Studio Sessions
Altering Stories
with Sabrina Basten
January 2027
About the Studio Session
We all live with stories about who we are, what success looks like, what an artist should be, and what constitutes the creation of something meaningful. Stories both clarify and disguise identities.
While some stories are chosen, many others are inherited or written for us. Liberation from such narratives means learning to imagine and tell other stories. What happens if we slow down, wander, listen, and allow another story to emerge? What happens when we generate those new trajectories together?
In this Studio Session we take inspiration from Ursula K. Le Guin, Donna Haraway, Laurie Anderson, and the unique malleability of clay, to question familiar narratives, break rules, weave new tales, rediscover forgotten histories, and invent more open-ended conclusions.
About the Lead Artist
Sabrina Basten lives and works in Berlin. Her artistic practice takes a multi-disciplinary approach, using sculpture, drawing and storytelling to create installations and happenings. She carries out long-term research and seeks out ways to create connections and intimacy between people, held knowledge and memory. Basten obtained her degree from AKI Academy of Fine Arts in Enschede and lived and worked in the Netherlands until 2012.
Her work has been part of international solo and group exhibitions including ‘Haptic Interface’-The Hong Kong House in Sydney; 'Art Hack Day’-Transmediale Berlin; ‘ Paulo Post Futurum’ -Breda Art Museum; ‘Miss Baltazar's Laboratory’ -Museumkwartier Vienna; Maker Fair Shenzhen China. She has been awarded the BKVB Startstipendium grant, the project grant DKC/visual arts, the O&O/research and development fund and the Sundaymorning Grant of the European Ceramic Work Center Oisterwijk. Basten has previously held artist residencies at: CFA in India, Bookville in the United Kingdom, Lokaal 01 in Belgium, Monson Arts Maine USA and Corsicana Artist and Writers Residency in Texas USA.
Basten was a scholarship recipient at the renowned European Ceramic Center Sundaymorning@ekwc and took part in the International Bone China Symposium in Kaunas (Lithuania) the European Cultural City of 2022.
She recently received a state-grant (Arbeitsstipendium) of the Stiftung Kunstfonds in and is a scholarship recipient of the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen.
Logistics
This session is scheduled for Sundays, January 10, 17, 24, 31 from 10am-noon PST (that’s Los Angeles time).
Registration is $320 and includes all four sessions.
Participants gather via Zoom.