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