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Mizna presents a lecture by our curator of visual arts, Heba Y. Amin on Sunday, April 14 at 5 pm (Doors 4:30 pm).

WHERE: American Craft Council 2nd floor of the Historic Grain Belt Brewery [1224 Marshall St NE].

Egyptian artist Heba Y. Amin grounds her work in extensive research that looks at the convergence of politics, technology, and architecture. Techno-utopian ideas, as manifest in characteristic machines of colonial soft power, are at the heart of her work. Amin will discuss her latest works by addressing tactics of subversion and other techniques to undermine consolidated systems and flip historical narratives through a critical spatial practice.

Amin teaches at Bard College Berlin, is a doctorate fellow in art history at Freie Universität, and a current fellow of the Field of Vision Fellowship program (NYC). She is the co-founder of the Black Athena Collective, and the curator of visual art for the Mizna journal (US). Furthermore, Amin is also one of the artists behind the subversive graffiti action on the set of the television series “Homeland” which received worldwide media attention.

Amin has had recent exhibitions at the 10th Berlin Biennale, 15th Istanbul Biennale, Kalmar Art Museum Sweden, La Villette Paris, FACT Liverpool, Kunsthalle Wien, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Berlin Berlinale 9th Forum Expanded Exhibition, and the IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. She also has an extensive repertoire in public speaking and was a recent resident artist at the Künstlerhaus Bethananien residency program in Berlin. She is an alumni of Macalester College, MCAD and the UMN.

Amin lives in Berlin.

This talk is related to the upcoming exhibition History Is Not Here: Art and the Arab Imaginary, presented by Mizna and Minnesota Museum of American Art. The exhibition will include a number of artists who have been featured in Mizna’s literature + art journal over its 20 years of publication, and will run from September 12 to January 5. This talk and the exhibition are generously supported by the Knight Foundation, the The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the City of St. Paul Cultural STAR Program, and the Marbrook Foundation.

Image: “The Master’s Tools I. (Restaging of Herman Soergel’s Portrait)” Archival B/W print. Courtesy of Heba Y. Amin.