»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.

Sunday, 16th of June from 12 pm – 24 am

Dear friends, supporters and lovers of ETF!

Celebrate both, the end & the kick-off with us

Dear friends, supporters and lovers of ETF!
These have been overwhelming weeks, what an impressive and impressed audience! Feeling richly blessed, we want to celebrate with you the end of this journey, enjoying its explorations over the past 13 years, with a total of 139 artists from 29 geographical origins trusted us with their works. Our common goal was and is to open up the debate between aesthetics and sustainability and to make it perceptible to the senses.

With the farewell to this one great chapter, we are opening a new one, equally great. The idea for a fund for aesthetics and sustainability emerged already at the very beginning of EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW! – the exhibition and meanwhile 195 protagonists from art and science increase the significance of such a fund and make it more visible.

EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW! goes Fund Aesthetics and Sustainability | ETF! FAeS

Aesthetics is all about expanding perception and knowledge through sensual-bodily experience. The aim is to strengthen the imagination, to support the speculative, to create analogies. The purpose of the FAeS is to create a further space of possibilities for expanding the artistic and scientific radius of action. The fundamental goal is to enable intervening in the great challenge of transformation, to realize corporations and to create time.

Based on the experiences of the exhibition, the intention is to create a pilot project that, with intensive further research into the renewable resources of mushroom, wool, hemp and bark, confronts the conventional climate-killing building sector – through new forms of artistic-scientific
intervention and cooperation.

Almost half of the artworks in the exhibition can be purchased during the finissage.The artists want to lay a symbolic foundation, as it is their work that shows that research in art is essential. The same applies to cooperation with the sciences, inventors, NGOs and the expansion of one‘s own artistic sphere of action through longer-lasting cooperative projects.

We will be pleased to see you becoming part of the new path through the purchase of works or donations. In doing so, you and your name will always be connected to the realization of FAeS.

With warm, not entirely blues-free greetings
Adrienne | Goehler

www.fonds-aesthetik-und-nachhaltigkeit.de
Circle of Cultures – Forum der Kulturen zu Fragen der Zeit e.V.
KONTO: 1247 8474 02 – IBAN: DE12 4306 0967 1247 8474 02

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?

INVITATION to the 30th anniversary of Künstlerhaus Sootbörn

Friday 30.6. until Sunday 9.7.2023
Opening hours: Friday 5 – 7 pm
Saturday and Sunday 14 – 19 h & evening programs

Artist ETF! Nana Petzet

The Breathing Trilogy 24.06.–05.08.2023

It is as much a cliché as it is a truism: life is mysterious. When it leaves a body, the change is immediate. Breathing comes to an end, the body is oddly still. Affection vanishes from the eyes, facial features dissolve. After a short while our attachment to a dead body dissipates. Every day we are confronted with the arbitrary nature of what is acceptable to eat. The only way to do this, is to continuously forget. Just as we forget what a steak is.
…
The Breathing Trilogy speaks to being present in the moment, facing the world courageously and honestly, even to our complicity in the death of other beings. As such these works are a consistent continuation of Hobza’s conceptual performative projects: imaginative, grandiose and full of radical optimism for the human condition.

—Isabelle Moffat

Further information:

Website: SOY CAPITAN

Green spaces instead of parking lots

Five former parking areas at Lausitzer Platz are to be temporarily redesigned. Interested parties can apply to the district office

Press release no. 275 from 20.12.2022

Further information:

Bezirksamt
Tagesspiegelartikel , Corinna von Bodisco, 22.12.2022
Entwicklungsstadt