KEVIN CHIE

Defining Survival (Queer Everexistence in Motion) An installation on queer existence and resistance across time and space. Installation shots from the “(Supposedly like) Oil and Water” group show at Gewölbekeller, curated by @nicki_g17 and @georgina_magklara

Austin and I talk about our collaboration on creating the wax dyed quilt for “Defining Survival (Queer Everexistence in Motion),” which was on view last year at @ngbk_berlin . Until Friday you can see some of our works at "(Supposedly like) Oil and Water" at Gewölbekeller Berlin, curated by @georgina_magklara & @nicki_g17 Music: Obianuju - Duncan Mighty Sardine - Ofori Amponsah Back and Front - Castro 🎥 Till Geiken

The Line (wind): Pop up exhibition on an Italian roof top with @samevernon and @bodipoetry Grateful for these weeks of silence and pause in the winter sun

‼️💥 PLAYSURE NETWORKS OPENING OCTOBER 30TH 6 PM @lewishamarthouse 💥‼️ The first @135homestudio group exhibition: Playsure Networks – Experiments Within Resistance Our Artist & Curators: Ariel Collier (Founder, Artist & Curator) Bilan Su (Artist & Curator) Carine Ponin (Artist & Curator) Chie Marquart-Tabel (Artist & Curator) Chloe Filani (Artist & Curator) Ebrahim Piperdi (Artist & Curator) Esengo Miere (Artist & Curator) Laurent Yee(Artist & Curator) Louisa D (Curator) Maya Vivas (Artist & Curator) Sarah Ejionye (Artist & Curator) Shane Sutherland (Artist) Vi (Artist & Curator) Home Studio began in 2024 and quickly grew into a loving community of intergenerational artists and curators from the Black and Brown; Queer and Trans community. We began by hosting workshops in an effort to share knowledge about building a career within the arts and are now ready to showcase what we have learned. Over the course of a year, Home Studio has been collectively curating our inaugural show, supported by Lewisham Arthouse and the Artist Represent Recovery Network. Home Studio Presents: Playsure Network — Experiments Within Resistance brings together 13 Queer and Trans BIPOC artists and curators who are interested in collective disruption, resistance, and protest through Playsure. Playsure, a blend of play & pleasure, is a cultural and ideological method that creates alternative models for revolutionary social reproduction by centering these two ideals in all of our ways of working. Inspired by archival materials held at the Black Cultural Archives, this project traces the origins of Autograph: ABP back to the landmark 1985 exhibition The Black Experience at Brixton Art Gallery. Organised as part of a GLC-funded research report artist and curators Sunil Gupta, Monika Baker, Merle Van den Bosch, Pratibha Parmar, Ingrid Pollard, Roshini Kempadoo, Armet Francis and Rotimi Fani-Kayode founded Autograph 3 years later. Our artists respond to this history by engaging with questions around how to build sustainable practices and spaces — despite ongoing conjunctural crises. Playsure has shown us that it is possible to overcome hardship through comradery — we hope you join us.

My new cardboard installation „Die Hände im Spiel“ is currently on view at Lewisham Art House as part of the @135homestudio exhibition Playsure Networks This work plays with the idea of fugitivity, especially Black fugitivity, as a strategy for survival, for persistence. Through becoming intangible, like gas, like air, like seeds in the wind, impossible to get a grip of, traces of existence, a continuity across time and space. An ode to those who are with us, die ihre Hände im Spiel haben. My cardboard sculptures are always created in and in conversation with the space they work in. In this exhibition I was permitted to expand the traces of the work throughout the space, connecting other artworks and two gallery rooms, appearing and disappearing, sometimes unnoticed. Die Hände im Spiel Cardboard, Acrylic Paint, Brown Sugar, Coffee 3m x 10m x 10m 2025

Our exhibition is in 7 days can you believe it! Chie Marquart-Tabel (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist working on simultaneity and connection through large scale cardboard sculptures and expressive, often monochromatic oil paintings. Chie’s work is permeated by a search for connection, not just with loved ones but community and ancestry, posing questions of belonging and care in a world scattered by colonialism and capitalism.

Drawings, happy faces and some gay station art I spent a few days hiking by the coast & drawing, experiencing the timeless power of nature in times of genocides and the rise of fascism - sometimes surreal, sometimes soothing. Drawing: I recently came across the @royaldrawingschool again and how they put an emphasis on drawing as its own art form, emphasised by the work of @curtisartist who I met last week at a live drawing session and legend @barbarawalkerstudio who’s work is always somewhere on the back of my head. It made me think about how drawing is my way of being in conversation with the world, of really observing and feeling into an object, of translating its energy and carving my perception into the world again, a full circle.

„Written in Blue” is a series drawn from real-life moments, capturing people in honest, everyday scenes. It focuses on moments of connection, where individuals can reveal their true selves—showing their strength and beauty. Written in Blue 2025 Oil paint on canvas board 9 x 13 cm

Revisit your seedling library Knowing comes from feeling - from: Seedling Library by Bodi Babatola (@bodipoetry ) View from below the mobile that is part of the installation „Defining Survival (Queer Everexistence in Motion)“

„Written in Blue” is a series drawn from real-life moments, capturing people in honest, everyday scenes. It focuses on moments of connection, where individuals can reveal their true selves—showing their strength and beauty. Written in Blue 2025 Oil paint on canvas board 9 x 13 cm each

Days out of the city, my body remembers the sound of silence and a different sense of time, measured only by the slow change of light. I am currently working on the design of two murals for @myzeliumprojekt , one on the entrance to the sauna pictured here. My recent interactive installations at @galeriewedding and @ngbk_berlin have shown me how important it is for me to develop works in direct dialog with a place. To be able to ask myself: What does this place need? What might enchant the hearts that beat here?

I am lucky enough to spend a few days in the countryside outside Berlin, at @myzeliumprojekt , surrounded by more different plants and insects in one day than I see in a year in the city. “Nature creates the most magnificent sculptures”, I remember as I bend over plants in the midday sun and try to understand - to feel - their formal language and distinctive aliveness with my pen.