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The Long Afternoon of Art – Marjolijn Dijkman

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THE LONG AFTERNOON OF ART

AKTIVES TERRAIN N°4
Marjolijn Dijkman
Between the Lines

We present the final Long Afternoon of Art in 2025 and warmly welcome you to attend.

The Long Afternoon of Art
Saturday, 6 December, 3 – 7 pm
At the end of the year, the team at Kunstverein Göttingen invites you to a varied afternoon combining content-based communication of the solo exhibition and a charity campaign for the Kunstverein for the season. Artist Marjolijn Dijkman and curator Stephan Klee will be present at the exhibition and have put together a varied programme. In addition, the Kunstverein will present an overview of all exhibition editions of the two-year TERRA DIASPORA exhibition programme (2024–2025), offering visitors the opportunity to take home a work of art as a gift while also supporting culture in the city. We will be there for the entire four hours. You can come and go as you please, and admission to the event is free.

Stephan Klee will open the afternoon at 3 pm with a guided tour of the exhibition. Afterwards, there will be time to delve deeper into the exhibition and examine the editions on display. At 5 pm, there will be a panel discussion between artist Marjolijn Dijkman, Prof. Dr Lasafam Iturrizaga from the University of Göttingen and artistic director Stephan Klee on the topic of ‘Geomorphology and Ecological Transformation in Economic Growth’. Prof. Dr Lasafam Iturrizaga from the University of Göttingen and artistic director Stephan Klee on the topic of ‘Geomorphology and Ecological Transformation in Economic Growth.’ Using examples from around the world and the region, we will discuss how industrial production and expansive geopolitics are massively changing the geographical landscape and biochemical cycles in the affected territories. Stephan Klee will be responsible for preparing and moderating the discussion this time. The introduction and the audience-inclusive discourse at the end will be in German and English, but the three-way discussion in the middle will be conducted largely in English to ensure a natural flow of conversation for our English-speaking panel guests.
After the joint discussion at the end of the open panel discussion, there will be time for personal conversations and questions until 7 p.m. Throughout the Long Afternoon of Art, we will serve pastries and warm drinks in keeping with the festive season.

Location
Altes Rathaus / 1. OG
Markt 9
37073 Göttingen

Further programme of the exhibition

Sat 6 Dec 3 pm – 7 pm
The Long Afternoon of Art
Admission is free

3 pm – 7 pm
Presentation of the Editions
Comprehensive presentation of the exhibition edition
and all editions of the TERRA DIASPORA exhibition programme (2024/2025)
The proceeds will go towards the charitable work of the Kunstverein Göttingen e.V.

3 pm
Guided tour through the exhibition
with Stephan Klee

5 pm
Open panel discussion
Activated Terrains –
Geomorphology and Ecological Transformation in Economic Growth
with Marjolijn Dijkman (artist), apl. Prof. Dr Lasafam Iturrizaga and Stephan Klee
How does economic exploitation by humans change the nature of the Earth in terms of its appearance, composition and the coexistence of species? How can political and social conflicts become inscribed in the affected territories and leave a lasting mark on them? It is not only since the Industrial Revolution that humans have been actively and mostly consciously shaping the landscapes of this planet through their actions. Significant areas of ‘geomorphology’, i.e. the substantial reshaping of the globe, are now the result of human activity. As a result, since at least the last century, we have been living in the Anthropocene, the man-made geological epoch.
Marjolijn Dijkman has artistically manifested some striking examples of this dynamic and brought them to Göttingen. In this way, the processes in question, made vivid and comprehensible in a creative way, can form the basis for a discussion. Prof. Dr. Lasafam Iturrizaga contributes her expertise, wealth of experience and regional examples from the field of geomorphology to the topic, while Stephan Klee will attempt to draw parallels with global developments and their impact on culture. Afterwards, we will open the discussion to the audience to clarify any remaining questions and engage in a possible discourse together.
The discussion will be held in German and English for the introduction and final audience discourse,
while the middle section of the discussion between the panel guests will be held in English only.

6 pm
Closure

 

Sun 7 Dec 3 – 5 pm
Finissage
3 – 5 pm
Presentation of the Editions
Comprehensive presentation of all editions of the TERRA DIASPORA exhibition programme (2024/2025)
3 pm
Guided tour and discussion – ‘Walk and Talk’
through the exhibition with artist Marjolijn Dijkman
and curator Stephan Klee in German and English
4 pm
Closure

>> To help us plan better, we would be grateful if you could make reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de, respectively by telephone under +49 (0) 551-44899

Eventimage: Marjolijn Dijkman Earthing Discharge (crop out), courtesy the artist and NOME Berlin,
Photo and all rights by Marjolijn Dijkman, published without fee with the friendly agreement of the artist

 

…

Brussels-based Dutch artist Marjolijn Dijkman concludes our exhibition series TERRA DIASPORA – AKTIVE TERRAINS in 2025 with unusually elaborate, spatially accessible arrangements. For example, a tonally animated forest area transfers the former front lines of Verdun with original trees and shrapnel into the exhibition rooms, artificially produced fulgurites of rare earths from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Belgium define silicon sand areas, and microorganisms multiply in glass-filled water samples from the Göttingen region in a room-filling metal framework.”
…

 

THE EDITION OF THE SHOW

 


Marjolijn Dijkman
Earthing Discharge
Edition for the Kunstverein Göttingen, 2025

Edition size 12 + 5 AP, H 29.7 cm x W 42 cm (A 3), archival inkjet pigment print (Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG, velvety–matt, natural white, acid-free, 100% cellulose, 308 g/sqm

Courtesy of the artist
Price: €320 / €240 for members of KV Göttingen

The artificially generated ‘earthing discharge’ of hard coal creates unique structures of electrical sparks and transports viewers into a precisely captured world of formerly natural energy flows. However, it is precisely this combination that also symbolises two of the most important industrial revolutions: the comprehensive use of hard coal and electricity in production processes. These ‘releases’ of human resource exploitation and their effects on organically animated terrestrial zones are exemplary of the themes in Marjolijn Dijkman’s work and our 2025 annual programme.

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

 

VITA Marjolijn Dijkman

Marjolijn Dijkman (1978, NL) is an artist and co-founder of Enough Room for Space. She lives and works in Brussels (BE) and Lahaymeix (FR).
 
She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2001 and at the MFA Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2003, and was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht from 2006 to 2007.

She is currently part of the artistic research cluster Deep Histories Fragile Memories as a PhD student at the LUCA School of Arts Brussels / University of Leuven, supervised by Wendy Morris and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (2023-2027).

In 2005, she founded Enough Room for Space (ERforS) together with Maarten Vanden Eynde. Enough Room for Space is an interdependent art organisation that initiates experimental collaborative research projects. We tend to operate as freely as possible and to transcend the boundaries between disciplines (artistic, scientific or activist).

more informationen >>www.marjolijndijkman.com

The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view of fundamental upheavals in the coexistence of nature and mankind, TERRA DIASPORA stands for a world on the move; for a terrain that is becoming increasingly alien to its inhabitants and for an earth on which people are becoming foreign bodies. It is an earth in a foreign land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.

We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen, Sparkasse Göttingen und Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. . We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to our essential supporters from the Netherlands: Mondriaan Fund and from Belgium: the Flanders Culture Fund.

Vernissage – Marjolijn Dijkman

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VERNISSAGE

AKTIVES TERRAIN N°4
Marjolijn Dijkman
Between the Lines

You are cordially invited to the final exhibition of the year.

Vernissage
Saturday, 11 October at 5 p.m.
The rooms in the Old Town Hall have been filled with expansive, immersive installations, and the KVG team is delighted to present three extensive areas of research in the work of Marjolijn Dijkmans. After the welcome speech by the managing director and introductory words by the artistic director, there will be plenty of time to explore the exhibition. The artist and curator will be present and available for conversation over a drink or two. The event will then end at 7 p.m.

Location
Altes Rathaus / 1. Floor
Markt 9
37073 Göttingen

Upcoming Programme

Sun 19 Oct / Sun 2 Nov
each at 3 pm
Sunday Tour with Joos Ziegler

Sat 6 Dec 3 – 7 pm
The Long Afternoon of Art

3 pm
Exhibition Tour
with Stephan Klee
4 pm
Presentation & Sound Performance
by the artist Nele Möller
5:30 pm
Roundtable Discussion
with Marjolijn Dijkman, Nele Möller
and Stephan Klee

Sun 7 Dec 5 pm
Finissage
Comprehensive presentation of the
Edition of the Show
and all editions of the year
3 pm
Guided tour and conversation – “Walk and Talk”
through the exhibition with the artist Marjokijn Dijkman
and the curator Stephan Klee in English and German
4 pm
Conclusion
open till 5 pm

>> To help us plan better, we would be grateful if you could make reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de, respectively by telephone under +49 (0) 551-44899

Veranstaltungsbild: Marjolijn Dijkman Earthing Discharge (crop out), courtesy the artist and NOME Berlin,
Photo and all rights by Marjolijn Dijkman, published without fee with the friendly agreement of the artist

 

…

Brussels-based Dutch artist Marjolijn Dijkman concludes our exhibition series TERRA DIASPORA – AKTIVE TERRAINS in 2025 with unusually elaborate, spatially accessible arrangements. For example, a tonally animated forest area transfers the former front lines of Verdun with original trees and shrapnel into the exhibition rooms, artificially produced fulgurites of rare earths from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Belgium define silicon sand areas, and microorganisms multiply in glass-filled water samples from the Göttingen region in a room-filling metal framework.”
…

THE EDITION OF THE SHOW

 


Marjolijn Dijkman
Earthing Discharge
Edition for the Kunstverein Göttingen, 2025

Edition size 12 + 5 AP, H 29.7 cm x W 42 cm (A 3), archival inkjet pigment print (Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG, velvety–matt, natural white, acid-free, 100% cellulose, 308 g/sqm

Courtesy of the artist
Price: €320 / €240 for members of KV Göttingen

The artificially generated ‘earthing discharge’ of hard coal creates unique structures of electrical sparks and transports viewers into a precisely captured world of formerly natural energy flows. However, it is precisely this combination that also symbolises two of the most important industrial revolutions: the comprehensive use of hard coal and electricity in production processes. These ‘releases’ of human resource exploitation and their effects on organically animated terrestrial zones are exemplary of the themes in Marjolijn Dijkman’s work and our 2025 annual programme.

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

VITA Marjolijn Dijkman

Marjolijn Dijkman (1978, NL) is an artist and co-founder of Enough Room for Space. She lives and works in Brussels (BE) and Lahaymeix (FR).
 
She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2001 and at the MFA Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2003, and was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht from 2006 to 2007.

She is currently part of the artistic research cluster Deep Histories Fragile Memories as a PhD student at the LUCA School of Arts Brussels / University of Leuven, supervised by Wendy Morris and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (2023-2027).

In 2005, she founded Enough Room for Space (ERforS) together with Maarten Vanden Eynde. Enough Room for Space is an interdependent art organisation that initiates experimental collaborative research projects. We tend to operate as freely as possible and to transcend the boundaries between disciplines (artistic, scientific or activist).

more nformation >>www.marjolijndijkman.com

The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view of fundamental upheavals in the coexistence of nature and mankind, TERRA DIASPORA stands for a world on the move; for a terrain that is becoming increasingly alien to its inhabitants and for an earth on which people are becoming foreign bodies. It is an earth in a foreign land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.

 

We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen, Sparkasse Göttingen und Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. . We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to our essential supporters from the Netherlands: Mondriaan Fund and from Belgium: the Flanders Culture Fund.

Exhibition – Marjolijn Dijkman

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ACTIVE TERRAIN N°4
Marjolijn Dijkman
Between the Lines

curated by Stephan Klee

Vernissage
Saturday, 11 October, 5 pm
Duration
12 October–7 December 2025
Tuesday–Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm

The Brussels-based Dutch artist concludes our exhibition series TERRA DIASPORA – AKTIVE TERRAINS in 2025 with unusually elaborate, spatially accessible arrangements. For example, a tonally animated forest area transfers the former front lines of Verdun with original trees and shrapnel into the exhibition rooms, artificially produced fulgurites of rare earths from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Belgium define silicon sand areas, and microorganisms multiply in glass-filled water samples from the Göttingen region in a room-filling metal framework.
Through spatially accessible arrangements, sculptural objects, photographs and film contributions, the artist succeeds in an inimitable way in making the dynamic upheavals of the regions in question tangible for the audience, thus exemplifying the acute changes taking place on Earth. Or, as she herself says: “I am a research-based and multidisciplinary artist who uses film, photography, sculpture and installation. My work focuses on the intersections between culture and other fields of research. The works themselves are speculative, based in part on facts and research, but often shifted into the realm of imagination. I work on multi-year, process-based research projects that culminate in various works, discursive events, exhibitions and publications.” Multidisciplinary collaboration with other people is important here. In many of these long-term research projects, works are created through close collective creation with other people working on the same topics.
With a scientific foundation and inspiration in uncovering complex interrelationships, Marjolijn Dijkman succeeds in precisely transforming the materials and substances of global processes into concise forms and testimonies. These groups of works embody global eco-geographical changes and make them accessible to visitors on a rational, intuitive and emotional level. Through the artistic manifestations of the changing realities ‘out there,’ a new understanding of the world emerges ‘here with us.’ This finale, in particular, creatively sums up the concept of Active Terrain like no other exhibition in the series.

PROGRAMME
Sat 11 Oct at 5 pm
Vernissage
Welcome speech by Helmut Wenzel,
introduction to the exhibition by the curator Stephan  Klee,
and presentation of the Edition of the Show
open till 7 pm

Sun 19 Oct / Sun 2 Nov
each at 3 pm
Sunday Tour with Joos Ziegler

Sat 6 Dec 3 – 7 pm
The Long Afternoon of Art

3 pm
Exhibition Tour
with Stephan Klee
5 pm
Open panel discussion
Activated Terrains – Geomorphology and Ecological Transformation in Economic Growth
with Marjolijn Dijkman (artist), apl. Prof. Dr Lasafam Iturrizaga and Stephan Klee
with an integrative conversation, including the audience in the end

Sun 7 Dec 5 pm
Finissage
Comprehensive presentation of the
Edition of the Show
and all editions of the year
3 pm
Guided tour and conversation – “Walk and Talk”
through the exhibition with the artist Marjokijn Dijkman
and the curator Stephan Klee in English and German
4 pm
Conclusion
open till 5 pm

>> To help us plan better, we would be grateful if you could make reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de, respectively by telephone under +49 (0) 551-44899

event image: Marjolijn Dijkman Earthing Discharge (crop out), courtesy the artist and NOME Berlin,
Photo and all rights by Marjolijn Dijkman, published without fee with the friendly agreement of the artist

THE EDITION FOR THE EXHIBITION

 


Marjolijn Dijkman
Earthing Discharge
Edition for the Kunstverein Göttingen, 2025

Edition size 12 + 5 AP, H 29.7 cm x W 42 cm (A 3), archival inkjet pigment print (Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG, velvety–matt, natural white, acid-free, 100% cellulose, 308 g/sqm

Courtesy of the artist
Price: €320 / €240 for members of KV Göttingen

The artificially generated ‘earthing discharge’ of hard coal creates unique structures of electrical sparks and transports viewers into a precisely captured world of formerly natural energy flows. However, it is precisely this combination that also symbolises two of the most important industrial revolutions: the comprehensive use of hard coal and electricity in production processes. These ‘releases’ of human resource exploitation and their effects on organically animated terrestrial zones are exemplary of the themes in Marjolijn Dijkman’s work and our 2025 annual programme.

 

VITA Marjolijn Dijkman
Marjolijn Dijkman (1978, NL) is an artist and co-founder of Enough Room for Space. She lives and works in Brussels (BE) and Lahaymeix (FR).
 
She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2001 and at the MFA Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2003, and was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht from 2006 to 2007.

She is currently part of the artistic research cluster Deep Histories Fragile Memories as a PhD student at the LUCA School of Arts Brussels / University of Leuven, supervised by Wendy Morris and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (2023-2027).

In 2005, she founded Enough Room for Space (ERforS) together with Maarten Vanden Eynde. Enough Room for Space is an interdependent art organisation that initiates experimental collaborative research projects. We tend to operate as freely as possible and to transcend the boundaries between disciplines (artistic, scientific or activist).

more information >>www.marjolijndijkman.com

The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view of fundamental upheavals in the coexistence of nature and mankind, TERRA DIASPORA stands for a world on the move; for a terrain that is becoming increasingly alien to its inhabitants and for an earth on which people are becoming foreign bodies. It is an earth in a foreign land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.

 

We would like to thank our sponsors:  Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen, Sparkasse Göttingen und Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to our essential supporters from the Netherlands: Mondriaan Fund and from Belgium: the Flanders Culture Fund.

Exhibition – Mélodie Mousset and Ittah Yoda

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AKTIVES TERRAIN N°3

Mélodie Mousset and Ittah Yoda 
Dander the Symbiocene      

curated by Stephan Klee

Programme
Sat 26 Jul 5 pm
Vernissage
open till 8 pm

Sun 24 Aug / Sun 31 Aug
each at 3 pm
Sunday Tour with Joos Ziegler

Sat 06 Sep 3 – 6 pm
Finissage
presenting the Edition of the Exhibition
4 pm
guided “Walk and Talk” through the exhibition
with the curator Stephan Klee
5 pm
closure

In order to be able to plan better, we look forward to receiving your reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone on 0551-44899

Event picture: Graphic by Stephan Klee, source: Alamy, all rights reserved by KV Göttingen

In summer 2025, artist Mélodie Mousset and art duo Virginie Ittah and Kai Yoda present a multimedia terrain on the first floor of the Künstlerhaus Göttingen that encloses the visitors and appeals to many senses, including touch and smell. The intertwining installations range from the origins of cave painting to virtually generated landscapes, played through VR glasses. One of the core works is the installation HanaHana by Swiss French artist Mélodie Mousset. This interactive virtual reality experience, which has been developed further over the years, offers guests the opportunity to walk through various virtual landscapes with the help of controllers, while actively shaping and generating them. The freedom, beauty and safety in HanaHana feels remarkable, and opens up a completely digitally generated alternative world, a material-free ‘safe space’ of a special kind.
HanaHana‘s simulation room will be embedded in a far-reaching exhibition design by the French-Japanese art duo Ittah Yoda. The two are working together to combine sculpture, painting and installation with technically advanced media such as LED screens, virtual reality and augmented reality. The two have coined the term ‘Symbiocene’ for these intertwined spaces between tangible materiality and digital vision, and they see their projects as utopian designs for a sustainable symbiosis of ecological cycles and technology.
Thematically, the exhibition offers an innovative examination of the visual culture of humans in Europe in their interaction with the surrounding landscape. As a source of inspiration, both positions share a fascination for the cave paintings of Lascoux and Chauvet and others, i.e. the first permanent images of the inhabitants of a region. These early testimonies can be understood as an act of self-assurance, as a permanent testimony to one’s own existence, as a visual archiving of fellow creatures or as cultic communication with the environment. These are all impulses that have always driven the creation of art. Inspired by these archaic testimonies of cultural self-empowerment, both Ittah Yoda and Mélodie Mousset explore in their works, among other things, the question: “How can the specificity of a territory be embodied today?” – “Or how can completely new imaginary terrains be created on the basis of our cultural history?” In their free, rather associative research, they largely detach themselves from real geographical conditions in comparison to other, more conceptual positions in the annual programme TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS. They negotiate concepts such as “landscape”, “place” and “production” more in dialogue with the anthropological and cultural appropriation of this theme by people in the course of cultural history. It is therefore more about the ideas of landscape than about current, actual geographical upheavals in the culmination of the Anthropocene. This exhibition thus not only adds important aspects to the annual programme, but also builds a bridge to the fantastic and surrealist tendencies of the 2024 TERRA DIASPORRA – WELTEN WANDELN annual programme.
In addition to our reliable supporting institutions, this time the additional support from the Lower Saxony Foundation and the Institut Français in particular enables the Kunstverein team to tackle and realise this exhibition concept at the cutting edge of technology and art in Göttingen.

 

THE EDITION OF THE EXHIBITION

 

 

Mélodie Mousset
HanaHana, 2017–2025
The printed edition for the Kunstverein Göttingen

Edition of 12 + 5 AP
H 29.7 cm x W 42 cm,
Archival inkjet pigment print (Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG,
velvety – matte, natural white, acid-free, 100% cellulose, 308 g/sqm

The interactive virtual reality experience HanaHana, developed over many years by Swiss-French Artist Mélodie Mousset, offers visitors the opportunity to wander through various virtual landscapes with the help of controllers, while continuously reshaping these landscapes in a generative manner. The freedom, beauty, and safety in HanaHana feel remarkable and open up a completely digitally generated alternative world, a material-free “safe space” of a special kind. It is a great honor for us that Mélodie Mousset has now generated the first physically tangible work from the HanaHana universe as an edition print exclusively for the Kunstverein Göttingen. By purchasing this work, you are helping the Kunstverein to continue presenting such experimental works to the public.

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

 

VITA Mélodie Mousset
Mélodie Mousset (*1981, Abu Dhabi) is a French artist who lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Mousset’s works oscillate between virtual and physical worlds, focusing on the physicality of the human body and the potential virtuality of the mind. Mousset works with numerous media for her investigations around the body, including installation, performance, sculpture, photography, video and virtual reality.
 Her work draws on personal biography to create playful and surreal narratives that explore the interactions between the self and technology. Her works are often intended to challenge the senses; elements are juxtaposed and transformed to create uncanny and whimsical assemblages in which the body becomes a site of physical and mental exchange with technology.

The artist studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, the ECAL (Lausanne) and the Royal College of Arts (London) and completed her training in 2011 with a Master of Fine Arts at CalArts (California Institute of the Arts).

Her projects have been exhibited in galleries and institutions worldwide since 2010, including the MOCA (Museum Of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles), the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, the MAC (Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon), The Metropolitan Art Society (Beirut) and the SALTS (Basel).
 In 2015, she was the winner of the Swiss Art Award. Her most recent work HanaHana, which was shown at the Zabludowicz Collection (London) in 2018, received seven awards, including the prize for the best artistic virtual reality experience at the VR Festival (Beijing), the prize for the best artistic achievement at the VR Days Festival 2017 and most recently the Visions Prize at the VR Arles Festival 2019. The artist’s most recent solo exhibitions included Intra-Aura at Last Tango (Zurich) in 2018. HanaHana was shown at Galerie V Glavnom (Tomsk, Russia) in 2018 and at Galerie Roehrs & Boetsch (Zurich) in 2019. She will soon be exhibiting at Swissnex (San Francisco).

more information >> https://fabbula.com/artists/hanahana-by-melodie-mousset/

 

VITA Ittah Yoda
The duo Ittah Yoda, consisting of Virgile Ittah and Kai Yoda, was formed after they met at the Royal College of London, where one was studying sculpture and the other photography and animation. From the beginning, they were fascinated by the natural and digital worlds and began working on the idea of a post-anthropocene world in which these two elements coexist harmoniously, what they call the ‘symbiosis’. While virtual reality occupies a central place in their work and serves as a matrix and maturation process, all the forms that later materialise in painting, sculpture and installation represent an ecosystem of their own, inspired by organic forms and materials and developed in collaboration with numerous artisans. Each of Ittah Yoda’s projects represents a step towards the realisation of this ideal symbiotic ecosystem, in which the media used and the objects created embody and transmit ‘genetic-artistic’ information from their environment. Although they are orientated towards an idea of the future, their work is rooted in art history, drawing in particular on references such as cave paintings and pigment painting techniques.

Recent exhibitions include Bally Foundation, Lugano (CH), ROH Projects, Jakarta (ID), Collection Lambert, Avignon (FR), CIAPV, Vassiviere (FR), Paris + by Art Basel, Paris (FR), the Armory Show, New York (US), the Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (FR), Poush Manifesto, Paris (FR), the Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau, Les Lilas (FR), the Musée des Beaux Arts d’Angers (FR), Hagiwara Projects, Tokyo (JP), Sprout Curation, Tokyo (JP), Cité International des Arts, Paris (FR), Frieze N°9 Cork Street, London (UK), ARCO Madrid, Madrid (ES), etc.

more information >> https://ittahyoda.com/

 

The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view of fundamental upheavals in the coexistence of nature and mankind, TERRA DIASPORA stands for a world on the move; for a terrain that is becoming increasingly alien to its inhabitants and for an earth on which people are becoming foreign bodies. It is an earth in a foreign land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.

 

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