Valentina Karga
Valentina Karga, Professorin für Einführung in das künstlerische Arbeiten (Design)
Kontakt:
- Raum:31 Wa15
- Telefon: +49 40 42 89 89-0
- Mail: valentina.karga@hfbk-hamburg.de
Valentina Karga, born in Chalkidiki, Greece, is an artist and architect based in Berlin.
Valentina’s projects encourage engagement and participation, facilitate practices of commoning and are concerned with sustainability. Working across different media and often inviting the public or community groups to complete the work, one can say that Valentina’s work lays somewhere between conceptual art, design/architecture and socially engaged practice. Sometimes, through dialogue and building prototypes in a DIY manner, they end up imagining alternatives for societal infrastructures, such as economic and pedagogic institutions. This is what she calls ‘Art as Simulation’.
She is a founding member of Collective Disaster, an interdisciplinary group that works in the interstices of architecture and the social realm. She has been a fellow at the Graduate school, University of the Arts Berlin, a Saari Fellow in Finland and she has been awarded the Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research. Among others, her work has been shown at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, the transmediale festival, the Athens Biennial, the Moscow Biennial for Young Arts, the Thailand Biennial, the Kiasma museum in Helsinki and a major exhibition curated by Whitechapel Gallery.