Kirkhoff is proud to present
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
A Void
Opening Saturday March 10th from 5-10 pm
From 5-8 pm the artist will re-enact historical performances, followed by her own “The Artist’s Song”. Her latest film will be presented from 8-10 pm.
The exhibition period is March 13th-April 28th. Images from the show will be on our webpage shortly after the opening.
MICHAELA MEISE
“SPAZIEREN”
08.03.-08.04.2007
STANDARD (OSLO) is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition with Berlin-based artist Michaela Meise. At the centre of her exhibition, entitled Spazieren, are five stained wooden sculptures of human brains. Reduced to minimal models they offer less of exact evidence and more in terms of confronting the viewer with not knowing. As with the German term ‘spazieren’ ? that may be translated as ‘strolling’ ?? Meise is interested in a line of thought uncertain of its own endpoint.
A watercolour painting depicting a creature that is half dog and half girl; two photographs based on stills from the science fiction film “Invaders from Mars” (1956); a torn page from a book showing a woman seated on the ground next to what appears to be an elf. The motifs and references appearing in the works of Michaela Meise do not necessarily correspond, but rather appear as elements in a system of ‘dissonance’. Claim and withdrawal are continuously negotiated in Meise’s works. Narratives are suggested and then brought to an abrupt halt by the muteness of rustic and coolly distanced sculptures. Monument Minor ? as she applied as title for a previous exhibition ? may also serve as a term for these sculptures, installations and relieves. Almost always executed in wood and then lacquered or stained, they possess the rationality of Classical architecture, the boldness of Modernist furniture design, or share a sense of logic recognizable from display systems. The five sculptures in this exhibition are presented on plinths of transparent Plexiglas. At the same time the rational, bold and monumental character of these works is gauged against an interest in the singular, the incomplete and the imperfect, where the process of their making and the various layers of purple, black and brown stain all are left visible.
The same work method is employed for the last sculpture going into the show, but Handapparat sets itself aside from the others by a particular function. It shares its title with a system of display units commonly found in university libraries. Books on a specific topic (in relation to a seminar or a series of lectures) are here presented for a limited period of time. Meise’s selection, however, does not limit itself to a particular topic nor to the task of serving as an index for the exhibition. Nevertheless, it offers both clarifying and mystifying links to the works on display. Among the many books here made available is “The Emigrants”, a collection of short stories by the German writer W. G. Sebald. It lingers on what appears to be a recurring motif with some of the books: exile as both involuntary displacement but also a time for contemplation. Connecting with the above-mentioned sculptures, Tinted Brain, Meise addresses the exile in regards to the (re-) construction of the ego. The dislocation of exile ? experienced by so many writers and artists through history ? has also allowed for a sense of overview and a sense of self. In fact, according to the fellow writer Albert Camus, it represents the essence of the human condition: “In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.”
Michaela Meise (b. 1976, Hanau) received her education from Kunsthochschule, Kassel, and St䤥lschule, Frankfurt am Main. Her works have previously been included in such exhibitions as Of Mice and Men ? the 4th Berlin Biennial (2006); Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better, Momentum ? the Nordic Art Biennial (2006); RAF, Kunstwerke Berlin (2005); Formalismus, Kunstverein Hamburg (2004); in addition to solo shows at Johann K?, Berlin, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York and Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis. Throughout the course of the exhibition Meise’s works can also be seen in the exhibition Ruin?Abstraktion: “Es gibt Dinge, die kann man nicht erkl䲥n” in Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn.
KATHERINE BERNHARDT
“KISS ME KATE”
March 9 – April 14, 2007
Opening Reception with the Artist Friday, March 9, 6-9 pm
For the second exhibition at its new address, Galleri Loyal proudly presents the work of American artist Katherine Bernhardt.
For this show Ms. Bernhardt continues to keep the tradition of painting compelling. Here she turns her attention to portraits of the model Kate Moss. Having excavated the mountains of imagery from fashion magazines with their airbrushed accuracy, Bernhardt takes these images and paints them with a confident immediacy and playful elegance. Where Kate Moss usually acts as the ever willing model, she is in this case acting more as the beautiful flower to which Katherine Bernhardt can apply her sensual, dripping, expressionistic paint. With this show Loyal continues to introduce this young, international, post-pop art to Sweden.
For more information please contact the gallery.
GALLERI LOYAL
Torsgatan 53 (OBS! New Address)
113 37 Stockholm
Sweden
tel +46 (0)8 32 44 91
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I went to wisit Jesper Dalgaard…He is so crazy in the best way and his works is absolutly fantastic!
Some photos from Christina Wilson 5 years anniversary. Many good works and love in the air.
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá, Columbia
FANTASMAGORÍA”, MARCH 2007
JULIE NORD, WILLEM KENTRIDGE, CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI, JIM CAMPBELL, MICHEL DELACROIX
LAURENT GRASSO, JEPPE HEIN, RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER, TERESA MARGOLLES, ÓSCAR MUNOZ
ROSANGELA RENNÓ & REGINA SILVEIRA.
A beautiful Julie Nord drawing…
William Pope.L
The Void Show
March 3 – May 12, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday March 3, from 6 to 8 pm
MC is pleased to present The Void Show, a solo exhibition by William Pope.L, whose work in the field of performance and installation over the past three decades has continued to question social and aesthetic assumptions. Consumerism and its malcontents have always been at the heart of Pope.L’s practice. As a prelude to the current exhibit, MC produced at last year’s Frieze art fair a special project with Pope.L entitled Shed Piece (2006). There a shed covered in a ton of peanut butter yielded a fluorescent blue interior containing a projection. The projection shows citizens dressed in white suits crawl through flower gardens, scan the soil, unearth and treat bulky blue landmines.
The current exhibition includes two works. In Vessel in a Vessel in a Vessel and So On (2007), Pope.L brings together a golden bust of Martin Luther King, Jr and a beheaded statue of a cartoonish pirate wench. The odd creature, mounted on a monumental pedestal, hangs from the ceiling of the gallery, upside down. As if the stuff of life had been inserted in it, a slow drip of a dark substance, chocolate sauce, leaks from its head onto the floor. In places, the composite of the Civil Rights movement leader and the sassy pirate lady reveals its hollow nature, as empty shells, as vessels asking to be filled with meaning.
To the back of the gallery, The Void Piece (2007) offers a different take on emptiness. A low wall is dressed up across the room, obstructing the space behind it. A small framed opening through the wall only reveals a dense black hole from which a slow air stream can be felt. Withholding what the room contains, this disconnect entices one’s curiosity, from which the black hole can be read.
For each exhibition MC produces a multiple. William has created an object reminiscent of Shed Piece which is a land mine in a box. Here once again Pope.L looks for the breaking point between consumerist impulse and abject horror.
William Pope.L lives and works in Maine. Upcoming solo exhibitions in 2007 will be held at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; and the Art Institute, Chicago, IL. Past solo exhibitions include Trophy Room, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria (2006); Props & Propositions, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH (2005); eRacism, The Project, New York, Rutgers University, Artistspace, New York and Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR (2002-4), The Project, New York, NY (2001), University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts (1999). Pope L.’s group exhibitions include Civil Restitutions, Thomas Dane, London (2006); Double Consciousness, Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX (2005); Art & Outrage, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (2002), Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2002), and Out of Action, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (1998). Recent performances include the Black Factory, various venues (2006), Santa Fe Crawl, Santa Fe, NM (2006), White Room #4, London, UK (2005).
Karsten Konrad, Our House, 2006, 55 x 70 x 4,5 cm / 21.65 x 27.56 x 1.77 inch
Dear Friends of the Gallery
We cordially invite you to the opening reception of our first solo show of Berlin based artist Karsten Konrad in our Zurich Gallery.
