I Build My Skin With Rocks

One year ago Sandra Mujinga received the National Gallery Award. The Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin crowns the award ceremony with a special exhibition starting on December 9. Mujinga will be performing her new video installation I Build My Skin With Rocks in the museum's Historische Halle.

The work builds around a fantastical hybrid animal creature. Mujinga designs it according to her idea of sci-fi worldbuilding and staffs it with self-researched knowledge about survival strategies of animals. Mutations and adapted behaviors reflect how the creatures try to protect themselves from humans in their threatened habitat. This knowledge also opens up the evocative title I Build My Skin With Rocks. Through May 1, visitors will have a chance to view the eerily evocative installation.

Distanz Verlag is accompanying the exhibition with a publication that brings together contributions from various scholarly fields. The authors illuminate Mujinga's ductus from their respective specialist perspectives. The exhibition is made possible by the Friends of the National Gallery and supported by BMW.