Month: July 2007

THE MOMENT YOU REALISE YOU ARE LOST


July 15th – 1st September 2007
Opening reception: Saturday, July 14, 2007, 6 ˆ 9 p.m.

Participating Artists:
Stella Capes | Tomas Chaffe | Gintaras Didıiapetris | Blue Firth | Alfred Johansen | Benoît Maire | Dan Rees / Catherine Griffiths | Mandla Reuter | Hannah Rickards | Yann Sérandour | Tris Vonna-Michell

Curated by Adam Carr

The Moment You Realise You Are Lost is an exhibition that presents the work of 12 international artists of whom are all unknown to a larger audience, particularly in Germany. One of the central aims of this exhibition resides in a desire to resuscitate and rejuvenate a vital objective behind the purpose of exhibition-making: to form a situation which above all fosters the opportunity for discovery. The work of the included artists, however, functions in contrast to ideas of location and detection by rather sharing an inherent desire to conceal these aspects through various means.

Despite being currently situated at an early stage in the development of their artistic positions, or relatively unexposed to a broad range of audiences, the participating artists share in common a rich, erudite and often densely complex articulation of their ideas. Characterised by an aspiration to position the viewer ambivalently yet never to alientate, the included artists focus on a particular performativity with which they seek to foreground the poetic, the fleeting and the unknown, and to be affirmatively suggestive rather than explicit. Their constellations of work embrace a fusion of fact and fiction, truth and false, and thus push for disorientation and an amplification of doubt. Opting to diverge from being entirely solved, found and uncovered instantaneously, these artists choose instead for their works to operate more covertly.

The Moment You Realise You Are Lost brings together artworks that will introduce a speculative inquiry yet offer very few entirely conclusive answers.Some of the included works are marked by traces of performances which have previously taken place, whilst others take on this strategy though wholly belie the precise course of actions that brought them into being; they appoint to disguise themselves within other works on display or recover ideas lost by others. Some works reveal interlaced histories or offer information unknown; they might partly operate outside of the exhibition space, even taking place beyond the scheduled dates of the exhibition. In addition, the installation, set-up, as well as the dissemination of the exhibition, will be premised on and interfered with by a number of the included works unexpectedly. In exploration of this exhibition, it seems like these artists like to entice the viewer for a walk in the dark, in some cases, quite literally.

Adam Carr is an independent curator and writer currently based in London.
For further information concerning the exhibition, please contact the gallery.

Johann König, Berlin
Dessauer Str. 6-7
10963 Berlin
Tel +49 30 26 10 30 80
Fax +49 30 26 10 30 8 11
info@johannkoenig.de

Invitation from Jakob Jensen

Dear friends, i am taking part in a groupshow of photo on the theme
of space overall, please come by for the opening..

best wishes Jakob Jensen

Einladung zur Ausstellungseröffnung
5_architektur + 13_fotografie im helberger 23 ausstellungsraum
am Samstag, 07.07.2007 ab 19:18 Uhr

Im Fokus des 2. Projekts im helberger 23 ausstellungsraum –
5_architektur und 13_fotografie – steht die Auseinandersetzung mit
verschiedenen Erscheinungsformen des Raumes und widmet sich dem
Medium Fotografie. Im Rahmen der beiden Ausstellungen zeigen in Form
von fotografischen Darstellungen, Inszenierungen, Dokumentationen und
Entwürfen 18 Fotokünstler und Architekten Arbeiten zu dieser
Thematik, die zum ersten Mal auf zwei Etagen des ehemaligen
Möbelhauses zu sehen sein werden. Die interdisziplinäre Arbeitweise
vieler der Beteiligten läßt dabei die Grenzen zwischen den beiden
Ausstellungen verschwinden.

Ganz im Sinne von Martin Heidegger “Räumen ist Freigabe von Orten”
führt räumen auch zur Entstehung von Bildern. So finden sich in der
Ausstellung einige Fotoserien, die in leeren und verlassenen Räumen
und Gebäuden entstanden sind – Zwischensituationen, sozusagen
Zwischenräume –, die in Zukunft eine neue Funktion bekommen, in Form
von Abriss durch neue ersetzt werden oder durch andere Umstände ganz
einfach geräumt werden mussten, wie man es beispielsweise in einer
Fotoserie von Cornelia Wruck (Frankfurt) sehen kann, die Aufnahmen in
einem leergeräumten Wohnhaus einer Verstorbenen gemacht hat.
Oliver Heissner (Hamburg) wird u.a. Arbeiten zeigen, die im
ehemaligen Gebäude der LVA Hamburg entstanden sind, das mittlerweile
abgerissen wurde, sowie Aufnahmen der Innenräume des “Sprinkenhof”,
ein altes Hamburger Kontorhaus, das nach seiner Sanierung für einige
Tage leerstand. Zum einen Fotografien von Räumen, denen man die
Verlassenheit ansieht, zum anderen Räume, die bald ein neues Gesicht
bekommen werden.
Neben seinen Sternbildern zeigt Jakob Jensen (Berlin) die Arbeit
“Superlandscape”: Das Foto bildet das Nylonnetz eines Baugerüstes ab
und mutet auf den ersten Blick doch wie eine Landschaft in Arizona an.
Ivaylo Stojanov (Mainz) sammelt in expressiven Farblichtern die
namenlose Natur, wobei sein Ziel nicht das Erkennen der Natur ist,
sondern der Blick auf ihre Wandlungen.
Nils Netzel (Wiesbaden), Architekt, zeigt Fotografien vom Alten
Finanzamt in Wiesbaden, die mit freundlicher Unterstützung von Prof.
Dr. Thilo Hilpert, Fachhochschule Wiesbaden zustande kamen. Die
Fotoserie beschäftigt sich mit dem brisanten Thema, wie das Land
Hessen mit den eigenen Kulturdenkmälern umgeht. Hilpert: „Das Gebäude
ist ein besonders feingliedriges und komplexes Beispiel für die frühe
Nachkriegs-Moderne in Deutschland – der beste Bau seiner Art in
Hessen.“ Dennoch würde das Land den Denkmalschutz aufheben und es so
der Abrissbirne preisgeben, um einen höheren Grundstückskaufpreis zu
erzielen.
Die Namen der weiteren Teilnehmer sowie die Daten zur Ausstellung
finden Sie unten.

5_architektur + 13_fotografie
Anette Babl (Frankfurt/Main)
Amalia Barboza (Frankfurt/Main) / Lorraine Decléty (München)
baukreis architekten (Frankfurt/Main) / Nils Netzel (Wiesbaden)
Jan Bleicher (Berlin)
Claude Cabri (Paris)
Ilka Götz (Stuttgart)
Oliver Heissner (Hamburg)
Jakob Jensen (Berlin)
Delia Keller (Berlin)
Stefan Mellmann (Stuttgart)
Anja Schlamann (Köln)
Constanze Schwürz (Leipzig)
Sabina Simons (Hamburg)
Ivaylo Stojanov (Mainz)
Gabrielle Strijewski (Frankfurt/Main)
Matthias Thelen (Berlin)
Michael Wagener (Frankfurt/Main)
Cornelia Wruck (Frankfurt/Main)

Eröffnung der Ausstellungen am Samstag, den 07.07.2007 um 19.18 Uhr
Ausstellungsdauer: 08.07. – 29.07.2007 | Öffnungszeiten: Do 18 – 21
und So 15 – 18 Uhr
Ort: helberger 23 ausstellungsraum, Große Friedberger Straße 23
(Hinterhaus), 60313 Frankfurt (Innenstadt)

Kuratoren:
Mia Beck: 49.151 56957422
Coco Hauschel: 49.177 3186539
Michael Wagener: 49.179 4923075

Internet:

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  • Gutleut15

  • Gutleut-Verlag

  • KunstKoma


    • Josephine Meckseper, U.S.A., 2007, 74,61 x 21,90 x 21,59 cm / 29.37 x 8.62 x 8.5 inch

    The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is honored to present the first extensive mid-career survey
    of Josephine Mecksepers multimedia work. The exhibition will span four floors of the museum. It will be accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue, published by Hatje
    Cantz Verlag, featuring essays by Okwui Enwezor and Christian Höller.

    Josephine Meckseper was born in Germany and received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1992. Meckseper is an internationally recognized artist, participating in such recent exhibitions as Resistance Is at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Media Burn at Tate Modern, the Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, USA Today at the Royal Academy, traveling to the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, and the Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night. She lives and works in New York.

    … Josephine Meckseper’s artistic projects have stringently focused on addressing the
    politics of power and violence that undergird the current global imperium. Using a wide array of methodologies: film, video, photography, painting, graphic and product design, installation, and architectural fragments, Meckseper has invented an amalgam of displaysurfaces – in reference to both Warhol’s pop ironies and to the rhetoric of negation at the heart of the work of artists as disparate as John Heartfield, Raymond Hains, Asger Jorn, David Hammons, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer – as critical armatures for the interrogation of global geopolitics, protest, contestation, and empowerment. In her sculptures, paintings, films, photographs, collages, and posters, she draws a direct correlation to the way consumer culture defines and circumvents subjectivity, and as such sublimates the key instruments of individual political agency as part of the world of the commodity. Okwui Enwezor, 2007

    OPENING RECEPTION

    13 July from 7 – 10 p.m.

    ADDRESS

    KUNSTMUSEUM STUTTGART
    Kleiner Schlossplatz 1
    70173 Stuttgart
    Tel.: +49 (0) 711 – 216 21 88
    Fax: +49 (0) 711 – 216 78 20
    info@kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de

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    • ::: Invitation from Doug :::

    Dear J-P

    I hope all is well, and you’re having a great summer.
    I am doing a live performance at the ICA on Friday July 13 at 7 pm. It’s a
    completely new show, and should be good for a laugh or two.

  • Tickets are selling fairly quickly, so be sure to contact the ICA soon if
    you’d like to attend.
    Many thanks, and best wishes,
    Doug

    An Evening with Doug Fishbone:
    A Very Special Friday the 13th

    13 July 2007
    Who said contemporary art wasn’t funny? Stand-up conceptual artist Doug Fishbone delivers his curious blend of PowerPoint corporate presentation, terrible puns, visual nasties and after-dinner wit, in a lecture that touches on everything from George Bush and the BNP to deep-sea fish and monkeys smoking cigarettes. Conspiracy theories, bizarre philosophical musings, tasteless internet porn and even the occasional poem – you name it, it’s in there. For anyone who ever had any questions about anything. Fishbone was selected for the British Art Show 6, was recently named by ArtReview as one of the ‘Future Greats’, and won the Student Prize for Film and Video as part of Beck’s Futures, 2004.

    • No Room for the Groom


    An Exhibition with Douglas Sirk
    Curated by Gregorio Magnani

    Salvatore Arancio
    Juliette Blightman
    Shannon Bool
    Pauline Daly
    Felix Gonzalez-Torres
    Richard Hamilton
    Candida Höfer
    Peter Raben
    August Sander
    Rebecca Warren
    Pae White
    Jean-Michel Wicker

    July 7th – August 5th
    Private View: July 7th 18.30 – 20.30

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