Mariana Lopez - Materialist


Materialist
Mariana Lopez

Opening 3rd July 6 pm

One day show

Platform Sarai
Schweizer Str. 23 HH, Frankfurt am Main

it´s ready @ CIBO 2nd of July

it´s ready 

12:30 opening
Wednesday 2nd of July

12:30 opening
Wednesday 2nd of July

with Bianca Baldi, Amy Ball, Lars Karl Becker, Christin Berg, Calori & Maillard, Kitsum Cheng, Janusch Ertler, Lina Hermsdorf, Maki Ishii, Natasja Loutchko, Chloe Malcotti, Anna Lucia Nissen, Giovanni Sortino, Franziska Stenglin, Julia Zabowska

special guest: Wolfgang Winter


CIBO
Daimlerstrasse 32
Frankfurt am Main

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Calori & Maillard
e-mail:  oehproject@gmail.com

Tonight __ * : NEW releases

NEW releases

Ilja Karilampi ft. Max Ronnersjö

Saturday 28.06.2014

19-22 Uhr

Ritterstr. / Lobeckstr.
NEW releases * Ilja Karilampi ft. Max Ronnersjö

Ilja and Max NEW releases text

Tomo ull se dem in real
* Poster Ed. * Offsite * HQ * Nature Boy * Teil I *
SB
Goebenstrasse 7
10783 Berlin
tel. +49 151 2164 0399

KUNSTVEREIN HAMBURG: IM FRÜHLING, DARLING.

IM FRÜHLING, DARLING.

KUNSTVEREIN IN HAMBURG

27.6.2014, 19 Uhr

The Kunstverein in Hamburg cordially invites you to the opening of "Im Frühling, Darling." ("In Spring, Darling.").

The artistic positions in the exhibition - taking place at Kunstverein from June 28 to September 14, 2014 - generate moments of longing, in which the feeling of a vague connection to distant people, places, conditions or things is expressed. As a subtle form of desire, yearning brings the existence of the absent other into presence. In their objects, paintings, drawings and videos the artists in the exhibition are dealing with very different moments of romantic feeling, yet each participates in the current debate in which the desire for the absent re-describes the presence.

In addition, international artists were invited for the project "Dear Darling" to send postcards on the subject of longing to the Kunstverein in Hamburg.

Artists: Magnus Andersen, Jennifer Bennett, Christoph Blawert, Cordula Ditz, Ida Lennartsson, Annika Kahrs, Inge Krause, Axel Loytved, Stefan Marx, George Rippon, Anna Zacharoff

We would be pleased to welcome you.

For further information please visit:  www.kunstverein.de

"Im Frühling. Darling.", Exhibition View, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Foto: Fred Dott

KUNSTVEREIN
IN
HAMBURG

Nadine Droste

Presse und Öffentlichkeit / 

Public Relations

Klosterwall 23
20095 Hamburg
T +49 40 322158
F +49 40 322159
M +49 170 8061110
droste@kunstverein.de
www.kunstverein.de

KA - BOOM 29.06.2014 - 14.09.2014 per Voranmeldung * #2 at Kunstverein Wiesen

KA - BOOM #2
at Kunstverein Wiesen

29.06.2014 - 14.09.2014 per Voranmeldung *

Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom
Peter Fischli / David Weiss
Ross Iannatti
Michael Sailstorfer
Roman Signer
Alexander Tillegreen
Andreas von Ow

* Führungen können via hello@culturalavenue.org gebucht werden

organisiert von der Cultural Avenue Initiative - www.culturalavenue.org

TALENT



Talent ist ein Versprechen - ursprünglich eine antike Währungseinheit bezeichnend, vermag die damalige Bedeutung auch ins Jetzt zu greifen, denn was ist das Talent eines jungen Künstlers, wenn nicht seine Einstiegswährung in den Kunstbetrieb?

Talent heißt Begabung - es ist eine Gabe, ein Wert, der einem Menschen mitgegeben wird. Ein Wert, der zunächst nicht zu ermessen ist. Talent kann entwickelt werden, sich entfalten oder ungenutzt bleiben und verkümmern.

Talent ist eine Verheißung - ein Versprechen auf Wert und Werthaltigkeit. Doch wer wertet? Wer verspricht und wer löst dieses Versprechen ein? Der Künstler selbst, die Kunstakademie, der Kunstmarkt? Viele offene Fragen und Infragestellungen gehen mit diesem oszillierenden Begriff einher.

Die Gruppenshow TALENT (altgr. Talaton,"Waage, Gewicht, Währung") vereint junge Künstler in den Räumen der Galerie, die mit ihrer Kunst ganz individuell verheißen und verlocken. Welche Versprechen sie einlösen, ob sie überhaupt bereit sind, sich dem Begriff „Talent" zu beugen und andere Infragestellungen stehen in dieser Ausstellung zur Disposition.

Ralf Hänse​l​

TALENT (τάλαντον,"Waage, Gewicht, Währung")

James Gregory Atkinson & Helen Demisch, Stuart Bailes, Alexandra Baumgartner, Manuele Cerutti, Julian Charrière, Nadja Frank, Alice Musiol, Jennifer Oellerich, Fiene Scharp, Wanda Stolle, Anita Tarnutzer

Opening: 4. July 2014, 6-9 PM
Exhibition: 5. July - 2. August 2014
Tue-Sat 11AM-6PM and by appointment

Potsdamer Strasse 81 B, 10785 Berlin (Tiergarten)
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Dr. Ralf Hänsel
401contemporary
Berlin (Tiergarten)
www.401contemporary.com

Why 7 Ate 9


mit Arbeiten von | with works from Gabriel Angemi, Leo Kaufmann,
Klaus Kamptner, Sabelo Mlangeni und Stefanie Pretnar

eingeladen von | invited by Loretta Fahrenholz

Eröffnung | Opening:
Martin Schwarz, Kulturreferent der Stadt Schwaz

Ausstellungsdauer | Exhibition Duration: 28.6. - 31. 8. 2014

kuratiert von | curated by Cosima Rainer



© Sabelo Mlangeni, A space of waiting, 2012, Hand-printed silver gelatin prints, 27 x 27cm
Courtesy of the artist and Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg

Copyright © 2014
Galerie der Stadt Schwaz
Palais Enzenberg | Franz-Josef-Straße 27 | A-6130 Schwaz
Tel.: +43 (0)5242 739 83 | office@galeriederstadtschwaz.at | www.galeriederstadtschwaz.at

Öffnungszeiten: Mi-Fr 14-18 Uhr, Sa 10-15 Uhr
Mitglied bei www.innsbruckcontemporary.at und ADKV

CIBO lunch 25th June: Special Guest Felicia Herrschaft


CIBO 
lunch event

Daimlerstrasse 32

Wednesday, 25th of June 12:30 
Special Guest: Felicia Herrschaft

cool lunch
with 
valuable gazpacho

Sunday Duskz — Clémentine Coupau — die dinge des lebens — 21.6. @ 1822-Forum

die dinge des lebens
with Clémentine Coupau
——>>
Sunday Duskz
this summer solstice Saturday
17.47pm !
@ 1822-Forum
organised within the Skip the door, save 4s. exhibition.


© Lesley Laslett

Please be in time

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1822-Forum
Fahrgasse 9
Frankfurt am Main

Sacrifice


Sacrifice

Florencia Almirón / Ana Vogelfang

Opening 17th June 7 pm

Platform Sarai
Schweizer Str. 23 HH, Frankfurt am Main

Michael Riedel liest Oskar


Michael Riedel liest Oskar

Freitag, 20. Juni 2014, 20.00 Uhr

Schirn Kunsthalle
Römerberg
60311 Frankfurt am Main

Drawing Forever


Flur11 eröffnet am 19.06. um 19 Uhr die neue Ausstellung und sucht sowohl nach der Bedeutung der Zeichnung im zeitgenössischen Kontext, sowie ihren Grenzen.

ES WERDEN ARBEITEN GEZEIGT VON :
44FLAVOURS (BERLIN), KLUB7 (BERLIN), SERA YONG (BERLIN), NATHAN MENGLESIS (BERLIN), YANNICK RIEMER (BERLIN), CHRISTOPH VIEWEG (BERLIN), HANNAH DUNKELBERG (HAMBURG), IL-JIN ATEM CHOI (FRANKFURT), MAJE MELLIN (BS), PHILIPP CLASEN (BS), NICOLAI NITSCH (BS)

AFTERSHOW IM KAWA AB 22 UHR!
FLUR11

JAHNSTRASSE 11

HOCHPARTERRE HINTENRUM

38118 BRAUNSCHWEIG

HALLO@FLUR11.COM
FACEBOOK.COM/FLUR11

FLUR11 IST EINE OFFSPACE-GALERIE IM WRG. HINTER DEM ORT STEHT DER VEREIN DISKURTHEK E.V., GEGRÜNDET VON OLE BLANK, FELIX KOBERSTEIN, ARNE SCHMIDT UND MAX WEINLAND.

FLUR11 ZEIGT JUNGE POSITIONEN IM DISKURS ZEITGENÖSSISCHER KUNST.

CIBO lunch + aperitivo 18th of June


CIBO 
special event

Daimlerstrasse 32

Wednesday 18th of June

12.30 Lunch
Calori & Maillard

18.00 Aperitivo spritz
Australia-Netherlands
Spain-Chile

LISTE: PHILIPP TIMISCHL | SOLO PRESENTATION | JUNE 17-22, 2014


Philipp Timischl
12 ARTWORKS YOU COULD LOOK AT WHILE IN BASEL

Liste, 2014
Booth -1/2/2


Mark Dickenson
NEUE ALTE BRÜCKE
Hafenstrasse 23
60327 Frankfurt am Main
+49 (0)176 6422 6509
info@neuealtebruecke.com
www.neuealtebruecke.com

IM DSCHUNGEL


Im Dschungel

Kunstverein Familie Montez
Honsellbrücke, 60388 Frankfurt am Main

26.06. / 18:00 Eröffnung
27.06.-20.07.14 Ausstellungsdauer

Im Dschungel
ist der Tod des Killers,
ist die Vollendung der Geschichte. 

Dank gebührt vielen, die es wissen –  vielen, die es ahnen; – aber wie es so ist im Leben: nicht allen.
   
adios amigos 

Irmgard Adam
Astali / Peirce
Heike Kati Barath
Katharina Baumgärtner
Fritz Bornstück
Ralf Dereich
Carola Deye
Alexander Esters
Carola Ernst
Heike Gallmeier
Fabian Ginsberg
Ari Goldmann
Friedemann Hahn
Florian Heinke
Uwe Henneken
Matthias Hesselbacher
Gregor Hildebrandt
Ekaterina Hildmann
Fabian Hub
Keti Kapanadze
Markus Kiefer / Angela Oesterle
Sandra Kranich
Alicja Kwade
Kathrin Landa
Johannes Lotz
Michaela Mainka
Simon Metzger
Nicole Nickel
Manfred Peckl
Julie Perenthaler
Bastian Piejko
Erich Reiling
Stefan Rinck
Anika Rosenberg
Sarah Schoderer
Paula Sippel
Nicola Staeglich
Katja Strunz
Amalia Theodorakopoulos
Maxi Weimann
Phillip Zaiser

Sathit Sattarasart


OPENING: 17.06.2014 19:00h

Sathit Sattarasart

it belongs to no one

all the possibilities of the lack of information

It belongs to no one is conceived as one whole piece in the form of a small exhibition derived from a collection of the artist's personal artworks. Individual works have different approaches and meanings based on various subjects that the artist has been tackling, ranging from the political to the personal. At the same time, on a deeper level, the works discreetly connect particular people and specific events with which the artist has been involved.

It belongs to no one also a part of the ongoing project, "All the possibilities of the lack of information" which itself is based on the basic idea of engaging with missing information. Even if the exhibition itself is fully described, there will always be something missing, or always something distracting. For example, Last year I was at an art opening. It was a sunny day, and the day was long enough and never got dark even after I had my first drink. And after the seventh drink, everything still felt the same. I asked myself how many beers I had had so far. The answer was so simple, but it took time to figure, and I did not have much time as I was busy drinking. I can still remember it as if it was yesterday. Somebody turned to me and said 'It was yesterday!'

Sathit Sattarasart
18.06. - 07.09.2014, OPENING: 17.06.2014 19:00h

TheTip
Oppenheimer Landstraße 85H
60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

TheTip.de

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T.A.N (The Architecture of Need)

Jessie Holmes/James Gregory Atkinson
Regiestudio- Das Festival
Schauspiel Frankfurt
Eröffnung: Freitag 13. Juni 2014 18Uhr
Finnisage: Sonntag 15. Juni 2014 22Uhr

Photo: Jen Osborne
Concept: Jessie Holmes/James Gregory Atkinson

Spread throughout the upper foyer of the Schauspiel Frankfurt, it's facade facing towards Willy Brandt-Platz and the glass entrance of the Kammerspiele, James Gregory Atkinson and Jessie Holmes, both film students in the class of Douglas Gordon at Städelschule, present scenes from their ongoing video work T.A.N (The Architecture of Need). In front of a white background a variety of constellations, commodities and people and their sometimes absurd interactions are presented. The shooting took place in a film studio with support of a professional film crew. The video unfolds no continuous narrative rather a concatenation of short clips that had been situated in a dialogue between the artists.

The viewer is witness to how the artists examine everyday things in their formal language and integrate them as readymades in a Duchampian working sense. This creates combinations such as a chair and a sink, which together add up to a sculptural setting and are complemented by organic elements in the form of hair. Another scene shows a man who is presented as a commodity on a revolving stage. The camera scans these subject/object assemblages in a voyeuristic desire and dissects their surfaces. This slow filming, switching from near and far vision is reminiscent of an aesthetic, as we know from image productions in the advertising industry. The work is reminiscent of stock images found on the internet. Thematizing our remix culture through the use of alter imagery in which every sign through combination can generate new meaning, or cannot generate new meaning.

Throughout their work, which moves between art and commercialism, the artists also investigate the staging and mechanisms of commercial image making in formal-aesthetic terms. The fetishizing nature of such image production generates a desire that is no longer bound to the necessary needs. Instead, a surrealist design of objects is created that in this logic turns everything into a commodity. Through their hyper-staging the commodities upgrade in value. The presentation on multiple screens activates a dialogue between one another and based on repetition generates an artificial irrigation, similar to that of a shopping channel.

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Verteilt im oberen Foyer des Schauspiels Frankfurt, sowie an seiner zum Willy Brandt-Platz gerichteten Fassade und im gläsernen Eingangsbereich der Kammerspiele präsentieren James Gregory Atkinson und Jessie Holmes, beides Filmstudenten in der Klasse von Douglas Gordon an der Städelschule, Szenen aus ihrer fortlaufenden Videoarbeit T.A.N. (The Architecture of Need). Vor einem weißen Hintergrund werden verschiedenste Konstellationen von Dingen und Menschen und deren mitunter absurde Interaktionen dargestellt. Die Aufnahmen entstanden in einem Filmstudio mit der Unterstützung einer professionellen Film-Crew. Jedoch entfaltet sich in der Arbeit von Atkinson und Holmes keine durchgängige Narration – vielmehr handelt es sich um die Aneinanderreihung von kurzen Clips, die situativ, im Dialog zwischen den Künstlern arrangiert wurden.

Der Betrachter wird Zeuge, wie die Künstler Dinge des Alltags in ihrer Formsprache untersuchen und sie in einem Duchamp'schen Sinne als Readymades in die Arbeit integrieren. So entstehen Kombinationen wie beispielsweise aus einem Stuhl und einer Spüle, die sich zu einer skulpturalen Setzung zusammenfügen und noch durch organische Elemente in Form von Haaren ergänzt werden. Eine andere Szene zeigt einen Mann, der wie eine Ware auf einer Drehbühne präsentiert wird. Die Kamera tastet diese Subjekt-Objekt Assemblagen in einer voyeuristischen Begierde ab und seziert ihre Oberflächen. Dieses langsame Abfilmen, das Wechseln von Nah- und Fernsicht erinnert an eine Ästhetik, wie man sie aus den Bildproduktionen der Werbeindustrie kennt. Des Weiteren erinnert die Arbeit an Stock Images aus dem Internet und thematisiert durch das Vermischen verschiedener Bildwelten unsere heutige Remix kultur, in der sämtliche Zeichen durch Kombinationen neue Bedeutungen generieren oder eben auch nicht.

Die Künstler untersuchen in ihrer Arbeit, die sich zwischen Kunst und Kommerzialität bewegt, die Inszenierung und die Wirkungsmechanismen von genau diesen Bildern in formal-ästhetischer Hinsicht. Der fetischisierende Charakter solcher Bildproduktionen erzeugt ein Verlangen, das nicht mehr an notwendige Bedürfnisse gebunden ist. Vielmehr entsteht ein surrealistischer Entwurf von Gegenständen, die in dieser Logik zur Ware gemacht werden und durch ihre Überinszenierung eine Aufwertung erfahren. Die vielfache Präsentation auf mehreren Screens ermöglicht einen Dialog zwischen den verschiedenen Videobildern und generiert eine artifizielle Berieselung wie bei einem Shoppingkanal.
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https://vimeo.com/97877299

Special thanks to the film crew:

Amy Ball (P.A.)
Seffy Hirsch (D.O.P)
Cylixe (Camera/Making of)
Jen Osborne (Still Photographer)
Mark Pennock (Light)
Marius Roth (3-D Animation & Post)
Alexey Vanushkin (Editor)
Rike Gleitze (Stylist)
Sada Leigh (Make- Up Artist)

And special thanks to Studio lostbutfound, Clara Topic Matutin, REGIEstudio, Schauspiel Frankfurt, everyone who participated and everyone who helped us realize this project so far.
CIBO
lunch event

Daimlerstrasse 32

Friday 13th of June
Special Guest: Giovanni Sortino

ORTICHE E FANALINO

http://cargocollective.com/cibo

SUNdogs

with:
Amy Ball
Bertrand Flanet
Hanne Lippard
Natasja Loutchko
Inger Wold Lund
Filippa Pettersson
and contributors to SWEAT n°5

invited by Aurélia Defrance

Opening on Saturday 14, June, 7-9 PM
at Galerie Parisa Kind

Exhibition Dates: 17. June - 12. July, 2014
Opening hours: Tues.-Sat. noon-4 pm
and by appointment

Galerie Parisa Kind
Offenbacher Landstrasse 11-13
Frankfurt 60599


image : Inger Wold Lund, 10/13/11, 05:00 PM

To watch a sunset is probably one of the most romantic of clichés. Still, many people enjoy sunsets.

SUNdogs is the exhibition of a group — several gathered voices, a reconstituted family.
Each tells of the intensity of being in the world, avoiding irony by all means.

Stories are uttered without restraint, and from the polyphony a sense of oneness may arise.

The performance « Alone, together or with you » by Filippa Pettersson will be on-going during the opening, Saturday 14th.

The bulletin SWEAT has been invited to present their fifth issue, creating an exhibition within the exhibition.

Contributors to SWEAT n°5 included in SUNdogs are Clémentine Coupau, Andrew de Freitas, Maki Ishii, Curtis Mclean, Stuart Middleton and Alexey Vanushkin.

The printed version gathers many more contributors and will be available at the gallery for the duration of the exhibition.

OPENING: WOLFGANG BREUER, WEDNESDAY 11 JUNE, 7PM


Wolfgang Breuer
On red I'll show you Damenstiftskirche
11 June - 26 July 2014

Opening: Wednesday 11 June, 7pm

Press Text

On red I'll show you Damenstiftskirche

I'm still busy with what Rachel likes.
So I'll stay at home
and won't show you
milk and honey.
I was taught at Städelschule
you can invite a copycat into your untidy studio
when you buy
its preferred material before
to stir it underneath.
This will probably make
its head very busy.

This allows me to tell my neighbour
again:
The driving school car is still playing:
going from A to B
using real stuff.
They are waiting at the traffic lights.
They don't like waiting
because they are already able to do it.
I go in front of them
and show them Damenstiftskirche:
This church's ceiling was painted in colour but
after destruction
restored in black and white
because only b/w photos were available.
As they weren't at ease
I didn't get any Easy Jet flights for.

Mark Dickenson
NEUE ALTE BRÜCKE
Hafenstrasse 23
60327 Frankfurt am Main
+49 (0)176 6422 6509
info@neuealtebruecke.com
www.neuealtebruecke.com

PERAMBULATOR - STEPHEN SUCKALE


PERAMBULATOR
STEPHEN SUCKALE

AUSSTELLUNGSERÖFFNUNG
20. JUNI 2014, 19.00 – 21.00

21. JUNI – 19. JULI
DI MI DO FR 14.00 – 19.00
SA 11.00 – 16.00

PHILIPP PFLUG CONTEMPORARY
BERLINER STRASSE 32
60311 FRANKFURT AM MAIN

+49 160 918 811 63
MAIL@PPCONTEMPORARY.COM
WWW.PPCONTEMPORARY.COM

POWER OF CHI

POWER OF CHI

Calori & Maillard
Django Hernandez
Lisa Holzer



​POWER OF CHI
7/6 -  12/7
opening: 7/6 at 18.00

Schwanthalerstrasse 147
80339 Munich

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Calori & Maillard

MICHAEL BEUTLER - ZUSTAND MIT LOOPS UND KRINGELN

MICHAEL BEUTLER
ZUSTAND MIT LOOPS UND KRINGELN



Eröffnung am Freitag, den 6. Juni 2014
von 19 bis 21 Uhr
Dauer der Ausstellung: 7. Juni bis 2. August 2014

Galerie Bärbel Grässlin
Schäfergasse 46 B
60313 Frankfurt
mail@galerie-graesslin.de
www.galerie-graesslin.de

Margaritas on Magherita this Sunday 2pm CIBO


Come and join for Margaritas on Margherita.
On Sunday the 8th.
In the sun.
At CIBO, Daimlerstr. 32 at 2pm.
rsvp: franzi.stenglin@gmail.com

Galerie Buchholz, Köln: Cosima von Bonin, Sergej Jensen, Michael Krebber

Cosima von Bonin
Sergej Jensen
Michael Krebber

“We not”


6. Juni – 23. August 2014

Ausstellungseröffnung:
Freitag, 6. Juni, 19 – 21 Uhr

Galerie Buchholz
Neven-DuMont-Str. 17
and Elisenstr. 4-6
D - 50667 Köln
Tel: +49-221-2574946
Fax: +49-221-253351
post@galeriebuchholz.de

upcoming / Galerie Buchholz, Berlin:

Michael Krebber
“Systemic Relevance”

12. Juni – 16. August 2014

Ausstellungseröffnung
Donnerstag, 12. Juni, 19 – 21 Uhr

www.galeriebuchholz.de
Daniel Buchholz & Christopher Müller

Anna Ostoya: Transpositions


Anna Ostoya: Transpositions

June 5 - August 24, 2014
Curated by Martha Kirszenbaum

Press conference: Wednesday, June 4 at 5.30pm
Opening: Wednesday, June 4 at 6.30pm
Private view during Art Basel: Friday, June 20 at 7pm
(shuttle departing corner Isteinerstrasse / Bleichestrasse at 6.15pm)

In a conceptual practice that incorporates collage, photomontage, painting, sculpture, and writing, Anna Ostoya (b. 1978 in Krakow, Poland, lives and works in Brooklyn, USA) has developed a singular and critical body of works that concentrates on avant-garde aesthetics, particularly on the representation of feminism, the tension between image and media, and the legacy of 20th century art movements including Constructivism, Dada, Art Informel, Expressionism, and Minimalism. Recycling pre-existing images, materials and histories, Ostoya challenges notions of deconstruction and authenticity. Her work forms a continuity out of fragments as a process of creating new meanings and as a vehicle for political change. Using materials that range from the precious (gold leaf) to the mundane (newspaper) and from the industrial (aluminum leaf) to the organic (blood), Ostoya calls into question the very conventions she appropriates.

Transpositions is the first institutional exhibition of the artist in France and the title of a new series of works conceived for La Kunsthalle Mulhouse. Over a period of eight months, Ostoya followed a work plan and set up rules to experiment with different modes of decision-making. The history and architecture of La Kunsthalle’s building itself, a former industrial factory functioning as a foundry from the early 1920s through the 1980s, directly inspired the production of the pieces. The series is derived from considerations regarding past and present work practices and procedures. In her working process for Transpositions, as for some of her previous series, Ostoya reflects on the role and position of an artist in society: she disputes the stereotypes applied to an artist—that of a free spirit, an entrepreneur, or a worker. Testing the possibilities for artistic production, she juxtaposes the notion of art as an emotional, spontaneous, and disinterested expression with the notion of art as a rational, controlled, and purposeful endeavor.

Transpositions comprises ten large, horizontal new compositions, each spanning 100 by 200 cm, in which Ostoya sets into motion a leitmotif: a square is transposed from one canvas to the next in a sequence of ten. The square—a shape prized for the purity of its form by the Suprematists and other modernists—evolves as it slides from one work to the next as if on an assembly line. Recycling leftover materials from earlier works and reclaiming distinct art-historical traditions, these compositions are retrospective investigations of historical permanence and transition, continuity and rupture. Transposition—the act of transferring something from one place or context to another and a term used in various pursuits, including music, law, mathematics, genetics, and chess—implies both Ostoya’s methodology and the literal movement of the square across the canvases, but it also alludes to the generational and cultural transference of ideas and forms. The heterogeneous materials and techniques used by Ostoya range from oil paint to acrylic or shellac, from palladium leaf to paper or fabric, which she cuts, pastes, apposes, and transposes.

The exhibition is accompanied by the first monograph of Ostoya’s work that considers her oeuvre as a whole. The works reproduced in the book are the outcome of years of artistic practice and vivid discussions with curators, writers, and thinkers, such as the authors of this volume, Ben Lerner and Tom Williams. Writer Ben Lerner evocatively recounts his encounters with three of Ostoya’s works, discovering how the borders between images and shapes in them become rich sites of historical reflection and critique; art historian Tom Williams contemplates Ostoya’s oeuvre through the prism of avant-garde critique, focusing on her varied appropriations of art-historical styles and imagery.

Anna Ostoya studied at Parsons School of Art and Design in Paris and at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. From 2008 to 2009, she participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City. Ostoya’s major solo presentations include Bortolami Gallery, New York (2011 and 2013); Silberkuppe, Berlin (2011 and 2013); Tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam (2011); Foksal Gallery, Warsaw (2010) and Center for Contemporary Art Kronika, Bytom (2010). Her photomontages and collages were recently included in “New Photography 2013” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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Image: Anna Ostoya, Transposition I, 2013, archival pigment print, acrylic, shellac, paper and palladium leaf on canvas.100 x 200 cm / 39.37 x 78.74 in. Courtesy of the artist.


La Kunsthalle Mulhouse
Centre d'art contemporain
La Fonderie
16 rue de la Fonderie
68093 Mulhouse Cedex
France
www.kunsthallemulhouse.com