All Events
september 2024
17Aug(Aug 17)17:0006Okt(Okt 6)17:00Exhibition Thomias RadinRhizome: Time of RevelationAltes Rathaus
WELTEN WANDLER N°3 Thomias Radin Rhizome: Time of Revelation The works of Thomias Radin (*1993 Abyme, Guadeloupe) are collages of cultural references with which he explores questions of identity and cognition. He
WELTEN WANDLER N°3
Thomias Radin
Rhizome: Time of Revelation
The works of Thomias Radin (*1993 Abyme, Guadeloupe) are collages of cultural references with which he explores questions of identity and cognition. He himself describes his paintings and objects as representations of „inner life“ and attempts to depict a double consciousness: one that is shaped by the intellect and one that is at home in the physical experience of the black body. Elements and memories of everyday life in his native Guadeloupe home, are combined with the urban culture informed by its practice of Hip-Hop, Afro-diasporic lifestyle and highly visible influences from the history of European painting in his multi-material works. In particular, the wood craftsmanship from his family’s tradition forms the material basis of his work groups.
Thomias Radin is also a trained contemporary dancer, which provides him with further important impulses for his artistic work: the physical memories from his dance sessions flow directly into his paintings, and the confrontations in his painting influence his choreographies. In keeping with his approach to art, there is no separation of disciplines in his work; all forms of expression are mutually dependent on each other in his expressive work.
Cover Image: RIVÂL – a collaborative film by Thomias Radin, Alex Brack, Mats Meisen, Karthago Films, 2023, photo by Emmet Holmes-Boyes
Programme
Sat 17.08.24, 5 – 8 pm
Vernissage – Reception including Speeches and the Premiere of the film RIVÂL (Kartago Films) at 6 pm
Sat 14.09.24, 3 – 8 pm
The Long Art Afternoon with Thomias Radin, Jumoke Adeyanju, and Stephan Klee within the exhibition
Sun 22.09.24, 3 – 4 pm
Sunday guided tour with Justus M. Müller
Sun 06.10.24, 3 – 4 pm
Finissage with guided tour through the exhibition
and the new Edition by Thomias Radin
Please reserve your participation in the events at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone on 0551-44899
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- Thomias Radin “What a Time to be Alive”, 2022, oil on linen and artist frame, 154x130cm, courtesy Esther Schipper
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- Thomias Radin “Karukéra, béké la anba-anba”, 2023, oil on canvas, 200x150cm, various materials, courtesy Esther Schipper
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- “RIVÂL” – a collaborative film by Thomias Radin, Alex Brack, Mats Meisen, Karthago Films, 2023, Farbe, 18:35 min, photo by Emmet Holmes-Boyes, courtesy Esther Schipper
The Annual Programme 2024
TERRA DIASPORA – CHANGING WORLDS
TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In the face of fundamental upheavals in the coexistence of nature and mankind, TERRA DIASPORA stands for a world on the move; for a terrain that is becoming increasingly alien to its inhabitants, and for an earth on which people are becoming foreign bodies. It is an earth in a foreign territory, a terra diaspora.
The first part of the 2024 programme series is called TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN and shows artists, who create new worlds between rational reality, dream, and fantasy. Dubious of a purely functional picture of reality and often affected by family experiences of migration, the exhibited artists connect the accustomed with the new, combine facts with the fantastic and create their own identities out of old stories and new experiences. Worlds are made visible which stem from our roots and emerge when we wander the earth. The 2024-2025 annual programme, developed by curator Stephan Klee and the participating artists, will be overseen by him over the next two years.
In late summer 2024, we are particularly pleased to present the interdisciplinary artist Thomias Radin at the third solo exhibition of the year. His oeuvre moves fluidly between dance, painting, sculpture and film and brings attention to the cultural roots and world concepts of an Afro-Caribbean diaspora, in which a spiritual network of signs, movement and music permeates, transforms, and enriches the questionable principles of Western cultural hegemony.
We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. and Sparkasse Göttingen
Datum
17. August (Samstag) - 6. Oktober (Sonntag)
Veranstaltungsort
Altes Rathaus
Markt 9, 37073 Göttingen
Öffnungszeiten
Tuesday – Sunday 11 am – 5 pm
14Sep15:0020:00The Long Afternoon of Art: Thomias RadinRhizome: Time of RevelationAltes Rathaus
INVITATION The Long Afternoon of Art Thomias Radin Rhizome: Time of Revelation with Thomias Radin, Jumoke Adeyanju and Stephan Klee Easy coming and going for a whole afternoon. Activities 3 pm - Guided tour through the
INVITATION
The Long Afternoon of Art
Thomias Radin Rhizome: Time of Revelation
with Thomias Radin, Jumoke Adeyanju and Stephan Klee
Easy coming and going for a whole afternoon.
Activities
3 pm – Guided tour through the exhibition with Stephan Klee
4 p.m. – DJ set by Jumoke Adeyanju
5 pm – “Fluidity in Music, Movement, Expression and Identity –
The work of Thomias Radin and Édouard Glissant’s concept of culture”
An open discussion about the exhibition
with Thomias Radin, Jumoke Adeyanju and Stephan Klee
6 p.m. – Final tones
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The rhythm sets the impulse – The impulse triggers the movement – The movement in space shapes the sensory perception – The perception becomes an experience – And from the experience arises the need for a new expression: Be this expression a brushstroke on the canvas, another dance step in the collective, the dialog with other people or even the construction of a musical instrument for rhythmic impulses.
The works of Thomias Radin – born in 1993 in Les Abymes on the French-Caribbean Antilles island of Guadeloupe – are collages of cultural references in many forms of expression, with which he explores questions of identity and knowledge, also with regard to philosophical discourse. He combines contemporary dance, painting, film, social-performative happenings and sculpture, including instrument making. His works are in constant exchange with each other, yet remain independent. They are connected by a network of variable relations in movement, form, material and meaning, which regenerates itself ever more extensively in cycles of artistic action without ever losing its fundamental ties.
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We would like to invite you to the first Long Afternoon of Art on the first floor of the Old Town Hall in Göttingen.
On the occasion of the exhibition of Thomias Radin Rhizome: Time of Revelation, the artist, our invited luminary Jumoke Adeyanju and the curator Stephan Klee will be your hosts in the exhibition from 3 to 8 pm. There will be a small programme,
which will not only focus on the theoretical background of the works, but will also bring the artist’s multimedia cosmos to life with music, dance, film and many works of art.
Thomias Radin, Jumoke Adeyanju and Stephan Klee will be on site the whole time.
Drinks and snacks will be served, admission is free and we look forward to seeing you there.
Event photo: RIVÂL – a joint film by Thomias Radin, Alex Brack, Mats Meisen, Karthago Films, 2023, Photography by Emmet Holmes-Boyes
Jumoke Adeyanju is an interdisciplinary multilingual writer, curator and dancer. Under her alias mokeyanju, she occasionally performs as a vinyl selector and aspiring sound artist. Jumoke is the founder of The Poetry Meets Series [est. 2014], co-curator of Sensitivities of Dance and hosts her radio show Sauti ya àkókò as well as the weekly
Breakfast Show on Refuge Worldwide.
Her multidimensional sound, words and movement art has been commissioned by MARKK Museum Hamburg, NCAI Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute, Dak’Art Biennale 2022, LagosPhoto 2022, Arthouse Foundation Lagos, AAF African Artists Foundation Lagos, Image Afrique Basel, African Crossroads Mombasa, CUNY NYC, Kölnischer Kunstverein and Deutschlandfunk Kulturs Klangkunst amongst others.
She has presented her artistic works at international literary festivals performing in English, German, Kiswahili and Yorùbá. Jumoke’s poetry and translation work was published as part of the anthology “Kontinentaldrift: Das Schwarze Europa” (ed. Fiston Mwanza Mujila) in 2021 and “The 1619 Project” by Nikole Hannah-Jones. In 2022, her first Sci-Fi short story “77. Weltstille”, was published in the anthology “Kollaps und Hope Porn: 13 Zukunftsaussichten” by Maro Verlag.
As an all-round-artist, Jumoke’s approach touches on topics like diaspora nostalgia, memory, spiritual liminal spaces, sonic tonalities, and how various elements of expressive art forms interrelate and incorporate the potential to (re-)create moments of reviving other or displaced selves.
Recently, Jumoke Adeyanju exhibited her sound-based ‘dreams’ research project OTA – outreaching transfigurative alterations at Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute in Kenya.
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- “RIVÂL” – a collaborative film by Thomias Radin, Alex Brack, Mats Meisen, Karthago Films, 2023, Farbe, 18:35 min, photo by Emmet Holmes-Boyes, courtesy Esther Schipper
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- Thomias Radin / Foto von Peter Heller
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- Thomias Radin / Foto von Peter Heller
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- Jumoke Adeyanju
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- Thomias Radin, exhibition impression / Foto von Peter Heller
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- Thomias Radin / Foto von Peter Heller
The Annual Programme 2024
TERRA DIASPORA – CHANGING WORLDS
TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In the face of fundamental upheavals in the coexistence of nature and mankind, TERRA DIASPORA stands for a world on the move; for a terrain that is becoming increasingly alien to its inhabitants, and for an earth on which people are becoming foreign bodies. It is an earth in a foreign territory, a terra diaspora.
The first part of the 2024 programme series is called TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN and shows artists, who create new worlds between rational reality, dream, and fantasy. Dubious of a purely functional picture of reality and often affected by family experiences of migration, the exhibited artists connect the accustomed with the new, combine facts with the fantastic and create their own identities out of old stories and new experiences. Worlds are made visible which stem from our roots and emerge when we wander the earth. The 2024-2025 annual programme, developed by curator Stephan Klee and the participating artists, will be overseen by him over the next two years.
In late summer 2024, we are particularly pleased to present the interdisciplinary artist Thomias Radin at the third solo exhibition of the year. His oeuvre moves fluidly between dance, painting, sculpture and film and brings attention to the cultural roots and world concepts of an Afro-Caribbean diaspora, in which a spiritual network of signs, movement and music permeates, transforms, and enriches the questionable principles of Western cultural hegemony.
We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. and Sparkasse Göttingen
Datum
14. September (Samstag) - 14. September (Samstag)
Veranstaltungsort
Altes Rathaus
Markt 9, 37073 Göttingen
Öffnungszeiten
Saturday, 14 Sep 2024 3 – 8 pm
Oktober 2024
17Aug(Aug 17)17:0006Okt(Okt 6)17:00Exhibition Thomias RadinRhizome: Time of RevelationAltes Rathaus
WELTEN WANDLER N°3 Thomias Radin Rhizome: Time of Revelation The works of Thomias Radin (*1993 Abyme, Guadeloupe) are collages of cultural references with which he explores questions of identity and cognition. He
WELTEN WANDLER N°3
Thomias Radin
Rhizome: Time of Revelation
The works of Thomias Radin (*1993 Abyme, Guadeloupe) are collages of cultural references with which he explores questions of identity and cognition. He himself describes his paintings and objects as representations of „inner life“ and attempts to depict a double consciousness: one that is shaped by the intellect and one that is at home in the physical experience of the black body. Elements and memories of everyday life in his native Guadeloupe home, are combined with the urban culture informed by its practice of Hip-Hop, Afro-diasporic lifestyle and highly visible influences from the history of European painting in his multi-material works. In particular, the wood craftsmanship from his family’s tradition forms the material basis of his work groups.
Thomias Radin is also a trained contemporary dancer, which provides him with further important impulses for his artistic work: the physical memories from his dance sessions flow directly into his paintings, and the confrontations in his painting influence his choreographies. In keeping with his approach to art, there is no separation of disciplines in his work; all forms of expression are mutually dependent on each other in his expressive work.
Cover Image: RIVÂL – a collaborative film by Thomias Radin, Alex Brack, Mats Meisen, Karthago Films, 2023, photo by Emmet Holmes-Boyes
Programme
Sat 17.08.24, 5 – 8 pm
Vernissage – Reception including Speeches and the Premiere of the film RIVÂL (Kartago Films) at 6 pm
Sat 14.09.24, 3 – 8 pm
The Long Art Afternoon with Thomias Radin, Jumoke Adeyanju, and Stephan Klee within the exhibition
Sun 22.09.24, 3 – 4 pm
Sunday guided tour with Justus M. Müller
Sun 06.10.24, 3 – 4 pm
Finissage with guided tour through the exhibition
and the new Edition by Thomias Radin
Please reserve your participation in the events at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone on 0551-44899
-
- Thomias Radin “What a Time to be Alive”, 2022, oil on linen and artist frame, 154x130cm, courtesy Esther Schipper
-
- Thomias Radin “Karukéra, béké la anba-anba”, 2023, oil on canvas, 200x150cm, various materials, courtesy Esther Schipper
-
- “RIVÂL” – a collaborative film by Thomias Radin, Alex Brack, Mats Meisen, Karthago Films, 2023, Farbe, 18:35 min, photo by Emmet Holmes-Boyes, courtesy Esther Schipper
The Annual Programme 2024
TERRA DIASPORA – CHANGING WORLDS
TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In the face of fundamental upheavals in the coexistence of nature and mankind, TERRA DIASPORA stands for a world on the move; for a terrain that is becoming increasingly alien to its inhabitants, and for an earth on which people are becoming foreign bodies. It is an earth in a foreign territory, a terra diaspora.
The first part of the 2024 programme series is called TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN and shows artists, who create new worlds between rational reality, dream, and fantasy. Dubious of a purely functional picture of reality and often affected by family experiences of migration, the exhibited artists connect the accustomed with the new, combine facts with the fantastic and create their own identities out of old stories and new experiences. Worlds are made visible which stem from our roots and emerge when we wander the earth. The 2024-2025 annual programme, developed by curator Stephan Klee and the participating artists, will be overseen by him over the next two years.
In late summer 2024, we are particularly pleased to present the interdisciplinary artist Thomias Radin at the third solo exhibition of the year. His oeuvre moves fluidly between dance, painting, sculpture and film and brings attention to the cultural roots and world concepts of an Afro-Caribbean diaspora, in which a spiritual network of signs, movement and music permeates, transforms, and enriches the questionable principles of Western cultural hegemony.
We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. and Sparkasse Göttingen
Datum
17. August (Samstag) - 6. Oktober (Sonntag)
Veranstaltungsort
Altes Rathaus
Markt 9, 37073 Göttingen
Öffnungszeiten
Tuesday – Sunday 11 am – 5 pm
November 2024
Keine Veranstaltungen