Artist Talk: Dean Sameshima + Amelia Abraham

In the organizer's words:

Artist Talk: Amelia Abraham in conversation with Dean Sameshima

The NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein is looking forward to the Artist Talk on the occasion of the first institutional solo exhibition 'Fragments' by the American artist Dean Sameshima. Free admission.

In his artistic works, the multidisciplinary artist Dean Sameshima deals with themes such as visibility and desire, traces subculture and queer identity and explores the relationship between art and the viewer.

For the artist talk at the NAK, the Kunstverein has invited London-based journalist and author Amelia Abraham, who interviewed Sameshima for ArtReview last year. We look forward to a conversation about Sameshima's artistic practice, the exhibition at the Kunstverein, the upcoming catalog and future projects.

Talk guests:

Amelia Abraham (1991, London, UK) is a journalist and writer from London. She writes regularly for The Guardian, The Observer, Dazed and other titles on queer art, culture and politics. Her books include Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture and We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights. She is currently working on her first book of art criticism, a groundbreaking study of photography and queer nightlife.

Dean Sameshima (1971, Torrance, CA) studied at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA and subsequently at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA. Sameshima's works are in the permanent collections of the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Cantor Arts Center of Stanford University, Stanford and the Museo de Arte São Paulo, São Paulo. He was honored with the Artist Acquisition Club Award in 2022. The artist lives and works in Berlin.

With the kind support of:

Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Kunststiftung NRW, Sparkasse Aachen and the City of Aachen