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Vernissage: Thomias Radin

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Vernissage

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

WELTEN WANDLER N°3

Thomias Radin
Rhizome: Time of Revelation

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

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

 

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

 

The works of Thomias Radin (*1993 Abyme, Guadeloupe) are collages of cultural references with which he explores questions of identity and cognition. He himself describes his paintings and objects as representations of „inner life“ and attempts to depict a double consciousness: one that is shaped by the intellect and one that is at home in the physical experience of the black body. Elements and memories of everyday life in his native Guadeloupe home, are combined with the urban culture informed by its practice of Hip-Hop, Afro-diasporic lifestyle and highly visible influences from the history of European painting in his multi-material works. In particular, the wood craftsmanship from his family’s tradition forms the material basis of his work groups.
Thomias Radin is also a trained contemporary dancer, which provides him with further important impulses for his artistic work: the physical memories from his dance sessions flow directly into his paintings, and the confrontations in his painting influence his choreographies. In keeping with his approach to art, there is no separation of disciplines in his work; all forms of expression are mutually dependent on each other in his expressive work.

 

 

The Annual Programme 2024
TERRA DIASPORA – CHANGING WORLDS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In the face of fundamental upheavals in the coexistence of nature and mankind, TERRA DIASPORA stands for a world on the move; for a terrain that is becoming increasingly alien to its inhabitants, and for an earth on which people are becoming foreign bodies. It is an earth in a foreign territory, a terra diaspora.
The first part of the 2024 programme series is called TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN and shows artists, who create new worlds between rational reality, dream, and fantasy. Dubious of a purely functional picture of reality and often affected by family experiences of migration, the exhibited artists connect the accustomed with the new, combine facts with the fantastic and create their own identities out of old stories and new experiences. Worlds are made visible which stem from our roots and emerge when we wander the earth. The 2024-2025 annual programme, developed by curator Stephan Klee and the participating artists, will be overseen by him over the next two years.

In late summer 2024, we are particularly pleased to present the interdisciplinary artist Thomias Radin at the third solo exhibition of the year. His oeuvre moves fluidly between dance, painting, sculpture and film and brings attention to the cultural roots and world concepts of an Afro-Caribbean diaspora, in which a spiritual network of signs, movement and music permeates, transforms, and enriches the questionable principles of Western cultural hegemony.

 

 

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

 

Exhibition Thomias Radin

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WELTEN WANDLER N°3

Thomias Radin
Rhizome: Time of Revelation

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

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

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

Text by Stephan Klee

 

Programme

Sat 17.08.24, 5 – 8 pm
Vernissage – Reception including Speeches and the Premiere of the film RIVÂL (Kartago Films) at 6 pm

Sat 14.09.24, 3 – 8 pm
The Long Art Afternoon with Thomias Radin, Jumoke Adeyanju, and Stephan Klee within the exhibition

Sun 22.09.24, 3 – 4 pm
Sunday guided tour with Justus M. Müller

Sun 06.10.24, 3 – 4 pm
Finissage with guided tour through the exhibition
and the new Edition by Thomias Radin

 

Please reserve your participation in the events at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone on 0551-44899

 

 

 

THE EDITION OF THE SHOW

 

 


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

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

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

 

The Annual Programme 2024
TERRA DIASPORA – CHANGING WORLDS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In the face of fundamental upheavals in the coexistence of nature and mankind, TERRA DIASPORA stands for a world on the move; for a terrain that is becoming increasingly alien to its inhabitants, and for an earth on which people are becoming foreign bodies. It is an earth in a foreign territory, a terra diaspora.
The first part of the 2024 programme series is called TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN and shows artists, who create new worlds between rational reality, dream, and fantasy. Dubious of a purely functional picture of reality and often affected by family experiences of migration, the exhibited artists connect the accustomed with the new, combine facts with the fantastic and create their own identities out of old stories and new experiences. Worlds are made visible which stem from our roots and emerge when we wander the earth. The 2024-2025 annual programme, developed by curator Stephan Klee and the participating artists, will be overseen by him over the next two years.

In late summer 2024, we are particularly pleased to present the interdisciplinary artist Thomias Radin at the third solo exhibition of the year. His oeuvre moves fluidly between dance, painting, sculpture and film and brings attention to the cultural roots and world concepts of an Afro-Caribbean diaspora, in which a spiritual network of signs, movement and music permeates, transforms, and enriches the questionable principles of Western cultural hegemony.

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

 

Vernissage: Dennis Scholl

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Vernissage

WELTEN WANDLER N°2


Dennis Scholl
Neue Wunden oder
Vom Beginn der Unmittelbarkeit

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Dennis Scholl uses this heightened existential potential of pristine nature in his paintings, as he usually chooses light groves or deep forests as the setting for his figurations. In the twilight of the morning sun or early evening, softly dappled by the shadows cast of the leaves, enigmatic figures indulge in their actions and inclinations. Sometimes people, sometimes animals, or creatures in metamorphosis, they seem to be guided by secrets and rituals. Mysterious symbols and objects as well as wondrous signs, such as ornaments of drops and floating flames, further alienate the situations. The depicted are connected in states of transition: from intactness to injury, from grounding to dissolution, from affection to loss, and generally from inwardness to alienation. Scholl sensitively and delicately explores the psyche of his protagonists at these culminating points of encounter.

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The Kunstverein team looks forward to welcoming you to the opening reception of Dennis Scholl’s solo show on Sunday, 30.06.24, 11:30 – 14:00. The exhibition will then remain open until 17:00.

The second solo exhibition of the year 2024 under the leitmotif TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN is dedicated to current paintings and drawings by the Berlin Resident, which allow an enchanted and changing world of images that has grown over decades to enter the daylit rooms of the Künstlerhaus Göttingen.
The artists and the curator will be present, the new edition will be released and drinks will be provided.

 

 

 

Edition by Dennis Scholl
The Kunstverein Göttingen has created an exquisite edition for all those who are fascinated by Dennis Scholl’s dazzling visual world: Dennis Scholl Senden und Empfangen, 2024, digital drawing, 40 x 27.7 cm, age-resistant digital FINE ART pigment print on Hahnemühle Ultrasmooth 305g/m², edition of 15 / 3 AP, price: 320 € / 240 € for members of the KV Göttingen
As a thank you for an important donation to the programme, you are not only bringing a wonderful work into your private space, but you are also supporting the work of the Kunstverein Göttingen for contemporary young art and the artists involved.
> If you are interested, please contact us here: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

 

 

 

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

 

Exhibition Dennis Scholl

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WELTEN WANDLER N°2

Dennis Scholl
Neue Wunden oder
Vom Beginn der Unmittelbarkeit

( New wounds or
On the Beginning of  Immediacy)

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

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

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

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

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

Text by Stephan Klee

 

Programme

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

 

THE EDITION OF THE SHOW

 

 

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

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

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

 

The Annual Programme 2024

TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN – ( CHANGING WORLDS )

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024-2025. In the face of fundamental upheavals in the coexistence of nature and mankind, TERRA DIASPORA stands for a world on the move; for a terrain that is becoming increasingly alien to its inhabitants, and for an earth on which people are becoming foreign bodies. It is an earth in a foreign land, a terra diaspora.
The first part of the 2024 programme series is called TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN and shows artists, who create new worlds between rational reality, dream, and fantasy. Dubious of a purely functional picture of reality and often affected by family experiences of migration, the exhibited artists connect the accustomed with the new, combine facts with the fantastic and create their own identities out of old stories and new experiences. Worlds are made visible which stem from our roots and emerge when we wander the earth.
The 2024-2025 annual programme, developed by curator Stephan Klee and the participating artists, will be overseen by him over the next two years.
The second solo exhibition of 2024 is dedicated to current paintings and drawings by Dennis Scholl, which allow an enchanted and iridescent pictorial world that has grown over decades to enter the daylit rooms of the Künstlerhaus Göttingen.

 

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

 

Finissage: TERRA DIASPORA

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Finissage

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

curated by Nicola E. Petek & Stephan Klee

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

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

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

 

Runa Ikeda The Shadow of the Living Light – 生ける光の影 / Edition, 2024

 

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

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

 

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

Art meets Literature

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

Monday, 01.07.24 at 19:00 – 21:00

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

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

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

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

 

Alka Saraogi “Entwurzelt”, Roman-Cover

 

TERRA DIASPORA – “Welten Wandeln”, Sara Umar Ausstellungsansicht

 

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

Panel Talk: TERRA DIASPORA

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Panel Talk
TERRA DIASPORA – Welten Wandeln

Saturday, 15.06.24 at 17:00 – 19:00
5:00 – 5:45 pm: Guided tour through the exhibition Welten Wandeln with the curator Stephan Klee
6:00 – 7:00 pm: Panel discussion with the artist Marianna Ignataki, the artist Thomias Radin and curator Stephan Klee, moderated by Dr. phil Almut Hüfler

 

Topic

Migration as a source of the fantastic –
New narratives between cultures and the new border regimes

After a guided tour through the exhibition TERRA DIASPORA – Welten Wandeln with the responsible co-curator Stephan Klee and a short break for drinks participants in the exhibition will meet to talk about the influences in their artistic narratives, be it the culture of their countries of origin, experiences during their migration or the inspirations in their new living environment.

Together with Stephan Klee, they will also discuss the limits of the universal idea of human rights in the current global refugee dynamics. Are there connections between the failure of rational, humane politics and the new emergence of „subreal“ narratives and fantastic drafts of the world?

The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Phil. Almut Hüfler from Berlin.
She is a curator, Literature Scientist and is familiar with the positions and the thematic complex, due to an ongoing collaboration with the involved protagonists and actual contention with the topics.

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

 

TERRA DIASPORA – “Welten Wandeln” , exhibtion view Marianna Ignataki

 

TERRA DIASPORA – “Welten Wandeln”, exhibition view Thomias Radin

 

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

Vernissage: TERRA DIASPORA

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Vernissage:

TERRA DIASPORA – Welten Wandeln – Changing Worlds

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

curated by Nicola E. Petek & Stephan Klee

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

 

The team of Kunstverein Göttingen is looking forward to welcoming you to the opening reception of this large group exhibition on Sunday, 05.05.24, 11:30 – 14:00.

In the spacious rooms of Alte Rathaus Göttingen, the managing director Helmut Wenzel and the curator team Nicola E. Petek and Stephan Klee will give introductory speeches. This will be accompanied by Trio d’anches of the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra will perform two pieces by Libor Sima and two tangos will acoustically enrich the event. The association will also be presenting the new edition by Runa Ikeda. Some of the artists in the exhibition and the curatorial duo will be present and drinks will be provided.

The exhibition rooms will be open until 17:00 on this Sunday afternoon.

 

Runa Ikeda The shadow of the living light – 生ける光の影 / Edition, 2024

 

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

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

 

We would like to thank our sponsors: Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and the Arts, Lower Saxony Foundation, City of Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. and Sparkasse Göttingen.

Exhibition TERRA DIASPORA

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TERRA DIASPORA – Welten Wandeln – Changing Worlds

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

curated by Nicola E. Petek & Stephan Klee

 

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

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

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

 

Programme

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

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

 

 

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

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

Runa Ikeda “The Shadow of the Living Light – 生ける光の影 / Edition, 2024

 

The Annual Programme 2024
TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN – ( CHANGING WORLDS )

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024-2025. In the face of fundamental upheavals in the coexistence of nature and mankind, TERRA DIASPORA stands for a world on the move; for a terrain that is becoming increasingly alien to its inhabitants, and for an earth on which people are becoming foreign bodies. It is an earth in a foreign land, a terra diaspora.

The first part of the 2024 programme series is called TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN and shows artists, who create new worlds between rational reality, dream, and fantasy. Dubious of a purely functional picture of reality and often affected by family experiences of migration, the exhibited artists connect the accustomed with the new, combine facts with the fantastic and create their own identities out of old stories and new experiences. Worlds are made visible which stem from our roots and emerge when we wander the earth.
The 2024-2025 annual programme, developed by curator Stephan Klee and the participating artists, will be overseen by him over the next two years. For the central group exhibition Welten Wandeln Nicola E. Petek – an expert of figurative contemporary art – is the Co Curator. As a curator-duo together they conceive and arrange fifteen international artistic positions to provide an astonishing array of actual, fantastic, subjective, and playful approaches to the topic in the medieval exhibitions halls of Altes Rathaus Göttingen.

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

Ellen Akimoto

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WELTEN WANDLERIN N°1
Ellen Akimoto – Matter Ecstatic
> Exhibition tour, artist talk & edition

On the occasion of the first institutional solo presentation of Ellen Akimoto’s paintings,
the Kunstverein Göttingen e.V. is very pleased to invite you to the following event:

Friday, Feb the 2nd at 6 – 8 pm at Künstlerhaus Göttingen, 2nd upper floor
> Guided tour through the exhibition with the artist and the curator
and publication of the edition Ellen Akimoto “Picture Holder”, 2024

> Artist talk with Ellen Akimoto, Dr Anne-Katrin Sors (Custodian of the Art Collection of the University of Göttingen) & the curator Stephan Klee with a concluding open discussion on the topic:

A New Surreality
– Digital Images, AI, Generated Spaces and
the Role of Painting as a Contemporary Medium
based on the work of Ellen Akimoto –

We look forward to seeing you there!

 

 

 

The Kunstverein Göttingen has created an exquisite edition for all friends of Ellen Akimoto’s current works:

Ellen Akimoto Picture Holder Again, 2024, 42 x 29.7 cm, age-resistant digital FINE ART – pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Matt Baryta paper, 308g/m², edition of 15 / 3 AP,
Price: 320 € / 240 € for members of the KV Göttingen

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

 

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