Basic Canadian, The taste for study, 2000, 20 x 24 inches, 51 x 61 cm, courtesy Paul Petro, Toronto
FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING HAS BEEN INTEGRAL PART OF MY ART WORK INCE 1991 and is ongoing. Under the spell of Edward Said"s Orientallism studies - and I had the opportunity to audit in his seminar - I have started to learn oriental languages - languages spoken east of Europe. s
Basic Chinese - MOST ACTIVE SINCE 1999 ONGOING
SEE BASIC CHINESE , 2015 RECENT SET FOR A SMALL SHOW AT RHODE ISELAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, PROVIDENCE
Basic Arabic
Please, teach me --- Venice Biennial, 1999 ( Austrian Pavillion)
Please, teach me (postcards). - postcards
BASIC LINGUISTIC SERVICES - berlin
Language videos
Teaching a Five Year Old a Chinese Song from the Great Cultural Revolution, 2013
The Language of Bosse-de-Nage, 2013
I wanna be Chinese, DINGHI - e-bicycles made in China, Bologna 2011
THE ART ACADEMY STUTTGART CELEBRATES, GREETINGS, by Sabine Maier, BYD Mercedes Benz, Stuttgart, 2011
I hate Karl Marx / Wo hen Karl Marx, 2010
Wo Jiao Yu Ren / My name is Rain man, Shanghai, 2009
HomelandSecurity , New York 2003
Basic Conflicts New York 1999
Basic Feelings New York 2 1997
Language of Emigration 1999 - on going
mother, father, daughter, 2007, 2008
Exhibitions with language stuff :
I wanna be Chinese @ Elaine Levy Project, Brussels, 2009
Wallach ArtGallery, Columbia University, New York 2005
Artist Commune, Hong Kong, 2005
Basic Belgian, Sint Lukas Gallery, Brussels,2001
Basic Canadian, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Tornoto, 2000
please, teach me, Venice Biennial, Venice 1999
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, 1997
Massimo DeCarlo, Milan 1997
Kwangju Biennial, Korea, 1997
Icebox, Athens, 1995
Philomene Magers, Köln 1995
Thomas Nordanstadt, New York, 1994 Basic Japanese
Person's Weekend Museum, Tokyo 1993