Luisa Ungar

Ungar’s multidisciplinary and often collaborative practice focuses on the precarious nature of certain discourses. Experimenting with the power of ambiguity and opacity in communication, she uses language as a tool to dislocate and distort hegemonic narratives. Following clues in local environments, she develops solo and collective strategies that uncover colonial structures implicit in our ways of learning and communicating. Her performative experiments are site specific, and  look at the ways in which local history is constructed and offers space for local knowledges that have been historically repressed. She often builds on conversations from the local environment and interweaves micro-stories with historical narratives in order to build new layers of meaning. Her work has been shown and performed in spaces such as the Liverpool Biennial; Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre; Bienal Sur,; Marrakech Biennial’s parallel project; Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm; Ar/Ge Kunst, Bolzano; Bonnenfanten Museum, Maastricht; Spring Workshop, Hong Kong; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; M KHA Museum Antwerp; and MAMM, Medellín, among others.. In 2019, Ungar curated the performance and education programme for Colombia’s Biennial 45 SNA. In 2023, she is a fellow for the Dorothea-Erxleben programme at HBK, Braunschweig. Ungar lives and works in Berlin.