mercedesborgunska@gmail.com
Working with various space related media I am searching for models that offer structures other than hierarchy. In particular I am occupied with imagining an alternative to anthropocentric thinking. I often find myself returning to the same materials and phenomena reworking and transforming their contexts. With observation as a starting point my works tend to grow out of spaces and materials. I am interested in traces as evidence of material witnessing events, artefacts that connect different times in place. I appreciate the aesthetic of the damaged and worn, finding quality in experience and its remnants. I am interested in experiencing the change and instability. I focus on the process itself, its organic nature, change as a constant, transformation, ephemeral. Working with space I look for the performative, for the ways to create situations rather than objects. I like to treat materials as metaphors, look for meanings that they carry and meanings they have the potential to create. I am interested in how things connect, interlace, and coexist, I often work on the edge of the visible and the invisible. I like to play with perception shifts that offer through observation insights to multiple perspectives and ways of seeing. I am interested in collaboration and the potential of collective thinking
I like to put my body to work both in performance and production. I explore its limits of strength and endurance, enhance the meanings of actions through repetitions, entering a state between meditation, hyper focus and playfulness.
2020-2022 Bern University of the Arts, Master Contemporary Art Practice
2018-2020 Zurich University of the Arts, Bachelor Fine Arts
2024 Ideation Grant, Migros-Kulturprozent
2024 Walter Haymann Preis
2022/23 What’s next_Compass Z-Kubator support programme
2022 Vontobel foundation grant
2025
Klang Moor Schopfe, Biennales Festival für audiovisuelle Kunst im
Hochmoor Gais AR CH
2024
Cantonale Berne Jura 2024, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf CH
PARK(ing) Day/umverkehR group action, Zurich CH
Ephemera solo exhibition with Giulia Hess, Material, Zurich CH
Newkammer Group Exhibition, Righini Fries Foundation, Zurich CH
Spider Work solo exhibition, Material, Zurich CH
2023
Cantonale Berne Jura 2023, Kunstmuseum Thun, BE CH
Einischten 2023. Visarte Zürich & Friends, Photobastei, Zurich CH
loslassen – loswerden group exhibition, Waschraum Kunstraum, Zürich CH
BFH TRANSFORMATION vor Ort festival, Kleine Allmend, Bern CH
BFH Transformation – Impulse vom Rand group exhibition, Kornhausforum Bern CH
2022
Fabrik Season 2 group exhibition, Balterswil TG CH
Internal Clocks. group exhibition, Culterim Gallery, Berlin
Maximal Energy Minimal Time Fluid Academy, in BANG BANG translocal hi:stories of performance art, Museum Tinguely, Basel
INTERLACED CAP HKB Diplomfestival, Kunshaus Centre d’art Pasquart, Biel
Art Action, in Considering sound in performance art Symposium, ISBA, Besançon FR
FABRIK Season 1 group exhibition, Balterswil TG CH
ACT Performance Festival, Biel
MOZE performance night, Progr, Bern
2021
instant eternities solo exhibition, CabaneB, Bern
Interim group exhibition, Manegg Halle E, Zurich
ACT Performance Festival Bern, Basel
gARTen group exhibition, Berger Villa, Sopot, Poland
HASARD3 Performance Interactive Live Stream Festival, Blue Factory, Fribourg
Diplom Redux Exhibition, Kunsthaus Glarus (cancelled)
2020
The 12th Moon Performance Night, Allda, Zurich, Zoom
Not what it seems nor otherwise collaborative solo Exhibition, Zurich
Equinox Performance Festival, Bern
Kunst am Strom exhibition, as part of Contact Zone, Schallaburg Castle, Austria
ACT Performance Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
2019
Body and Mind group exhibition, ZHdK, Zurich
Opening of the Sihl13 Art Space, Zurich
Stroaking landscape Klara Fricks exhibition, Merdinger Kunstforum, Merdingen, Germany
Sektor exhibition, Park Platz, Zurich
Misplaced Woman? project by Tanja Ostojic, Zurich
ACT Performance Festival, Bern, Lausanne, Geneve, Basel, Switzerland
2018
Graphics solo exhibition, Oleandrów 3, Warsaw, Poland