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Opening: Mercedes Azpilicueta

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Opening: Friday 13 October from 6-8pm.


Tierra desnuda, cielo desnudo is about the potential for poetic interpretation inherent in translation. Translation constantly takes place in Mercedes Azpilicueta’s practice: the literal translations of words; the translation of ideas into material and vice versa; and in Göttingen, the works’ translation into an exhibition context. The exhibition’s Spanish title Tierra desnuda, cielo desnudotranslates to “naked earth, naked sky”. Earth and sky, the corporeal and the cerebral, are denuded, rendered vulnerable, left open for translation. The artist’s practice of translation takes place in the space between, all the while serving a uniting function in the process. Between artist and object, between object and viewer, between material and meaning, between earth and sky, between body and mind.

Mercedes Azpilicueta’s solo exhibition at Kunstverein Göttingen lays bare just how subjective language, history, stories and objects are. The artist is not judgemental or critical of things like inherent bias. She rather gently unveils the uneven distribution of power that often accompanies this subjectivity, translating it into unusual material combinations and forms that are a little bit off. The exhibition combines such works with other ostensibly more poetic compositions by the artist. The juxtaposition is not meant to be jarring, rather decentralising of interpretation. The artist’s installations encompass the whole space, dispelling any preconceived distinction between art and exhibition design. Architectural elements mingle with airy freestanding and hanging sculptures made of re-purposed objects and materials that hold personal stories and socio-cultural histories within them. 

Curated by Sarah Crowe and Alke Heykes.


Mercedes Azpilicueta is a visual and performance artist from Buenos Aires living and working in Amsterdam. She was an artist in residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam in 2015-16, and received the Pernod Ricard Fellowship in 2017. Solo exhibitions include Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam (2023); Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf (2022/23); Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (2022); NoguerasBlanchard, Madrid (2022); Gasworks, London (2021); CAC Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge (2021); Museion, Bolzano/Bozen (2020); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2019); CentroCentro, Madrid (2019); and MAMBA, Buenos Aires (2018). Her work is also currently on view at Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands. Azpilicueta was nominated for the Prix de Rome in 2021.


The exhibition will take place at the Altes Rathaus in cooperation with the City of Göttingen’s Fachdienst Kultur. We thank our funding partners: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, LEAP, AKB Stiftung, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V and Sparkasse Göttingen.

Mercedes Azpilicueta

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Tierra desnuda, cielo desnudo is about the potential for poetic interpretation inherent in translation. Translation constantly takes place in Mercedes Azpilicueta’s practice: the literal translations of words; the translation of ideas into material and vice versa; and in Göttingen, the works’ translation into an exhibition context. The exhibition’s Spanish title Tierra desnuda, cielo desnudo translates to “naked earth, naked sky”. Earth and sky, the corporeal and the cerebral, are denuded, rendered vulnerable, left open for translation. The artist’s practice of translation takes place in the space between, all the while serving a uniting function in the process. Between artist and object, between object and viewer, between material and meaning, between earth and sky, between body and mind.

Mercedes Azpilicueta’s solo exhibition at Kunstverein Göttingen lays bare just how subjective language, history, stories and objects are. The artist is not judgemental or critical of things like inherent bias. She rather gently unveils the uneven distribution of power that often accompanies this subjectivity, translating it into unusual material combinations and forms that are a little bit off. The exhibition combines such works with other ostensibly more poetic compositions by the artist. The juxtaposition is not meant to be jarring, rather decentralising of interpretation. The artist’s installations encompass the whole space, dispelling any preconceived distinction between art and exhibition design. Architectural elements mingle with airy freestanding and hanging sculptures made of re-purposed objects and materials that hold personal stories and socio-cultural histories within them. 

Curated by Sarah Crowe and Alke Heykes.

 

 


Mercedes Azpilicueta is a visual and performance artist from Buenos Aires living and working in Amsterdam. She was an artist in residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam in 2015-16, and received the Pernod Ricard Fellowship in 2017. Solo exhibitions include Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam (2023); Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf (2022/23); Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (2022); NoguerasBlanchard, Madrid (2022); Gasworks, London (2021); CAC Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge (2021); Museion, Bolzano/Bozen (2020); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2019); CentroCentro, Madrid (2019); and MAMBA, Buenos Aires (2018). Her work is also currently on view at Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands. Azpilicueta was nominated for the Prix de Rome in 2021.


The exhibition will take place at the Altes Rathaus in cooperation with the City of Göttingen’s Fachdienst Kultur. We thank our funding partners: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, LEAP, AKB Stiftung, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V and Sparkasse Göttingen.

Insides Out

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Opening: Friday 18 August from 6-8pm.


We think, feel and understand with our whole being, not just our heads. Despite the separation of mind and body that still prevails in the West, the artistic practices in “Insides Out” render feelings and perception material as one with the body. The exhibition demonstrates a changing Western acknowledgment of the body as more than just a receptor for feelings or a receiver of transmissions from the mind. Physical intelligence is grasped through a materially embodied experience: feeling and knowledge are not only reflected through a physical form but exist as such. Daiga Grantina, Yein Lee and Tenant of Culture bridge the now narrowing but still prevalent gap between mind and body through traditionally art-adjacent materials and hand-craft techniques. The materiality of their chosen mediums inherently addresses tangible feelings and their physical practices are a direct material experience of perception, merely by way of doing as an act.

Notions of self and society are subject to socio-cultural and historical influence. Daiga Grantina, Yein Lee and Tenant of Culture acknowledge how our experience of the world, with all its implications, is a complex exchange of body and mind with the world. It is their artistic practices that aid them in coming to terms with this experience. They develop concepts that unite our physical forms and modes of perception by making material things with their own bodies, adopting context-laden practices and techniques to do so. The shell of the body, i.e. the material spirit, is porous and permeable, it both expands outwards into the world and dissolves within it, in inseparable, abstract, associative and poetic constellations of the interior and exterior. 

The exhibition title “Insides Out” not only describes the symbiosis of the intellectual with the corporeal – the material mind – but also refers to the transfer of this physical, experiential complex beyond the human body. The body becomes boundary-less and thus our ability to perceive the world multiplies and disperses within it.

Curated by Sarah Crowe and Alke Heykes.

 

 

The exhibition will take place at the Altes Rathaus in cooperation with the City of Göttingen’s Fachdienst Kultur. We thank our funding partners: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Stiftung Niedersachsen, Sparkasse Göttingen, Stadt Göttingen and Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V.

 

Opening: Andy Fitz

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Andy Fitz plays house at Kunstverein Göttingen for their first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, Stumped! Again! A domestic setting unfolds in repetitions of three work groups: wooden furniture, white mantle-piece ornaments and standing lamps. The familiarity of the scene falters upon close encounter. A parade of chairs awkwardly shape shift and get caught up in one another. Fake wood grain is applied like ribbon to wrapped presents, riddling them with peepholes. Lanky sweeping-brushes attempt to clean up plates that have fallen through gaps in the dining table. Standing lamps join forces to pose as ornamental gatekeepers. The kitsch approachability of these objects is unsettled by a twisted interior logic, resulting in artworks that are both alienating and intimately expressive. 

Andy Fitz was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1989 and currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Fitz graduated with a BA in Fine Art Sculpture from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin in 2012 and subsequently from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste-Städelschule in Frankfurt in 2019. They were awarded the prestigious Artist Studio Residency at ISCP in New York and have been recently commissioned to make a public sculpture in Dublin city centre. Fitz has had solo exhibitions at Kerlin Gallery in Dublin (2019 and 2023), L21 Gallery in Mallorca (2020), and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios in Dublin (2018), among others. Group exhibitions include Elvira, Frankfurt (2021); Spoiler, Berlin (2021) and Portikus, Frankfurt (2020). Later in 2023, Fitz has forthcoming exhibitions at The Complex in Dublin, Bernard Knaus Fine Art in Frankfurt, and Butler Gallery in Kilkenny, Ireland.

Curated by Sarah Crowe and Alke Heykes.

 

 

The exhibition will take place at the Künstlerhaus Göttingen. We thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, Sparkasse Göttingen, Botschaft von Irland in Deutschland, Stadt Göttingen und Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V.

 

Andy Fitz

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Andy Fitz plays house at Kunstverein Göttingen for their first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, Stumped! Again! A domestic setting unfolds in repetitions of three work groups: wooden furniture, white mantle-piece ornaments and standing lamps. The familiarity of the scene falters upon close encounter. A parade of chairs awkwardly shape shift and get caught up in one another. Fake wood grain is applied like ribbon to wrapped presents, riddling them with peepholes. Lanky sweeping-brushes attempt to clean up plates that have fallen through gaps in the dining table. Standing lamps join forces to pose as ornamental gatekeepers. The kitsch approachability of these objects is unsettled by a twisted interior logic, resulting in artworks that are both alienating and intimately expressive. 

Andy Fitz was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1989 and currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Fitz graduated with a BA in Fine Art Sculpture from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin in 2012 and subsequently from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste-Städelschule in Frankfurt in 2019. They were awarded the prestigious Artist Studio Residency at ISCP in New York and have been recently commissioned to make a public sculpture in Dublin city centre. Fitz has had solo exhibitions at Kerlin Gallery in Dublin (2019 and 2023), L21 Gallery in Mallorca (2020), and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios in Dublin (2018), among others. Group exhibitions include Elvira, Frankfurt (2021); Spoiler, Berlin (2021) and Portikus, Frankfurt (2020). Later in 2023, Fitz has forthcoming exhibitions at The Complex in Dublin, Bernard Knaus Fine Art in Frankfurt, and Butler Gallery in Kilkenny, Ireland.

Curated by Sarah Crowe and Alke Heykes.

 

 

 

The exhibition will take place at the Künstlerhaus Göttingen. We thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, Sparkasse Göttingen, Botschaft von Irland in Deutschland, Stadt Göttingen und Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V.