Teresa Burga -Aleatory Structures

December 1, 2018–February 3, 2019
@ Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover (DE)

"Aleatory Structures" is a comprehensive survey exhibition of the South American artist Teresa Burga (born 1935 in Iquitos, Peru, died 2021 in Lima, Peru) with about 130 works. Burga's life's work is characterized by extraordinary diversity, encompassing paintings, Pop Art objects, sculptures, cybernetic installations, and drawings. Her work, moreover, is characterized in all phases of creation by an analytical approach, expressed in the use of mathematical models and diagrams, by means of which she deconstructs traditional gender roles and artistic authorship alike. Although Burga was often ahead of her time, she was often overlooked. Following the 2011 solo exhibition at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Germany, the retrospective aims to help anchor the artist in the art historical canon between positions of her generation such as Martha Rosler or Hanne Darboven. The exhibition has been created in collaboration with the Migros Museum in Zurich.

Curators: Christina Végh, Heike Munder, Lea Altner
Photos: Raimund Zakowski