Reading essay by Arnisa Zeqo

Arnisa Zeqo wrote the experimental essay On encountering the paintings and writings of Kathe Burkhart that she will read this Sunday at 15.30. The essay is commissioned by ROZENSTRAAT and is, as the titel points out based on Kathe Burkhart’s exhibition Coronawijf and Other Works. It will be available on our website from this Sunday onwards. Make sure to read it online if you don’t make to the reading, especially when you were unable to see the exhibition. The beautiful written essay really gives you some deep insights.

 

Arnisa Zeqo is an art historian, curator and educator based in Amsterdam. She co-founded Rongwrong, a space for art and theory in Amsterdam and is now director of Kunsthuis SYB in Beetserzwaag. In 2021/22 she was researcher in residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam where she worked on the intersection of (auto)fiction, performance and printed matter.In 2015-2017 she worked for Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, responsible for the education programs (aneducation) in Athens and initiator of the Society of Friends of Ulises Carrion within the Parliament of Bodies. The writings of Jane Bowles and June Jordan give a liberating feeling to her methodologies.

 

This reading will be in English.

 

The reading will be directly followed by a lecture From Kutwijf to Coronawijf, the history and development of Dutch swear words by language historian and journalist Ewout Sanders.