Matias Grieck: Artist. Also uses the name MAL. INC. LTD. to de-personify his art-making. Has had 2 recent exhibitions in Canada, both in Vancouver, at the Western Front and Pitt Gallery, February and March 1992 respectively. Grieck has been in numerous group exhibitions and performances in Berlin, and Buenos Aires, while a student at the Hochschule der Kunste Berlin. He is currently studying under Viennese performance artist Valie Export in a select tutorial of 4 students and will graduate in the fall of 1993. He is a young artist with promise whose work often deals with tough issues in a non-literal way. His installation at the Pitt Gallery was of sacks of milk powder, contaminated by the nuclear fallout of Chernobyl, that had been shipped to Third World countries as part of First World foreign aid. Grieck is a permanent resident in Berlin. His work was chosen for this exhibition as it epitomises the contemporary alienation felt by many auslanders and the fear/oppression lurking in the totalitarian state.