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The Long Afternoon of Art – Marjolijn Dijkman

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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

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

 

…

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.”
…

 

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

 

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

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.

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 – Marjolijn Dijkman

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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

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

 

…

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.”
…

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

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

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.

 

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.

Exhibition – Marjolijn Dijkman

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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.

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

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.

 

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

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.

 

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 – TERRA DIASPORA

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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

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.

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.

 

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.

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.

Exhibition – TERRA DIASPORA

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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

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

 

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.

 

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.

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.