemic (Art) World is curated by Johanna Afrodita Zuleta and produced by @Samsung in partnership with @theBritishCouncil.

Filmed by Skinder Hundal

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The full program from the Global Foundation is in this link.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Humboldt Forum – 22, September 2021

Shiva Lynn Burgos was commissioned by the Ethnologisches Museum @staatlichemuseenzuberlin in the new Humboldt Forum @humboldtforum at the Berlin Palace. The permanent collection will feature her photographic work and the new film Tokimba Spirit House which introduces The Mariwai Project, her intimate involvement with the carvers and painters of Papua New Guinea.

Official opening took place on 22 September 2021 in the presence of Monika Gruetters, State commissioner for Culture and Media @bundeskultur, Frank-Walter Steinmeier @bundespraesident.steinmeier Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie @chimamanda_adichie, Author, Herman Parnzinger, President of the Stiftung Preussicher Kulturbesitz, and Hartmut Dorgerloh, General Director Stiftung Humboldt Forum Im Berliner Schloss.

A special thank you to curators Dorothea Deterts, Anna Weinreich, Gina Knapp. (Photo)

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

---

---

______________________________________________

---

This edition of the OAS Journal once again traverses through time and space exploring aspects of Pacific cultures, from the first contact made by Captain James Cook in Hawaii to the current interactions of New York artist, Shiva Lynn Burgos, with the Kwoma people in PNG.

---