Solo Show: “it is written all over the face”
LOCATION: Huygens Building, Faculty of Science, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, Netherlands
A new series of portraits is shown in the Radboud University in Nijmegen.
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LOCATION: Palazzo Bembo, Riva del Carbon 4793-4785, 30124 Venice/IT
Wanda Stang’s artworks are presented in the context of the Venice Art Biennial 2019. The GAA Foundation organized the exhibition “PERSONAL STRUCTURES” hosted and supported by the European Cultural Centre located in three prestigious palazzi in the centre of Venice – Palazzo Bembo and Palazzo Mora and the Giardini Marinaressa.
The exhibition shows an extensive combination of internationally well established and emerging artists. It is an attempt to offer a cross-section of contemporary art today. The selected artists come from many different parts of the world, with backgrounds in different cultures showcasing artworks of all kind of media. They reflect with their own subjective, personal expression on the concepts of time, space and existence – be it site-specific, specially created for this exhibition, or taken from the existing collection of the artists. Some rooms in the palazzi are dedicated to the presentation of single artists, while other rooms present projects and groups of artists.
Wanda Stang’s oeuvre engages with issues of observation, distance, sharing, and the boundaries between the private and public spheres. It includes works on paper and canvas, sometimes developed into three-dimensional works, objects and sculptures, site-specific installations, performance, and handmade clothing. Visionary ideas and the essence of Romanticism have exerted a strong impression on the artist. Her imaginative world made up by the fusion of dreams with reality offers a surreal space where new perspectives of thinking and creation are stimulated.
In 2014 she graduated from the Art and Textile Design department at the Berlin Weissensee School of Art. Since then she has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Germany, Netherlands, Hungary and the USA, e.g. at the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin/DE and Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin/DE.
LOCATION: Palazzo Mora, Strada Nova 3659, 30121 Venice/IT
PSJM presents, in the 58th Venice Biennial context, one of its corporate performances in which uniformed hostesses interact with the public in order to cause startle and reflection. It is titled: There could be a monster inside you. Detecting Fascism PSJM Survey.
Combining marketing and totalitarianism, using the strategy of “overidentification” theorized by Slavoj Zizek, the collective presents itself aesthetically appropriating the strategies and modes of seduction of the capitalist system in an authoritarian way.
On this occasion, the hostesses ask questions to the attending public, related to some of the issues exposed by the reactionary speech of the international ultra-right. Issues that were now considered to be over, struggles over rights that we already thought we had won, are once again in the limelight, submerged as we are on a dangerous path of regression with respect to the democratic quality of our societies. The authoritarian drift that political discourse has taken after the great economic crisis, planned and perpetrated by the triumphant neoliberalism, abandons citizens to an uncertain world in which the phantom of fascism takes shape with a soft aesthetic.
In addition, a video of the action will be recorded, which will be shown during the duration of the exhibition, until 24th November, on a screen in one of the rooms of Palazzo Mora, along with surveys that the public can also fill in and place in the survey entry box in the exhibition.
The action, held at the heart of the world of international art, the opening of “Personal Structures” at Palazzo Mora in the context of the Venice Biennial 2019, has two objectives: to make respondents reflect on these matters, while also proposing tricky issues that may reveal certain trends close to the neo-fascist discourse internalized by the public of the art world. Bringing out a monster that they did not think they had inside.
” VORWAND” – Group Exhibition with Thorsten Goldberg
LOCATION: Markgrafenstr. 67, 10969 Berlin
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Participating artists:
Dorthe Goeden, Thorsten Goldberg, Miriam Jonas,
Hyun-Gyoung Kim, Gertrud Neuhaus, Michael Reiter
The positions shown in the exhibition »Vorwand – Pretext« challenge the conventions of image and sculpture and their spatial effect in humorous and ironic ways. Their play with moments of surprise undermines conventional viewing habits.
Thorsten Goldberg’s work “Miss Eislingen” calls performative and participatory aspects. Flower vases arranged linearly on the floor, donated by friends and members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund (German Artist Association), are stocked daily with a bouquet selected by the artist. The multiplication of the flowers as well as the process of wilting and decay rely on the continuous variability of the vase sculpture and thus on its temporal dimension. At the same time, the floral arrangement transforms into a still-life that can be experienced spatially and plastically.
Thorsten Goldberg (*1960) studied at the Art Academy in Stuttgart and has been invited to solo exhibitions in the last years to Fundacio Miro, Barcelona/ES; Laznia Museum of Contemporary Art Gdansk/PL; Gerisch Foundation Neumünster/DE. Permanent work in public spaces can be visited in Berlin and other German cities, as well as in Poland, Norway and Canada.
Goldberg is a member of various committees for public art in Berlin and Vienna. He has taught at the art academies in Münster, Munich, Linz and was recently Professor of Art and Media in Kiel. He is also involved in selection and organization of competitions as well as documentation and archiving projects of art in public space.
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LOCATION: Schiffbauergasse 4D, 14467 Potsdam
Gropius’s claim to # BEAUTY FOR EVERYONE sounds supposedly evident, but has an unexpectedly high explosive power. What happens when you question such a statement? The artists from the Atelierhaus Panzerhalle use the means and possibilities of art, their multiple strategies to dissolve and invite apparent evidence to a new critical dialogue. Depending on the context and the viewer, the show shifts the point of view of Bauhaus as well as its work and impact into a completely different light. The project of Neue Atelierhaus Panzerhalle is curated by Prof. Jozef Legrand.
Participating Artists: Julia Antonia // Frauke Danzer // Beret Hamann // Carsten Hensel // Michael M. Heyers // Andreas Hildebrandt // Vera Oxfort // Bettina Schilling // Sibylla Weisweiler // Ilse Winckler // Monika Funke Stern // Jozef Legrand // André Wagner
Funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg.
LOCATION: WHITECONCEPTS Gallery, Auguststrasse 35 . 10119 Berlin
As an Arcadian ambassador, H.E. Peter Kees invites people from all walks of society into the Arcadian diplomatic vehicle to discuss burning questions of the present and how to shape the future. The interviews will be recorded during his sessions.
Arcadia stood and stands for the longing for happiness par excellence. The idealized Greek landscape comes into the field of vision of artists, writers, philosophers and politicians. All are expressing the ancient desires for a perfect existence in this world, that has never really existed in the history of mankind, but which is all they sought after, imagined, projected and symbolized. Especially in times of upheavals and crises, the search for such a state has always been important.
Peter Kees has been working artistically with the topos Arcadia since 2006. Since his participation in the Havana Biennale then, he has annexed several individual square metres in European countries and declared them Arcadian territory. As its ambassador he grants visas and asylum.
His works have been shown in many museums and exhibitions in such institutions like the Mediation Biennale in Poznan/PL, the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, La Capella Barcelona/ES, the PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli/IT, the Neue Nationalgalerie and the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin/DE, the Kunsthaus Bregenz/AT, the Kunsthalle Rostock and the Kunstfest Weimar/DE. Most recently he curated the first Arcadia Festival at the Kunstverein Ebersberg near Munich.
The performance is part of our The X Part II (Anniversary) Show.
Check out the interview on art with curator and gallerist Nicole Loeser HERE.
LOCATION: WHITECONCEPTS Gallery, Auguststrasse 35, 10119 Berlin/DE
As part of our 10th anniversary show “The X Part II” we are pleased to present the book launch of „Back Stages“, the new catalogue by German artist Katrin Korfmann. The event will include a presentation by the artist and an artist talk between the artist and curator Nicole Loeser.
Owing to her background in photography, Katrin Korfmann works with various media – photo-works, videos and installations. She is concerned with concepts of framing, perspective, and the social dimensions of perception, and pushes the boundaries of photography and representation.
The book presents the twelve-part series of „Back Stages“ focusing on international places of art production. Using an anthropological approach and created in collaboration with the sculptor Jens Pfeifer, the world renowned artist studies production processes inherent in different cultures around the world.
The bird’s-eye-view footage from 2015 to 2019 shows the viewer a clear overview of the chaos that takes place behind the scenes of ballet rehearsals, workshops in art schools to a glass factory in China. The final work is based on the composition of some several hundred individual shots. By capturing the dynamic processes in a now seemingly static recording, Korfmann and Pfeifer point out that in every place of (art) production, new forms of rhythm, pattern and movement occur time and again.
Katrin Korfmann grew up in Berlin, Germany and lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She was often awarded and has been invited to prestigous exhibitions around the world.
The book launch is part of our exhibition “The X – Part II (10th Anniversary Show)” running from 4 – 28 April. You are welcome to visit us from Monday to Friday 11-5 pm and by appointment. During Gallery Weekend we are open from 11am – 8pm.
“Season Exhibition” — GROUP EXHIBITION with Jovana Popic
LOCATION: Macura Museum, Zenit 1, Novi Banovci, Serbia
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LOCATION: Amstelhal (Hall 7), Wielingenstraat, 1078 Amsterdam/NL
This year the art fair celebrates its 35th edition. The fair was established in 1985 and therefore one of the oldest in the world.
Participating galleries present paintings, sculptures, photography and new media. There will be also applied art and design on display. A few participants will show a special solo booth as part of their in-dept presentation. Others will show a part of their collection in an ever surprising raw-edge booth.
The Dutch artist Seet van Hout is represented by 99 UITGEVERS/PUBLISHERS. The Israeli artist Ruthi Helbitz Cohen is represented by Galerie Helga Hofman.
Both artists are world known artists and their works were shown in many museum shows and are part of numerous private and public collections.
Artist Portfolio – Seet van Hout
Artist Portfolio – Ruthi Helbitz Cohen
LOCATION: WHITECONCEPTS Gallery, Auguststrasse 35 . 10119 Berlin
WHITECONCEPTS gallery cordially invites you to Käthe Wenzel’s book launch “Mixed Systems” including a presentation and artist talk with curator Nicole Loeser.
Käthe Wenzel is focusing in her work on social and cultural mechanics, and alternative concepts for society. She infiltrates urban systems and service features. In order to do so, she implements strategies and methods of street art, internet, technology, and interviews with people. Following the concept of public art, her media is part of our everyday life. All tools such as street signs or billboards are worth to spread her ideas, art and messages.
The presented publication (232 pages, german/english, Kerber Publishing, 2019) is her first monograph summarizing her oeuvre developed over the past 15 years.
These series are included: “Machinery and Services”, “Urban Systems”, “Organisms”.
Chapters:
Interview with Gary van Wyk (Photographer) “What was the strangest story that happened to you as an artist?”
Gabriele Dietze (Cultural Scientist), “Maschine Dreams and Gender. Gender reading Käthe Wenzel’s interactive interventions”
Matthias Reichelt (Cultural Journalist) “Instead of a permanent line to god – a permanent line to people. Käthe Wenzel’s art of communication”
Jessica Ullrich (Art Historian) “Remains of the animal. Käthe Wenzel’s Bone Pieces”.
You can see Käthe Wenzel’s works on this website : www.kaethewenzel.de
Her artwork can be seen in the frame of the current show “The X Part II”