»Blendung«

Exhibition at Deutschen Künstlerbund e.V.
January 12 until April 5 2024

Opening: January 11 2024, 6 pm

Greeting:
María Linares, Board spokesperson of Deutscher Künstlerbund
Albert Weis, Board of Deutscher Künstlerbund
Dr. Urban Pappi, executive board VG Bild-Kunst
Frank Michael Zeidler, board Stiftung Kunstfonds (requested)

Laudatio: Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz, artistic director Kunsthaus Dresden

About the exhibition
The Deutsche Künstlerbund is glad to announce thesolo exhibition »Blendung« of the artist Nana Petzet . Nana Petzet, who in 2023 received the HAP Grieshaber-Preis der VG Bild-Kunst,enables a unique view into her new artistic reserach on species protection in this exhibition. Her works are characterized by their intensive examination of the interconnections between nature, art and science. As. As an artist, she usesthe methods and practicesof these disciplines and questions themin innovative ways.

In the exhibition “Blendung” Nana Petzet shows “a walk-in publication with an integrated experimental setup” in the rooms of the German Artists’ Association. The installation consists of a cross-room sound work and six intermedia stations that focus on the nocturnal living space. Presented for the first time are the results of a scientific study of the complex effects of artificial light sources on the behavior of nocturnal insects. In close collaboration with the entomologist Timo Zeimet, the artist examined the question of what the loss of night and with it a habitat due to the permanent disruption of human intervention means. As part of the exhibition “Death in Venice” at the Gallery for Landscape Art in Bad Tölz, Nana Petzet transformed the light that was originally installed in a parking lot to protect people into an attracting system for insects.

With the exhibition “Blendung” Nana Petzet offers an inspiring insight into her multi-layered, artistic approach, in which she uses scientific methods as a tool and basic material at the same time.

Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V.
Markgrafenstraße 67
10969 Berlin

Opening hours
Tuesday – Friday | 2 – 6 pm and by appointment

More information on the works of Nana Petzet can be found here.

Open Guest Studio

November 26 2023
11 am till 5 pm

In October and November, at the invitation of Ute Langanky, the Stiftung Insel Hombroich welcomes artist Hannah Schneider to the Raketenstation Hombroich guest studio.

Hannah Schneider works across genres in various media and materials with a focus on installation, public space, performative action, film, and drawing. Her works are based on an ongoing preoccupation with central sculptural themes, such as body and space, mass and proportion, or movement and statics. They explore the relationship of the body to the surrounding space in objects, installations, and performative film works. Architecture and landscape have a direct influence on the predominantly site-specific installations. Aspects of temporality, evident for example in the evaporation of water or the migration of shadows over the course of a day, are negotiated in their works. Time and space, light and shadow, movement and gravity play an ever-changing role.

Hannah Schneider’s artistic practice is particularly concerned with the physical properties of space as well as the ephemeral processes in nature. During her guest residency at Raketenstation Hombroich, she will create large-format prints of the pond surfaces, which she will make accessible to visitors as part of an open guest studio.

– Stiftung Insel Hombroich

THE DEMOCRATIC SPACE

Artist group SCHAUM
19.11.2023 until 18.02.2024

Dealing with the the GDR past has long been a concern of the Kunsthalle Rostock. The exhibition “Review Baltic Sea Biennale. The Democratic Space” now dares to take a look at the entire Baltic Sea region from mid-November.

 

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN* ARE THE WOMEN OF THE REVOLUTION

Parade in public space
October 28 2023

As part of the exhibition »Every courageous life is a song to the future« by Ines Doujak
Temporary Gallery—Centre for contemporary art Cologne
September 30 until December 17 2023

Hope is the opposite of fear!

 

The goal of the event is to express solidarity with women* land defenders from all over the world. We will form a communal body to counter the politics of indifference and despair and regain agency in seemingly hopeless times. The event is an act of internationalist solidarity based on the recognition that protecting the environment is inseparably related to political struggles against (post)colonial domination, structural racism, and misogynistic practices.

 

The event accompanies the exhibition of Ines Doujak Temporary Gallery.

 

Ines Doujak, in collaboration with activist Jakeline Romero Epiayú, artist Camilo Pachón, artists iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo & Roman Jungblut and curator Luiza Proença. Research: Nada Rosa Schroer. Research: Nada Rosa Schroer.

 

*„Women” are defined here as a political category including all those who suffer under the material conditions that have historically been assigned to women, as trans and nonbinary people, intersex and agender, and queer people. – Temporary Gallery

Social Object

Exhibition of nominees at Schaudepot Kunsthalle Rostock
October 21st until December 3rd 2023

Opening: Ocotber 21st 2023

The Cultural Foundation Rostock e.V. and the Hanseatic and university city of Rostock are awarding the Rostock Art Prize for the 17th time this year. The aim of the prize is to recognize and promote artists who live in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania or whose biography and work has a connection to the region. The genre should change every year. For 2023, the art prize will be offered for object art for the first time. The exhibition of works by the nominees provides an overview of their artistic work. The artists chose their work themselves.

The jury nominated four candidates from the pool of 41 applicants, including 2 positions that have been represented at ZNE for many years:

Susanne Gabler and the artist collective SCHAUM.

Award Ceremony: December 2nd 2023, 4 p.m.

The ZNE team is keeping its fingers crossed for both nominees!

You can find more information about Susanne Gabler’s work on display here.

längs und quer zum fluss

Exhibition project for the IBA’27-Festivalin July 2023 on the grounds of the Neckar spinning mill quarter NQ, Wendlingen
Cooperation between the artist Kathrin Wörwag and the HOS Group

8. – 29 . July 2023

Neckarspinnerei-Quartier (NQ)
Heinrich-Otto-Str. 64 73240 Wendlingen a. N.
www.neckarspinnerei-quartier.de

OPENING
Saturday, July 8 2023, 10 am – 10 pm
Welcome Andreas Decker (Managing Director HOS Group), Kathrin Wörwag (artist)
Introduction Christian Gögger, Artistic Director Kunstverein Esslingen
Performance Michael Roggon (Überlingen)

OPENING HOURS
(IBA’27 festival on the grounds of the Neckar spinning district NQ)
Mo–Fr 10 am–6 pm
Sa 10am-1pm

Participating artists
Hartmut Landauer (Stuttgart), Philip Kojo Metz (Berlin), Anja Schoeller (Nürnberg), Menja Stevenson (Stuttgart), ststs Stef Stagel/Steffen Schlichter (Kirchheim-Teck), Sylvia Winkler/Stephan Köperl (Stuttgart), Kathrin Wörwag (Kirchheim-Teck)

The exhibition project spans the arc from the historic production site of the Otto textile company to the present and future. Parallel to the IBA’27 Festival, in July 2023, action lectures and collaborative exchange will be added along and across the river.

The Neckar spinning mill of the Otto textile company in Wendlingen-Unterboihingen is one of the most important industrial monuments in south-west Germany and is to be developed into a future-oriented living and working area in the context of IBA’27. […]

Spatially highly concentrated, the development of industrial culture from the 19th to the second half of the 20th century can be seen today on the industrial area, on which production was still taking place until 2020. Work processes typical of the time, technical pioneering achievements, but also the social conditions of the textile industry at that time can be understood there.

The exhibition project along and across the river follows these traces and invites artists to engage artistically and reflectively with the Otto company context. Based on historical archive material and site-specific investigations, questions of the former yarn production of the Otto company in the transcontinental network of the textile and cotton industry are examined in connection with overarching, current and future aspects.

How has industrialization and series production determined our humanity to this day? What understanding of work has developed in industrial society? How do we face the global changes that we humans have brought about since the beginning of industrialization, in the age of the Anthropocene, today and in the future?

Is it worth giving up consumption for the common good

Jakub Szczęsny
July 2, 2023 till June 2, 2024
at Gdynia City Museum

Opening: July 1, 2023, 4 pm

The Gdynia City Museum has chosen Jakub Szczęsny as the protagonist of the latest exhibition in the Polish Projects Polish Designer series.

We had no doubt that his eclectic work would allow us to delve deeper into the theme we chose to focus on this year – design and society.

In the exhibition we show how architecture and design are intertwined and what interesting things can arise at the interface between them. We take a closer look at micro homes that are particularly popular during the pandemic. We ask ourselves whether we as a society really need more and more space. Or is it perhaps worth saying “no” to excessive consumption for the common good?

We juxtapose the unique Keret House and repetitive (albeit adaptable) modular micro houses to address the theme of minimalism and limitation as societally important values. We create an interesting tension between architecture and design – Jakub Szczęsny’s installations in public space, intended as architecture in action, as a kind of performance. All this to draw attention to the social dimension of design.

Curator: Anna Śliwa

“Check it out!”

Daniel Schüßler is one of 192 voices from art, science and the in-between for a fund for aesthetics and sustainability | FAN

At the end of her 13-year touring exhibition, Adrienne Goehler is showing “Examples to Follow” in the Uferhallen Berlin. The exhibition gets to the heart of the demand once again in a tactile manner. Check it out!

Daniel Schüßler | Director and Theater Producer | Artistic director ANALOGTHEATER Cologne and lecturer for performative working techniques at the University of Cologne/Theaterakademie Köln, about the FÄN:

WHY FÄN? The issue of sustainability is the most pressing issue of our time. The climate crisis and our working and living conditions in a neoliberalized world must now be thought of together. We now have to get out of the small-small thinking, the persistence of research and the discussion in our own divisions and disciplines. We need a holistic approach to connect and address the sustainability crisis and the ongoing ecological crisis. The art space and the theater in particular offer a highly effective way of conveying the burning issues through a sensitive approach that is aimed directly at our feelings. […]

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KUNST:STOFF

Exhibition cooperation with Museum Zinkhütter Hof Stolberg

May 21 – June 11 2023

Atelierhaus Aachen e.V., DEPOT

Talstraße 2, 52068 Aachen

The exhibition KUNST:STOFF is not only aimed at visitors interested in art and culture, but also at a broad target group of people of all ages. Every year, more than 400 million tons of plastic are produced worldwide – a total of unimaginable 8.3 billion tons of plastics have been produced so far. Each of us creates a global average of around 0.74kg of waste per day (see sources: aktivaktiv.de / wwf.de). According to the latest studies, plastic has not only been detected in living beings in the deepest sea, but also in the human bloodstream.

The exhibition visualizes the large amounts of plastic that we use every day and that are often left behind as waste in the environment. Contrary to what we know about its environmental impact, global production continues to increase every year. An art exhibition that illuminates this topic from a completely different perspective should change the personal perspective of the viewer and make people more sensitive to personal contact. […]

Swaantje Güntzel addresses the alienated relationship between man and nature. It reveals the inconsistency of our actions and the hypocrisy of our value system and draws attention to the thoughtless exploitation of the environment in the industrialized global economy. […]

Dodi Reifenberg has been making reference to environmentally relevant issues with his projects for some time: Almost all of his works are made of plastic bags. This is intended to draw the viewer’s attention to the tacit acceptance of the damage that plastic waste does to our environment. […]

„We cannot rely on experts“

Adrienne Goehler talks about EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW!, its history and topicality of the traveling exhibition, as well as basic income/basic outcome and why experts have no solutions for the complex problems of our time.

During my “government internship” I experienced that people think strictly in terms of departments and responsibilities. The mentality prevails: “Don’t interfere in my area. Cooperation only if it doesn’t cost me anything.” That scared me quite a bit. And in the juries for cultural promotion, the divisional thinking just continued. It became clear to me that we have to support transdisciplinary projects, we need that more urgently than ever today. We must not leave the state of the world to the experts in politics and economics. They will not provide any solutions.

Read the whole interview here: Tagesspiegel.de