During the spring term of 2021, the GlogauAIR’s team had the pleasure to be part of a miscellaneous of processes, techniques, backgrounds, and cultural references. A variety of artists made it to Berlin from Denmark, Sweden, Canada, France, Spain, and Colombia, not forgetting the on-line artists from Poland, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, who joined the space virtually.
Marie Flarup Kristensen and Matilde Søes Rasmussen, also known as Macho Bengal, through spontaneity and an improvised methodology have been exploring how a photographic collaboration between two artists might look like: they dressed up as each other, experimented with flowers and private parts, coloured windows and cried on demand.
The paintings by Beatriz Lorenzo Iñigo have done an experimental journey getting out of the canvas and interacting with everyday elements: tea boxes, tickets of groceries, ripped posters… almost a diary of how the days go by living in Berlin.
Helena Ospina Lizarralde explores time through a conceptual and also a cairological process. Ospina Lizarralde opens questions she, later on, shares with the audience about human existence and the relationship with nature.
Observing the surroundings, Honey Forestier draws and paints the following characters, objects and symbols distributed by the canvas in an organized and un-linear way. The images that Forestier creates infuse oniric features with digital imagery and line work.
Rawan Aseedan shares her encounter with body mediation, specifically the ‘Ruqyah Syar’iyyah’, an Islamic meditation. She transfers her personal experience into materials such as cement, fabric, and wood by the use of Arabic calligraphy, embroidery and organic materials.
The interdisciplinary work by Huiquan Jiang mixes sound composition, installation, video and performance through slow rhythms and controlled movements. Her work investigates synesthesia, perception, and improvisation, in conjunction with natural scenes.
Michalina W. Klasik has carried out an interdisciplinary process in the latest events regarding deforestation in Poland, her country of origin. During her on-line residency period, she continued her “Secret Activism” project by expanding her research on the topic and walking around the forest. The result is a combination of images that reflect on the brutality of our current economical and ecological politics in the most subtle and poetic way.
The duo formed by Elena Urucatu and Carlos Maté continued to develop their project “The Year Without Summer” by researching, writing, walking, and imagining what the life and thoughts of a vampire living in Berlin of the XXI century would be like. This exercise helps them reflect on the impact the human species has on the Earth from an eco-catastrophe’s point of view.
Through experimental photography and other interventions like embroidery, collages and scanning, Saida Alkhulaifi explores and experiments a way to create a timeless image inspired by object symbolism from art history, society norms and nature.
The practice of Lisa Bell Weisdorf puts attention on issues of gender and beauty exposing how capitalism dispossesses, structures, and produces our experience as subjects.
Paco Poyato has been capturing through his camera different neighbourhoods of the Berlin metropolis, looking for trails of the historical, ideological and geographical division of the city. His visual research gathers the two opposed poles of the cold war through architecture, urban distribution, social and economic position.
Besides the work by our international resident artists, these past three months, GlogauAIR historical building has witnessed the blooming of our wonderful garden thanks to Maria Gamsjäger’s garden project, which will be developed throughout this entire year.
This spring of 2021 has brought great things. We welcome and invite you to stop and smell the flowers on your way in!
