Ursula Mayer
16th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
14 September – 10 November 2019
The 16th Istanbul Biennial opened on 14th September 2019 and was curated by French writer, curator and scholar Nicolas Bourriaud. The biennial, titled The Seventh Continent, invited Austrian artist Ursula Mayer to participate with a multi-media installation. For the second consecutive edition, Phileas collaborated with the biennial to co-produce the commission and exhibition of new works by an Austrian artist.
Ursual Mayer (born 1970 in Austria) is a multi-media artist whose practice spans a variety of media, including: film, video, and sculpture. She has had exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery, London; the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and the Centraal Museum, Utrecht. She has also been included in exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Basel, at the RCM Art Museum in Nanjing.
