The visitors will have the opportunity of enjoying the presence of the artists themselves, as well as having direct access to their latest and freshest creations, inspired by their personal and artistic experience of inhabiting the city. The duo Maximilien Pyée and Alexandre Félix is currently exploring the potential of producing art collectively as a way to strengthen social bonds, while David Gonçalves reflects on what it means to be nomadic, by stripping out the excess and highlighting the beauty of the essential and of the practical.  The artist Tadasuke Jinno has been leading an approach to visual art that challenges the viewer through the usage of mechanisms that create discordance between reality and human’s sense of perception. At the same time, Ewa Kubiak is working on testing the limits of communication of textual and visual messages, and the degree of misleading illusion that is created by means of intentionally created settings. The painter Uzma Sultan plunges into a social analysis of the cultures she is inserted in, at the same time that the also painter Hyoyoun Lee leads a deep but at the same time metaphysical quest for already faded and fragmented anonymous stories lost in time. By using textiles as her main working material, Natalia Urnia imbues each thread contained in a fabric with meaningful connotations of memory, time and place of belonging – all that we hold close to us and that, in a way, dresses and shapes our core common human nature into a variety of specific identities. Also working with the intersection of intimate personal and collective narratives, Ilyn Wong sets off to explore the complexity of multiple stories and layers that exist within and around the main narratives, which, because the hidden personal stories are forgotten, tend to be often overly simplified. Finally, by using two completely different approaches, the installation artist Laurent Trezegnies and the sound artist Roxanne Nesbitt contribute to re-think the “ordinary”, highlighting its peculiarities and hidden/forgotten potential.

GlogauAIR invited the collective COVEN BERLIN to curate “The Sprawls”, an unmissable exhibition focused on gender constrictions and body policing beautifully expressed by the orchestration of multi-disciplinary art works.

Gender can create a sensory experience of tangible and virtual borders, as well as conscious and unconscious
ones. These spatial and cultural frontiers are essential points of reference for our own identities. Our limited,
and simultaneously real and ephemeral bodies can be stimulated in order to provoke an evolution on, and a
transgression of, oppressive social codes. In the frame of The Sprawls, our work will focus on queer strategies as political tools to rebel against gender constrictions and body policing. With an experimental and playful approach, we will explore and reclaim the concepts of gender, sex, and sexuality and establish new personal and social realities. We will also address the gendered borders of institutionalized knowledge in order to analyze the constructs that can manipulate our understanding of power.