About:
Marnie Slater (b. 1980, Aotearoa New Zealand) is a visual artist who lives in Brussels. Marnie’s work engages with multiple formats, including sculpture, collaboration, writing, performance, painting and installation, which she utilizes to examine the deliciously slippery lives of languages, genders and bodies. Alongside her solo activities, Marnie is part of the All the Cunning Stunts, co-curator of Buenos Tiempos Int., co-editor of Girls Like Us magazine, and an occasional editor of books. Marnie was a core tutor for the Master of Voice program at the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam (2016–18).
Education:
Marnie received a BFA from Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand, and an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Selected Exhibitions:
2018 – Recent activities include the temporary bar Mothers & Daughters: A Lesbian Bar, Brussels, (with Alice Versieux, Byrthe Lemmens, Delphine von Kaatz, Jessica Gysel, Joëlle Sambi Nzeba, Katja Mater and Robin Brettar);
2018 – Queer Speech Act, a solo performance for the Sandberg Series, Neverneverland, Amsterdam;
2018 – Total Eclipse, performance as Buenos Tiempos, Int. La Box, Bourges, (with Alberto García del Castillo, featuring Joëlle Bacchetta and Clare Noonan);
2017 – Meeting Points 8, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, (curated by Giovanni Carmine, Malak Helmy, Raimundas Malasauskas and Christophe Wavelet for Mophradat);
2016 – Playground, Museum M, Leuven, (curated by Eva Wittocx);
2015 – Un-Scene III, Wiels, Brussels (curated by Devrim Bayar and Zoë Gray).
With the kind support by Delegation of Flanders in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Date of residency: 15. 4.–30. 6. 2019