MICHAELA LAKOVA (1987)

Herbarium Collection - Artists - Mihaela Lakova

Michaela Lakova (b. Bulgaria) is a visual artist based between Rotterdam and Sofia. In her work she explores digital traces, the notion of erasure and memory, and how they impact our perception of ownership. Through her works she challenges the slippery nature of digital memory over the immateriality of human memory. Her practice includes a diverse range of media: video, prints, found objects, web/screen based works and installations. She is a member of the Union of Artists based in Rotterdam CBK. Her works have been shown in international media art festivals and exhibitions such as: From the shore to the mud pool, VERKSMIÐJAN Á HJALTEYRI, Iceland, Altered Voices at Doza gallery, Sofia; Liminal recollection...between memory and reality, Depoo gallery, Sofia; Online Cinema TENT, Rotterdam; Rosa Stern, Munich, Borgerstraat Open Studios, Rotterdam, Digital Aesthetics,+359 gallery, Sofia; Digital Art Festival, Goethe Institut Sofia; Past-Present: Utopian dream for a nu(un)clear future, Æther Sofia, Medialab, Prado, Madrid; Art Meets Radical Openness (AMRO) Linz, Austria; Radical Networks, NYU, New York City; What Remains - Strategies of Saving and Deleting, esc medien kunst labor, Graz, Austria; ZK/U, Center for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin; Piksel Festival, Lydgallerit, Bergen, Norway, Unlinked, TENT Gallery, Rotterdam.

Website: http://mlakova.org/about.html

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The Herbarium project explores the work environment in contemporary culture in which ideas are created and exchanged. The focus of Herbarium is to compile a collection of sealed creative energy in boxes (40х40х10, 40x20x10 or 20х40х10) of different generations of artists around the world. The contents of each box are accompanied by a description and a sound file with the artist's voice. The artists, invited by the curator of "Herbarium" could choose two new participants - so the project traces the exchange of creative energy in the artworld. The development of the collection has no time limits, it grows exponentially with each new participant until the final exhibition is announced. The H Talks series (video portraits of the artists) are shot during the preparation of each presentation of the Herbarium collection in the artists work environment and studios. All the information, gathered in the process of developing the collection, will be available to all researchers, curators, gallery owners, students or art lovers who are interested in the less visible mechanisms through which contemporary culture functions.

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MICHAELA LAKOVA (1987)

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