Temple Bar Gallery and Studios presents 'In Conversation with Mariele Neudecker' the first in a new series of talks programmed at the gallery for 2005. Noel Kelly, newly appointed curator at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, will lead Mariele Neudecker in a discussion of the background and context to 'Winterreise', a contemporary filmic response to Schubert's twenty-four part song-cycle.

'Winterreise' is a series of short-films, one for each of the twenty four German Lieder, made in four locations based on the sixtieth degree of latitude, in places that experience snow-scaped winters; the Shetland Islands, Helsinki, Oslo and St. Petersburg. In 2003 Mariele Neudecker was jointly commissioned by Opera North and Leeds City Art Gallery to create 'Winterreise' as a visual counterpoint to Schubert's great song cycle.

Central to Noel Kelly's conversation with Mariele Neudecker will be a discussion of 'Winterreise' within the context of her wider artistic practice as well as a positioning of the work within the tradition of German Romantic Modernism. Specific to the project, Mariele will provide an insight into the initial impetus from Opera North and Leeds City Art Gallery to create the visual representation reflecting Wilhelm Müller's tale of unrequited love, despair and suicide.

Mariele Neudecker was born in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1965 and now lives and works in Bristol, UK. Neudecker was educated at the Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland (1985-87), Goldsmiths College, London, (1987-90), and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, (MA Sculpture). Selected solo exhibitions include "Over and Over, Again and Again", Tate St Ives, Cornwall, UK, "Much Was Decided Before You Were Born", Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berling, Germany, "Between Us", Tullie House, Carisle, UK, Laing Gallery, Newcastle, "Winterreise", Opera North Project (various venues), all 2004.