16.06.2025
13:00 – 14:30
LUNCH TALKS: Conversation with Artists – with Sary Haddad, Ana Hernández (EN)
- About the Event
- Location
- Costs and Tickets
- Participants – Biographies
- Cooperation Partner
- Additional Funding
In the LUNCH TALKS series, international artists, curators and other cultural professionals talk about their work, current challenges, and unconventional approaches to their exhibition and educational practice. After each talk, all guests are invited to a typical snacks and drinks from the respective countries presented.
Part of the festival programme 10 YEARS – 10 DAYS! to mark the 10th anniversary of Kunsthaus Dahlem
About the Event
Mexican artists Sary Haddad and Ana Hernández provide insights into their artistic practice, focusing on their engagement with cultural heritage and indigenous art practices in their work.
The language of the event is English*.
Moderation: Dorothea Schöne (Managing Director, Kunsthaus Dahlem)
* Selected sections of the conversation will be summarised in German.
Location
Waldraum (Forest Room) in the garden
Costs and Tickets
All anniversary events are free of charge for all visitors.
Participants – Biographies
Sary Haddad is a Mexican visual artist who transforms material and symbolic waste into objects of aesthetic contemplation. She recontextualizes disposable objects to explore memory, masculinity, and popular culture themes. For her project, in which she recontextualizes industrial lockers used by textile workers – considered disposable objects – Haddad won first place in the Installation category at the Florence Biennale 2011. In other projects, she works with abandoned factory spaces and historic doors to sensually make traces of time, labour, and social history perceptible. Her works connect past and present through layered symbolic narratives.
Ana Hernández is a Zapotec visual artist. Her work focuses primarily on the revival of traditional clothing from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and themes of migration, geography, and identity. Using techniques such as screen printing, wood carving, and textiles, she creates pieces that connect personal interests with community knowledge exchange, highlighting the cultural richness of the Isthmus in a contemporary context. Textiles are a constant element in her practice, as she was born and raised in a family of textile artisans from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, Oaxaca. Hernández studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Oaxaca, CEACO, and the Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca. Her works have been exhibited in Mexico, the United States, Ecuador, and Spain, among others.
COOPERATION PARTNER
ARENET – The Americas Research Network: Cooperation for the Lunch Talk
ADDITIONAL* FUNDING
Embassy of Mexico in Germany and Mexican Cultural Institute in Germany (Kulturinstitut von Mexiko in Deutschland)
* The festival programme 10 YEARS – 10 DAYS! is supported by the Capital Cultural Fund (HKF).
