Liz Crossley

Working against racism, with its shifting projections is, because of my origin in South Africa, a constant theme in my work. The self creates itself through juxtaposition with others.

EDUCATION

1982 – 1985
Master of Fine Art, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa


POSITIONS

from 2002
Member of the board for Art in Public Spaces in Berlin

from 1986
Freelance artist, Berlin

1971
Curator, ViGi Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa


EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

2011
Lernen - Kennen, Galerie Alte Schule, Berlin, GE

2010
A Country Imagined, Cap San Diego, Hamburg, GE

2009
Catalogue publication of UMBRA SUMUS and Green strip booklet

2008
UMBRA SUMUS - Shadows we are - Here we are!, artSPACE berlin, SE

2005
The Past is not Dead!, Rosa Luxemburg foundation, South Africa

2004
This Was A City, William Humphries Art Gallery, Kimberley, SE
GeschichtLICHT, Long Museum Nights, Berlin, SE

2003
Culture of Peace (conference), Akademie der Künste, Berlin, SE
This Was a City, Peter Herrmann Galerie, Berlin, SE

2002
Berlin Conference, Peter Herrmann Galerie, Berlin, GE

2000
Heimat Kunst, Land=histories and Afri-Cult 2000, House of World Cultures, GE
Licht-Fluß-Köpenick, StadtKunstProjekte, 4. Mai Salon Köpenick, Berlin, projection with Michael Maria Kammertöns, GE
Land=hiSTORIES, Bundesumweltamt, and Karl Hofer Galerie, Berlin, SE

1999
See with Blinding Sight, Kulturhaus Erfurt, light projection on St Paul 's Tower, GE

1997
Washline – Dreamline , 1. Mai Salon Köpenick, Berlin, projection, action, GE
A Field for Nonquawuse, Gallery in the Scheunenviertel, Berlin, SE

1996
Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, installation on Irma Stern GE
Looking back – Looking Forward, Association of Visual Arts Gallery (Cape Town) and Mc Gregor Museum (Kimberley), and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Bonn), SE

1996/95
Once We Were all Black, Association of Visual Arts Gallery (Cape Town), and Schloß Elizabethenberg (Meiningen), SE

1995
AN OTHER, Women Art Historians Conference, Trier, projection, text by Dr. Below
Work commissioned by the Künstlersozialförderung, Berlin

1993
Leiter, Berliner Zeitung Gallery, SE

1992
Light and Shadow, German Opera, Berlin, projection for the premiere of Cruel Garden

1989
Women-Culture-Culture-Women, Academy of Arts, Berlin (West), projection with Roswitha Baumeister, GE
Ursa Major, „Berlinerinnenstadt“, Rathaus Schöneberg, with R. Baumeister, GE

1978-81
Pigeon Wings, publication (Curwen Press), book exhibitions in Chicago, Frankfurt, London, GE

1973
Association of Arts, Cape Town, SE