Artist talk with Mary-Audrey Ramirez and Gesine Borcherdt

Mary-Audrey Ramirez transforms the world of video games into a cosmos full of fantasy creatures that we encounter in real and digital spaces: Craft and new technologies become one, virtuality and reality merge. But how does gaming actually become art? What is the idea behind a work that looks cheerfully at a world without people? How did the artist develop her visual language and what role does her childhood play, to which everything goes back? Gesine Borcherdt, curator of the exhibition Unsolicited Awakening, and Mary-Audrey Ramirez discuss these and other questions in conversation.

Welcome: Monika Schnetkamp, Chairwoman Arthena Foundation
Introduction: Gesine Borcherdt, Curator of the exhibition