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Finissage Asef–Burckhardt

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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.

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: Asef–Burckhardt

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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?
…

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.

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

Vernissage Asef–Burckhardt

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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

 

 

 

…

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?
…

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.

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

Exhibition Asef–Burckhardt

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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

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

 

 

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.

 

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

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.

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

Finissage: Geng Xue und Runa Ikeda

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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.

 

 

 

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.

 

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

 

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: Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda

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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.

 

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.”

 

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

Vernissage Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda

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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.

 

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

 

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

 

Exhibition Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda

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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.

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

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.

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

 

Finissage Thomias Radin

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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.

 

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

 

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 Long Afternoon of Art: Thomias Radin

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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

 

 

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.

 

 

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