Cia Rinne – I am very miserable about sentences

Cia Rinne herself has referred to the importance of her experiences from a long-term research project on the language of the Roma as fundamental to an understanding of how movements between different languages and places – a kind of linguistic nomadic life – have led to an interest in the political and cultural gaps and shifts in meaning of language that are the basis of her work. She also points to the Fluxus movement, musicians like Steve Reich and John Cage, and philosophy as sources of inspiration. By twisting and turning words and shifting language within the same sentence, she plays with the meaning of words and their phonetic and visual similarities and differences. In her performances, she explores, among other things, the relationship of the body and the voice to language and how the body can function as a meaningful sign. In addition to being permeated by the language of philosophy and the philosophy of language, Rinne’s practice also contains a great deal of humor.

Cia Rinne has published four collections of poetry and written an opera libretto. She lives and works outside of Berlin and has exhibited in British Museum in London, Haus am Waldsee Berlin, Biefelder Kunstverein, Weserburg Bremen, Kunsthalle Kassel, cneai Chatou and Centre Pompidou in Paris. For the exhibition at Marabouparken konsthall she will put together her older work with newly produced artworks in a large scale exhibition in the main gallery space.