September 2017

As the tradition goes, GlogauAIR will be organizing its September edition of Open studios on the 22nd and 23rd of the same month. Here, Berlin art lovers will have the opportunity to get involved in the artistic process of 10 international artists by having a look inside their studios. Furthermore, GlogauAIR will be hosting the selected Open Call for curatorial projects launched last Spring. Where you begin and where I end, Zaida Guerrero Casado, Susanna Hanna and Regina Magdalena Sebald will be questioning our perception of boundaries within a communal space. On Saturday, Zaida Guerrero Casado and Marie-Jeanne Hoffner will be giving the artist talk Sensitive Geometry, tackling the subject of space as a set of tangible variables defined by infividual experience. Friday night would be submerged under the beats of the resident artist Mint Park who will be presenting Night of the In-Betweens, a robust yet exquisite mix of international artists (Rodrigo Seña and Anders Bach) and their grappling sound, commemorating the unique in-between culture of our time.

Current artists

Louise Manifold

Marie Jeanne Hoffner

Dendromacy/Berlin
Arduino and vegetal fibers, 450x300 cm, 2015

Karine Bonneval

Fermin Sales

Eunhee Hong

Dawei Li & Lin Mi

Chen Siyu

Brittany Brush

Ben Reilly

Anahita Ghazanfari

Program About Current Artists Project Space Exhibition Catalogue

Program

Friday, September 22nd // 19:00h – 24:00h

19:00h // Regina Magdalena Sebald // Angst // Durational Performance

20:00h // Night of the In-Betweens // Live Music // Mint Park – Rodrigo Seña – Andres Bach

Saturday, September 23rd // 16:00h – 21:00h

16:30h // Sensitive Geometry // Artist Talk // Marie – Jeanne Hoffner – Zaida Guerrero Casado

About Current Artists

Open Studios September 2017 will be showcasing the never-before-seen projects that the 10 resident artists have been working on these past few months. The artist duo Dawei Lin and Lin Mi will be evoking the collective memory of Germany and China, while Ben Rilley uses essentially old materials to bring back that sensuous oldness that is not the past but time itself. In her site-specific video and sound installation Brittany Brush brings forward the rising problem of abusive behavior towards animals, while rediscovering the deep linkage between them and human beings. At the same time, the painter Anahita Ghazanfari embarks on a journey into the living and breathing pages of history, to reach the long-lost symbiosis between the rhythm of nature and that of Men. The Irish artist Louise Manifold has been working on destabilizing traditional symbolism of what we call “home”, in order to reflect upon the contemporary existential crisis, whilst Fermin Sales highlights the intergenerational and cultural gap existent between urban and rural societies, through manipulation of old cinematographic footage. In her installation Eunhee Hong explores the stereotypical viewpoints and perspectives that many of us carry around unwittingly, while Chen Syui reflects on the problems of contemporary society by creating an unreal world made out of light and mirrors. On the other hand, Karine Bonneval focuses her work on the growing environmental problem by examining the surface on which humans are anchored and the territory on which they live, whereas Marie-Jeanne Hoffner examines our relationship to reconstructed architecture and the utopian ideas behind modernist architecture.

Project Space Exhibition

Where you begin and where I end

Curated and works by Zaida Guerrero Casado, Susanna Hanna, Regina Magdalena Sebald

Does space determine Men or do Men determine space? Is space experienced as a concrete physical entity, or could it be a psychological construct as well? Zaida’s installation deals with the self-defined, personal and arranged limits. The visitor is forced to react, if he wants to move from one room to the others. In her performance Regina puts herself at the mercy of the visitor’s reaction by giving the mandate to others to decide about the handling of her own person. Susanna’s video installation seems to offer a beautiful shelter, where we can hide. However, this is just an apparent and very fragile refuge. The agitated outside world intrudes into the inside of the shelter.

Catalogue