Exhibition: 20.05.2017 – 19.06.2017 | Opening: 19.05.2017, 7 pm
“ROLLING SNOWBALL/8” — GROUP EXHIBITION with Katrin Korfmann
LOCATION: The Three Shadows Photography Art Center . Chaoyang District 155 Caochangdi . 100015 Beijing City/China
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Exhibition: 21.05.2017 – 05.11. 2017 | Opening: 21.05.2017, 3 pm
“BEHOLD THE MAN” — GROUP EXHIBITION with Veronika Witte
LOCATION: Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg . Regierungsstr. 4-6 . 39104 Magdeburg
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The exhibition by Kunstmuseum Magdeburg takes place on the occasion of the 100th German Katholikentag 2016 and the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017
Behold, thus are human beings: weak, fearful, doubting, handed over; but, behold, thus too are human beings: kind, loving and always hopeful. The image of this complex man of our time, who is always different, never the same, who has many facets, who is sometimes vulnerable and sometimes violent, who another time astonishingly and perceptively does good: That is the image of man that today’s artists are showing. This exhibition, which combines the motto of the Katholikentag 2016 with the anniversary of the Reformation in 2017, will look at contemporary artists’ views of human beings in our time. In the course of several chapters, dedicated to different aspects of being, people’s sensitivities, the unspeakable, the unutterable of their existence and their actions will be shown by means of photography, painting, sculpture, videos and installations.
There are images of ourselves that we do not like to look at; there are those that we see again and again and that insert themselves into human lives from birth to death. These are images that are emotional and moving, that accuse and reconcile, that keep asking the same question: what makes us human?
Participating artists:
Francis Alÿs | Kader Attia | Jean-Charles Blais | Matthias Böhler & Christian Orendt | Nathan Coley | Lucas Foglia | Douglas Gordon | Tim Eitel | Binelde Hyrcan | Gülsün Karamustafa | Hans-Wulf Kunze | Jitka Hanzlová | Robert Metzkes | Santu Mofokeng | Roman Opalka | Elizabeth Peyton | Julian Röder | Phillip Toledano | Ginan Seidl | Alexander Tinei | Sandra Vásquez de la Horra | Bill Viola | Gillian Wearing | Veronika Witte | Miriam Yammad
Exhibition: 25.06.2017 – 16.07.2017 | Opening: 24.06.2017, 19:00
— SOLO SHOW of Franziska Rutishauser
LOCATION: Kunstverein Heinsberg . Horster Hof 1 . 52525 Heinsberg – Unterbruch
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Der Kunstverein Region Heinsberg freut sich, Gemälde und Zeichnungen aus der Werkserie „Aggregation–Dark light matter“ und eine Leuchtkasten–Installation mit dem Titel „Symplegaden Nr. 3“ der Schweizer Künstlerin Franziska Rutishauser in ihrer Galerie im Horster Hof zu präsentieren.
Franziska Rutishausers Werk ist von physikalischen, philosophischen und ästhetischen Entwicklungen der Jetztzeit geprägt. Ausgehend von neuen Erkenntnissen über Realität und Veränderungen des Umweltbildes lassen sich ihre Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Fotografien besser in ihrer Gänze verstehen. In der Ausstellung AGGREGATION werden Arbeiten aus dem Werkzyklus „Aggregation–Dark light matter“ gezeigt, die seit 2014 motivisch aus fotografischen Studien von Naturelementen und gedanklich basierend auf neueren Erkenntnissen kosmologischer Forschung entstanden.
Die durch die Lokalfarbigkeit des Motivs Wasser erzeugte abweichende Farbgebung Rot in Kombination mit den naturnahen Strukturen Irritationen in der Wiedererkennung der Realität ermöglicht neue Interpretationen durch diese Störungen. Die Abstraktion der Naturdarstellungen spielt sich so also auf der Interpretationsebene ab, indem zum Beispiel Assoziationen zu Blut, Fleisch, Lavaströmen erfolgen, obwohl die Strukturen von Wasser erkennbar sind. Verstärkt wird diese Wirkung durch Herauslösung von Teilen des Motivs und Freistellung in einen undefinierten Raum oder Einbezug von Flecken, die in den Gemälden schwarz und in den Zeichnungen weiss erscheinen. Der thematische Faden im Werk der Künstlerin zeigt den Blick auf Wasser, Fels, Holz und andere Naturmaterialien. Es ist der Blick eines Wesens auf seine Umgebung. In der bildlichen Formulierung dieses Erblickens mischen sich Gedanken ein, die, Bildstörungen verursachend, darauf hindeuten, den Menschen in Bezug zu seiner Umwelt geistig und emotional neu verstehen zu wollen.
Opening Reception: 11.05.2017, 18:00
“20,000 acres” – Inauguration of the architectural work by Thorsten Goldberg
LOCATION: Kunstverein Neuhausen . Rupert-Mayer-Str. 68 . 73765 Neuhausen/Fildern, Germany
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The Kunstverein Neuhausen and the Bundesschule of the THW invite you to the lecture by Thorsten Goldberg in the Kunstverein Neuhausen followed by a guided tour to the guesthouse of the Bundesschule of THW. The artist’s new architectural work “20,000 acres” has been completed and will be inaugurated on May 11th, 2017.
In 2015, the Berlin-based artist Thorsten Goldberg won the competition for the artistic design of the new building of the Bundesschule of THW. Till 2017 the entire project has been completed for 30 rooms and the entrance area of the guest house.
In the lecture, Thorsten Goldberg talks about his artistic approach and presents other projects that he has realisized in the past years for public and semi-public spaces. The “Kunst-am-Bau” concept, developed by Thorsten Goldberg, can be experienced in a guided tour through the new building of the Bundesschule, designed by the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg / State Building Surveyor’s Office in Reutlingen on behalf of the Federal Authority for Real Property Administration and Zollarchitects (Stuttgart).
Performance: 10.05.2017 + 11.05.2017
“Mondrian Fan Club”/Artist’s Practice — PERFORMANCES by David Medalla, Adam Nankervis and Christoph Both-Asmus
LOCATION: VENICE BIENNALE, Guardini Entrance
The Mondrian Fan Club was founded by David Medalla and Adam Nankervis in New York City in 1992. Both create collaborative performances and installations, drawings and photographic impromptus, in homage to the artist Piet Mondriaan. This year the performance artist Christoph Both-Asmus joins them for the performances in the frame of the Venice Biennale.
The Mondrian Fan Club, Medalla’s and Nankervis´ interventions meet at specific junctures, which are captured for their ethereal position and action in time and place, and exhibited sparkely, in an invocation of the meeting points where the two artists have converged and shared, and collaborated by inspiration of the environment which they inhabit.
Artist Portfolio
Exhibition: 02.05.2017 – 24.05.2017 | Opening: 01.05.2017, 19:00
“Healing Beauty” — SOLO SHOW
LOCATION: WHITECONCEPTS Gallery . Auguststrasse 35 . 10119 Berlin
WHITECONCEPTS gallery is delighted to present the first solo show of Mike Dargas on the occasion of the Gallery Weekend in Berlin. The young painter is renowned for his masterly painted, realistic works. He dedicates himself to oil painting and creates spectacular large-scale portraits outstanding with their detailed illustration.
Can art actually make a difference in the lives of the people who look at it? German artist Mike Dargas believes in it. Looking at his fascinating paintings of some of the most beautiful women it is easily understandable how concepts of beauty have changed over time imposed by society. Inspired by artists such as Dalí, Caravaggio and H.R. Giger, Mike Dargas studied various techniques and since his youth developed a passion for realism, which he refined over and over. The artist analyses his subjects with such intensity, that each portrait gives witness of increasing intimate closeness. The perfection of his technique serves his goal to understand the nature of a human being and to question our own emotional perception.
The works of Mike Dargas elude a clear temporal distinction. Even if the representations can stand as indications of a contemporary Western zeitgeist, the images lose their temporal determinability through their static transience and acquire an essence of infinity. The artist plays with the effect on the observer right from the beginning. Although the works appear to be photographs from a distance, on closer observation the large scale of the portrait establishes the macroscopically precise observation of the artist and his masterly intercourse with color shading and color shift rich with nuances, that sharpen the view of the picturesque.
Mike Dargas (* 1983 in Cologne/GER) started making paintings with oil paint from a very young age, and exhibited his talent publicly, like drawing old masters paintings with pastel and chalk on the pavement in front of the Cologne cathedral. Shortly after he got accepted in an art school, from which he graduated after a year and a half, the only child in a class of adults. There, he learnt different techniques, and received a training that led him to master three dimensional arts, like wooden sculptures. In his early twenties he built himself a solid reputation in the tattoo scene and won numerous prizes and awards. Since a few years he has been dedicating himself to painting.
His most popular works are part of numerous collections around the world. They were exhibited in Germany, Austria, Great Britain, Belgium, Spain, Turkey, and in the USA.
Exhibition: 22.02.2017 – 30.05.2017 | Opening: 22.02.2017, 19:00
— GROUP EXHIBITION with Sara Berti
LOCATION: Italian Embassy, Abu Dhabi/ United Arab Emirates
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Exhibition: 22.04.2017 – 22.05.2017 Opening: 22.04.2017, 12:00
“Objects” — GROUP EXHIBITION with Jovana Popic
LOCATION: Macura Museum, Zenit 1, Novi Banovci, Serbia
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Exhibition: 15.04.2017 – 15.05.2017
“Opmaat” — GROUP EXHIBITION with Seet van Hout and Uwe Poth
LOCATION: Museum Het Valkhof . Kelfkensbos 59 . NL- 6511 Nijmegen/The Netherlands
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Museum Het Valkhof will be happy to launch a solo exhibition entitled ‘Land in sight’ in 2018. The small exhibition ‘Opmaat’ is preceded by this. In his work, Poth often takes back to history, to artists and artworks of the past. In his great work ‘Peace of Nijmegen’, Poth processes the group portraits of the seventeenth-century negotiators at the Peace of Nijmegen, a painting of Henri Gascard from 1679, which is visible in the adjacent museum hall. Poth’s equally great ‘Peace in Nijmegen’ is the contemporary contradiction with people from now.
Exhibition: 30.04.2017 – 30.05.2017 | Opening: 30.04.2017, 12:00
THE FIRST ENCOUNTER — GROUP EXHIBITION with Jovana Popic
LOCATION: KUNSTHALLE Klützer Winkel
R.C.K. – Kunststiftung . Hauptstr. 22 . 23948 Damshagen Dorf Gutow
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