HEEZA BAHC
The exhibition conveys thoughts and attitudes toward to life through stairs and the movement up and down on it which are always around us but unrecognized. A staircase is an architectural element with a simple structure in which the same elements are repeated. It connects different spaces, but also exists as an independently, separate space. […]
ARTISTS SUPPORT UKRAINE
The ASU Foundation was launched in 2014 (beginning of the war in Donbass and annexation of Crimea) by art curator Katya Taylor and Vladimir Kadygrob and was reactivated in 2022 when Putin started a full-scale war in Ukraine. The activity aims to support the Ukrainian cultural community, including artists, actors, singers, art managers, etc. who […]
WINDOW DISPLAY
MARIA KULIKOVSKA Documentation of the performance “254” 2014 The name of the performance “254” is identical to the refugee number that Kulikovska was given while leaving her homeland Crimea several months earlier. During the performance the artist wrapped herself in a Ukraine flag and, without official permission, laid down on the main staircase in the […]
WORKING HARD, WEN-YING SHE & PO-YU KUO
Since 1990s, the migrant workers which mostly from Southeast Asian have brought and shaped Taiwanese society into a multicultural environment. For this upcoming show, we focus on the field research among the social groups of Taiwan ABK*. We will conduct on-site installations with images and sound recordings from Taiwan from a personal and artistic point […]
Hsiang Lin Wang
Fermata is a musical term – a pause of unspecified length on a note or rest. Parsifal is the last work by German composer Richard Wagner, which fuses the philosophy of the West and the Buddhism of the East. Ultimately, what it aims to present is the importance of people’s “compassion”. The human species as […]
Lotte Nielsen
Letters from St. Petersburg is an extension of Lotte Nielsen’s previous artistic work documenting groups of young LGBTQ* people across different cultures, most recently in Turkey, the US and now Russia. Her films center on exploration of group identity and the repercussions of national political conditions in every facet of these individuals’ lives. In poetic, […]
Andreas Müller-Pohle
Andreas Müller-Pohle is a Berlin-based media artist and the founder and publisher of European Photography, an independent art magazine for contemporary photography and new media. He has published the major works of media philosopher Vilém Flusser, available in the eleven-volume Edition Flusser, including the seminal Philosophy of Photography, which has been translated into over twenty […]
Lutz Friedel
For many years, Lutz Friedel’s paintings were recognisable due to their specific figurative character. Recently, he has permitted a lavish number of contractions and brushstrokes to interact – triggered by a complex painting process that comes about in phases and over several paintings simultaneously. The motto is liberation through intensification, the in-cluster working that was […]
WINDOW DISPLAY
Originally conceived as a 2-channel work, Mykola Ridnyi’s short films were made 10 years ago, before the Ukraine conflict in 2014 and the Russian-Ukrainian war since February 2022. Their video footage preserves locations that capture the complexities of Ukrainian history in personal vignettes and resonate with current events. The setting in the first film, “Shelter,” […]
Robert Seidel
In tech companies, universities and artist studios, machines work through and learn the history of mankind. Copyright dissolves; distinctions between original, imitation or inferior reproduction erode. No origin, no responsibility, no clear bias – just a primordial soup that can be transformed into any form without questioning knowledge systems and hierarchies. In this silent, but […]