Marinka Limat is a performance artist. At the centre of her work is the interpersonal. Her practice often moves at the limits of the performative realm: she walks long distances by foot in the name of art (kunst-pilger-reise.ch), she brings her work into the everyday life of people and sees encounters as moments of art. She studied at the Hochschule der Künste in Bern and at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee. Today she lives in Fribourg, where she was born in 1983.
Upcoming
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Book presentation and performance “L’étincelle. Vers l’art à pied | Funken. Zu Fuss zur Kunst”, BlueFactory, Fribourg: 14.2.2020, 7 pm
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Book presentation and performance “L’étincelle. Vers l’art à pied | Funken. Zu Fuss zur Kunst”, bookshop LibRomania, Bern: 20.2.2020, 8 pm
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Forum - Culture et Economie, Fribourg, 13.3.2020
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Exhibition “Win of Change”, Kloster Dornach, 14.6.–23.8.2020
Performances (selection)
2018
Taxifahrt, Wettbewerb “Kunstplätze Bern 2018”, Bern
Le Braisier, Festival Art GoEast, Pöge-Haus, Leipzig
L’Etincelle du Musée, Jubilée 20 ans, Espace Jean Tinguely / Niki de Saint Phalle, Fribourg
2017
Kunst-Pilger-Reise 3, Kassel–Athens, 23 weeks, 3000 km
Walk, Performance Art Festival, Torun, Poland
2015
Kunst-Pilger-Reise 2, Morat–Venice, 6 weeks, 832 km
2013
Kunst-Pilger-Reise 1, Fribourg–Berlin, 9 weeks, 1100 km
2009
Ein gutes Modell, Opening of the Cabanon, Lausanne University; Altenbergforum, Bern; Performance Day, Haus der Universität, Bern; JugendArt, Olten; Museums Night, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel (Models: Philippe Wicht, Mathias Theler, Nicolas Müller)
Projects in public space
2012
Brünneli Pärkli, Westfenster, Parkanlage Brünnengut, Bern
2019
Gehen: Zeichnen, Segnen, Rohling Outside, Bern
Mémoires vives – Visarte Fribourg, Museum of Art and History Fribourg
2018
Le Braisier, Festival Art GoEast, Pöge-Haus, Leipzig
Kunst-Pilger-Reise: Spuren, Objekte, Video, Galerie Grandel, Mannheim (solo)
2017
Voyage-voyage! Über das Reisen in der Kunst, Kunstmuseum Olten
Kunst-Pilger-Reise 1, Festival Summe, Carosserie St. Johann, Basel
2016
48 Stunden Neukölln, Kunstfestival, KINDL-Kesselhaus, “Kunst-Pilger-Reise 1”, Berlin
2015
Hors-Piste | maintenant-jetzt-now, “Kunst-Pilger-Reise 1”, Fondation APCd, Marly
2013
I move it, peinture, Galerie Zimmermannhaus, Brugg (solo)
Mediation
2019 –
Agente culturelle (Canton of Fribourg)
2018
Espèces d’espaces, performance project with primary classes, Festival Culture & Ecole, Fribourg
2015
Artistic Co-Director Lab, Co-founding Member, Fondation APCd, Marly
Acting in theatre / performance (selection)
2014
Wenn die Züge vorüberfahren ..., (Monologue in German), Production d’Avril, Nuithonie Fribourg
2013
Commande, by / with Philippe Wicht, Festival Far, Nyon
Education
2011
MA Art Education, Bern University of the Arts (HKB) (Mentor: Florian Dombois) (with distinction)
2008 – 11
MA in Art Education, Bern University of the Arts (HKB); Minor in Art History, Institute for Art History, Bern (IKG), Education; Pedagogical University of Bern (PH)
2009 – 10
Scholarship, Painting class with Antje Majewski, Weissensee School of Arts (KHB), Berlin
2008
BA in Painting und Performance (Mentors: Albrecht Schnider, Franticek Klossner) (Received top mark)
2005 – 08
BA in Art and Design Mediation, Bern University of the Arts (HKB) (Major in Design und Fine Arts (HKB); Minor in Art History, Institute for Art; History (IKG) Bern)
2004 – 05
Preparatory course, Basel School of Art and Design (SfG)
2000 – 04
High school diploma with focus on visual art, German section, Heilig Kreuz High School, Fribourg
Awards / Prizes
2019
Funding for the publication “L’étincelle. Vers l’art à pied | Funken. Zu Fuss zur Kunst” Canton of Fribourg, Fondation Jan Michalski, Kultur Stadt Bern, Burgergemeinde Bern, Fondation Oertli
2018
Winning entry “Kunstplätze Bern, Stadtteil II”
2017
Bourse de la mobilité, Canton of Fribourg
2016
Prix d’encouragement, UBS Kulturstiftung
Soutien Fondation Engelberts
Associations
PANCH (Performance Art Network CH), SSA (Société suisse des auteurs), Visarte
Conferences Kunst-Pilger-Reise (presentation + discussion)
2019
Alliance Française de Bâle, Assemblée générale TCS
2018
Goldhorn, Festival Art GoEast, Leipzig; Kunst kreuzt Weg, PROGR, Bern
2017
Haute Ecole d’arts et du design, Lucerne; Musée d’art, Sion; Kunstmuseum Olten; Flatgallery Bratislava; 2B Gallery, Budapest, Klein House, Subotica; U10 Gallery, Belgrad; Termokiss, Prishtina; Public Room, Skopje
2015
Areacreativa42, Rivarolo
Tour on Kunst-Pilger-Reise 1 (screening + discussion)
2016 – 17
Musée d’art et d’histoire, Delémont; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Galerie C, Neuchâtel; Centre PasquArt, Biel; Fri Art, Fribourg; Kunsthalle Altdorf, Ettenheim-DE; Kunstarchiv, Darmstadt-DE; Carosserie St-Johann, Festival Summe, Basel; Kunstfestival 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin; Nextex, Aktuelle Kunst im Diskurs, St-Gallen; Il Kino, Berlin (premiere)
Press on Kunst-Pilger-Reise (selection)
Kunst muss bei den Leuten sein, Carole Schneuwly, Freiburger Nachrichten, 3.10.2018
Marinka Limat, artiste de performance, RTS, 1ère, Emission «Entre nous soit dit», la 05.02.2018
Une marche au nom de l’art avec les yeux et l’esprit ouverts, Eric Buillard, La Gruyère, 14.12.2017
Marinka Limat est une marcheuse d’art, RTS, Emission «Couleurs d‘été», 18.08.2017
ÚJMŰVÉSZET / HU 10.10.2017; Novamakedonija / HU 11.08.2017
Televizija Resava / SRB, 17.07.2017; Halas Televízió / HU, 29.06.2017
Stanové městečko v Dub Gallery, Filip Dub, Blog, 15.05.2017
Auf Entdeckungstour – Die Kunst des Reisens, SRF, Kulturplatz, 21.06.2017
Entretien Marinka Limat, Valérie Toubas, Daniel Guionnet, Point Contemporain, 27.04.2017
Performance dans l’espace public, à quoi ça sert ?, RTS, Espace2 Emission «Nectar», 15.11.2016
C’è Brescia nella performance di Marinka, pellegrina dell arte, Bresciaoggi, 18.15.15
Un pèlerinage culturel de Morat à Venise, LaTélé, 13.10.15
Publications (selection)
Kunst-Pilger-Reise 3 in “OnCurating Project Space”, Dorothee Richter, 2017
Gedanken eines Bildpaares in “Intervention #1”, Werke des Kunstmuseums Basel aus anderer Sicht, Basel: Hungerkünstler Verlag, 2013
Art Basel in “Voll in ihrer Roll”, http://blogs.tageswoche.ch/de/blogs/artblog/ 15.06.12
Berner Almanach Performance, Hg.: Gisela Hochuli, Konrad Tobler, Daria Gusberti & Julia Wehren, 2012
Die Regeln der Kunst der (Kunst-)Vermittlung, Barbara Bader, Heft 1, Vermittlung in Musik, Kunst und Theater, HKB / HEAB, 2008
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