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Evangelia Dalton ‘25 Exhibits her Artwork at Art Biesenthal 2025
She describes her display at Art Biesenthal as her first time exhibiting her work “outside of an academic setting.” Curated by Tjioe Meyer Hecken, the head director and curator of Wehrmuehle, the exhibition uses Deleuze & Guattari’s rhizome as a curatorial framework. Speaking with Munchies Art Club, this concept captivated Hecken “because it defies linearity and hierarchy, embracing networks, multiplicity, and transformation.”
Dalton first met Hecken at an event held at one of Bard College Berlin’s art studios, Monopol Berlin. Upon encountering Dalton’s work, which was the creative component of her Bachelor’s thesis, Hecken invited her for an interview. “She said, you know, I saw [your work] and we'd love to do something with it, and also, I'm looking for help here. She floated the idea of showing my work. I didn't fully realize that she meant in this Art Biesenthal exhibition,” says Dalton. This chance encounter led not only to her work being publicly exhibited, but also to an internship as Hecken’s curatorial assistant over the summer of 2025.
Her exhibited piece, titled Water (;) consists of two overlapping video projections, a sculptural plinth, a radio, and a contact microphone. The contact microphone “witnesses” the melting of the ice while “visitors and perhaps their own acts of witnessing are also multiplied into the work via the projected image and shadow.” Dalton is particularly interested in “how water can act as a mirror to the construct of identity, sexuality, and gender,” and aims to explore “how analog technologies can inspire reflection, utilizing their tendency to inspire nostalgia or anemoia.”
Dalton was first introduced to the use of sound as an artistic element through classes she took at Bard College Berlin. She says that without her experience at BCB and in Berlin, she would not have become involved with the use of sound in the same way she has. “It was such a big influence on my creative process,” she adds. “When it came time for me to exhibit this piece in Biesenthal, [Professor John Kleckner] actually lent me his projector so that I could present there and that was amazing,” she adds.
Dalton is appreciative of her time at Bard College Berlin, ultimately deciding to attend a liberal arts school rather than a practicing art school because she was not yet ready to give up academia. “I wanted to keep reading and I wanted to keep writing papers,” she says. She is particularly grateful for the professors which supported her throughout her studies: Kleckner, Dalton’s creative component thesis advisor and studio arts professor, and Prof. Dr. Dorothea von Hantelmann, her thesis advisor and director of the Arts program.
Learn more about Evangelia’s experience in this video on YouTube.
Post Date: 11-10-2025