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THE LONG AFTERNOON OF ART

AKTIVES TERRAIN N°4
Marjolijn Dijkman
Between the Lines

We present the final Long Afternoon of Art in 2025 and warmly welcome you to attend.

The Long Afternoon of Art
Saturday, 6 December, 3 – 7 pm
At the end of the year, the team at Kunstverein Göttingen invites you to a varied afternoon combining content-based communication of the solo exhibition and a charity campaign for the Kunstverein for the season. Artist Marjolijn Dijkman and curator Stephan Klee will be present at the exhibition and have put together a varied programme. In addition, the Kunstverein will present an overview of all exhibition editions of the two-year TERRA DIASPORA exhibition programme (2024–2025), offering visitors the opportunity to take home a work of art as a gift while also supporting culture in the city. We will be there for the entire four hours. You can come and go as you please, and admission to the event is free.

Stephan Klee will open the afternoon at 3 pm with a guided tour of the exhibition. Afterwards, there will be time to delve deeper into the exhibition and examine the editions on display. At 5 pm, there will be a panel discussion between artist Marjolijn Dijkman, Prof. Dr Lasafam Iturrizaga from the University of Göttingen and artistic director Stephan Klee on the topic of ‘Geomorphology and Ecological Transformation in Economic Growth’. Prof. Dr Lasafam Iturrizaga from the University of Göttingen and artistic director Stephan Klee on the topic of ‘Geomorphology and Ecological Transformation in Economic Growth.’ Using examples from around the world and the region, we will discuss how industrial production and expansive geopolitics are massively changing the geographical landscape and biochemical cycles in the affected territories. Stephan Klee will be responsible for preparing and moderating the discussion this time. The introduction and the audience-inclusive discourse at the end will be in German and English, but the three-way discussion in the middle will be conducted largely in English to ensure a natural flow of conversation for our English-speaking panel guests.
After the joint discussion at the end of the open panel discussion, there will be time for personal conversations and questions until 7 p.m. Throughout the Long Afternoon of Art, we will serve pastries and warm drinks in keeping with the festive season.

Location
Altes Rathaus / 1. OG
Markt 9
37073 Göttingen

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Further programme of the exhibition

Sat 6 Dec 3 pm – 7 pm
The Long Afternoon of Art
Admission is free

3 pm – 7 pm
Presentation of the Editions
Comprehensive presentation of the exhibition edition
and all editions of the TERRA DIASPORA exhibition programme (2024/2025)
The proceeds will go towards the charitable work of the Kunstverein Göttingen e.V.

3 pm
Guided tour through the exhibition
with Stephan Klee

5 pm
Open panel discussion
Activated Terrains –
Geomorphology and Ecological Transformation in Economic Growth
with Marjolijn Dijkman (artist), apl. Prof. Dr Lasafam Iturrizaga and Stephan Klee
How does economic exploitation by humans change the nature of the Earth in terms of its appearance, composition and the coexistence of species? How can political and social conflicts become inscribed in the affected territories and leave a lasting mark on them? It is not only since the Industrial Revolution that humans have been actively and mostly consciously shaping the landscapes of this planet through their actions. Significant areas of ‘geomorphology’, i.e. the substantial reshaping of the globe, are now the result of human activity. As a result, since at least the last century, we have been living in the Anthropocene, the man-made geological epoch.
Marjolijn Dijkman has artistically manifested some striking examples of this dynamic and brought them to Göttingen. In this way, the processes in question, made vivid and comprehensible in a creative way, can form the basis for a discussion. Prof. Dr. Lasafam Iturrizaga contributes her expertise, wealth of experience and regional examples from the field of geomorphology to the topic, while Stephan Klee will attempt to draw parallels with global developments and their impact on culture. Afterwards, we will open the discussion to the audience to clarify any remaining questions and engage in a possible discourse together.
The discussion will be held in German and English for the introduction and final audience discourse,
while the middle section of the discussion between the panel guests will be held in English only.

6 pm
Closure

Sun 7 Dec 3 – 5 pm
Finissage
3 – 5 pm
Presentation of the Editions
Comprehensive presentation of all editions of the TERRA DIASPORA exhibition programme (2024/2025)
3 pm
Guided tour and discussion – ‘Walk and Talk’
through the exhibition with artist Marjolijn Dijkman
and curator Stephan Klee in German and English
4 pm
Closure

>> To help us plan better, we would be grateful if you could make reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de, respectively by telephone under +49 (0) 551-44899

Eventimage: Marjolijn Dijkman Earthing Discharge (crop out), courtesy the artist and NOME Berlin,
Photo and all rights by Marjolijn Dijkman, published without fee with the friendly agreement of the artist

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Brussels-based Dutch artist Marjolijn Dijkman concludes our exhibition series TERRA DIASPORA – AKTIVE TERRAINS in 2025 with unusually elaborate, spatially accessible arrangements. For example, a tonally animated forest area transfers the former front lines of Verdun with original trees and shrapnel into the exhibition rooms, artificially produced fulgurites of rare earths from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Belgium define silicon sand areas, and microorganisms multiply in glass-filled water samples from the Göttingen region in a room-filling metal framework.”
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THE EDITION OF THE SHOW

Marjolijn Dijkman
Earthing Discharge
Edition for the Kunstverein Göttingen, 2025

Edition size 12 + 5 AP, H 29.7 cm x W 42 cm (A 3), archival inkjet pigment print (Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG, velvety–matt, natural white, acid-free, 100% cellulose, 308 g/sqm

Courtesy of the artist
Price: €320 / €240 for members of KV Göttingen

The artificially generated ‘earthing discharge’ of hard coal creates unique structures of electrical sparks and transports viewers into a precisely captured world of formerly natural energy flows. However, it is precisely this combination that also symbolises two of the most important industrial revolutions: the comprehensive use of hard coal and electricity in production processes. These ‘releases’ of human resource exploitation and their effects on organically animated terrestrial zones are exemplary of the themes in Marjolijn Dijkman’s work and our 2025 annual programme.

> If you are interested, please contact us here: klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de

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VITA Marjolijn Dijkman

Marjolijn Dijkman (1978, NL) is an artist and co-founder of Enough Room for Space. She lives and works in Brussels (BE) and Lahaymeix (FR).
 
She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2001 and at the MFA Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2003, and was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht from 2006 to 2007.

She is currently part of the artistic research cluster Deep Histories Fragile Memories as a PhD student at the LUCA School of Arts Brussels / University of Leuven, supervised by Wendy Morris and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (2023-2027).

In 2005, she founded Enough Room for Space (ERforS) together with Maarten Vanden Eynde. Enough Room for Space is an interdependent art organisation that initiates experimental collaborative research projects. We tend to operate as freely as possible and to transcend the boundaries between disciplines (artistic, scientific or activist).

more informationen >>www.marjolijndijkman.com

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The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view 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 land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.

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We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen, Sparkasse Göttingen und Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. . We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to our essential supporters from the Netherlands: Mondriaan Fund and from Belgium: the Flanders Culture Fund.

ACTIVE TERRAIN N°4
Marjolijn Dijkman
Between the Lines

curated by Stephan Klee

Vernissage
Saturday, 11 October, 5 pm
Duration
12 October–7 December 2025
Tuesday–Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm

The Brussels-based Dutch artist concludes our exhibition series TERRA DIASPORA – AKTIVE TERRAINS in 2025 with unusually elaborate, spatially accessible arrangements. For example, a tonally animated forest area transfers the former front lines of Verdun with original trees and shrapnel into the exhibition rooms, artificially produced fulgurites of rare earths from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Belgium define silicon sand areas, and microorganisms multiply in glass-filled water samples from the Göttingen region in a room-filling metal framework.
Through spatially accessible arrangements, sculptural objects, photographs and film contributions, the artist succeeds in an inimitable way in making the dynamic upheavals of the regions in question tangible for the audience, thus exemplifying the acute changes taking place on Earth. Or, as she herself says: “I am a research-based and multidisciplinary artist who uses film, photography, sculpture and installation. My work focuses on the intersections between culture and other fields of research. The works themselves are speculative, based in part on facts and research, but often shifted into the realm of imagination. I work on multi-year, process-based research projects that culminate in various works, discursive events, exhibitions and publications.” Multidisciplinary collaboration with other people is important here. In many of these long-term research projects, works are created through close collective creation with other people working on the same topics.
With a scientific foundation and inspiration in uncovering complex interrelationships, Marjolijn Dijkman succeeds in precisely transforming the materials and substances of global processes into concise forms and testimonies. These groups of works embody global eco-geographical changes and make them accessible to visitors on a rational, intuitive and emotional level. Through the artistic manifestations of the changing realities ‘out there,’ a new understanding of the world emerges ‘here with us.’ This finale, in particular, creatively sums up the concept of Active Terrain like no other exhibition in the series.

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PROGRAMME
Sat 11 Oct at 5 pm
Vernissage
Welcome speech by Helmut Wenzel,
introduction to the exhibition by the curator Stephan  Klee,
and presentation of the Edition of the Show
open till 7 pm

Sun 19 Oct / Sun 2 Nov
each at 3 pm
Sunday Tour with Joos Ziegler

Sat 6 Dec 3 – 7 pm
The Long Afternoon of Art

3 pm
Exhibition Tour
with Stephan Klee
5 pm
Open panel discussion
Activated Terrains – Geomorphology and Ecological Transformation in Economic Growth
with Marjolijn Dijkman (artist), apl. Prof. Dr Lasafam Iturrizaga and Stephan Klee
with an integrative conversation, including the audience in the end

Sun 7 Dec 5 pm
Finissage
Comprehensive presentation of the
Edition of the Show
and all editions of the year
3 pm
Guided tour and conversation – “Walk and Talk”
through the exhibition with the artist Marjokijn Dijkman
and the curator Stephan Klee in English and German
4 pm
Conclusion
open till 5 pm

>> To help us plan better, we would be grateful if you could make reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de, respectively by telephone under +49 (0) 551-44899

event image: Marjolijn Dijkman Earthing Discharge (crop out), courtesy the artist and NOME Berlin,
Photo and all rights by Marjolijn Dijkman, published without fee with the friendly agreement of the artist

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THE EDITION FOR THE EXHIBITION

Marjolijn Dijkman
Earthing Discharge
Edition for the Kunstverein Göttingen, 2025

Edition size 12 + 5 AP, H 29.7 cm x W 42 cm (A 3), archival inkjet pigment print (Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG, velvety–matt, natural white, acid-free, 100% cellulose, 308 g/sqm

Courtesy of the artist
Price: €320 / €240 for members of KV Göttingen

The artificially generated ‘earthing discharge’ of hard coal creates unique structures of electrical sparks and transports viewers into a precisely captured world of formerly natural energy flows. However, it is precisely this combination that also symbolises two of the most important industrial revolutions: the comprehensive use of hard coal and electricity in production processes. These ‘releases’ of human resource exploitation and their effects on organically animated terrestrial zones are exemplary of the themes in Marjolijn Dijkman’s work and our 2025 annual programme.

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VITA Marjolijn Dijkman
Marjolijn Dijkman (1978, NL) is an artist and co-founder of Enough Room for Space. She lives and works in Brussels (BE) and Lahaymeix (FR).
 
She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2001 and at the MFA Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2003, and was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht from 2006 to 2007.

She is currently part of the artistic research cluster Deep Histories Fragile Memories as a PhD student at the LUCA School of Arts Brussels / University of Leuven, supervised by Wendy Morris and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (2023-2027).

In 2005, she founded Enough Room for Space (ERforS) together with Maarten Vanden Eynde. Enough Room for Space is an interdependent art organisation that initiates experimental collaborative research projects. We tend to operate as freely as possible and to transcend the boundaries between disciplines (artistic, scientific or activist).

more information >>www.marjolijndijkman.com

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The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view 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 land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.

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We would like to thank our sponsors:  Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen, Sparkasse Göttingen und Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to our essential supporters from the Netherlands: Mondriaan Fund and from Belgium: the Flanders Culture Fund.

ACTIVE TERRAIN N°4
Marjolijn Dijkman
Between the Lines

curated by Stephan Klee

Vernissage
Saturday, 11 October, 5 pm
Duration
12 October–7 December 2025
Tuesday–Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm

The Brussels-based Dutch artist concludes our exhibition series TERRA DIASPORA – AKTIVE TERRAINS in 2025 with unusually elaborate, spatially accessible arrangements. For example, a tonally animated forest area transfers the former front lines of Verdun with original trees and shrapnel into the exhibition rooms, artificially produced fulgurites of rare earths from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Belgium define silicon sand areas, and microorganisms multiply in glass-filled water samples from the Göttingen region in a room-filling metal framework.
Through spatially accessible arrangements, sculptural objects, photographs and film contributions, the artist succeeds in an inimitable way in making the dynamic upheavals of the regions in question tangible for the audience, thus exemplifying the acute changes taking place on Earth. Or, as she herself says: “I am a research-based and multidisciplinary artist who uses film, photography, sculpture and installation. My work focuses on the intersections between culture and other fields of research. The works themselves are speculative, based in part on facts and research, but often shifted into the realm of imagination. I work on multi-year, process-based research projects that culminate in various works, discursive events, exhibitions and publications.” Multidisciplinary collaboration with other people is important here. In many of these long-term research projects, works are created through close collective creation with other people working on the same topics.
With a scientific foundation and inspiration in uncovering complex interrelationships, Marjolijn Dijkman succeeds in precisely transforming the materials and substances of global processes into concise forms and testimonies. These groups of works embody global eco-geographical changes and make them accessible to visitors on a rational, intuitive and emotional level. Through the artistic manifestations of the changing realities ‘out there,’ a new understanding of the world emerges ‘here with us.’ This finale, in particular, creatively sums up the concept of Active Terrain like no other exhibition in the series.

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PROGRAMME
Sat 11 Oct at 5 pm
Vernissage
Welcome speech by Helmut Wenzel,
introduction to the exhibition by the curator Stephan  Klee,
and presentation of the Edition of the Show
open till 7 pm

Sun 19 Oct / Sun 2 Nov
each at 3 pm
Sunday Tour with Joos Ziegler

Sat 6 Dec 3 – 7 pm
The Long Afternoon of Art

3 pm
Exhibition Tour
with Stephan Klee
5 pm
Open panel discussion
Activated Terrains – Geomorphology and Ecological Transformation in Economic Growth
with Marjolijn Dijkman (artist), apl. Prof. Dr Lasafam Iturrizaga and Stephan Klee
with an integrative conversation, including the audience in the end

Sun 7 Dec 5 pm
Finissage
Comprehensive presentation of the
Edition of the Show
and all editions of the year
3 pm
Guided tour and conversation – “Walk and Talk”
through the exhibition with the artist Marjokijn Dijkman
and the curator Stephan Klee in English and German
4 pm
Conclusion
open till 5 pm

>> To help us plan better, we would be grateful if you could make reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de, respectively by telephone under +49 (0) 551-44899

event image: Marjolijn Dijkman Earthing Discharge (crop out), courtesy the artist and NOME Berlin,
Photo and all rights by Marjolijn Dijkman, published without fee with the friendly agreement of the artist

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THE EDITION FOR THE EXHIBITION

Marjolijn Dijkman
Earthing Discharge
Edition for the Kunstverein Göttingen, 2025

Edition size 12 + 5 AP, H 29.7 cm x W 42 cm (A 3), archival inkjet pigment print (Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG, velvety–matt, natural white, acid-free, 100% cellulose, 308 g/sqm

Courtesy of the artist
Price: €320 / €240 for members of KV Göttingen

The artificially generated ‘earthing discharge’ of hard coal creates unique structures of electrical sparks and transports viewers into a precisely captured world of formerly natural energy flows. However, it is precisely this combination that also symbolises two of the most important industrial revolutions: the comprehensive use of hard coal and electricity in production processes. These ‘releases’ of human resource exploitation and their effects on organically animated terrestrial zones are exemplary of the themes in Marjolijn Dijkman’s work and our 2025 annual programme.

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VITA Marjolijn Dijkman
Marjolijn Dijkman (1978, NL) is an artist and co-founder of Enough Room for Space. She lives and works in Brussels (BE) and Lahaymeix (FR).
 
She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2001 and at the MFA Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2003, and was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht from 2006 to 2007.

She is currently part of the artistic research cluster Deep Histories Fragile Memories as a PhD student at the LUCA School of Arts Brussels / University of Leuven, supervised by Wendy Morris and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (2023-2027).

In 2005, she founded Enough Room for Space (ERforS) together with Maarten Vanden Eynde. Enough Room for Space is an interdependent art organisation that initiates experimental collaborative research projects. We tend to operate as freely as possible and to transcend the boundaries between disciplines (artistic, scientific or activist).

more information >>www.marjolijndijkman.com

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The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view 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 land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.

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We would like to thank our sponsors:  Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen, Sparkasse Göttingen und Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to our essential supporters from the Netherlands: Mondriaan Fund and from Belgium: the Flanders Culture Fund.

ACTIVE TERRAIN N°4
Marjolijn Dijkman
Between the Lines

curated by Stephan Klee

Vernissage
Saturday, 11 October, 5 pm
Duration
12 October–7 December 2025
Tuesday–Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm

The Brussels-based Dutch artist concludes our exhibition series TERRA DIASPORA – AKTIVE TERRAINS in 2025 with unusually elaborate, spatially accessible arrangements. For example, a tonally animated forest area transfers the former front lines of Verdun with original trees and shrapnel into the exhibition rooms, artificially produced fulgurites of rare earths from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Belgium define silicon sand areas, and microorganisms multiply in glass-filled water samples from the Göttingen region in a room-filling metal framework.
Through spatially accessible arrangements, sculptural objects, photographs and film contributions, the artist succeeds in an inimitable way in making the dynamic upheavals of the regions in question tangible for the audience, thus exemplifying the acute changes taking place on Earth. Or, as she herself says: “I am a research-based and multidisciplinary artist who uses film, photography, sculpture and installation. My work focuses on the intersections between culture and other fields of research. The works themselves are speculative, based in part on facts and research, but often shifted into the realm of imagination. I work on multi-year, process-based research projects that culminate in various works, discursive events, exhibitions and publications.” Multidisciplinary collaboration with other people is important here. In many of these long-term research projects, works are created through close collective creation with other people working on the same topics.
With a scientific foundation and inspiration in uncovering complex interrelationships, Marjolijn Dijkman succeeds in precisely transforming the materials and substances of global processes into concise forms and testimonies. These groups of works embody global eco-geographical changes and make them accessible to visitors on a rational, intuitive and emotional level. Through the artistic manifestations of the changing realities ‘out there,’ a new understanding of the world emerges ‘here with us.’ This finale, in particular, creatively sums up the concept of Active Terrain like no other exhibition in the series.

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PROGRAMME
Sat 11 Oct at 5 pm
Vernissage
Welcome speech by Helmut Wenzel,
introduction to the exhibition by the curator Stephan  Klee,
and presentation of the Edition of the Show
open till 7 pm

Sun 19 Oct / Sun 2 Nov
each at 3 pm
Sunday Tour with Joos Ziegler

Sat 6 Dec 3 – 7 pm
The Long Afternoon of Art

3 pm
Exhibition Tour
with Stephan Klee
5 pm
Open panel discussion
Activated Terrains – Geomorphology and Ecological Transformation in Economic Growth
with Marjolijn Dijkman (artist), apl. Prof. Dr Lasafam Iturrizaga and Stephan Klee
with an integrative conversation, including the audience in the end

Sun 7 Dec 5 pm
Finissage
Comprehensive presentation of the
Edition of the Show
and all editions of the year
3 pm
Guided tour and conversation – “Walk and Talk”
through the exhibition with the artist Marjokijn Dijkman
and the curator Stephan Klee in English and German
4 pm
Conclusion
open till 5 pm

>> To help us plan better, we would be grateful if you could make reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de, respectively by telephone under +49 (0) 551-44899

event image: Marjolijn Dijkman Earthing Discharge (crop out), courtesy the artist and NOME Berlin,
Photo and all rights by Marjolijn Dijkman, published without fee with the friendly agreement of the artist

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THE EDITION FOR THE EXHIBITION

Marjolijn Dijkman
Earthing Discharge
Edition for the Kunstverein Göttingen, 2025

Edition size 12 + 5 AP, H 29.7 cm x W 42 cm (A 3), archival inkjet pigment print (Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG, velvety–matt, natural white, acid-free, 100% cellulose, 308 g/sqm

Courtesy of the artist
Price: €320 / €240 for members of KV Göttingen

The artificially generated ‘earthing discharge’ of hard coal creates unique structures of electrical sparks and transports viewers into a precisely captured world of formerly natural energy flows. However, it is precisely this combination that also symbolises two of the most important industrial revolutions: the comprehensive use of hard coal and electricity in production processes. These ‘releases’ of human resource exploitation and their effects on organically animated terrestrial zones are exemplary of the themes in Marjolijn Dijkman’s work and our 2025 annual programme.

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VITA Marjolijn Dijkman
Marjolijn Dijkman (1978, NL) is an artist and co-founder of Enough Room for Space. She lives and works in Brussels (BE) and Lahaymeix (FR).
 
She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2001 and at the MFA Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2003, and was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht from 2006 to 2007.

She is currently part of the artistic research cluster Deep Histories Fragile Memories as a PhD student at the LUCA School of Arts Brussels / University of Leuven, supervised by Wendy Morris and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (2023-2027).

In 2005, she founded Enough Room for Space (ERforS) together with Maarten Vanden Eynde. Enough Room for Space is an interdependent art organisation that initiates experimental collaborative research projects. We tend to operate as freely as possible and to transcend the boundaries between disciplines (artistic, scientific or activist).

more information >>www.marjolijndijkman.com

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The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view 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 land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.

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We would like to thank our sponsors:  Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen, Sparkasse Göttingen und Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to our essential supporters from the Netherlands: Mondriaan Fund and from Belgium: the Flanders Culture Fund.

VERNISSAGE

AKTIVES TERRAIN N°4
Marjolijn Dijkman
Between the Lines

You are cordially invited to the final exhibition of the year.

Vernissage
Saturday, 11 October at 5 p.m.
The rooms in the Old Town Hall have been filled with expansive, immersive installations, and the KVG team is delighted to present three extensive areas of research in the work of Marjolijn Dijkmans. After the welcome speech by the managing director and introductory words by the artistic director, there will be plenty of time to explore the exhibition. The artist and curator will be present and available for conversation over a drink or two. The event will then end at 7 p.m.

Location
Altes Rathaus / 1. Floor
Markt 9
37073 Göttingen

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Upcoming Programme

Sun 19 Oct / Sun 2 Nov
each at 3 pm
Sunday Tour with Joos Ziegler

Sat 6 Dec 3 – 7 pm
The Long Afternoon of Art

3 pm
Exhibition Tour
with Stephan Klee
4 pm
Presentation & Sound Performance
by the artist Nele Möller
5:30 pm
Roundtable Discussion
with Marjolijn Dijkman, Nele Möller
and Stephan Klee

Sun 7 Dec 5 pm
Finissage
Comprehensive presentation of the
Edition of the Show
and all editions of the year
3 pm
Guided tour and conversation – “Walk and Talk”
through the exhibition with the artist Marjokijn Dijkman
and the curator Stephan Klee in English and German
4 pm
Conclusion
open till 5 pm

>> To help us plan better, we would be grateful if you could make reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de, respectively by telephone under +49 (0) 551-44899

Veranstaltungsbild: Marjolijn Dijkman Earthing Discharge (crop out), courtesy the artist and NOME Berlin,
Photo and all rights by Marjolijn Dijkman, published without fee with the friendly agreement of the artist

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Brussels-based Dutch artist Marjolijn Dijkman concludes our exhibition series TERRA DIASPORA – AKTIVE TERRAINS in 2025 with unusually elaborate, spatially accessible arrangements. For example, a tonally animated forest area transfers the former front lines of Verdun with original trees and shrapnel into the exhibition rooms, artificially produced fulgurites of rare earths from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Belgium define silicon sand areas, and microorganisms multiply in glass-filled water samples from the Göttingen region in a room-filling metal framework.”
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THE EDITION OF THE SHOW

Marjolijn Dijkman
Earthing Discharge
Edition for the Kunstverein Göttingen, 2025

Edition size 12 + 5 AP, H 29.7 cm x W 42 cm (A 3), archival inkjet pigment print (Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG, velvety–matt, natural white, acid-free, 100% cellulose, 308 g/sqm

Courtesy of the artist
Price: €320 / €240 for members of KV Göttingen

The artificially generated ‘earthing discharge’ of hard coal creates unique structures of electrical sparks and transports viewers into a precisely captured world of formerly natural energy flows. However, it is precisely this combination that also symbolises two of the most important industrial revolutions: the comprehensive use of hard coal and electricity in production processes. These ‘releases’ of human resource exploitation and their effects on organically animated terrestrial zones are exemplary of the themes in Marjolijn Dijkman’s work and our 2025 annual programme.

> If you are interested, please contact us here: klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de

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VITA Marjolijn Dijkman

Marjolijn Dijkman (1978, NL) is an artist and co-founder of Enough Room for Space. She lives and works in Brussels (BE) and Lahaymeix (FR).
 
She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2001 and at the MFA Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2003, and was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht from 2006 to 2007.

She is currently part of the artistic research cluster Deep Histories Fragile Memories as a PhD student at the LUCA School of Arts Brussels / University of Leuven, supervised by Wendy Morris and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (2023-2027).

In 2005, she founded Enough Room for Space (ERforS) together with Maarten Vanden Eynde. Enough Room for Space is an interdependent art organisation that initiates experimental collaborative research projects. We tend to operate as freely as possible and to transcend the boundaries between disciplines (artistic, scientific or activist).

more nformation >>www.marjolijndijkman.com

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The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view 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 land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.

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We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen, Sparkasse Göttingen und Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. . We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to our essential supporters from the Netherlands: Mondriaan Fund and from Belgium: the Flanders Culture Fund.

The Grand Finissage
of

TERRA DIASPORA – Active Terrain N°2
“Collapse is not a destination, it is a process”

Julius von Bismarck, Julian Charrière, Marjolijn Dijkman, Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau,
Andreas Greiner, Robert Gschwantner, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Kapwani Kiwanga,
Almut Linde, Ulrike Mohr, Mazenett Quiroga, Marike Schuurman, Raul Walch

curated by Dr. Almut Hüfler and Stephan Klee

On the occasion of the final weekend of this exhibition, the Kunstverein Göttingen is particularly pleased to invite you to a closing event full of programme items and interesting guests – The Grand Finissage – on Sunday, 21 September 2025, on the first floor of the Old Town Hall in Göttingen. The entire programme will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on–site, with snacks and drinks served, and the current edition presented. Feel free to drop by whenever it suits you best and when you are most interested. We look forward to seeing you! – The team at Kunstverein Göttingen.

OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAMME

Sun 21 September, 11 am – 5 pm
The Grand Finissage
11 am
Guided tour of the exhibition with curator Stephan Klee

2 – 5 pm
Panel conversations on the topic
A real life in the wrong one?
An afternoon of talks on the benefits of the economy for the common good and the possibilities of culture in the climate crisis.

Part 1
2:00 – 3:15 pm
Book presentation
“Species extinction will continue, as will the melting of the polar ice caps, and the rainforests will continue to burn as long as nothing changes in our economic system. The pioneers of the economy for the common good are setting a positive direction for economic activity. Through their actions, they refute the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno and show that there is indeed a right way to live in a wrong world.”
Lawyer, cultural manager and author Sven Hartberger (Vienna) has been the spokesperson for the Economy for the Common Good Austria since 2021. He deals with the question of what needs to change in our economic system in order to halt the disastrous developments of climate change. In his trilogy Minotaurus (2019), Mallingers Abschied oder vom Sinn und Unsinn der Arbeit (2023) and Lasst Euch nicht täuschen! – Ein Brief an die letzte Generation, fundamental questions are posed and possible solutions discussed in literary form.
Moderator: Dr Almut Hüfler

Part 2
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Sustainability and the Economy for the Common Good in Göttingen
With:
Annabel Konermann, Coordinator of the Göttingen Regional Group of the Economy for the Common Good Germany;
Nils König, Scientists for Future, Climate Advisory Board of the City of Göttingen (Executive Board);
Michael Letmathe, Deutsches Theater Göttingen (Chief Dramaturg)
Co-moderator: Johanna Meyer

Part 3
4:00 pm
What opportunities and responsibilities do culture and art have in relation to the consequences of the climate crisis?
With:
Sven Hartberger, author;
Stephan Klee, curator of the Göttingen Art Association;
Nils König, KUNST e.V. (board member);
Michael Letmathe, Deutsches Theater Göttingen (chief dramaturge);
Annabel Konermann, coordinator of the Göttingen regional group of Gemeinwohl–Ökonomie Deutschland
Moderator: Dr Almut Hüfler

4:45 – 5:00 p.m.
Closing remarks and book signing with Sven Hartberger

Afterwards
from 5:15 p.m.
We cordially invite you to continue the conversation at the Künstlerhaus (Gotmarstraße 1) with snacks and drinks in an informal setting, to get to know each other better and to round off the evening.

Event image: Graphic by Stephan Klee, all rights reserved by the author and frontviews

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THE EDITION OF THE EXHIBITION

Spiros Hadjidjanos

Chemicals are Internal to Us, 2022–2025

Edition of 12 + 5 AP
,
29.7 cm x W 42 cm,
Archival inkjet pigment print (Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG,
velvety – matte, natural white, acid-free, 100% cellulose, 308 g/sqm

Courtesy of the artist
Price: €320 / €240 for members of KV Göttingen

Here, the artist presents a brilliantly surrealistic homage to the elemental semiconductor silicon, which is not only indispensable in many areas of the electronics industry, but also plays a key role as a natural substance in organic bodies, among other things, in holding tissue together. The motif thus humorously embodies our deep, material exchange with the terrestrial environment. By purchasing this edition, you are supporting the work of our association in a particularly sustainable and meaningful way.

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In the Old Town Hall in Göttingen, the central group exhibition Active Terrain No. 2 in the second year of TERRA DIASPORA features artists whose works deal with the discrepancy between the ecological crisis of our planet and people’s perception of it. Given the scale and often vast distance of human intervention and its protracted nature, the profound consequences are hardly taken seriously as an acute danger. The complexity of the processes undermines humanity’s evolutionary response to danger, so that necessary countermeasures are repeatedly ‘postponed’ in the face of acute emergencies such as wars, economic crises, etc. As a result, ecological collapse is already taking place without humanity responding adequately.

The groups of works in the exhibition make the complex of themes directly accessible in visual, haptic and cognitive terms using original material and images of processes taking place globally in real life. Under the thematic headings ‘Changes in the Forest’ and ‘Changes in the Soil,’ twelve well–known international individual positions and a duo from eight different countries and three continents are represented. The works on display include evidence of ‘counter-ecological’ developments from five continents.

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The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view 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 land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.

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We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsische Sparkassen Stiftung, Sparkasse Göttingen, Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen,  and Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V.

AKTIVES TERRAIN N°3

Mélodie Mousset and Ittah Yoda 
Dander the Symbiocene      

curated by Stephan Klee

Programme
Sat 26 Jul 5 pm
Vernissage
open till 8 pm

Sun 24 Aug / Sun 31 Aug
each at 3 pm
Sunday Tour with Joos Ziegler

Sat 06 Sep 3 – 6 pm
Finissage
presenting the Edition of the Exhibition
4 pm
guided “Walk and Talk” through the exhibition
with the curator Stephan Klee
5 pm
closure

In order to be able to plan better, we look forward to receiving your reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone on 0551-44899

Event picture: Graphic by Stephan Klee, source: Alamy, all rights reserved by KV Göttingen

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In summer 2025, artist Mélodie Mousset and art duo Virginie Ittah and Kai Yoda present a multimedia terrain on the first floor of the Künstlerhaus Göttingen that encloses the visitors and appeals to many senses, including touch and smell. The intertwining installations range from the origins of cave painting to virtually generated landscapes, played through VR glasses. One of the core works is the installation HanaHana by Swiss French artist Mélodie Mousset. This interactive virtual reality experience, which has been developed further over the years, offers guests the opportunity to walk through various virtual landscapes with the help of controllers, while actively shaping and generating them. The freedom, beauty and safety in HanaHana feels remarkable, and opens up a completely digitally generated alternative world, a material-free ‘safe space’ of a special kind.
HanaHana‘s simulation room will be embedded in a far-reaching exhibition design by the French-Japanese art duo Ittah Yoda. The two are working together to combine sculpture, painting and installation with technically advanced media such as LED screens, virtual reality and augmented reality. The two have coined the term ‘Symbiocene’ for these intertwined spaces between tangible materiality and digital vision, and they see their projects as utopian designs for a sustainable symbiosis of ecological cycles and technology.
Thematically, the exhibition offers an innovative examination of the visual culture of humans in Europe in their interaction with the surrounding landscape. As a source of inspiration, both positions share a fascination for the cave paintings of Lascoux and Chauvet and others, i.e. the first permanent images of the inhabitants of a region. These early testimonies can be understood as an act of self-assurance, as a permanent testimony to one’s own existence, as a visual archiving of fellow creatures or as cultic communication with the environment. These are all impulses that have always driven the creation of art. Inspired by these archaic testimonies of cultural self-empowerment, both Ittah Yoda and Mélodie Mousset explore in their works, among other things, the question: “How can the specificity of a territory be embodied today?” – “Or how can completely new imaginary terrains be created on the basis of our cultural history?” In their free, rather associative research, they largely detach themselves from real geographical conditions in comparison to other, more conceptual positions in the annual programme TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS. They negotiate concepts such as “landscape”, “place” and “production” more in dialogue with the anthropological and cultural appropriation of this theme by people in the course of cultural history. It is therefore more about the ideas of landscape than about current, actual geographical upheavals in the culmination of the Anthropocene. This exhibition thus not only adds important aspects to the annual programme, but also builds a bridge to the fantastic and surrealist tendencies of the 2024 TERRA DIASPORRA – WELTEN WANDELN annual programme.
In addition to our reliable supporting institutions, this time the additional support from the Lower Saxony Foundation and the Institut Français in particular enables the Kunstverein team to tackle and realise this exhibition concept at the cutting edge of technology and art in Göttingen.

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THE EDITION OF THE EXHIBITION

Mélodie Mousset
HanaHana, 2017–2025
The printed edition for the Kunstverein Göttingen

Edition of 12 + 5 AP
H 29.7 cm x W 42 cm,
Archival inkjet pigment print (Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG,
velvety – matte, natural white, acid-free, 100% cellulose, 308 g/sqm

The interactive virtual reality experience HanaHana, developed over many years by Swiss-French Artist Mélodie Mousset, offers visitors the opportunity to wander through various virtual landscapes with the help of controllers, while continuously reshaping these landscapes in a generative manner. The freedom, beauty, and safety in HanaHana feel remarkable and open up a completely digitally generated alternative world, a material-free “safe space” of a special kind. It is a great honor for us that Mélodie Mousset has now generated the first physically tangible work from the HanaHana universe as an edition print exclusively for the Kunstverein Göttingen. By purchasing this work, you are helping the Kunstverein to continue presenting such experimental works to the public.

> If you are interested, please contact us here: klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de

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VITA Mélodie Mousset
Mélodie Mousset (*1981, Abu Dhabi) is a French artist who lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Mousset’s works oscillate between virtual and physical worlds, focusing on the physicality of the human body and the potential virtuality of the mind. Mousset works with numerous media for her investigations around the body, including installation, performance, sculpture, photography, video and virtual reality.
 Her work draws on personal biography to create playful and surreal narratives that explore the interactions between the self and technology. Her works are often intended to challenge the senses; elements are juxtaposed and transformed to create uncanny and whimsical assemblages in which the body becomes a site of physical and mental exchange with technology.

The artist studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, the ECAL (Lausanne) and the Royal College of Arts (London) and completed her training in 2011 with a Master of Fine Arts at CalArts (California Institute of the Arts).

Her projects have been exhibited in galleries and institutions worldwide since 2010, including the MOCA (Museum Of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles), the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, the MAC (Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon), The Metropolitan Art Society (Beirut) and the SALTS (Basel).
 In 2015, she was the winner of the Swiss Art Award. Her most recent work HanaHana, which was shown at the Zabludowicz Collection (London) in 2018, received seven awards, including the prize for the best artistic virtual reality experience at the VR Festival (Beijing), the prize for the best artistic achievement at the VR Days Festival 2017 and most recently the Visions Prize at the VR Arles Festival 2019. The artist’s most recent solo exhibitions included Intra-Aura at Last Tango (Zurich) in 2018. HanaHana was shown at Galerie V Glavnom (Tomsk, Russia) in 2018 and at Galerie Roehrs & Boetsch (Zurich) in 2019. She will soon be exhibiting at Swissnex (San Francisco).

more information >> https://fabbula.com/artists/hanahana-by-melodie-mousset/

VITA Ittah Yoda
The duo Ittah Yoda, consisting of Virgile Ittah and Kai Yoda, was formed after they met at the Royal College of London, where one was studying sculpture and the other photography and animation. From the beginning, they were fascinated by the natural and digital worlds and began working on the idea of a post-anthropocene world in which these two elements coexist harmoniously, what they call the ‘symbiosis’. While virtual reality occupies a central place in their work and serves as a matrix and maturation process, all the forms that later materialise in painting, sculpture and installation represent an ecosystem of their own, inspired by organic forms and materials and developed in collaboration with numerous artisans. Each of Ittah Yoda’s projects represents a step towards the realisation of this ideal symbiotic ecosystem, in which the media used and the objects created embody and transmit ‘genetic-artistic’ information from their environment. Although they are orientated towards an idea of the future, their work is rooted in art history, drawing in particular on references such as cave paintings and pigment painting techniques.

Recent exhibitions include Bally Foundation, Lugano (CH), ROH Projects, Jakarta (ID), Collection Lambert, Avignon (FR), CIAPV, Vassiviere (FR), Paris + by Art Basel, Paris (FR), the Armory Show, New York (US), the Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (FR), Poush Manifesto, Paris (FR), the Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau, Les Lilas (FR), the Musée des Beaux Arts d’Angers (FR), Hagiwara Projects, Tokyo (JP), Sprout Curation, Tokyo (JP), Cité International des Arts, Paris (FR), Frieze N°9 Cork Street, London (UK), ARCO Madrid, Madrid (ES), etc.

more information >> https://ittahyoda.com/

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The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view 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 land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.

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We would like to thank our sponsors:: , Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Siftung Niedersachsen, Stadt Göttingen, Sparkasse Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. und Institut Français

TERRA DIASPORA – Actives Terrain N°2
“Collapse is not a destination, it is a process”

Julius von Bismarck, Julian Charrière, Marjolijn Dijkman, Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau,
Andreas Greiner, Robert Gschwantner, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Kapwani Kiwanga,
Almut Linde, Ulrike Mohr, Mazenett Quiroga, Marike Schuurman, Raul Walch

curated by Dr. Almut Hüfler and Stephan Klee

PROGRAMME

Fri 13 Jun 5 – 8 pm
Vernissage – Opening Reception with
– 5 pm: Welcome speeches
– 5 pm: Release of the new Edition by Spiros Hadjidjanos

Sat 14 Jun 3 – 10 pm
Pro City Nacht der Kultur
– 3 pm: Guided tour with the curators
– 5 pm: Talk with Dr. Almut Hüfler,
Prof. Dr. Almut Linde and Dr. Didem Aydurmus

Sun 22 Jun / Sun 06 Jul /
Sun 20 Jul / Sun 03 Aug
each at 3 pm
Sunday tour with Joos Ziegler

Sun 21 Sep 3 – 5 pm
Finissage – Closure
– 3 pm Panel Talk

Sun 21 September, 11 am – 5 pm
The Grand Finissage
11 am
Guided tour of the exhibition with curator Stephan Klee
2 – 5 pm
A three-part panel discussion on the theme of the exhibition
2 pm
Dr. Almut Hülfler (co-curator) in dialogue with the author Sven Hartberger
3 pm
Johana Meyer (Kunstverein Göttingen) presents active protagonists and developments in Göttingen
4 pm
Dr Almut Hüfler moderates the open closing discussion:
‘What can culture offer in times of ecological collapse?’
with Nils König (Kunst e.V. Göttingen) and Stephan Klee (artistic director, Kunstverein Göttingen)

Snacks and drinks will be provided during the breaks. Relevant books on the topic – including works by Sven Hartberger – will be available for purchase. The exhibition editions will be on display, and we look forward to seeing you there and hearing your contributions to the discussion.

To enable us to plan better, we would be delighted to receive your reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone on 0551-44899

Event image: Graphic by Stephan Klee, all rights reserved by the author and frontviews

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In the second year of TERRA DIASPORA, the central group exhibition Active Terrain N°2 brings together thirteen artistic positions in Göttingen’s Old Town Hall. The works on display, executed in various media such as sculpture, photography, drawing and video, all deal with the discrepancy between the ecological crisis of our planet and how people perceive it. In view of the magnitude and often great distance of human intervention and its consequences over a long period of time, this crisis can be recognised as an acute danger: This is because the complexity of these processes undermines the evolutionarily determined human response options to dangers, so that necessary countermeasures are repeatedly ‘postponed’ in the face of acute emergency situations such as wars, economic crises, etc. As a result, ecological collapse is already taking place without humanity being able to respond adequately. Or as Ugo Bardi, member of the Club of Rome, put it in 2022: ‘Collapse is not a destination, it is a process “*
The exhibition picks up on this phenomenon with a walk-in field of exhibition installations and makes these developments directly tangible – using the example of the two thematic areas ‘Processes in the forest’ and ‘Processes in the soil’. This is essentially made possible by the close connection of the works to real transformation processes from many globally distributed terrains: not only are the relevant places and their changes shown visually and acoustically, but often the affected, original material itself is also used artistically in real in the gallery space, so that the works shown can offer a material translation of external geological-industrial processes.
Like the mineral trickling of an hourglass, the artistic settings make a dilemma of the capitalist growth paradigm and the implications of our lifestyle directly and sensually comprehensible: That the long-term effects of short-term profitable productions are already going on tirelessly underground, but are not adequately incorporated into the planning and actions of the economy. The collected works as a whole become a polyphonic canon of consumption with a real core and the exhibition unfolds as an activated cabinet of curiosities of the urgent ecological upheavals of modern times in a fortified merchant guild house from the High Middle Ages.

*Quote: Ugo Bardi in ‘Limits and Beyond: 50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next?’, 2022

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THE EDITION OF THE EXHIBITION

Spiros Hadjidjanos

Chemicals are Internal to Us, 2022–2025

Edition of 12 + 5 AP
,
29.7 cm x W 42 cm,
Archival inkjet pigment print (Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG,
velvety – matte, natural white, acid-free, 100% cellulose, 308 g/sqm

Courtesy of the artist
Price: €320 / €240 for members of KV Göttingen

Here, the artist presents a brilliantly surrealistic homage to the elemental semiconductor silicon, which
is not only indispensable in many areas of the electronics industry, but also plays a key role as a natural substance in organic bodies, among other things, in holding tissue together. The motif thus humorously embodies our deep, material exchange with the terrestrial environment. By purchasing this edition, you are supporting the work of our association in a particularly sustainable and meaningful way.

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The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view 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 land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.

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We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsische Sparkassen Stiftung, Sparkasse Göttingen, Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen,  and Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V.

AKTIVES TERRAIN N°3

Mélodie Mousset and Ittah Yoda 
Dander the Symbiocene      

curated by Stephan Klee

Programme
Sat 26 Jul 5 pm
Vernissage
open till 8 pm

Sun 24 Aug / Sun 31 Aug
each at 3 pm
Sunday Tour with Joos Ziegler

Sat 06 Sep 3 – 6 pm
Finissage
presenting the Edition of the Exhibition
4 pm
guided “Walk and Talk” through the exhibition
with the curator Stephan Klee
5 pm
closure

In order to be able to plan better, we look forward to receiving your reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone on 0551-44899

Event picture: Graphic by Stephan Klee, source: Alamy, all rights reserved by KV Göttingen

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In summer 2025, artist Mélodie Mousset and art duo Virginie Ittah and Kai Yoda present a multimedia terrain on the first floor of the Künstlerhaus Göttingen that encloses the visitors and appeals to many senses, including touch and smell. The intertwining installations range from the origins of cave painting to virtually generated landscapes, played through VR glasses. One of the core works is the installation HanaHana by Swiss French artist Mélodie Mousset. This interactive virtual reality experience, which has been developed further over the years, offers guests the opportunity to walk through various virtual landscapes with the help of controllers, while actively shaping and generating them. The freedom, beauty and safety in HanaHana feels remarkable, and opens up a completely digitally generated alternative world, a material-free ‘safe space’ of a special kind.
HanaHana‘s simulation room will be embedded in a far-reaching exhibition design by the French-Japanese art duo Ittah Yoda. The two are working together to combine sculpture, painting and installation with technically advanced media such as LED screens, virtual reality and augmented reality. The two have coined the term ‘Symbiocene’ for these intertwined spaces between tangible materiality and digital vision, and they see their projects as utopian designs for a sustainable symbiosis of ecological cycles and technology.
Thematically, the exhibition offers an innovative examination of the visual culture of humans in Europe in their interaction with the surrounding landscape. As a source of inspiration, both positions share a fascination for the cave paintings of Lascoux and Chauvet and others, i.e. the first permanent images of the inhabitants of a region. These early testimonies can be understood as an act of self-assurance, as a permanent testimony to one’s own existence, as a visual archiving of fellow creatures or as cultic communication with the environment. These are all impulses that have always driven the creation of art. Inspired by these archaic testimonies of cultural self-empowerment, both Ittah Yoda and Mélodie Mousset explore in their works, among other things, the question: “How can the specificity of a territory be embodied today?” – “Or how can completely new imaginary terrains be created on the basis of our cultural history?” In their free, rather associative research, they largely detach themselves from real geographical conditions in comparison to other, more conceptual positions in the annual programme TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS. They negotiate concepts such as “landscape”, “place” and “production” more in dialogue with the anthropological and cultural appropriation of this theme by people in the course of cultural history. It is therefore more about the ideas of landscape than about current, actual geographical upheavals in the culmination of the Anthropocene. This exhibition thus not only adds important aspects to the annual programme, but also builds a bridge to the fantastic and surrealist tendencies of the 2024 TERRA DIASPORRA – WELTEN WANDELN annual programme.
In addition to our reliable supporting institutions, this time the additional support from the Lower Saxony Foundation and the Institut Français in particular enables the Kunstverein team to tackle and realise this exhibition concept at the cutting edge of technology and art in Göttingen.

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THE EDITION OF THE EXHIBITION

Mélodie Mousset
HanaHana, 2017–2025
The printed edition for the Kunstverein Göttingen

Edition of 12 + 5 AP
H 29.7 cm x W 42 cm,
Archival inkjet pigment print (Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG,
velvety – matte, natural white, acid-free, 100% cellulose, 308 g/sqm

The interactive virtual reality experience HanaHana, developed over many years by Swiss-French Artist Mélodie Mousset, offers visitors the opportunity to wander through various virtual landscapes with the help of controllers, while continuously reshaping these landscapes in a generative manner. The freedom, beauty, and safety in HanaHana feel remarkable and open up a completely digitally generated alternative world, a material-free “safe space” of a special kind. It is a great honor for us that Mélodie Mousset has now generated the first physically tangible work from the HanaHana universe as an edition print exclusively for the Kunstverein Göttingen. By purchasing this work, you are helping the Kunstverein to continue presenting such experimental works to the public.

> If you are interested, please contact us here: klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de

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VITA Mélodie Mousset
Mélodie Mousset (*1981, Abu Dhabi) is a French artist who lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Mousset’s works oscillate between virtual and physical worlds, focusing on the physicality of the human body and the potential virtuality of the mind. Mousset works with numerous media for her investigations around the body, including installation, performance, sculpture, photography, video and virtual reality.
 Her work draws on personal biography to create playful and surreal narratives that explore the interactions between the self and technology. Her works are often intended to challenge the senses; elements are juxtaposed and transformed to create uncanny and whimsical assemblages in which the body becomes a site of physical and mental exchange with technology.

The artist studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, the ECAL (Lausanne) and the Royal College of Arts (London) and completed her training in 2011 with a Master of Fine Arts at CalArts (California Institute of the Arts).

Her projects have been exhibited in galleries and institutions worldwide since 2010, including the MOCA (Museum Of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles), the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, the MAC (Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon), The Metropolitan Art Society (Beirut) and the SALTS (Basel).
 In 2015, she was the winner of the Swiss Art Award. Her most recent work HanaHana, which was shown at the Zabludowicz Collection (London) in 2018, received seven awards, including the prize for the best artistic virtual reality experience at the VR Festival (Beijing), the prize for the best artistic achievement at the VR Days Festival 2017 and most recently the Visions Prize at the VR Arles Festival 2019. The artist’s most recent solo exhibitions included Intra-Aura at Last Tango (Zurich) in 2018. HanaHana was shown at Galerie V Glavnom (Tomsk, Russia) in 2018 and at Galerie Roehrs & Boetsch (Zurich) in 2019. She will soon be exhibiting at Swissnex (San Francisco).

more information >> https://fabbula.com/artists/hanahana-by-melodie-mousset/

VITA Ittah Yoda
The duo Ittah Yoda, consisting of Virgile Ittah and Kai Yoda, was formed after they met at the Royal College of London, where one was studying sculpture and the other photography and animation. From the beginning, they were fascinated by the natural and digital worlds and began working on the idea of a post-anthropocene world in which these two elements coexist harmoniously, what they call the ‘symbiosis’. While virtual reality occupies a central place in their work and serves as a matrix and maturation process, all the forms that later materialise in painting, sculpture and installation represent an ecosystem of their own, inspired by organic forms and materials and developed in collaboration with numerous artisans. Each of Ittah Yoda’s projects represents a step towards the realisation of this ideal symbiotic ecosystem, in which the media used and the objects created embody and transmit ‘genetic-artistic’ information from their environment. Although they are orientated towards an idea of the future, their work is rooted in art history, drawing in particular on references such as cave paintings and pigment painting techniques.

Recent exhibitions include Bally Foundation, Lugano (CH), ROH Projects, Jakarta (ID), Collection Lambert, Avignon (FR), CIAPV, Vassiviere (FR), Paris + by Art Basel, Paris (FR), the Armory Show, New York (US), the Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (FR), Poush Manifesto, Paris (FR), the Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau, Les Lilas (FR), the Musée des Beaux Arts d’Angers (FR), Hagiwara Projects, Tokyo (JP), Sprout Curation, Tokyo (JP), Cité International des Arts, Paris (FR), Frieze N°9 Cork Street, London (UK), ARCO Madrid, Madrid (ES), etc.

more information >> https://ittahyoda.com/

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The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view 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 land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.

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We would like to thank our sponsors:: , Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Siftung Niedersachsen, Stadt Göttingen, Sparkasse Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. und Institut Français

TERRA DIASPORA – Actives Terrain N°2
“Collapse is not a destination, it is a process”

Julius von Bismarck, Julian Charrière, Marjolijn Dijkman, Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau,
Andreas Greiner, Robert Gschwantner, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Kapwani Kiwanga,
Almut Linde, Ulrike Mohr, Mazenett Quiroga, Marike Schuurman, Raul Walch

curated by Dr. Almut Hüfler and Stephan Klee

PROGRAMME

Fri 13 Jun 5 – 8 pm
Vernissage – Opening Reception with
– 5 pm: Welcome speeches
– 5 pm: Release of the new Edition by Spiros Hadjidjanos

Sat 14 Jun 3 – 10 pm
Pro City Nacht der Kultur
– 3 pm: Guided tour with the curators
– 5 pm: Talk with Dr. Almut Hüfler,
Prof. Dr. Almut Linde and Dr. Didem Aydurmus

Sun 22 Jun / Sun 06 Jul /
Sun 20 Jul / Sun 03 Aug
each at 3 pm
Sunday tour with Joos Ziegler

Sun 21 Sep 3 – 5 pm
Finissage – Closure
– 3 pm Panel Talk

Sun 21 September, 11 am – 5 pm
The Grand Finissage
11 am
Guided tour of the exhibition with curator Stephan Klee
2 – 5 pm
A three-part panel discussion on the theme of the exhibition
2 pm
Dr. Almut Hülfler (co-curator) in dialogue with the author Sven Hartberger
3 pm
Johana Meyer (Kunstverein Göttingen) presents active protagonists and developments in Göttingen
4 pm
Dr Almut Hüfler moderates the open closing discussion:
‘What can culture offer in times of ecological collapse?’
with Nils König (Kunst e.V. Göttingen) and Stephan Klee (artistic director, Kunstverein Göttingen)

Snacks and drinks will be provided during the breaks. Relevant books on the topic – including works by Sven Hartberger – will be available for purchase. The exhibition editions will be on display, and we look forward to seeing you there and hearing your contributions to the discussion.

To enable us to plan better, we would be delighted to receive your reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone on 0551-44899

Event image: Graphic by Stephan Klee, all rights reserved by the author and frontviews

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In the second year of TERRA DIASPORA, the central group exhibition Active Terrain N°2 brings together thirteen artistic positions in Göttingen’s Old Town Hall. The works on display, executed in various media such as sculpture, photography, drawing and video, all deal with the discrepancy between the ecological crisis of our planet and how people perceive it. In view of the magnitude and often great distance of human intervention and its consequences over a long period of time, this crisis can be recognised as an acute danger: This is because the complexity of these processes undermines the evolutionarily determined human response options to dangers, so that necessary countermeasures are repeatedly ‘postponed’ in the face of acute emergency situations such as wars, economic crises, etc. As a result, ecological collapse is already taking place without humanity being able to respond adequately. Or as Ugo Bardi, member of the Club of Rome, put it in 2022: ‘Collapse is not a destination, it is a process “*
The exhibition picks up on this phenomenon with a walk-in field of exhibition installations and makes these developments directly tangible – using the example of the two thematic areas ‘Processes in the forest’ and ‘Processes in the soil’. This is essentially made possible by the close connection of the works to real transformation processes from many globally distributed terrains: not only are the relevant places and their changes shown visually and acoustically, but often the affected, original material itself is also used artistically in real in the gallery space, so that the works shown can offer a material translation of external geological-industrial processes.
Like the mineral trickling of an hourglass, the artistic settings make a dilemma of the capitalist growth paradigm and the implications of our lifestyle directly and sensually comprehensible: That the long-term effects of short-term profitable productions are already going on tirelessly underground, but are not adequately incorporated into the planning and actions of the economy. The collected works as a whole become a polyphonic canon of consumption with a real core and the exhibition unfolds as an activated cabinet of curiosities of the urgent ecological upheavals of modern times in a fortified merchant guild house from the High Middle Ages.

*Quote: Ugo Bardi in ‘Limits and Beyond: 50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next?’, 2022

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THE EDITION OF THE EXHIBITION

Spiros Hadjidjanos

Chemicals are Internal to Us, 2022–2025

Edition of 12 + 5 AP
,
29.7 cm x W 42 cm,
Archival inkjet pigment print (Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG,
velvety – matte, natural white, acid-free, 100% cellulose, 308 g/sqm

Courtesy of the artist
Price: €320 / €240 for members of KV Göttingen

Here, the artist presents a brilliantly surrealistic homage to the elemental semiconductor silicon, which
is not only indispensable in many areas of the electronics industry, but also plays a key role as a natural substance in organic bodies, among other things, in holding tissue together. The motif thus humorously embodies our deep, material exchange with the terrestrial environment. By purchasing this edition, you are supporting the work of our association in a particularly sustainable and meaningful way.

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The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view 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 land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.

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We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsische Sparkassen Stiftung, Sparkasse Göttingen, Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen,  and Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V.

AKTIVES TERRAIN N°3

Mélodie Mousset and Ittah Yoda 
Dander the Symbiocene      

curated by Stephan Klee

Programme
Sat 26 Jul 5 pm
Vernissage
open till 8 pm

Sun 24 Aug / Sun 31 Aug
each at 3 pm
Sunday Tour with Joos Ziegler

Sat 06 Sep 3 – 6 pm
Finissage
presenting the Edition of the Exhibition
4 pm
guided “Walk and Talk” through the exhibition
with the curator Stephan Klee
5 pm
closure

In order to be able to plan better, we look forward to receiving your reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone on 0551-44899

Event picture: Graphic by Stephan Klee, source: Alamy, all rights reserved by KV Göttingen

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In summer 2025, artist Mélodie Mousset and art duo Virginie Ittah and Kai Yoda present a multimedia terrain on the first floor of the Künstlerhaus Göttingen that encloses the visitors and appeals to many senses, including touch and smell. The intertwining installations range from the origins of cave painting to virtually generated landscapes, played through VR glasses. One of the core works is the installation HanaHana by Swiss French artist Mélodie Mousset. This interactive virtual reality experience, which has been developed further over the years, offers guests the opportunity to walk through various virtual landscapes with the help of controllers, while actively shaping and generating them. The freedom, beauty and safety in HanaHana feels remarkable, and opens up a completely digitally generated alternative world, a material-free ‘safe space’ of a special kind.
HanaHana‘s simulation room will be embedded in a far-reaching exhibition design by the French-Japanese art duo Ittah Yoda. The two are working together to combine sculpture, painting and installation with technically advanced media such as LED screens, virtual reality and augmented reality. The two have coined the term ‘Symbiocene’ for these intertwined spaces between tangible materiality and digital vision, and they see their projects as utopian designs for a sustainable symbiosis of ecological cycles and technology.
Thematically, the exhibition offers an innovative examination of the visual culture of humans in Europe in their interaction with the surrounding landscape. As a source of inspiration, both positions share a fascination for the cave paintings of Lascoux and Chauvet and others, i.e. the first permanent images of the inhabitants of a region. These early testimonies can be understood as an act of self-assurance, as a permanent testimony to one’s own existence, as a visual archiving of fellow creatures or as cultic communication with the environment. These are all impulses that have always driven the creation of art. Inspired by these archaic testimonies of cultural self-empowerment, both Ittah Yoda and Mélodie Mousset explore in their works, among other things, the question: “How can the specificity of a territory be embodied today?” – “Or how can completely new imaginary terrains be created on the basis of our cultural history?” In their free, rather associative research, they largely detach themselves from real geographical conditions in comparison to other, more conceptual positions in the annual programme TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS. They negotiate concepts such as “landscape”, “place” and “production” more in dialogue with the anthropological and cultural appropriation of this theme by people in the course of cultural history. It is therefore more about the ideas of landscape than about current, actual geographical upheavals in the culmination of the Anthropocene. This exhibition thus not only adds important aspects to the annual programme, but also builds a bridge to the fantastic and surrealist tendencies of the 2024 TERRA DIASPORRA – WELTEN WANDELN annual programme.
In addition to our reliable supporting institutions, this time the additional support from the Lower Saxony Foundation and the Institut Français in particular enables the Kunstverein team to tackle and realise this exhibition concept at the cutting edge of technology and art in Göttingen.

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THE EDITION OF THE EXHIBITION

Mélodie Mousset
HanaHana, 2017–2025
The printed edition for the Kunstverein Göttingen

Edition of 12 + 5 AP
H 29.7 cm x W 42 cm,
Archival inkjet pigment print (Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG,
velvety – matte, natural white, acid-free, 100% cellulose, 308 g/sqm

The interactive virtual reality experience HanaHana, developed over many years by Swiss-French Artist Mélodie Mousset, offers visitors the opportunity to wander through various virtual landscapes with the help of controllers, while continuously reshaping these landscapes in a generative manner. The freedom, beauty, and safety in HanaHana feel remarkable and open up a completely digitally generated alternative world, a material-free “safe space” of a special kind. It is a great honor for us that Mélodie Mousset has now generated the first physically tangible work from the HanaHana universe as an edition print exclusively for the Kunstverein Göttingen. By purchasing this work, you are helping the Kunstverein to continue presenting such experimental works to the public.

> If you are interested, please contact us here: klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de

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VITA Mélodie Mousset
Mélodie Mousset (*1981, Abu Dhabi) is a French artist who lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Mousset’s works oscillate between virtual and physical worlds, focusing on the physicality of the human body and the potential virtuality of the mind. Mousset works with numerous media for her investigations around the body, including installation, performance, sculpture, photography, video and virtual reality.
 Her work draws on personal biography to create playful and surreal narratives that explore the interactions between the self and technology. Her works are often intended to challenge the senses; elements are juxtaposed and transformed to create uncanny and whimsical assemblages in which the body becomes a site of physical and mental exchange with technology.

The artist studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, the ECAL (Lausanne) and the Royal College of Arts (London) and completed her training in 2011 with a Master of Fine Arts at CalArts (California Institute of the Arts).

Her projects have been exhibited in galleries and institutions worldwide since 2010, including the MOCA (Museum Of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles), the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, the MAC (Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon), The Metropolitan Art Society (Beirut) and the SALTS (Basel).
 In 2015, she was the winner of the Swiss Art Award. Her most recent work HanaHana, which was shown at the Zabludowicz Collection (London) in 2018, received seven awards, including the prize for the best artistic virtual reality experience at the VR Festival (Beijing), the prize for the best artistic achievement at the VR Days Festival 2017 and most recently the Visions Prize at the VR Arles Festival 2019. The artist’s most recent solo exhibitions included Intra-Aura at Last Tango (Zurich) in 2018. HanaHana was shown at Galerie V Glavnom (Tomsk, Russia) in 2018 and at Galerie Roehrs & Boetsch (Zurich) in 2019. She will soon be exhibiting at Swissnex (San Francisco).

more information >> https://fabbula.com/artists/hanahana-by-melodie-mousset/

VITA Ittah Yoda
The duo Ittah Yoda, consisting of Virgile Ittah and Kai Yoda, was formed after they met at the Royal College of London, where one was studying sculpture and the other photography and animation. From the beginning, they were fascinated by the natural and digital worlds and began working on the idea of a post-anthropocene world in which these two elements coexist harmoniously, what they call the ‘symbiosis’. While virtual reality occupies a central place in their work and serves as a matrix and maturation process, all the forms that later materialise in painting, sculpture and installation represent an ecosystem of their own, inspired by organic forms and materials and developed in collaboration with numerous artisans. Each of Ittah Yoda’s projects represents a step towards the realisation of this ideal symbiotic ecosystem, in which the media used and the objects created embody and transmit ‘genetic-artistic’ information from their environment. Although they are orientated towards an idea of the future, their work is rooted in art history, drawing in particular on references such as cave paintings and pigment painting techniques.

Recent exhibitions include Bally Foundation, Lugano (CH), ROH Projects, Jakarta (ID), Collection Lambert, Avignon (FR), CIAPV, Vassiviere (FR), Paris + by Art Basel, Paris (FR), the Armory Show, New York (US), the Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (FR), Poush Manifesto, Paris (FR), the Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau, Les Lilas (FR), the Musée des Beaux Arts d’Angers (FR), Hagiwara Projects, Tokyo (JP), Sprout Curation, Tokyo (JP), Cité International des Arts, Paris (FR), Frieze N°9 Cork Street, London (UK), ARCO Madrid, Madrid (ES), etc.

more information >> https://ittahyoda.com/

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The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view 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 land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.

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We would like to thank our sponsors:: , Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Siftung Niedersachsen, Stadt Göttingen, Sparkasse Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. und Institut Français

TERRA DIASPORA – Actives Terrain N°2
“Collapse is not a destination, it is a process”

Julius von Bismarck, Julian Charrière, Marjolijn Dijkman, Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau,
Andreas Greiner, Robert Gschwantner, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Kapwani Kiwanga,
Almut Linde, Ulrike Mohr, Mazenett Quiroga, Marike Schuurman, Raul Walch

curated by Dr. Almut Hüfler and Stephan Klee

PROGRAMME

Fri 13 Jun 5 – 8 pm
Vernissage – Opening Reception with
– 5 pm: Welcome speeches
– 5 pm: Release of the new Edition by Spiros Hadjidjanos

Sat 14 Jun 3 – 10 pm
Pro City Nacht der Kultur
– 3 pm: Guided tour with the curators
– 5 pm: Talk with Dr. Almut Hüfler,
Prof. Dr. Almut Linde and Dr. Didem Aydurmus

Sun 22 Jun / Sun 06 Jul /
Sun 20 Jul / Sun 03 Aug
each at 3 pm
Sunday tour with Joos Ziegler

Sun 21 Sep 3 – 5 pm
Finissage – Closure
– 3 pm Panel Talk

Sun 21 September, 11 am – 5 pm
The Grand Finissage
11 am
Guided tour of the exhibition with curator Stephan Klee
2 – 5 pm
A three-part panel discussion on the theme of the exhibition
2 pm
Dr. Almut Hülfler (co-curator) in dialogue with the author Sven Hartberger
3 pm
Johana Meyer (Kunstverein Göttingen) presents active protagonists and developments in Göttingen
4 pm
Dr Almut Hüfler moderates the open closing discussion:
‘What can culture offer in times of ecological collapse?’
with Nils König (Kunst e.V. Göttingen) and Stephan Klee (artistic director, Kunstverein Göttingen)

Snacks and drinks will be provided during the breaks. Relevant books on the topic – including works by Sven Hartberger – will be available for purchase. The exhibition editions will be on display, and we look forward to seeing you there and hearing your contributions to the discussion.

To enable us to plan better, we would be delighted to receive your reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone on 0551-44899

Event image: Graphic by Stephan Klee, all rights reserved by the author and frontviews

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In the second year of TERRA DIASPORA, the central group exhibition Active Terrain N°2 brings together thirteen artistic positions in Göttingen’s Old Town Hall. The works on display, executed in various media such as sculpture, photography, drawing and video, all deal with the discrepancy between the ecological crisis of our planet and how people perceive it. In view of the magnitude and often great distance of human intervention and its consequences over a long period of time, this crisis can be recognised as an acute danger: This is because the complexity of these processes undermines the evolutionarily determined human response options to dangers, so that necessary countermeasures are repeatedly ‘postponed’ in the face of acute emergency situations such as wars, economic crises, etc. As a result, ecological collapse is already taking place without humanity being able to respond adequately. Or as Ugo Bardi, member of the Club of Rome, put it in 2022: ‘Collapse is not a destination, it is a process “*
The exhibition picks up on this phenomenon with a walk-in field of exhibition installations and makes these developments directly tangible – using the example of the two thematic areas ‘Processes in the forest’ and ‘Processes in the soil’. This is essentially made possible by the close connection of the works to real transformation processes from many globally distributed terrains: not only are the relevant places and their changes shown visually and acoustically, but often the affected, original material itself is also used artistically in real in the gallery space, so that the works shown can offer a material translation of external geological-industrial processes.
Like the mineral trickling of an hourglass, the artistic settings make a dilemma of the capitalist growth paradigm and the implications of our lifestyle directly and sensually comprehensible: That the long-term effects of short-term profitable productions are already going on tirelessly underground, but are not adequately incorporated into the planning and actions of the economy. The collected works as a whole become a polyphonic canon of consumption with a real core and the exhibition unfolds as an activated cabinet of curiosities of the urgent ecological upheavals of modern times in a fortified merchant guild house from the High Middle Ages.

*Quote: Ugo Bardi in ‘Limits and Beyond: 50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next?’, 2022

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THE EDITION OF THE EXHIBITION

Spiros Hadjidjanos

Chemicals are Internal to Us, 2022–2025

Edition of 12 + 5 AP
,
29.7 cm x W 42 cm,
Archival inkjet pigment print (Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG,
velvety – matte, natural white, acid-free, 100% cellulose, 308 g/sqm

Courtesy of the artist
Price: €320 / €240 for members of KV Göttingen

Here, the artist presents a brilliantly surrealistic homage to the elemental semiconductor silicon, which
is not only indispensable in many areas of the electronics industry, but also plays a key role as a natural substance in organic bodies, among other things, in holding tissue together. The motif thus humorously embodies our deep, material exchange with the terrestrial environment. By purchasing this edition, you are supporting the work of our association in a particularly sustainable and meaningful way.

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The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view 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 land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.

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We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsische Sparkassen Stiftung, Sparkasse Göttingen, Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen,  and Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V.

TERRA DIASPORA – Actives Terrain N°2
“Collapse is not a destination, it is a process”

Julius von Bismarck, Julian Charrière, Marjolijn Dijkman, Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau,
Andreas Greiner, Robert Gschwantner, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Kapwani Kiwanga,
Almut Linde, Ulrike Mohr, Mazenett Quiroga, Marike Schuurman, Raul Walch

curated by Dr. Almut Hüfler and Stephan Klee

PROGRAMME

Fri 13 Jun 5 – 8 pm
Vernissage – Opening Reception with
– 5 pm: Welcome speeches
– 5 pm: Release of the new Edition by Spiros Hadjidjanos

Sat 14 Jun 3 – 10 pm
Pro City Nacht der Kultur
– 3 pm: Guided tour with the curators
– 5 pm: Talk with Dr. Almut Hüfler,
Prof. Dr. Almut Linde and Dr. Didem Aydurmus

Sun 22 Jun / Sun 06 Jul /
Sun 20 Jul / Sun 03 Aug
each at 3 pm
Sunday tour with Joos Ziegler

Sun 21 Sep 3 – 5 pm
Finissage – Closure
– 3 pm Panel Talk

Sun 21 September, 11 am – 5 pm
The Grand Finissage
11 am
Guided tour of the exhibition with curator Stephan Klee
2 – 5 pm
A three-part panel discussion on the theme of the exhibition
2 pm
Dr. Almut Hülfler (co-curator) in dialogue with the author Sven Hartberger
3 pm
Johana Meyer (Kunstverein Göttingen) presents active protagonists and developments in Göttingen
4 pm
Dr Almut Hüfler moderates the open closing discussion:
‘What can culture offer in times of ecological collapse?’
with Nils König (Kunst e.V. Göttingen) and Stephan Klee (artistic director, Kunstverein Göttingen)

Snacks and drinks will be provided during the breaks. Relevant books on the topic – including works by Sven Hartberger – will be available for purchase. The exhibition editions will be on display, and we look forward to seeing you there and hearing your contributions to the discussion.

To enable us to plan better, we would be delighted to receive your reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone on 0551-44899

Event image: Graphic by Stephan Klee, all rights reserved by the author and frontviews

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In the second year of TERRA DIASPORA, the central group exhibition Active Terrain N°2 brings together thirteen artistic positions in Göttingen’s Old Town Hall. The works on display, executed in various media such as sculpture, photography, drawing and video, all deal with the discrepancy between the ecological crisis of our planet and how people perceive it. In view of the magnitude and often great distance of human intervention and its consequences over a long period of time, this crisis can be recognised as an acute danger: This is because the complexity of these processes undermines the evolutionarily determined human response options to dangers, so that necessary countermeasures are repeatedly ‘postponed’ in the face of acute emergency situations such as wars, economic crises, etc. As a result, ecological collapse is already taking place without humanity being able to respond adequately. Or as Ugo Bardi, member of the Club of Rome, put it in 2022: ‘Collapse is not a destination, it is a process “*
The exhibition picks up on this phenomenon with a walk-in field of exhibition installations and makes these developments directly tangible – using the example of the two thematic areas ‘Processes in the forest’ and ‘Processes in the soil’. This is essentially made possible by the close connection of the works to real transformation processes from many globally distributed terrains: not only are the relevant places and their changes shown visually and acoustically, but often the affected, original material itself is also used artistically in real in the gallery space, so that the works shown can offer a material translation of external geological-industrial processes.
Like the mineral trickling of an hourglass, the artistic settings make a dilemma of the capitalist growth paradigm and the implications of our lifestyle directly and sensually comprehensible: That the long-term effects of short-term profitable productions are already going on tirelessly underground, but are not adequately incorporated into the planning and actions of the economy. The collected works as a whole become a polyphonic canon of consumption with a real core and the exhibition unfolds as an activated cabinet of curiosities of the urgent ecological upheavals of modern times in a fortified merchant guild house from the High Middle Ages.

*Quote: Ugo Bardi in ‘Limits and Beyond: 50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next?’, 2022

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THE EDITION OF THE EXHIBITION

Spiros Hadjidjanos

Chemicals are Internal to Us, 2022–2025

Edition of 12 + 5 AP
,
29.7 cm x W 42 cm,
Archival inkjet pigment print (Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG,
velvety – matte, natural white, acid-free, 100% cellulose, 308 g/sqm

Courtesy of the artist
Price: €320 / €240 for members of KV Göttingen

Here, the artist presents a brilliantly surrealistic homage to the elemental semiconductor silicon, which
is not only indispensable in many areas of the electronics industry, but also plays a key role as a natural substance in organic bodies, among other things, in holding tissue together. The motif thus humorously embodies our deep, material exchange with the terrestrial environment. By purchasing this edition, you are supporting the work of our association in a particularly sustainable and meaningful way.

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The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view 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 land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.

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We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsische Sparkassen Stiftung, Sparkasse Göttingen, Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen,  and Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V.

Finissage
Sunday,  23 February 2025 at 3 pm

ACTIVE TERRAIN N°1
Asef–Burckhardt
SHELTER–BONE
Love in Tough Times

To mark the joint conclusion of the first exhibition of the year, we cordially invite you to the finissage at the Künstlerhaus Göttingen on Sunday, 23 February 2025 at 3 pm. Right at the beginning, the creators of the exhibition, the art duo Asef-Burckhardt, together with the curator Stephan Klee, will host a final tour through the greatly altered rooms. This offers the opportunity to gain direct insights into the work and thoughts of the duo and to enter into further discussions with them and the curator. The exhibition edition can also be viewed again and purchased if you like it – an important support for the work of the Kunstverein.

Sun 23 Feb 2025, 3 – 5 pm
Finissage–Reception with
– 3 pm: Joint tour with artists and curator
– 4 pm: Closure

event image: Asef–Burckhardt SHELTER–BONE, 2023 – 2025, photo creditss: Asef–Burckhardt, VG Bildkunst

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The wooden residential and communal buildings of Sea Ranch in the north of San Francisco were developed and built in the 1960s by landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and his wife, choreographer Anna Halprin, together with other ecologic avant-garde thinkers; the buildings are integrated into the rugged cliffs of the Pacific in an exemplary manner. Since then, the settlement has continued to grow and still sets international standards for the interplay between architecture and nature – in other words, “protection” and “environment”.

The works on display in SHELTER-BONE, the current project by the art duo and couple Asef-Burckhardt, are based on extensive periods of research and work in the visionary settlement in Northern California and question, among other things, the current relevance of the original utopia of The Sea Ranch. Against the acute backdrop of the global environmental crisis, new anthropological questions such as “What must architecture connect today?” and “What must love achieve today?” are raised and artistically explored in close relation to this real topography. Consisting of combined, multimedia works, the project is currently being expanded and further developed to be shown in changing settings at international exhibition venues. The Kunstverein is very pleased to be able to show this complex of works in Göttingen under the leitmotif: “What does protection mean in our time?
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The annual programme 2025 of the Kunstverein Göttingen TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is developed by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists. The duo Asef-Burckhardt will kick off the fresh year with an all–encompassing, sensory–appealing exhibition consisting of several installations, which takes the viewer directly into the beach forests of California, characterised by the forces of nature.
Kirstin Burckhardt (* Durban, South Africa) is an artist and psychotherapist who uses visual and performative means to explore the interactions and emotional bonds between people. Her work focuses on aspects of the body, gesture, touch, communication, and friendship. Mario Asef (* Córdoba, Argentina) is an artist and architect who focuses on the complex interactions in the ecological networks of diverse species in wild and urban nature supported by his distinctive expertise in visual–acoustic recording techniques. Together as the duo Asef-Burkhardt, they not only unfold The Sea Ranch as a multifaceted place of longing for a common artistic quest but also elevate this specific terrain to their guiding coordinates of a new form of dual action between affection and real urgency. With this lively fusion of artistic field research and a productive network of relationships, the Kunstverein Göttingen is taking the first step into the new exhibition year.

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We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. und Sparkasse Göttingen

The Long Afternoon of Art
Saturday, 15 February 2025, starting at 3 pm

ACTIVE TERRAIN N°1
Asef–Burckhardt
SHELTER–BONE
Love in Tough Times

It’s time again for the Long Afternoon of Art at the Kunstverein Göttingen. This time it is dedicated to the multimedia installations of the art duo and couple Asef-Burckhardt and offers plenty of time and opportunity to explore the complex of works in greater depth.
After an open dialogue tour of the exhibition with the curator Stephan Klee starting at 3 pm, we will meet at 5 pm for a panel discussion about the exhibition between Asef-Burckhardt and Elena Engelbrechter from the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. Stephan Klee will moderate the debate, which will be held in German. The trialogue follows the motto ‘Love in Tough Times’ and explores the duo’s experiences and insights on and with the Sea Ranch in Northern California. The dialogue will not only address the protective potential of architecture and landscape, but also the extent to which social relationships and affection could be another form of ‘shelter’ in a turbulent world. As is so often the case with our exhibition talks, the podium will be opened up to the audience and there will be an opportunity for joint discussion with the guests.
The late afternoon will end with a lively round of talks, with snacks and drinks provided. We look forward to seeing you there, which will be possible throughout the afternoon.

Sat 15 Feb 25, 3 – 7 pm
The Long Afternoon of Art: SHELTER-BONE
– 3 pm: Guided tour and talk – through the exhibition with curator Stephan Klee
– 5 pm: Panel discussion with Asef-Burckhardt and Elena Engelbrechter: Love in Tough Times
– 6 pm: Closure
The artists and the curator will be on-site the whole time, snacks and drinks will be served.

event images: Asef–Burckhardt SHELTER–BONE, 2023 – 2025, photo credits: Asef–Burckhardt, VG Bildkunst

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The residential and office buildings of the Sea Ranch in the north of San Francisco are integrated into the rugged cliffs of the Pacific. Strong, salt-soaked winds from the sea, rugged rocks in fine sand, and ancient redwood forests characterise the landscape here. The wooden buildings were largely developed and initiated by the landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and his wife, the choreographer Anna Halprin, in the 1960s in an ecologically avant-garde community of multi-professional collaborators. Since then, the settlement has continued to grow and still sets international standards for the interplay between architecture and nature – in other words, „protection” and „environment“. But what remains of the Halprins’ utopia at the time – „to live lightly on the land“ and the idealism of a sensitive approach to the environment for us today?

SHELTER-BONE, the current project by the artist couple Asef-Burckhardt, is based on extensive periods of research and work in this visionary settlement in Northern California and presents works created on-site and in Berlin. Against the acute backdrop of the global environmental crisis, new anthropological questions such as ‘What must architecture connect today?’ and ‘What must love achieve today?’ are raised and artistically re-explored in close relation to this real topography. Consisting of combined, multimedia works, the project is currently being actively expanded and further developed in order to be shown in changing settings at international exhibition venues. The Kunstverein is very pleased to be able to show this complex of works in Göttingen under the leitmotif: ‘What does shelter mean in our time?
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The annual programme 2025 of the Kunstverein Göttingen TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is developed by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists. The duo Asef-Burckhardt will kick off the fresh year with an all–encompassing, sensory–appealing exhibition consisting of several installations, which takes the viewer directly into the beach forests of California, characterised by the forces of nature.
Kirstin Burckhardt (* Durban, South Africa) is an artist and psychotherapist who uses visual and performative means to explore the interactions and emotional bonds between people. Her work focuses on aspects of the body, gesture, touch, communication, and friendship. Mario Asef (* Córdoba, Argentina) is an artist and architect who focuses on the complex interactions in the ecological networks of diverse species in wild and urban nature supported by his distinctive expertise in visual–acoustic recording techniques. Together as the duo Asef-Burkhardt, they not only unfold The Sea Ranch as a multifaceted place of longing for a common artistic quest but also elevate this specific terrain to their guiding coordinates of a new form of dual action between affection and real urgency. With this lively fusion of artistic field research and a productive network of relationships, the Kunstverein Göttingen is taking the first step into the new exhibition year.

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We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. und Sparkasse Göttingen

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ACTIVE TERRAIN N°1
Asef–Burckhardt
SHELTER–BONE
Love in Tough Times

event image: Asef–Burckhardt SHELTER–BONE, 2022 – 2025, copyrights: Asef–Burckhardt, VG Bildkunst Bonn

Programme

Sat 11 Jan 2025, 5:00 – 8:00 pm
Vernissage – Reception with
– 5:00 pm: Welcome speeches
≈5:30 pm: Performance by Kirstin Burckhardt

Sat 15 Feb 2025, 3:00 – 7:00 pm
The Long Afternoon of Art with
– 3:00 pm: Curator’s tour of the exhibition with Stephan Klee
– 5:00 pm: Exhibition talk with Asef-Burckhardt and Elena Engelbrechter, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
The duo Asef-Burckhardt and the curator Stephan Klee will be on-site

Sun 23 Feb 2025, 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Finissage
– 3:00 pm: Guided tour of the exhibition with the curator Stephan Klee
– 4:00 pm: Closure

In order to be able to plan better, we would be delighted to receive your reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone at 0551-44899

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THE EDITION OF THE SHOW

Asef-Burckhardt
Hand-Charcoal-Song – Edition, 2024

Edition of 12 + 5 AP
H 22 cm x W 40 cm
Archival inkjet pigment print
(Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on
EFI GRAVURE PROOF PAPER, semi-gloss
warm white, 245g/sqm, microceramic PE-coated

Courtesy of the artists
Price: 320 € / 240 € for members of KV Göttingen

With this edition, Asef-Burckhardt publishes the striking title motif of their exhibition at the Kunstverein, in which the transformation of our natural resources and the gesture of attentive ‘giving protection’ come together in an impressive way. We are very happy to be able to offer this extraordinary photograph in a small edition and thank the art duo for their great support of our work here for contemporary, young art in Göttingen.

> If you are interested, please contact us here: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

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Asef–Burckhardt
SHELTER–BONE
Love in Tough Times

The residential and community buildings of Sea Ranch in the north of San Francisco are integrated into the rugged cliffs of the Pacific. Strong, salt–soaked winds from the sea, rugged rocks in fine sand, and ancient redwood forests characterise the landscape here. The wooden buildings were largely developed and initiated by the landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and his wife, the choreographer Anna Halprin, in the 1960s in an ecologically avant-garde community of multi–professional collaborators. Since then, the estate has continued to grow and still sets international standards for the interplay between architecture and nature – in other words, ‘protection’ and ‘environment’. But what remains of the Halprins’ utopia at the time – “to live lightly on the land” and the idealism of a sensitive approach to the environment for us today?

SHELTER-BONE, the current project by the art duo and life couple Asef-Burckhardt, is based on extensive periods of research and work in this visionary settlement in Northern California and presents the works created on-site and in Berlin. Against the acute backdrop of the global environmental crisis, new anthropological questions such as ‘What must architecture connect today?’ and ‘What must love achieve today?’ are raised and artistically explored in close relation to this real topography. Consisting of combined, multimedia works, the project is currently being actively expanded and further developed in order to be shown in changing settings at international exhibition venues. The Kunstverein is very pleased to be able to show this complex of works in Göttingen under the leitmotif: ‘What does protection mean in our time?

Asef–Burckhardt’s multi–layered approach is strongly inspired by the Halprin couple, both in terms of an emotional connection in working together and the parallels to the founding couple’s lives: with Lawrence Halprin as a landscape architect and Anna Halprin as a dancer and performer specialising in ‘embodied healing’, the professional constellation between the two couples is very similar. Interestingly, Mario Asef studied architecture before studying art (where he first heard about the Sea Ranch) and Kirstin Burckhardt is both a performer and a psychologist. The artist couple Halprin had a strong commitment to their surroundings through their joint artistic and interpersonal activities. Not to isolate themselves as ‘lovers’ but to strengthen each other to work together for community building and ecology is also the inspiration for this project.

The fact that Kirstin Burckhardt and Mario Asef activate an expressive unity on the basis of their own relationship and make their network of relationships with the place and its inhabitants the genuine centre of their dual, creative expression underlines the relevance of this shared living and protective space. SHELTER-BONE can therefore also be seen as a contemporary variant of Relational Art: It is not the material, finished object that is the actual work of art, but integrative, social and bio-terrestrial exchange processes that are expressed, manifested and mixed in the presentation in a variety of ways. These include performances on site and in the exhibition space, multimedia recordings of temporary practices in sound and film, artistic research that materialises in archives and artworks, and relationship work. Together as the Asef-Burckhardt duo, they unfold the coastal strip of the Sea Ranch not only as a multi-faceted place of longing for a shared artistic quest in the Far West, but also elevate this specific terrain to their guiding coordinates of a new form of dual action between affection and real urgency. With this lively fusion between artistic field research and a productive network of relationships, the Kunstverein Göttingen is taking the first step into the new exhibition year.

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Kirstin Burckhardt (b. Durban, South Africa) is a visual artist and psychotherapist who combines video and performance with sound and spoken word. Drawing on her training in psychology and neuroscience, her work critically explores the power dynamics interwoven with the body. By constantly questioning what constitutes a ‘body’, her artistic research focuses on the interpersonal space as a site for negotiating sensitivity, conflict, empathy, transgenerational trauma and the complexity of healing.
 She studied at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg (Germany), at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts Lyon (France) and at the Academy of Art Hangzhou (China). At the same time, she studied psychology at the University of Hamburg and works as a clinical psychotherapist in Berlin. Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions at the KINDL Berlin Centre for Contemporary Art, KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Deichtorhallen/Sammlung Falckenberg Hamburg, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, Exploratorio in Medellín (COL) and the Goethe Institute Sofia (BUL) and LA (USA). She has worked closely with performing and visual artists from China, Sweden and Colombia and has received work grants from the Fonds Darstellende Künste, the ifa Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, the Elbkulturfonds and the working grant of the City of Hamburg.
more information: http://k-burckhardt.de

Mario Asef (born in Córdoba, Argentina) is a Berlin-based architect and conceptual artist. Flanked by his extensive expressive possibilities in acoustics and moving image, his projects mainly deal with theoretical and materialised constructions of humanoid-cultivated space, be it the built city or the domesticated landscape. He is also particularly interested in the ecological systems of microorganisms such as lichens and fungi, which form the generative basis of our planet’s flora and fauna. 
 He studied architecture at the University of Architecture and Urban Development in Córdoba, Argentina (Dpl.), and art at Chelsea College for Art and Design in London, England, at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and at the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin, Germany, where he obtained a Master’s degree. His work has been exhibited worldwide, most recently at the Daegu Photo Biennale (South Korea), Quartier 21 (Museumsquartier, Vienna), Wild Palms (Düsseldorf), Silent Green (Berlin), Junge Kunst e.V. (Wolfsburg, Germany), Kasa Galerie (Istanbul), Samzie Space (Seoul), HAUNT/ frontviews (Berlin). Recent museum exhibitions include Hamburger Kunsthalle, Villa Merkel (Esslingen, Germany), Künstlerhaus Bregenz (Austria) and Akademie der Künste Berlin. Since 2014 he has been organising exhibitions, festivals and lectures for Errant Sound e.V., a project space for sound art in Berlin.
more information: https://marioasef.net

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The Annual Programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024-2025. In view 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 land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN program series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual program is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.

Kirstin Burckhardt (*Durban, South Africa), is a professional artist and therapist, who uses visual and performative techniques to explore the interactions and emotional bonds between people. Aspects of the body, gesture, touch, communication, and friendship are at the centre of her exploration. Mario Asef (Córdoba, Argentina), an educated artist and architect, focuses his attention and his distinctive expertise in visual and acoustic recording techniques on the complex interactions in the ecological networks of diverse species in wild and urban nature. Together as the Asef-Burkhardt duo, they not only unfold the Sea Ranch on the American West Coast as a multifaceted place of longing for a common artistic quest, but also elevate this specific terrain to their guiding coordinates of a new form of dual action between affection and real urgency. With this lively fusion between artistic field research and a productive network of relationships, the Kunstverein Göttingen is taking the first step into the new exhibition year.

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We thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. and Sparkasse Göttingen

ACTIVE TERRAIN N°1
Asef–Burckhardt
SHELTER–BONE
Love in Tough Times

event image: Asef–Burckhardt SHELTER–BONE, 2022 – 2025, copyrights: Asef–Burckhardt, VG Bildkunst Bonn

Programme

Sat 11 Jan 2025, 5:00 – 8:00 pm
Vernissage – Reception with
– 5:00 pm: Welcome speeches
≈5:30 pm: Performance by Kirstin Burckhardt

Sat 15 Feb 2025, 3:00 – 7:00 pm
The Long Afternoon of Art with
– 3:00 pm: Curator’s tour of the exhibition with Stephan Klee
– 5:00 pm: Exhibition talk with Asef-Burckhardt and Elena Engelbrechter, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
The duo Asef-Burckhardt and the curator Stephan Klee will be on-site

Sun 23 Feb 2025, 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Finissage
– 3:00 pm: Guided tour of the exhibition with the curator Stephan Klee
– 4:00 pm: Closure

In order to be able to plan better, we would be delighted to receive your reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone at 0551-44899

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THE EDITION OF THE SHOW

Asef-Burckhardt
Hand-Charcoal-Song – Edition, 2024

Edition of 12 + 5 AP
H 22 cm x W 40 cm
Archival inkjet pigment print
(Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on
EFI GRAVURE PROOF PAPER, semi-gloss
warm white, 245g/sqm, microceramic PE-coated

Courtesy of the artists
Price: 320 € / 240 € for members of KV Göttingen

With this edition, Asef-Burckhardt publishes the striking title motif of their exhibition at the Kunstverein, in which the transformation of our natural resources and the gesture of attentive ‘giving protection’ come together in an impressive way. We are very happy to be able to offer this extraordinary photograph in a small edition and thank the art duo for their great support of our work here for contemporary, young art in Göttingen.

> If you are interested, please contact us here: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

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Asef–Burckhardt
SHELTER–BONE
Love in Tough Times

The residential and community buildings of Sea Ranch in the north of San Francisco are integrated into the rugged cliffs of the Pacific. Strong, salt–soaked winds from the sea, rugged rocks in fine sand, and ancient redwood forests characterise the landscape here. The wooden buildings were largely developed and initiated by the landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and his wife, the choreographer Anna Halprin, in the 1960s in an ecologically avant-garde community of multi–professional collaborators. Since then, the estate has continued to grow and still sets international standards for the interplay between architecture and nature – in other words, ‘protection’ and ‘environment’. But what remains of the Halprins’ utopia at the time – “to live lightly on the land” and the idealism of a sensitive approach to the environment for us today?

SHELTER-BONE, the current project by the art duo and life couple Asef-Burckhardt, is based on extensive periods of research and work in this visionary settlement in Northern California and presents the works created on-site and in Berlin. Against the acute backdrop of the global environmental crisis, new anthropological questions such as ‘What must architecture connect today?’ and ‘What must love achieve today?’ are raised and artistically explored in close relation to this real topography. Consisting of combined, multimedia works, the project is currently being actively expanded and further developed in order to be shown in changing settings at international exhibition venues. The Kunstverein is very pleased to be able to show this complex of works in Göttingen under the leitmotif: ‘What does protection mean in our time?

Asef–Burckhardt’s multi–layered approach is strongly inspired by the Halprin couple, both in terms of an emotional connection in working together and the parallels to the founding couple’s lives: with Lawrence Halprin as a landscape architect and Anna Halprin as a dancer and performer specialising in ‘embodied healing’, the professional constellation between the two couples is very similar. Interestingly, Mario Asef studied architecture before studying art (where he first heard about the Sea Ranch) and Kirstin Burckhardt is both a performer and a psychologist. The artist couple Halprin had a strong commitment to their surroundings through their joint artistic and interpersonal activities. Not to isolate themselves as ‘lovers’ but to strengthen each other to work together for community building and ecology is also the inspiration for this project.

The fact that Kirstin Burckhardt and Mario Asef activate an expressive unity on the basis of their own relationship and make their network of relationships with the place and its inhabitants the genuine centre of their dual, creative expression underlines the relevance of this shared living and protective space. SHELTER-BONE can therefore also be seen as a contemporary variant of Relational Art: It is not the material, finished object that is the actual work of art, but integrative, social and bio-terrestrial exchange processes that are expressed, manifested and mixed in the presentation in a variety of ways. These include performances on site and in the exhibition space, multimedia recordings of temporary practices in sound and film, artistic research that materialises in archives and artworks, and relationship work. Together as the Asef-Burckhardt duo, they unfold the coastal strip of the Sea Ranch not only as a multi-faceted place of longing for a shared artistic quest in the Far West, but also elevate this specific terrain to their guiding coordinates of a new form of dual action between affection and real urgency. With this lively fusion between artistic field research and a productive network of relationships, the Kunstverein Göttingen is taking the first step into the new exhibition year.

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Kirstin Burckhardt (b. Durban, South Africa) is a visual artist and psychotherapist who combines video and performance with sound and spoken word. Drawing on her training in psychology and neuroscience, her work critically explores the power dynamics interwoven with the body. By constantly questioning what constitutes a ‘body’, her artistic research focuses on the interpersonal space as a site for negotiating sensitivity, conflict, empathy, transgenerational trauma and the complexity of healing.
 She studied at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg (Germany), at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts Lyon (France) and at the Academy of Art Hangzhou (China). At the same time, she studied psychology at the University of Hamburg and works as a clinical psychotherapist in Berlin. Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions at the KINDL Berlin Centre for Contemporary Art, KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Deichtorhallen/Sammlung Falckenberg Hamburg, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, Exploratorio in Medellín (COL) and the Goethe Institute Sofia (BUL) and LA (USA). She has worked closely with performing and visual artists from China, Sweden and Colombia and has received work grants from the Fonds Darstellende Künste, the ifa Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, the Elbkulturfonds and the working grant of the City of Hamburg.
more information: http://k-burckhardt.de

Mario Asef (born in Córdoba, Argentina) is a Berlin-based architect and conceptual artist. Flanked by his extensive expressive possibilities in acoustics and moving image, his projects mainly deal with theoretical and materialised constructions of humanoid-cultivated space, be it the built city or the domesticated landscape. He is also particularly interested in the ecological systems of microorganisms such as lichens and fungi, which form the generative basis of our planet’s flora and fauna. 
 He studied architecture at the University of Architecture and Urban Development in Córdoba, Argentina (Dpl.), and art at Chelsea College for Art and Design in London, England, at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and at the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin, Germany, where he obtained a Master’s degree. His work has been exhibited worldwide, most recently at the Daegu Photo Biennale (South Korea), Quartier 21 (Museumsquartier, Vienna), Wild Palms (Düsseldorf), Silent Green (Berlin), Junge Kunst e.V. (Wolfsburg, Germany), Kasa Galerie (Istanbul), Samzie Space (Seoul), HAUNT/ frontviews (Berlin). Recent museum exhibitions include Hamburger Kunsthalle, Villa Merkel (Esslingen, Germany), Künstlerhaus Bregenz (Austria) and Akademie der Künste Berlin. Since 2014 he has been organising exhibitions, festivals and lectures for Errant Sound e.V., a project space for sound art in Berlin.
more information: https://marioasef.net

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The Annual Programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024-2025. In view 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 land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN program series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual program is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.

Kirstin Burckhardt (*Durban, South Africa), is a professional artist and therapist, who uses visual and performative techniques to explore the interactions and emotional bonds between people. Aspects of the body, gesture, touch, communication, and friendship are at the centre of her exploration. Mario Asef (Córdoba, Argentina), an educated artist and architect, focuses his attention and his distinctive expertise in visual and acoustic recording techniques on the complex interactions in the ecological networks of diverse species in wild and urban nature. Together as the Asef-Burkhardt duo, they not only unfold the Sea Ranch on the American West Coast as a multifaceted place of longing for a common artistic quest, but also elevate this specific terrain to their guiding coordinates of a new form of dual action between affection and real urgency. With this lively fusion between artistic field research and a productive network of relationships, the Kunstverein Göttingen is taking the first step into the new exhibition year.

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We thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. and Sparkasse Göttingen

Vernissage
Saturday,  11 January at 5 pm

ACTIVE TERRAIN N°1
Asef–Burckhardt
SHELTER–BONE
Love in Tough Times

We warmly welcome you to the Vernissage on Saturday, January 11, 2025, at 5 pm on the second floor of the Künstlerhaus Göttingen. We will begin with a note of welcome and thanks from the board and a short introductory speech by curator Stephan Klee. Afterward, the various multimedia works will be activated and can be seen and heard for the first time in Göttingen. Among other pieces, the key video installation SHELTER-BONE will be projected in Cinema–Scope format in the main room. During the rest of the opening, the artist Kirstin Burckhardt will realize the performance Burned Song, 2024 by Asef–Burckhardt in personal interaction with the audience. The artist couple Asef-Burckhardt and the curator will be present throughout the event and will be open for further questions and conversations.

Sat 11 Jan 2025 5 – 8 pm
Vernissage – Reception with
– 5:00 pm: Welcome speeches
≈ 5:30 pm: Performance by Kirstin Burckhardt: Burned Song, 2024 by Asef–Burckhardt

all event images: Asef–Burckhardt SHELTER–BONE, 2023 – 2025, photo rights: Asef–Burckhardt, VG Bildkunst

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The wooden residential and communal buildings of Sea Ranch in the north of San Francisco were developed and built in the 1960s by landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and his wife, choreographer Anna Halprin, together with other ecologic avantgarde thinkers; the buildings are integrated into the rugged cliffs of the Pacific in an exemplary manner. Since then, the settlement has continued to grow and still sets international standards for the interplay between architecture and nature – in other words, “protection” and “environment”.

The works on display in SHELTER-BONE, the current project by the art duo and couple Asef-Burckhardt, are based on extensive periods of research and work in the visionary settlement in Northern California and question, among other things, the current relevance of the original utopia of The Sea Ranch. Against the acute backdrop of the global environmental crisis, new anthropological questions such as “What must architecture connect today?” and “What must love achieve today?” are raised and artistically explored in close relation to this real topography. Consisting of combined, multimedia works, the project is currently being expanded and further developed in order to be shown in changing settings at international exhibition venues. The Kunstverein is very pleased to be able to show this complex of works in Göttingen under the leitmotif: “What does protection mean in our time?
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The annual programme 2025 of the Kunstverein Göttingen TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is developed by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists. The duo Asef-Burckhardt will kick off the fresh year with an all–encompassing, sensory–appealing exhibition consisting of several installations, which takes the viewer directly into the beach forests of California, characterised by the forces of nature.
Kirstin Burckhardt (* Durban, South Africa) is an artist and psychotherapist who uses visual and performative means to explore the interactions and emotional bonds between people. Her work focuses on aspects of the body, gesture, touch, communication, and friendship. Mario Asef (* Córdoba, Argentina) is an artist and architect who focuses on the complex interactions in the ecological networks of diverse species in wild and urban nature supported by his distinctive expertise in visual–acoustic recording techniques. Together as the duo Asef-Burkhardt, they not only unfold The Sea Ranch as a multifaceted place of longing for a common artistic quest but also elevate this specific terrain to their guiding coordinates of a new form of dual action between affection and real urgency. With this lively fusion of artistic field research and a productive network of relationships, the Kunstverein Göttingen is taking the first step into the new exhibition year.

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We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. und Sparkasse Göttingen

FINISSAGE
Sunday 15 Dec 2024, 3 pm – 5 pm

WELTEN WANDLERINNEN N°4 & N°5
(WORLD CHANGERS N°4 & N°5)
Geng Xue & Runa Ikeda: Oneiroi

event image: Geng Xue 海公⼦ – Mr. Sea, 2014 – 2023 (still), Stop – Motion – Animation, Single-Channel video, 13’15” min, courtesy the artist and gallery Migrant Bird Space, Berlin

The year is coming to an end and with it the exhibition cycle TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN of the Kunstverein Göttingen. It was also an exciting year artistically with four solo exhibitions and a central group exhibition, all of which explored the phenomenon of contemporary surrealism and magical realism from many parts of the world.
The Finissage of “Oneiroi” is definitely the last opportunity to visit the Old Town Hall once again, to review the editions and exhibitions of the year and to take in the extraordinary works of this Asian double constellation of Geng Xue from China and Runa Ikeda from Japan. We are looking forward to having a well-deserved winter break with you. Cordially, your team from the Kunstverein Göttingen.

Sun 12.12.24, 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Finissage Oneiroi

– 3:00 pm Guided tour through the exhibition with Runa Ikeda and Stephan Klee
– 4:00 pm: final conclusion
From 3:00 to 5:00 pm the Kunstverein team will be on site with the artists. There will be drinks, snacks, and all editions of the year.

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The 2024/2025 TERRA DIASPORA programme at the Kunstverein Göttingen is being developed by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists. The final presentation of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN exhibition series in 2024 is dedicated entirely to the multimedia installations by the two artists Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda. In their individual groups of works, the artists from China and Japan both combine the aesthetics and narratives of their diverse home cultures with personal content in a unique dreamlike expressiveness. In Greco-Roman mythology, the Oneiroi (dreams) are the many children of Nyx (night) and Hypnos (sleep). This many-headed family of subconscious phantasms will accompany and permeate the 2024 finale.

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DIE EDITION ZUR AUSSTELLUNG

Geng Xue
看不见的冰湖
Invisible Ice Lake, 2024

Edition 15 + 3 AP
H 27 cm x W 40 cm
Archival inkjet pigment print
(Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on
HAHNEMÜHLE Museum Etching, rough matt
natural white, acid-free, 100% cotton, 350 gsm

courtesy the artist and gallery Migrant Bird Space, Berlin
Price: 400 € / 300 € for members of KV Göttingen

> If you are interested, please contact us here: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

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We would like to thank the Department of Culture of the City of Göttingen for the close and trusting cooperation at the Altes Rathaus Göttingen.

We also would like to express our deep gratefulness towards our generous sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Niedersächsische Sparkassen Stiftung, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. and Sparkasse Göttingen

The Long Afternoon of Art
Saturday 14 Dec 2024 at 3 pm

WELTEN WANDLERINNEN N°4 & N°5
Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda: Oneiroi

event image: Geng Xue 海公⼦ – Mr. Sea, 2014 – 2023 (still), Stop – Motion – Animation, Single-Channel video, 13’15” min, courtesy the artist and gallery Migrant Bird Space, Berlin

The year is drawing to a close and with it the exhibition cycle TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN of the Kunstverein Göttingen. It was an exciting year, also artistically with four solo exhibitions and a central group exhibition, all of which explored the phenomenon of contemporary surrealism and magical realism from many parts of the world.
It is therefore our special pleasure to be able to invite everyone to the long afternoon of art on Saturday 14 December to round off the year. We want to review the exhibition year together and delve deeper into the current exhibition with the artist Runa Ikeda and the curator Stephan Klee. The brand new performance by the iYi collective will be premiered and in the evening we will listen to contemporary Japanese sound art. You can also actively support the KVG by purchasing an edition for the festival. In between, there will be plenty of time for viewing, strolling, and personal dialogue. Coming and going is also entirely up to you.

Sat 14.12.24, 3 – 7 pm
The Long Afternoon of Art: Oneiroi

– 11 am: The exhibition opens due to regular opening times
–  3 pm: Guided Tour through the exhibition with Runa Ikeda and Stephan Klee
–  4 pm: World premiere of the performance by the Art Trio iYi: Ancestral Eavesdropping
–  6 pm: Sound Art by Shinichiro Ikeda


The Kunstverein team will be on site with the artists from 3 pm to 7 pm. There will be drinks, snacks, and all the editions of the year 2024.

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The performance trio iYi consists of the visual artist Runa Ikeda with the composer Shinichiro Ikeda from Japan, and the contemporary dancer Frida Yngvesson, born in South Korea with an Icelandic passport. Together they will premiere the performance piece ‘Ancestral Eavesdropping’, their latest production on the Long Afternoon of Art in Göttingen’s Old Town Hall, which will also be premiered as part of the exhibition Oneiroi in the Old Town Hall on 14 December.

Ancestral eavesdropping is the new work by the interdisciplinary performance collective. It is a performance and installation that aims to reconnect the audience with the lost sounds and practices of their pasts. The three artists of iYi – all originally from Japan and South Korea – left their home countries at different points in their lives. With this performance, they reflect on their shared experiences of migration and cultural memory. The piece poses the hypothetical question: ‘What could we hear if we could listen to our ancestors?’
The performance takes place within the installation created by Runa Ikeda and changes its appearance. After the performance, the installation will have evolved into a significantly different form – a visual expression of the passage of time. The performance refers to old rituals and practices. The work cleanses the space, honours the past and at the same time creates space for transformation. Sounds and field recordings were collected from places of personal significance such as Tokyo, Okinawa, and Ishikawa, and form the basis of the soundscape throughout the performance.

Statement
“We are interested in how sound, movement, and different forms of the visual can merge and form holistic experiences in physical installations or live performances. Our practice is based on direct composition, improvisation, and embodiment.
As a collective, we explore themes such as dreams, rituals, fantasy, uncanniness, and juxtapositions. Our work is often shown in unconventional locations such as outdoor spaces, libraries, and bars. This is and has always been one of the main inspirations for us, on how to bring the performance to a different audience in unexpected places and circumstances.”

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The 2024/2025 TERRA DIASPORA programme at the Kunstverein Göttingen is being developed by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists. The final presentation of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN exhibition series in 2024 is dedicated entirely to the multimedia installations by the two artists Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda. In their individual groups of works, the artists from China and Japan both combine the aesthetics and narratives of their diverse home cultures with personal content in a unique dreamlike expressiveness. In Greco-Roman mythology, the Oneiroi (dreams) are the many children of Nyx (night) and Hypnos (sleep). This many-headed family of subconscious phantasms will accompany and permeate the 2024 finale.

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THE EDITION OF THE EXHIBITION

Geng Xue
看不见的冰湖
Invisible Ice Lake, 2024

Edition 15 + 3 AP
H 27 cm x W 40 cm
Archival inkjet pigment print
(Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on
HAHNEMÜHLE Museum Etching, rough matt
natural white, acid-free, 100% cotton, 350 gsm

courtesy the artist and gallery Migrant Bird Space, Berlin
Price: 400 € / 300 € for members of KV Göttingen

> If you are interested, please contact us here: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

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We would like to thank the Department of Culture of the City of Göttingen for the close and trusting cooperation at the Altes Rathaus Göttingen.

We also would like to express our deep gratefulness towards our generous sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Niedersächsische Sparkassen Stiftung, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. and Sparkasse Göttingen

WELTEN WANDLERINNEN N°4 & N°5
Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda: Oneiroi

event images: Geng Xue 海公⼦ – Mr. Sea, 2014 – 2023 (still), stop–motion video, Single-Kanal video, 13’15” min, courtesy the artist and gallery Migrant Bird Space, Berlin

In Greco-Roman mythology, the Oneiroi (dreams) are the many children of Nyx (night) and Hypnos (sleep). Led by the brothers Morpheus, Phobetor, and Phantasos, they are the mutable and many-headed family of dreams who create and direct the images of our sleep and imagination. In this role, they provide the appropriate title and theme for the final edition of our exhibition series WELTEN WANDELN on contemporary forms of magical realism and surrealism at the Kunstverein Göttingen.

This final presentation of the exhibition series in 2024 is dedicated entirely to the multimedia installations of the two artists Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda. In their individual groups of works, the artists from China and Japan both combine the aesthetics and narratives of their diverse home cultures with personal content in a unique, somnambulistic expressiveness. Geng Xue’s works are dominated by the finest porcelain sculptures, while Runa Ikeda’s are colourful paintings on large fabric banners. In this way, both artists create an inspiring, artistic world between reality, dream and narrative. The finale in the exhibition rooms of the Altes Rathaus Göttingen brings the two artists’ world drafts together in the rooms for the first time worldwide, reveals new references and expands the fantastic potential of their works.

Runa Ikeda was born in Japan in 1988 and graduated from the Tokyo Academy of Design’s Illustration masterclass in 2010. The unique world of her paintings, sculptures and performances quickly attracted attention in the art world in Japan and Germany, and she has participated in numerous group exhibitions and organised 5 solo exhibitions in galleries in Tokyo and Berlin. She is the winner of the Scott Hall Gallery Award and the Creative Award in Tokyo, Japan. In 2012, she also received the Special Award at the Germany Art Festival in Berlin. Runa Ikeda lives with her husband Shinichiro Ikeda in Berlin. Together they also run their studio there, where sound art, visual art, and performance are created in mutual enrichment.

Geng Xue graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing (2007) and the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe (2013) before receiving her MFA from CAFA (2014). Her work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions, including the Sydney Biennale (2018), the Venice Biennale (2017) and the Busan Biennale (2014). In 2017, Geng Xue was shortlisted for Young Artist of the Year at the Award of Art China (AAC). The artist currently lives and works in Beijing and teaches sculpture at CAFA.

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Programme

Sun 20.10.24, 11:30 am  – 2:00 pm
Vernissage – Reception with
– 11:45 am: Sound art pieces by Shinichiro Ikeda
– 12:00 pm: Welcome speeches by Helmut Wenzel and Stephan Klee
–    1:00 pm: Göttingen film premiere of Geng Xue Mr Sea
Presentation of the new edition of Geng Xue . The artist Runa Ikeda will be present.

Sun 03.11.24, 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Sun 10.11.24, 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Sunday guided tour with Justus M. Müller

at 14.12.24, 3:00 – 7:00
The Long Afternoon of Art with
– 3:00 pm: Curator’s tour of the exhibition with Stephan Klee
– 4:00 pm: Performance by the art trio IYI
– 6:00 pm: Sound art by Shinichiro Ikeda
The artist couple Ikeda and the curator Stephan Klee will be on site

Sun 15.12.24, 15:00 – 19:00
Finissage
– 3:00 pm: Guided tour through the exhibition with Runa Ikeda and Stephan Klee
– 4:00 pm: Conclusion

Please book your participation in the Sunday tours at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone at 0551-44899

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THE EDITION OF THE SHOW

Geng Xue
看不见的冰湖
Invisible Ice Lake, 2024
Edition 15 + 3 AP
H 27 cm x W 40 cm
Archival inkjet pigment print
(Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on
HAHNEMÜHLE Museum Etching, rough matt
natural white, acid-free, 100% cotton, 350 gsm

courtesy the artist and gallery Migrant Bird Space, Berlin
Price: 400 € / 300 € for members of KV Göttingen

> If you are interested, please contact us here: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

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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.

The finale of our fantastic series features two Asian artists: Runa Ikeda from Japan and Geng Xue from China. With literally overflowing creative energy, they realise their equally precious and finely branched world drafts from the rich pool of their respective home cultures, the traces of their dreams and free fantasies. Now, for the first time, these two artistic realms grow together, an expansive realm of pictorial dreams emerges from both the edifying and the enchanted.

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We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Niedersächsische Sparkassen Stiftung, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. and Sparkasse Göttingen

WELTEN WANDLERINNEN N°4 & N°5
Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda: Oneiroi

event images: Geng Xue 海公⼦ – Mr. Sea, 2014 – 2023 (still), stop–motion video, Single-Kanal video, 13’15” min, courtesy the artist and gallery Migrant Bird Space, Berlin

In Greco-Roman mythology, the Oneiroi (dreams) are the many children of Nyx (night) and Hypnos (sleep). Led by the brothers Morpheus, Phobetor, and Phantasos, they are the mutable and many-headed family of dreams who create and direct the images of our sleep and imagination. In this role, they provide the appropriate title and theme for the final edition of our exhibition series WELTEN WANDELN on contemporary forms of magical realism and surrealism at the Kunstverein Göttingen.

This final presentation of the exhibition series in 2024 is dedicated entirely to the multimedia installations of the two artists Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda. In their individual groups of works, the artists from China and Japan both combine the aesthetics and narratives of their diverse home cultures with personal content in a unique, somnambulistic expressiveness. Geng Xue’s works are dominated by the finest porcelain sculptures, while Runa Ikeda’s are colourful paintings on large fabric banners. In this way, both artists create an inspiring, artistic world between reality, dream and narrative. The finale in the exhibition rooms of the Altes Rathaus Göttingen brings the two artists’ world drafts together in the rooms for the first time worldwide, reveals new references and expands the fantastic potential of their works.

Runa Ikeda was born in Japan in 1988 and graduated from the Tokyo Academy of Design’s Illustration masterclass in 2010. The unique world of her paintings, sculptures and performances quickly attracted attention in the art world in Japan and Germany, and she has participated in numerous group exhibitions and organised 5 solo exhibitions in galleries in Tokyo and Berlin. She is the winner of the Scott Hall Gallery Award and the Creative Award in Tokyo, Japan. In 2012, she also received the Special Award at the Germany Art Festival in Berlin. Runa Ikeda lives with her husband Shinichiro Ikeda in Berlin. Together they also run their studio there, where sound art, visual art, and performance are created in mutual enrichment.

Geng Xue graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing (2007) and the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe (2013) before receiving her MFA from CAFA (2014). Her work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions, including the Sydney Biennale (2018), the Venice Biennale (2017) and the Busan Biennale (2014). In 2017, Geng Xue was shortlisted for Young Artist of the Year at the Award of Art China (AAC). The artist currently lives and works in Beijing and teaches sculpture at CAFA.

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Programme

Sun 20.10.24, 11:30 am  – 2:00 pm
Vernissage – Reception with
– 11:45 am: Sound art pieces by Shinichiro Ikeda
– 12:00 pm: Welcome speeches by Helmut Wenzel and Stephan Klee
–    1:00 pm: Göttingen film premiere of Geng Xue Mr Sea
Presentation of the new edition of Geng Xue . The artist Runa Ikeda will be present.

Sun 03.11.24, 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Sun 10.11.24, 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Sunday guided tour with Justus M. Müller

at 14.12.24, 3:00 – 7:00
The Long Afternoon of Art with
– 3:00 pm: Curator’s tour of the exhibition with Stephan Klee
– 4:00 pm: Performance by the art trio IYI
– 6:00 pm: Sound art by Shinichiro Ikeda
The artist couple Ikeda and the curator Stephan Klee will be on site

Sun 15.12.24, 15:00 – 19:00
Finissage
– 3:00 pm: Guided tour through the exhibition with Runa Ikeda and Stephan Klee
– 4:00 pm: Conclusion

Please book your participation in the Sunday tours at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone at 0551-44899

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THE EDITION OF THE SHOW

Geng Xue
看不见的冰湖
Invisible Ice Lake, 2024
Edition 15 + 3 AP
H 27 cm x W 40 cm
Archival inkjet pigment print
(Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on
HAHNEMÜHLE Museum Etching, rough matt
natural white, acid-free, 100% cotton, 350 gsm

courtesy the artist and gallery Migrant Bird Space, Berlin
Price: 400 € / 300 € for members of KV Göttingen

> If you are interested, please contact us here: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

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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.

The finale of our fantastic series features two Asian artists: Runa Ikeda from Japan and Geng Xue from China. With literally overflowing creative energy, they realise their equally precious and finely branched world drafts from the rich pool of their respective home cultures, the traces of their dreams and free fantasies. Now, for the first time, these two artistic realms grow together, an expansive realm of pictorial dreams emerges from both the edifying and the enchanted.

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We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Niedersächsische Sparkassen Stiftung, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. and Sparkasse Göttingen

VERNISSAGE
Sunday, 20 October 2024 at 11:30 am

WELTEN WANDLERINNEN N°4 & N°5
Geng Xue & Runa Ikeda: Oneiroi

event image: Geng Xue 海公⼦ – Mr. Sea, 2014 – 2023 (still), stop–motion video, Single-Kanal video, 13’15” min, courtesy the artist and gallery Migrant Bird Space, Berlin

You are cordially invited to the Vernissage on Sunday, 20 October 11:30 am – 2:00 pm in the Old Town Hall Göttingen, 2nd floor. After a tonal introduction with the sound art of Shinichiro Ikeda, Helmut Wenzel, and Stephan Klee will briefly welcome the guests and introduce the exhibition. At 13:00 there will then be the Göttingen film premiere of Geng Xue’s 海公⼦  – Mr. Sea, 2014 – 2023. We are also presenting the new edition of the exhibition. The artist couple Ikeda and the curator Stephan Klee will be present. The exhibition rooms will remain open until 17:00, so there will be enough time to view the works at your leisure.

Sun 20.10.24, 11:30 am – 2:00 pm
Vernissage – Reception
– 11:45 am: Sound Art Pieces by Shinichiro Ikeda
– 12:00 pm: Welcome speeches by Helmut Wenzel and Stephan Klee
– 01:00 pm: Göttingen film premiere of Geng Xue Mr Sea – 海公⼦
Presentation of the new edition of Geng Xue. The artist Runa Ikeda, the sound artist Shinichiro Ikeda, and the curator Stephan Klee will be present.
– 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm: The exhibition is regularly open.

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Beginning with narratives from the past – such as classics from the Qing dynasty, Buddhist cosmology or Taoist teachings – and arriving at severed body parts and porcelain dolls, the creations of multimedia artist Geng Xue offer uncanny and interwoven retellings of various traditional strands of Chinese cultural history. Working primarily with porcelain, Geng Xue explores the fragile yet enduring nature of the ceramic medium, which metaphorically represents the duality of man and the physical world.

Runa Ikeda specializes in painting and drawing, but also creates sculptures from clay and performs with musicians and contemporary dancers. For her, art is the best self-expression and the valid truth in her life. She studied illustration at the Tokyo Design Academy, where she graduated in 2010. During her studies, she also began to express herself through painting.

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The 2024/2025 TERRA DIASPORA programme is being developed by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists. The final presentation of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN exhibition series in 2024 is dedicated entirely to the multimedia installations by the two artists Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda. In their individual groups of works, the artists from China and Japan both combine the aesthetics and narratives of their diverse home cultures with personal content in a unique dreamlike expressiveness. In Greco-Roman mythology, the Oneiroi (dreams) are the many children of Nyx (night) and Hypnos (sleep). This many-headed family of subconscious phantasms will accompany and permeate the 2024 finale.

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THE EDITION OF THE SHOW

Geng Xue
看不见的冰湖
Invisible Ice Lake, 2024
Edition 15 + 3 AP
H 27 cm x W 40 cm
Archival inkjet pigment print
(Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on
HAHNEMÜHLE Museum Etching, rough matt
natural white, acid-free, 100% cotton, 350 gsm

courtesy the artist and gallery Migrant Bird Space, Berlin
Preis: 400 € / 300 € for Members of KV Göttingen

> If you are interested please contact us here: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

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We would like to thank the Department of Culture of the City of Göttingen for the close and trusting cooperation at Altes Rathaus.

We thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Niedersächsische Sparkassen Stiftung, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. und Sparkasse Göttingen

WELTEN WANDLERINNEN N°4 & N°5
Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda: Oneiroi

event images: Geng Xue 海公⼦ – Mr. Sea, 2014 – 2023 (still), stop–motion video, Single-Kanal video, 13’15” min, courtesy the artist and gallery Migrant Bird Space, Berlin

In Greco-Roman mythology, the Oneiroi (dreams) are the many children of Nyx (night) and Hypnos (sleep). Led by the brothers Morpheus, Phobetor, and Phantasos, they are the mutable and many-headed family of dreams who create and direct the images of our sleep and imagination. In this role, they provide the appropriate title and theme for the final edition of our exhibition series WELTEN WANDELN on contemporary forms of magical realism and surrealism at the Kunstverein Göttingen.

This final presentation of the exhibition series in 2024 is dedicated entirely to the multimedia installations of the two artists Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda. In their individual groups of works, the artists from China and Japan both combine the aesthetics and narratives of their diverse home cultures with personal content in a unique, somnambulistic expressiveness. Geng Xue’s works are dominated by the finest porcelain sculptures, while Runa Ikeda’s are colourful paintings on large fabric banners. In this way, both artists create an inspiring, artistic world between reality, dream and narrative. The finale in the exhibition rooms of the Altes Rathaus Göttingen brings the two artists’ world drafts together in the rooms for the first time worldwide, reveals new references and expands the fantastic potential of their works.

Runa Ikeda was born in Japan in 1988 and graduated from the Tokyo Academy of Design’s Illustration masterclass in 2010. The unique world of her paintings, sculptures and performances quickly attracted attention in the art world in Japan and Germany, and she has participated in numerous group exhibitions and organised 5 solo exhibitions in galleries in Tokyo and Berlin. She is the winner of the Scott Hall Gallery Award and the Creative Award in Tokyo, Japan. In 2012, she also received the Special Award at the Germany Art Festival in Berlin. Runa Ikeda lives with her husband Shinichiro Ikeda in Berlin. Together they also run their studio there, where sound art, visual art, and performance are created in mutual enrichment.

Geng Xue graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing (2007) and the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe (2013) before receiving her MFA from CAFA (2014). Her work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions, including the Sydney Biennale (2018), the Venice Biennale (2017) and the Busan Biennale (2014). In 2017, Geng Xue was shortlisted for Young Artist of the Year at the Award of Art China (AAC). The artist currently lives and works in Beijing and teaches sculpture at CAFA.

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Programme

Sun 20.10.24, 11:30 am  – 2:00 pm
Vernissage – Reception with
– 11:45 am: Sound art pieces by Shinichiro Ikeda
– 12:00 pm: Welcome speeches by Helmut Wenzel and Stephan Klee
–    1:00 pm: Göttingen film premiere of Geng Xue Mr Sea
Presentation of the new edition of Geng Xue . The artist Runa Ikeda will be present.

Sun 03.11.24, 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Sun 10.11.24, 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Sunday guided tour with Justus M. Müller

at 14.12.24, 3:00 – 7:00
The Long Afternoon of Art with
– 3:00 pm: Curator’s tour of the exhibition with Stephan Klee
– 4:00 pm: Performance by the art trio IYI
– 6:00 pm: Sound art by Shinichiro Ikeda
The artist couple Ikeda and the curator Stephan Klee will be on site

Sun 15.12.24, 15:00 – 19:00
Finissage
– 3:00 pm: Guided tour through the exhibition with Runa Ikeda and Stephan Klee
– 4:00 pm: Conclusion

Please book your participation in the Sunday tours at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone at 0551-44899

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THE EDITION OF THE SHOW

Geng Xue
看不见的冰湖
Invisible Ice Lake, 2024
Edition 15 + 3 AP
H 27 cm x W 40 cm
Archival inkjet pigment print
(Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on
HAHNEMÜHLE Museum Etching, rough matt
natural white, acid-free, 100% cotton, 350 gsm

courtesy the artist and gallery Migrant Bird Space, Berlin
Price: 400 € / 300 € for members of KV Göttingen

> If you are interested, please contact us here: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

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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.

The finale of our fantastic series features two Asian artists: Runa Ikeda from Japan and Geng Xue from China. With literally overflowing creative energy, they realise their equally precious and finely branched world drafts from the rich pool of their respective home cultures, the traces of their dreams and free fantasies. Now, for the first time, these two artistic realms grow together, an expansive realm of pictorial dreams emerges from both the edifying and the enchanted.

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We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Niedersächsische Sparkassen Stiftung, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. and Sparkasse Göttingen

INVITATION

Finissage of

TERRA DIASPORA
Welten Wandler N°3
Thomas Radin Rhizome: Time of Revelation
Sunday, the 6th of October at 3 – 5 pm

with Stephan Klee and the brand new edition of Thomias Radin
Use the last chance to see the solo by the Afro-Caribean Artist.

Activities
3 pm – Guided tour through the exhibition with Stephan Klee
4 p.m. – Presentation of the Edition and final conversations

Event photo: RIVÂL – a joint film by Thomias Radin, Alex Brack, Mats Meisen, Kartago Film, 2023, Photography by Emmet Holmes-Boyes

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Thomias L. Radin is a French-Guadeloupean multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Rennes 2 and has gained international recognition through his exhibitions and performances. Radin’s work includes paintings, performances, wood sculptures and short films, all following a non-linear narrative that serves as a human diary, exploring themes such as mental health, spirituality, geopolitics, cultural colonization and epistemology. His unique fusion of dance and painting results in fragmented figures that merge with vibrant Caribbean backgrounds, drawing inspiration from the ancient history of painting and the intangible heritage of humanity. Influenced by his native Guadeloupe, Gwo Ka, hip-hop culture and contemporary dance, Radin’s movements reflect his experiences as a black expatriate in Germany. He uses the musical technique of sampling to depict fragments of memory and convey the essential elements of dance: Intuition, intimacy and vulnerability.

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Please feel warmly welcomed to join us on the last day of the light and colourful and vibrant exhibition by  Thomias Radin Rhizome: Time of Revelation. We would like to spend the Finissage on the first floor of the Old Town Hall in Göttingen with you. The curator will give a guided tour at 3 pm and the new edition by Thomias Radin will be revealed for the first time.

The curator Stephan Klee will be on-site the whole time.
Drinks will be served, admission is free and we look forward to seeing you there.

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RELEASE OF THE EDITION OF THE SHOW

Thomias Radin
What a time to be alive, 2022/24
Edition 15 + 3 AP
H 42 cm x W 35.3 cm
Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print on
HAHNEMÜHLE Museum Etching, rough-matt
natural white, acid-free, 100% cotton, 350 gsm

Courtesy of the artist and Esther Schipper,
Berlin/Paris/Seoul
Price: 320 € / 240 € for members of KV Göttingen

The Kunstverein Göttingen considers itself very fortunate that Thomias Radin has once again produced an edition of one of his most impressive paintings for us. With this purchase you not only bring a wonderful work into your private space, but you also support the work of the Kunstverein Göttingen for contemporary young art and the artists involved.
> If you are interested, please contact us here: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

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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.

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We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. and Sparkasse Göttingen

WELTEN WANDLER N°3

Thomias Radin
Rhizome: Time of Revelation

Cover Image: RIVÂL – a collaborative film by Thomias Radin, Alex Brack, Mats Meisen, Kartago Film, 2023,  photo by Emmet Holmes-Boyes

The works of Thomias Radin are collages of cultural references in various forms of artistic expression in which he explores questions of identity and cognition. He describes his dance performances, paintings, installations, objects and social happenings as representations of “inner struggles” and attempts to reveal the tensions of a double consciousness: one that is shaped by the intellect and one that is at home in the physical experience of the black body. Colours, elements and memories of everyday life in his native Guadeloupe are fused with the urban culture of France, the lifestyle of the African-Caribbean diaspora and highly visible influences from the history of European painting in his multi-material works. In particular, the wood crafts from his family’s tradition form the material basis of his work groups.
These experimental collages of thematic references, everyday materials, full of familiar forms and images, which also incorporate music and dance, are reminiscent of the postmodern techniques of cutting, sampling and looping in hip-hop music. However, in the visual arts, Dadaism and Surrealism already celebrated the unconventional assembly of seemingly unrelated fragments as an inexhaustible method of opening up new and surprising accesses to a hidden reality.
Radin’s creative cosmos is even larger. It feeds not only on the reanimation of Surrealism, Gothic altarpieces or Baroque master paintings but also on motifs and symbols from Egyptian and ancient mythology, Christian iconography and even the spiritual formal language of the hybrid cultural fusion of the Caribbean finds its way into his pictorial canon. All these strands additionally nourish the subtle omnipresence of the fantastic, the incomprehensible and the subconscious in his work.
Thomias Radin is a trained dancer and choreographer who is constantly developing his personal style with elements of hip hop, contemporary dance, capoeira and Gwo Ka, the traditional music and dance form of his home archipelago of Guadeloupe. Gwo Ka plays a key role as the music of his ancestors: This culture was developed by the colonially enslaved population of his archipelago, her the improvised music reacts dialogic to the improvised dance and vice versa. This unique art form still generates strength, consolation and a sense of community today; it is a non-verbal act of remembrance and resistance. For him, this results in further important impulses for his artistic work: the physical memories from his dance sessions flow directly into his paintings, and the contentions in his painting influence his choreographies. According to his conception of art, there is no separation of disciplines in his work; all forms of expression are mutually dependent in his expressive work. Movement and the resulting transformation of shape and condition thus remain constants in his oeuvre. And the mysteriousness of their effect on our existence hovers over everything.

Thomias L. Radin was born in 1993 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe, in the French Antilles and emigrated with his family to European France as a child. He is a French multidisciplinary artist with Afro-Caribbean roots, who received his Bachelor (2018) and Master of Fine Arts from the University of Rennes 2, and has already gained international recognition through his exhibitions and performances.
His bigger solo exhibitions until today are: Rhizome: Time of Revelation, Kunstverein Göttingen (2024), POLYCHROME – The Myth of Karukera & Cibuqueira, Galerie Wedding, Berlin (2023), The Myth of Inner Landscapes, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (2019). His group exhibitions include: Society: Or Infinite Rehearsals, SAVVY Contemporary (2024), Poly: A Fluid Show, KINDL- Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin (2023 – 24), Embodied Spaces: The Body as Architecture, Strada Gallery, New York (2023), Les Enchantées, frontviews at HAUNT, Berlin (2023), The Garden, The Curators Room, Amsterdam (2023), Trangressive: Nonconformist Approaches to Art and the City, Kühlhaus Berlin, Berlin (2022), Non Playable character, The Fairest, 59th Venice biennale, Venice (2022), Home Alone, ATM Gallery, New York (2020), Berlin-Lagos Mobility and Heritage, Galerie Wedding, Berlin (2018).
His art is also essentially based on his collective practice with other artists and guests: he curates exhibitions, choreographs meetings and programmes of contemporary dance, he teaches his skills and gives workshops. Among other things, he is a guest lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts. Thomias Radin currently lives and works in Berlin.

Text by Stephan Klee

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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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THE EDITION OF THE SHOW

Thomias Radin
What a time to be alive, 2022/24
Edition 15 + 3 AP
H 42 cm x W 35.3 cm
Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print on
HAHNEMÜHLE Museum Etching, rough-matt natural white, acid-free, 100% cotton, 350 gsm

Courtesy of the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul
Price: 320 € / 240 € for members of KV Göttingen

The Kunstverein Göttingen considers itself very fortunate that Thomias Radin has produced an edition of one of his most impressive paintings for us. With this purchase you not only bring a wonderful work into your private space, but you also support the work of the Kunstverein Göttingen for contemporary young art and the artists involved.
> If you are interested, please contact us here: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

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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

The new draft budget of the city has been made public now since Friday, 13. Sep and Göttingen’s culture is threatened with severe cuts. It´s a situation that needs to be addressed, discussed, and informed about. The Kunstverein Götingen e.V. also cordially invites you to this discussion evening – the occasion is urgent! On Tuesday, 24.09.2024 // Admission is free.

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, Kartago Film, 2023, Photography by Emmet Holmes-Boyes

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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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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

WELTEN WANDLER N°3

Thomias Radin
Rhizome: Time of Revelation

Cover Image: RIVÂL – a collaborative film by Thomias Radin, Alex Brack, Mats Meisen, Kartago Film, 2023,  photo by Emmet Holmes-Boyes

The works of Thomias Radin are collages of cultural references in various forms of artistic expression in which he explores questions of identity and cognition. He describes his dance performances, paintings, installations, objects and social happenings as representations of “inner struggles” and attempts to reveal the tensions of a double consciousness: one that is shaped by the intellect and one that is at home in the physical experience of the black body. Colours, elements and memories of everyday life in his native Guadeloupe are fused with the urban culture of France, the lifestyle of the African-Caribbean diaspora and highly visible influences from the history of European painting in his multi-material works. In particular, the wood crafts from his family’s tradition form the material basis of his work groups.
These experimental collages of thematic references, everyday materials, full of familiar forms and images, which also incorporate music and dance, are reminiscent of the postmodern techniques of cutting, sampling and looping in hip-hop music. However, in the visual arts, Dadaism and Surrealism already celebrated the unconventional assembly of seemingly unrelated fragments as an inexhaustible method of opening up new and surprising accesses to a hidden reality.
Radin’s creative cosmos is even larger. It feeds not only on the reanimation of Surrealism, Gothic altarpieces or Baroque master paintings but also on motifs and symbols from Egyptian and ancient mythology, Christian iconography and even the spiritual formal language of the hybrid cultural fusion of the Caribbean finds its way into his pictorial canon. All these strands additionally nourish the subtle omnipresence of the fantastic, the incomprehensible and the subconscious in his work.
Thomias Radin is a trained dancer and choreographer who is constantly developing his personal style with elements of hip hop, contemporary dance, capoeira and Gwo Ka, the traditional music and dance form of his home archipelago of Guadeloupe. Gwo Ka plays a key role as the music of his ancestors: This culture was developed by the colonially enslaved population of his archipelago, her the improvised music reacts dialogic to the improvised dance and vice versa. This unique art form still generates strength, consolation and a sense of community today; it is a non-verbal act of remembrance and resistance. For him, this results in further important impulses for his artistic work: the physical memories from his dance sessions flow directly into his paintings, and the contentions in his painting influence his choreographies. According to his conception of art, there is no separation of disciplines in his work; all forms of expression are mutually dependent in his expressive work. Movement and the resulting transformation of shape and condition thus remain constants in his oeuvre. And the mysteriousness of their effect on our existence hovers over everything.

Thomias L. Radin was born in 1993 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe, in the French Antilles and emigrated with his family to European France as a child. He is a French multidisciplinary artist with Afro-Caribbean roots, who received his Bachelor (2018) and Master of Fine Arts from the University of Rennes 2, and has already gained international recognition through his exhibitions and performances.
His bigger solo exhibitions until today are: Rhizome: Time of Revelation, Kunstverein Göttingen (2024), POLYCHROME – The Myth of Karukera & Cibuqueira, Galerie Wedding, Berlin (2023), The Myth of Inner Landscapes, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (2019). His group exhibitions include: Society: Or Infinite Rehearsals, SAVVY Contemporary (2024), Poly: A Fluid Show, KINDL- Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin (2023 – 24), Embodied Spaces: The Body as Architecture, Strada Gallery, New York (2023), Les Enchantées, frontviews at HAUNT, Berlin (2023), The Garden, The Curators Room, Amsterdam (2023), Trangressive: Nonconformist Approaches to Art and the City, Kühlhaus Berlin, Berlin (2022), Non Playable character, The Fairest, 59th Venice biennale, Venice (2022), Home Alone, ATM Gallery, New York (2020), Berlin-Lagos Mobility and Heritage, Galerie Wedding, Berlin (2018).
His art is also essentially based on his collective practice with other artists and guests: he curates exhibitions, choreographs meetings and programmes of contemporary dance, he teaches his skills and gives workshops. Among other things, he is a guest lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts. Thomias Radin currently lives and works in Berlin.

Text by Stephan Klee

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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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THE EDITION OF THE SHOW

Thomias Radin
What a time to be alive, 2022/24
Edition 15 + 3 AP
H 42 cm x W 35.3 cm
Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print on
HAHNEMÜHLE Museum Etching, rough-matt natural white, acid-free, 100% cotton, 350 gsm

Courtesy of the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul
Price: 320 € / 240 € for members of KV Göttingen

The Kunstverein Göttingen considers itself very fortunate that Thomias Radin has produced an edition of one of his most impressive paintings for us. With this purchase you not only bring a wonderful work into your private space, but you also support the work of the Kunstverein Göttingen for contemporary young art and the artists involved.
> If you are interested, please contact us here: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

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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

WELTEN WANDLER N°3

Thomias Radin
Rhizome: Time of Revelation

Cover Image: RIVÂL – a collaborative film by Thomias Radin, Alex Brack, Mats Meisen, Kartago Film, 2023,  photo by Emmet Holmes-Boyes

The works of Thomias Radin are collages of cultural references in various forms of artistic expression in which he explores questions of identity and cognition. He describes his dance performances, paintings, installations, objects and social happenings as representations of “inner struggles” and attempts to reveal the tensions of a double consciousness: one that is shaped by the intellect and one that is at home in the physical experience of the black body. Colours, elements and memories of everyday life in his native Guadeloupe are fused with the urban culture of France, the lifestyle of the African-Caribbean diaspora and highly visible influences from the history of European painting in his multi-material works. In particular, the wood crafts from his family’s tradition form the material basis of his work groups.
These experimental collages of thematic references, everyday materials, full of familiar forms and images, which also incorporate music and dance, are reminiscent of the postmodern techniques of cutting, sampling and looping in hip-hop music. However, in the visual arts, Dadaism and Surrealism already celebrated the unconventional assembly of seemingly unrelated fragments as an inexhaustible method of opening up new and surprising accesses to a hidden reality.
Radin’s creative cosmos is even larger. It feeds not only on the reanimation of Surrealism, Gothic altarpieces or Baroque master paintings but also on motifs and symbols from Egyptian and ancient mythology, Christian iconography and even the spiritual formal language of the hybrid cultural fusion of the Caribbean finds its way into his pictorial canon. All these strands additionally nourish the subtle omnipresence of the fantastic, the incomprehensible and the subconscious in his work.
Thomias Radin is a trained dancer and choreographer who is constantly developing his personal style with elements of hip hop, contemporary dance, capoeira and Gwo Ka, the traditional music and dance form of his home archipelago of Guadeloupe. Gwo Ka plays a key role as the music of his ancestors: This culture was developed by the colonially enslaved population of his archipelago, her the improvised music reacts dialogic to the improvised dance and vice versa. This unique art form still generates strength, consolation and a sense of community today; it is a non-verbal act of remembrance and resistance. For him, this results in further important impulses for his artistic work: the physical memories from his dance sessions flow directly into his paintings, and the contentions in his painting influence his choreographies. According to his conception of art, there is no separation of disciplines in his work; all forms of expression are mutually dependent in his expressive work. Movement and the resulting transformation of shape and condition thus remain constants in his oeuvre. And the mysteriousness of their effect on our existence hovers over everything.

Thomias L. Radin was born in 1993 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe, in the French Antilles and emigrated with his family to European France as a child. He is a French multidisciplinary artist with Afro-Caribbean roots, who received his Bachelor (2018) and Master of Fine Arts from the University of Rennes 2, and has already gained international recognition through his exhibitions and performances.
His bigger solo exhibitions until today are: Rhizome: Time of Revelation, Kunstverein Göttingen (2024), POLYCHROME – The Myth of Karukera & Cibuqueira, Galerie Wedding, Berlin (2023), The Myth of Inner Landscapes, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (2019). His group exhibitions include: Society: Or Infinite Rehearsals, SAVVY Contemporary (2024), Poly: A Fluid Show, KINDL- Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin (2023 – 24), Embodied Spaces: The Body as Architecture, Strada Gallery, New York (2023), Les Enchantées, frontviews at HAUNT, Berlin (2023), The Garden, The Curators Room, Amsterdam (2023), Trangressive: Nonconformist Approaches to Art and the City, Kühlhaus Berlin, Berlin (2022), Non Playable character, The Fairest, 59th Venice biennale, Venice (2022), Home Alone, ATM Gallery, New York (2020), Berlin-Lagos Mobility and Heritage, Galerie Wedding, Berlin (2018).
His art is also essentially based on his collective practice with other artists and guests: he curates exhibitions, choreographs meetings and programmes of contemporary dance, he teaches his skills and gives workshops. Among other things, he is a guest lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts. Thomias Radin currently lives and works in Berlin.

Text by Stephan Klee

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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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THE EDITION OF THE SHOW

Thomias Radin
What a time to be alive, 2022/24
Edition 15 + 3 AP
H 42 cm x W 35.3 cm
Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print on
HAHNEMÜHLE Museum Etching, rough-matt natural white, acid-free, 100% cotton, 350 gsm

Courtesy of the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul
Price: 320 € / 240 € for members of KV Göttingen

The Kunstverein Göttingen considers itself very fortunate that Thomias Radin has produced an edition of one of his most impressive paintings for us. With this purchase you not only bring a wonderful work into your private space, but you also support the work of the Kunstverein Göttingen for contemporary young art and the artists involved.
> If you are interested, please contact us here: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

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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

Vernissage

The team of the Kunstverein would like to invite you to the
opening reception of the solo exhibition

WELTEN WANDLER N°3

Thomias Radin
Rhizome: Time of Revelation

5 pm – Reception and opening speeches
6 pm – Premiere of the movie RIVÂL, Kartago Films
7 pm – Closing and get-together

The artist Thomias Radin and the curator Stephan Klee will be present from 17:00 – 20:00. After the welcome and short opening speeches at 17:00, the Göttingen premiere of the performance film RIVÂL, which was completed by the artist in 2023 and will be a permanent part of the exhibition, will be shown at 18:00. Afterwards there will be time to reflect on the works and one or the other good drink.

Veranstaltungsfoto: RIVÂL – a collaborative film by Thomias Radin, Alex Brack, Mats Meisen, Kartago Film, Fotografie von Emmet Holmes-Boyes

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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.

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

Panel Talk
Dennis Scholl “Neue Wunden oder Vom Beginn der Unmittelbarkeit”

( New wounds or
On the Beginning of  Immediacy)

with Dr. Alexander Leinemann und Stephan Klee

Saturday, 10.08.24 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
5:00 – 6:00 pm: Guided tour of the exhibition by Dr. Leinemann and Mr Klee
6:00 – 7:00 pm: Open Panel Discussion with Dr. Leinemann, Mr Klee and the visitors

Topic
“The Creatures in Transition”
– Christian and ancient iconography in Dennis Scholl’s work –
Guided tour of the exhibition and discussion with Dr Alexander Leinemann, art historian
and Stephan Klee, curator of the exhibition

Dennis Scholl’s pictorial world generates itself as a mystical, primordial nature in which humans, animals and plants come together and find themselves in enigmatic moments of ‘silence within the transition’. These culmination points are often characterized by intensive exchange processes between the beings, whether they are of a physical or symbolic nature. Cover by signs of heightened physical activity such as drops of sweat or blood, the depicted touch each other tenderly, they grow or intertwine. These subtle metamorphoses are richly complemented by motifs from Christian and Ancient mythology and elevate the events to a timeless and more spiritual level. But which signs, symbols and protagonists actually appear? – and what do they stand for?

After a joint tour through the works with a direct discussion about what is depicted, Dr. Leinemann and Stephan Klee will explore the topics in greater depth in an open dialogue on the podium. The focus will be on people’s relationship to the wilderness as a place with an increased potential for transformation and what all this might have to do with our current relationship to the environment.

“Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?”
Donna J. Haraway

About our Guest Expert:
Dr. Alexander Leinemann studied art history and history at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and has been a student/research assistant for Prof Dr Michael Thimann since 2015. In 2017 and 2019, he received the residential and doctoral scholarship of the City of Göttingen. He worked on the DFG-funded research project ‘ASCH’ from 2017-2018 and has been an elected member of the advisory board of the Göttinger Künstlerhaus since 2017. He has been working as a freelance research assistant at the Sprengel Museum Hannover since 2018. He graduated with a Master of Arts in 2019 and completed his doctorate at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen with the MKM Küppersmühle scholarship on the topic: ‘Allover – Genesis and History of a Concept in the Context of Jackson Pollock’.

We ask for your pre-booking under: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or +49 (0) 551 – 44 8 99

We would like to thank our sponsors: Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, City of Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. Sparkasse Göttingen
With the support of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Trustee Programme EHF 2010

WELTEN WANDLER N°2

Dennis Scholl
Neue Wunden oder
Vom Beginn der Unmittelbarkeit

( New wounds or
On the Beginning of  Immediacy)

What happens to us when we go into the woods? Although most people in these times have the choice of staying in their orderly urban environment or purposefully venturing into the realm of trees, lichens, mosses, and animals, even nowadays in cultivated forests many excursionists still perceive the typical aromas of the wilderness wafting through the undergrowth and they sense the presence of other creatures in a variety of ways.
Have millions of years of life in the forest inscribed themselves into a collective human subconscious? And why is there an ambivalence in the wild between the feeling of one’s own strength and heightened awareness of beauty, but also of danger?

“Now the taste for beauty is best formed in the free, where there is neither house nor landlord”
Henry D. Thoreau in “Walden”, p. 38

Being “free” also means being liberated from all the rules of settling down and being open to life. However, the beauty of natural unfolding is based on a constant struggle for survival in conditions that are difficult to control and in constant exchange with other creatures, whether this is wanted or not. 

Dennis Scholl uses this heightened existential potential of pristine nature in his paintings, as he usually chooses light groves or deep forests as the setting for his figurations. In the twilight of the morning sun or early evening, softly dappled by the shadows cast by the leaves, enigmatic figures indulge in their actions and inclinations. Sometimes people, sometimes animals, or creatures in metamorphosis, they seem to be guided by secrets and rituals. Mysterious symbols and objects as well as wondrous signs, such as ornaments of drops and floating flames, further alienate the situations. The depicted are connected in states of transition: from intactness to injury, from grounding to dissolution, from affection to loss, generally from inwardness to alienation. Scholl sensitively and delicately explores the psyche of his protagonists at these culminating points of encounter.
In these paintings and drawings, he draws on the rich world of myths and beliefs of the European continent, his homeland. His paintings blend ancient legends and Christian iconography with impressions of his personal environment and detailed knowledge of the omnipresent flora and fauna depicted. In forests full of refractions of light and active shadows, which once also characterized Central Europe, the depictions evolve between brutality and splendour, between violence and tenderness with each work, and his seemingly coherent pictorial world becomes more complex. Realized with old-masterly skill, the genuine qualities of the medium of oil painting literally illuminate these charged scenes of timeless melancholy.

Of this year’s four solo exhibitors, Dennis Scholl is the only native German. He was born in 1980 in Hünfeld, Germany, and grew up near Fulda. He completed his studies from 2002 to 2007 in the classes of professors Franz Ehrhard Walther, Andreas Slominski, and Michael Diers. As early as 2005, he took part in important exhibitions at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, followed by numerous international solo and group exhibitions to date. Galerie Michael Haas Berlin, DSC Gallery Prague, and Podium Gallery Hong Kong, among others, represent his works on the art market. Dennis Scholl is a fellow of the Trustee Program EHF of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and lives and works in Berlin.

Text by Stephan Klee

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Programme

Sun 05.05.24, 11:30 am –02:00 pm: Vernissage – Reception with speeches and the edition by Dennis Scholl

Sun 14.07.24, 03:00 pm – 04:00 pm: Guided Sunday Exhibition Tour with  Justus M. Müller

Sun 28.07.24, 03:00 pm – 04:00 pm: Guided Sunday Exhibition Tour with  Justus M. Müller

Sat 10.08.24 05:00 pm – 07:00 pm: Guided Exhibition Tour and open Panel Talk with Dr. Alexander Leinemann, Art Historian and Stephan Klee, Curator of the exhibition

Sun 11.08.24, 03:00 pm – 05:00 pm: Finissage with Guided Exhibition Tour and Edition

Please book your participation in the events at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettigen.de respectively by telephone at +49 (0) 551-44899

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THE EDITION OF THE SHOW

Dennis Scholl Senden und Empfangen, 2024,
digital drawing, 40 x 27.7 cm,
age-resistant digital FINE ART pigment print on Hahnemühle Ultrasmooth 305g/m²,
edition of 15 / 3 AP,
price: 320 € / 240 € for members of the KV Göttingen.

For all those who are fascinated by Dennis Scholl’s dazzling visual world, the Kunstverein Göttingen has created this exquisite edition. By purchasing the piece at this special price, you are not only securing this exceptional work as your own, but you are also supporting the work of the Kunstverein Göttingen for contemporary young art and the artists involved.

> If you are interested, please contact us here: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

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The Annual Programme 2024

TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN – ( 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 land, 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.
The second solo exhibition of 2024 is dedicated to current paintings and drawings by Dennis Scholl, which allow an enchanted and iridescent pictorial world that has grown over decades to enter the daylit rooms of the Künstlerhaus Göttingen.

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We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen,  Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. , Sparkasse Göttingen
With the support of the Trustee Programme for the promotion of artists EHF 2010 of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Finissage

The current works by artists with roots in five continents are dedicated to the emergence of the fantastic in the everyday experience of a supposedly rationally explainable environment: Does the fantastic fundamentally question our modern view of the world? Or is and has the fantastic always been an essential component of human perception and reality? The art movements of Surrealism and Magical Realism already dealt with this tense relationship; the contemporary positions gathered in the exhibition take up these questions again, revitalising and further developing key art movements of modernism.
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The team of the Kunstverein invites you to the joint closing of the international group exhibition on Friday, 12.07.24, 18:00 – 20:00.

There will be a final guided tour of the exhibition with Stephan Klee at 18:00 and then the last opportunity to ask questions and reflect together on aspects of the exhibition. We are looking forward to a relaxed, informal evening with a drink or two and look forward to seeing you there.

Please register in advance at: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or +49 (0) 551 – 44 8 99

Für alle Freunde von phantastischer figurativer Kunst hat der Kunstverein Göttingen eine exquisite Edition aufgelegt:
Runa Ikeda The shadow of the living light – 生ける光の影 / Edition, 2024, alterungsbeständiger Digitaler FINE ART – Pigmentdruck auf HAHNEMÜHLE Bamboo, rauh-matt 280g/m², Auflage 15 / 3 AP, Preis: 320 € / 240 € für Mitglieder des KV Göttingen

Als Dank für eine wichtige Spende zum Programm holen Sie sich nicht nur eine wunderbare Arbeit in Ihre Privaträume, sondern Sie unterstützen auch die Arbeit des Kunstvereins Göttingen für zeitgenössische junge Kunst und die beteiligten Kunstschaffenden.   >> Bei Interesse kontaktieren Sie uns bitte hier: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

Wir danken unseren Förderern: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Stiftung Niedersachsen, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. und Sparkasse Göttingen.

Reading and panel discussion as part of the exhibition TERRA DIASPORA – Welten Wandeln
Art meets literature: the novel Uprooted by Indian author Alka Saraogi

Monday, 01.07.24 at 19:00 – 21:00

Reading and discussion with the author, the translator Prof. Dr. Almuth Degener, University of Mainz, and the co-curator of the exhibition Nicola E. Petek;
Moderation: Dr. Ines Fornell, Seminar for Indology and Tibetology at the University of Göttingen;
in cooperation with the Literaturforum Indien e. V.

This new novel of contemporary Indian literature, which has just been published in a direct German translation, deals literarily with the theme of the exhibition TERRA DIASPORA – Welten Wandeln: in the world of East and West Bengal, characterized by pogroms against people of other faiths after the partition of the subcontinent at the end of British colonial rule over India, the story of Kulbhushan unfolds, who, as a refugee between home and new beginnings, remains an uprooted person and at the same time shows unexpected strengths. The author’s poetic language allows us to experience this story in all its contradictions in an emotionally moving way.

The exhibition can of course be viewed both before and after the reading event; the co-curator Nicola Petek will be available from 18:30 to 19:00 and from around 21:00 to 21:30 to answer questions and talk about the works on display in the exhibition.

We will be happy to receive your pre-registration at: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or +49 (0) 551 – 44 8 99

Wir danken unseren Förderern: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Stiftung Niedersachsen, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. und Sparkasse Göttingen.

WELTEN WANDLER N°2

Dennis Scholl
Neue Wunden oder
Vom Beginn der Unmittelbarkeit

( New wounds or
On the Beginning of  Immediacy)

What happens to us when we go into the woods? Although most people in these times have the choice of staying in their orderly urban environment or purposefully venturing into the realm of trees, lichens, mosses, and animals, even nowadays in cultivated forests many excursionists still perceive the typical aromas of the wilderness wafting through the undergrowth and they sense the presence of other creatures in a variety of ways.
Have millions of years of life in the forest inscribed themselves into a collective human subconscious? And why is there an ambivalence in the wild between the feeling of one’s own strength and heightened awareness of beauty, but also of danger?

“Now the taste for beauty is best formed in the free, where there is neither house nor landlord”
Henry D. Thoreau in “Walden”, p. 38

Being “free” also means being liberated from all the rules of settling down and being open to life. However, the beauty of natural unfolding is based on a constant struggle for survival in conditions that are difficult to control and in constant exchange with other creatures, whether this is wanted or not. 

Dennis Scholl uses this heightened existential potential of pristine nature in his paintings, as he usually chooses light groves or deep forests as the setting for his figurations. In the twilight of the morning sun or early evening, softly dappled by the shadows cast by the leaves, enigmatic figures indulge in their actions and inclinations. Sometimes people, sometimes animals, or creatures in metamorphosis, they seem to be guided by secrets and rituals. Mysterious symbols and objects as well as wondrous signs, such as ornaments of drops and floating flames, further alienate the situations. The depicted are connected in states of transition: from intactness to injury, from grounding to dissolution, from affection to loss, generally from inwardness to alienation. Scholl sensitively and delicately explores the psyche of his protagonists at these culminating points of encounter.
In these paintings and drawings, he draws on the rich world of myths and beliefs of the European continent, his homeland. His paintings blend ancient legends and Christian iconography with impressions of his personal environment and detailed knowledge of the omnipresent flora and fauna depicted. In forests full of refractions of light and active shadows, which once also characterized Central Europe, the depictions evolve between brutality and splendour, between violence and tenderness with each work, and his seemingly coherent pictorial world becomes more complex. Realized with old-masterly skill, the genuine qualities of the medium of oil painting literally illuminate these charged scenes of timeless melancholy.

Of this year’s four solo exhibitors, Dennis Scholl is the only native German. He was born in 1980 in Hünfeld, Germany, and grew up near Fulda. He completed his studies from 2002 to 2007 in the classes of professors Franz Ehrhard Walther, Andreas Slominski, and Michael Diers. As early as 2005, he took part in important exhibitions at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, followed by numerous international solo and group exhibitions to date. Galerie Michael Haas Berlin, DSC Gallery Prague, and Podium Gallery Hong Kong, among others, represent his works on the art market. Dennis Scholl is a fellow of the Trustee Program EHF of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and lives and works in Berlin.

Text by Stephan Klee

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Programme

Sun 05.05.24, 11:30 am –02:00 pm: Vernissage – Reception with speeches and the edition by Dennis Scholl

Sun 14.07.24, 03:00 pm – 04:00 pm: Guided Sunday Exhibition Tour with  Justus M. Müller

Sun 28.07.24, 03:00 pm – 04:00 pm: Guided Sunday Exhibition Tour with  Justus M. Müller

Sat 10.08.24 05:00 pm – 07:00 pm: Guided Exhibition Tour and open Panel Talk with Dr. Alexander Leinemann, Art Historian and Stephan Klee, Curator of the exhibition

Sun 11.08.24, 03:00 pm – 05:00 pm: Finissage with Guided Exhibition Tour and Edition

Please book your participation in the events at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettigen.de respectively by telephone at +49 (0) 551-44899

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THE EDITION OF THE SHOW

Dennis Scholl Senden und Empfangen, 2024,
digital drawing, 40 x 27.7 cm,
age-resistant digital FINE ART pigment print on Hahnemühle Ultrasmooth 305g/m²,
edition of 15 / 3 AP,
price: 320 € / 240 € for members of the KV Göttingen.

For all those who are fascinated by Dennis Scholl’s dazzling visual world, the Kunstverein Göttingen has created this exquisite edition. By purchasing the piece at this special price, you are not only securing this exceptional work as your own, but you are also supporting the work of the Kunstverein Göttingen for contemporary young art and the artists involved.

> If you are interested, please contact us here: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

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The Annual Programme 2024

TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN – ( 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 land, 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.
The second solo exhibition of 2024 is dedicated to current paintings and drawings by Dennis Scholl, which allow an enchanted and iridescent pictorial world that has grown over decades to enter the daylit rooms of the Künstlerhaus Göttingen.

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We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen,  Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. , Sparkasse Göttingen
With the support of the Trustee Programme for the promotion of artists EHF 2010 of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

TERRA DIASPORA – Welten Wandeln – Changing Worlds

Ellen Akimoto, Cian Dayrit, Marianna Ignataki, Runa Ikeda, Oda Jaune, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Thorsten Alexander Kasper, Rosa Loy, Kelechi Nwaneri, So Young Park, Thomias Radin, Dennis Scholl, Sara Umar, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Geng Xue

curated by Nicola E. Petek & Stephan Klee

The current works by artists with roots in five continents are dedicated to the emergence of the fantastic in the everyday experience of a supposedly rationally explainable environment: Does the fantastic fundamentally question our modern view of the world? Or is and has the fantastic always been an essential component of human perception and reality? The art movements of Surrealism and Magical Realism already dealt with this tense relationship; the contemporary positions gathered in the exhibition take up these questions again, revitalising and further developing key art movements of modernism.

Ideas of the enchanted, of the enchanted, but also of enchantment are created here – using techniques such as collage, alienation, sacralisation, encryption, subjective re-narration – or even digital methods. Logical connections are often dissolved in order to imaginatively reconnect the loose ends. Absurd juxtapositions of things that actually have nothing to do with each other in the usual reality are accepted – or do they?

Specially created worlds form the respective surroundings in the works, oscillating between fantastic landscape, dream and subconscious, while incorporating references to visual cultural history. Visitors to the exhibition are invited to follow the artists on display as they traverse, record, capture, and simultaneously change various areas of reality: Changing worlds.

• Sun 05.05.24, 11:30 am –02:00 pm: Vernissage – Reception with speeches, live music by Trio d’anches, and
  the edition by Runa Ikeda
  
• Sun 26.05.24, 03:00 pm: Sunday guided tour with Justus M. Müller
• Sat 15.06.24, 05:00 pm – 08:00 pm: Guided tour & panel discussion with special guests and curator Stephan Klee
• Mon 01.07.24, 07:00 – 09:00 pm: Literature meets art: Alka Saraogi: Uprooted – reading and talk with special guests and curator Nicola E. Petek
• Sun 07.07.24, 03:00 pm: Sunday guided tour with  Justus M. Müller
• Fri 12.07.24, 06:00 – 08:00 Uhr: Finissage with guided tour & edition

Please book your participation in the events at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or  klee@kunstvereingoettigen.de respectively by telephone at 0551-44899

The Kunstverein Göttingen has created an exquisite edition for all friends of fantastic figurative art:
Runa Ikeda The shadow of the living light – 生ける光の影 / Edition, 2024, age-resistant digital FINE ART – pigment print on HAHNEMÜHLE Bamboo, rough-matt 280g/m², edition of 15 / 3 AP, price: 320 € / 240 € for members of the KV Göttingen

As a thank you for an important donation to the programme, you are not only bringing a wonderful work of art into your private space, but you are also supporting the work of the Kunstverein Göttingen for contemporary young art and the artists involved. >> If you are interested, please contact us here: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

The Annual Programme 2024
TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN – ( 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 land, 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. For the central group exhibition Welten Wandeln Nicola E. Petek – an expert of figurative contemporary art – is the Co Curator. As a curator-duo together they conceive and arrange fifteen international artistic positions to provide an astonishing array of actual, fantastic, subjective, and playful approaches to the topic in the medieval exhibitions halls of Altes Rathaus Göttingen.

We would like to thank our sponsors: Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, Stiftung Niedersachsen, City of Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. und Sparkasse Göttingen.