Gestures, Splits and Annulations
Alicia Frankovich investigates the performativity of the body, which she presents in various states of restriction, yet always with the potential for self-release. In her performances, sculptures and performance-based films, bodies – often the body of the artist herself – are put into states of tension with sculptural apparatuses, often tangled on the floor or suspended in […]
Polish!
We’ve remained strangers to each other. That is why we have this constant yearning for normality. What do we know about our neighbors? Are there conflicts? How does each of us reconcile himself with his background? What interests Poles and Germans about each other? An exhibition titled “Polish! Contemporary Art from Poland”, which revolves around certain […]
The Vertical Stage
André Romão’s works usually develop from his research into a specific historical or literary situation. He expands its levels of meaning by working on the widest possible spectrum of sources and references and re-assembling them in a fresh way in the context of his work. Thus Romão’s works are always collages – in the direct […]
The Random Series -berliner trato-
Miguel Ángel Tornero’s artistic work is based on an extensive personal photo archive, which the artist collected together over a period of many years by almost obsessively taking documentary photographs of every conceivable situation and occurrence, plants, animals, people or architectural environments. These images provide the starting material for Tornero‘s digital collages. Tornero‘s pictures are equally striking […]
Tomorrow is a long time
To create her videos, objects and installations, Rose Eken exploits the myths of Rock’n’roll and the culture surrounding it in the creation of new narratives. The aura and physical detritus surrounding a (rock)concert is her subject – mythically charged props are replicated, re-staged and also re-scaled. Eken’s works are never simply one-to-one renderings. Rather she changes scale […]
Die Zeit Verschlingt
Patrick Bernatchez’s latest series bears the working title “Lost in Time” and encompasses a large number of works that employ diverse artistic media. These are currently at very different stages of conception or realisation. A central element of the series is “BW (BlackWatch, 2010)”, an unusual watch realised byBernatchez in collaboration with the recognised clockmaker Roman […]
Shelter
Daniel Palacios develops his creative works through the interplay of art, science and technology, applied to the structures of space and human perception. One characteristic feature of Palacios‘ work, a result of his basic training in the natural sciences, is its reference to real conditions, to which he gives plastic, expressive forms. Palacios‘ most recent works are concerned primarily […]
Burt Nieks. (The flying lake looked down upon the village.)
Evelīna Deičmane’s artistic work comprises a crossmedia spectrum including video, sound objects, drawings and installations. The Latvian artist scrutinizes the conditions experienced by the people in her home country. She links present socio-cultural developments in Latvia with the traditional and familiar, concentrating on rifts that develop when the transition from the old to the new […]
entre-temps
Guillaume Lachapelle‘s artistic practice is shaped predominantly by sculpture, expressed in the form of installations and detailed miniature models. Lachapelle presents playful universes which combine objects of undetermined purpose; in this way, he opens the conventions of our reality to fresh disposition. The architecture of his models – which Lachapelle has recently begun to make with the help of the […]
Das Amt
Cedric Bomford‘s installations evolve from processes which the artist describes as “thinking through building”: here, the activity of building resembles direct sketching or the recording of ideas. In this way, Bomford evades the linear approaches generally employed in building or art projects, which result in a finished work developing in a step-by-step process, starting from a preconceived plan. […]