Manonamanamono is how Junko Maruyama calls her sculptures made of homemade soap, a large number of which occupy the interior of a tent constructed of thin fabric coated with soap. The name suggests that the circumscription of her objects is something raw and ephemeral. The process of material extraction and processing takes on a special […]
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Mykyta Lyskov Imaginary Landscapes 4:35min Ukraine 2020 *1983, lives and works in Dnipro, Ukraine https://www.instagram.com/nikitaliskov/ The minimalist experimental film “Imaginary Landscapes” by Mykyta Lyskov sequences hundreds of small drawings in a flickering rhythm. From this seemingly steady horizontal movement emerge infinite landscapes of ink stains, colour smears, pencil marks and paper tear edges that […]
CHAONG-WEN TING
Chaong-Wen Ting’s works often deal with fragments from a bygone era. Applying an archaeological approach, he travels into the past along the boundary of fact and fiction, creating novel links with an innate logic. The background to his exhibition lies in the park of Holzdorf estate near Weimar, where Dr. Otto Krebs gathered an important […]
Chaong-Wen Ting’s works often deal with fragments from a bygone era. Applying an archaeological approach, he travels into the past along the boundary of fact and fiction, creating novel links with an innate logic. The background to his exhibition lies in the park of Holzdorf estate near Weimar, where Dr. Otto Krebs gathered an important […]
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Thomas Scheibitz The Overview of Episodes 193min D 1999 – 2006 *1968, lives and works in Berlin https://www.thomasscheibitz.de https://www.instagram.com/thomasscheibitz.atelier/ The painter and sculptor Thomas Scheibitz is known for his extensive research work, which has been published in numerous artist’s books. In the video work “The Overview of Episodes”, his interest in typography in connection […]
Chen Yi (Chih-Chien Chen)
In his exhibition, Chen Yi refers to the Gaia hypothesis, which was developed by microbiologist Lynn Margulis and geochemist James Lovelock in the 1970s. Their hypothesis states that the Earth and its biosphere can be seen as a living entity; one that, when viewed from space, appears as a single animate organism formed by individual […]
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Melanie Glück *1993, lives and works in Berlin Uninhabited Tranquility, Germany 2020, 1:08 min, loop. https://www.instagram.com/ynaalem The work “Uninhabited Tranquility” explores the relationship between contemporary fashion and advertising photography and computer-generated imagery (CG). Both stimulate and homogenize each other in their idealized aesthetics and converge towards a kind of hyperrealism. CG worlds are oriented towards a perfectly […]
Sara Rönnbäck
In Liminal Observations, the artist Sara Rönnbäck deals with changes of materials in urban space, as well as in nature. Her sculptures and installations are reminiscent of plastiglomerates, a term used to describe the coming and holding together of different sediments by means of molten plastic. Like the striking “bowerbird”, which sorts and collects the […]
Kandis Friesen
Kandis Friesen’s solo exhibition These arms of mine is grounded inthe relations of the materiality of stone, memory, and power. Thinking through their distributed formations in the world around us – as in architectures, monuments or landscapes – the artist began this work with the Schwerbelastungskörper (german:Heavy Load-Bearing Body), a giant concrete column in the Tempelhof […]
Mike Bourscheid
In Sunny Side Up and other sorrowful stories, Mike Bourscheid stages costumes, props and his new film Agnes into a walk-in spatial installation. As is often the case in his artistic work, he plays with interpersonal relationships. Based on film props and inspired by experiences of his childhood and the relationship with his single mother as […]