Visit by art professionals from Germany

Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock

Function: Curator and researcher at S A V V Y Contemporary Berlin Country: Germany Visiting period: 03 - 07 June Visiting year: 2019 Part of Visit by art professionals from Germany

She received her MA in Postcolonial Cultures and Global Policy at Goldsmiths University of London and moved to Berlin in 2013. In her work within the permanent collection of SAVVY Contemporary she looks for colonial traces that are manifested in our present. In close collaboration with artists, initiatives and activists, the archive is activated through hybrid forms of practice. She is also part of the participatory archive project Colonial Neighbours.

Most recently, she assisted the management for the documenta14 radio program – Every Time a Ear di Soun, SAVVY Funk in Berlin (June – July 2017). Lynhan supported the artist Bouchra Khalili with several projects and exhibitions (May 2015 – May 2016) and worked on a year long research project in collaborations between SAVVY Contemporary and the Maerzmusik festival (Berliner Festspiele, March 2017-2018). She currently supported the production of Agnieszka Polska´s new commission for the recent Germany’s National Gallery Prize show in the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin (September 2018–March 2019).