OPEN STUDIOS

19 - 20 September 2014

Glogauerstr. 16 Kreuzberg Berlin

GLOGAUAIR

GLOGAUA IR

Welcome t o

GlogauAIR -Artist in Residence Program- was founded in 2006 by the spanish artist Chema Alvargonzález as a multidisciplinary platform for artis-tic production, collaboration and exchange.

In GlogauAIR, artists from diverse social and geo-graphical backgrounds find a place to develop their works in a dynamic enviroment of coexistence, exchange of ideas and internationalization.

At the same time, they get to know a new culture and landscape in Berlin, getting influences from the city, which has become a pioneer place for contem-porary culture.

The processes of the artist in residence are shown every three months in the Open Studios exhibitions, where the public can see the works of the resident artists in site-specific and work in progress situation.

For the current occasion, the Project Space will host the collective exhibition Zwischenzeitlich, organized by the non profit organization la mire and curated by Valérie Leray.

Fernanda An to l á Por toS l im Che l t ou t

Kuno Eber tAndrea Gro t t o

K im Hyun-Kyung Na tacha Mankowsk i

Ann OrenJ i gnesh Pancha l

Uzma Su l t anHanneke van der Wer f

Chan te l WoodmanB i n Wooh Yuk

Art ists in res idence

FeRnAndA Antolá PoRtoBras i l

My project Excess of Contemporary Life questions the impact of the excessive use of mobile phones and computers in our society. I use spray on unconven- tional surfaces to create installations and performanc-es that come to life under black light.

The motivation behind my work is our modern lifestyle and the rapid technological change that urges us to reinvent our culture and our way of dealing with the excess of information.

Where is the line between healthy use of social media and internet addiction? How can we be more con-nected than ever and feel lonely at the same time?The archetypes of the digital age that appear in my work are reflections of our attitudes, mirror images to open up a new perspective on ourselves.

portoart.com

Digital Intoxication Installation and performance

Spray on unconventional surfaces, 2014

KUno eBeRtGermany

kunoebert.de

DIE VÖGEL

HABEN

AUS MEINEN AUGEN

EIN NEST GEBAUT

DAS WIEGT FAST GAR NICHTS

AndReA GRottoI t a l y

As in a book in which the characters have been omitted, I try to tell a story reporting only the auxiliary elements of the tale. Mattresses, sofas, vases, canes and boxes, are as silent witnesses that have formed the set where scenes of the story took place.

The story is my personal story and talks about childhood’s games and awesomeness, staged thanks to some symbols without which there would be no story.

andreagrotto.tumblr.com

Battle PlanOil on canvas, 117 x 144 cm, 2014

K IM HYUN-KYUNGSou th Korea

hyunkyungkim.com

Of the four plants, I am particularly interested in the bamboo both for its symbolism and its aesthetic as-pects; the strong linear lines of the stem that appears strengthened in the bamboo woods, and the leaves that show the movements resembling that of an or-chestra conductor when the wind blows.

The sound of the bamboos brushing against each other in the wind clears my mind. I sometimes draw bamboos inside the moon. The silhouettes of the trees in the moon represent my longings and wishes. In the traditional Korean culture, we pray to the moon on the night of the first full moon of the year, and it is in this spirit that I depict the bamboos in the moon.

I also bring the effect of light or rain into my pictures that seep through the bamboos. I believe that the bamboos reflect myself and that they will mature as my mind and thoughts do.

The Bamboo - Shining Colored korean ink on paper, 90 x 90cm, 2013

nAtAchA MAnKowsK IFrance

Coming from an architectural background, my work aims to blur the traditional categories of representa-tion of space.

My recent productions, adapted into the diverse medias of painting, installation and architecture consider the interest in the virtual and real space in terms of science and experience. This fascination is reflected by the use of a computational vocabulary into reality.

Using 3D modeling, photo-montage, virtual objects, graphic animations or augmented reality, as a base for my practice, I translate them into physical and tangible mediums, allowing these various technics to acquire a past and a specific density. What interests me is to communicate the experience of space, the trace of man through the built. I aim to sensitize people to the architecture that surrounds them, developing an Archaeology of the virtual.

natachamankowski.com

SPACE #6Oil on canvas, 160 x 190 cm, 2014

Ann oRenI s r ae l / USA

I work in the perplexing trench between the narrative and the analytic, exaggerating everyday behaviors to surface as films, videos and installations.

The continuously forming new stages that invite our fictitious personas to come forth become referential in my work, with a particular focus on our transformation from being friends to being performers and audience.

I own this culture in order to create a dialog with it while tracing the roots forming one’s fantasy and desire. Referring to iconic cinematic and literary works, I create liminal spaces between performer and viewer, bringing constantly forth how the more things change the more they remain the same.

annoren.com

Congratulations! You are still in the running for becoming!Video, 28 min, 2013

Penelope Video, 32 min, 2012

J IGnesh PAnchAlI n d i a

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I encounter many subjects in my everyday activities that have their own space in my life.

Objects, people or animals. I always try to interact with those subjects in my social surroundings. Sometimes questions arise from that connection, sometimes they just highlight social phenomena. Those day-to-day experiences in my life have become the sources for my work.

Random thoughts Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 145 cm, 2014

Some random thoughts Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 145 cm, 2014

UZMA sUltAnPak i s t an / UK

uzmasultan.com

The contemporary artists I associate my work with are Dexter Dalwood and American 90’s artist Karen Kilimnik. Art is a reflection of the time we live in.

The paintings have been made using photographs which I take myself and also from lifestyle maga-zines, which offer a glimpse into bourgeois living and into collecting emblems that may represent different cultures which in turn are exotic. My paintings have references from Pop Art and Bad Painting.

The application of the paint is ambitious. I draw with the paint and want the enjoyment of the paint to be obvious and sensuous. Paint is applied straight from the tube and is flat and jewel like, or at times applied clumsily and allowed to drip. Parts of the painting are deliberately left unfinished.

Most recently I am working on packaging of con-sumer products and some witty packaging found on products like chilli sauce painting titled Chilli ‘saas’ as that is how its written in urdu that has a literal meaning ‘mother-in-law‘.

Buses Oil on aluminium, 61 x 45 cm

‘Paan’ Shop Oil on aluminium, 88 x 64 cm

HANNEKE VAN DER WERF - SILVIA HORNIG Netherlands - Germany

This collaboration started in early april 2014, when we decided to jump into a new painting experience. Coming from two completely different languages, we were thrilled to see what would happen if we allowed them to come together.

Nice to meet you

Playing in joybeing here right nowsitting beside the channel questioning singing crow, dirty water, swimming empty cup of coffee feeling into energies of no idea floating quietly awayundefined beautyyeswhy not letting go of all you thought you are?why doubt on what is here to feel?nowhello mealwayspleased to meet you

derwerf.com & silviahornig.com

Nice to meet youMixed media on paper, 6 pieces, 49 x 49cm each, 2014

chAntel woodMAnSou th A f r i c a

Chantel Woodman has a multidisciplinary back-ground encompassing design, metal smiting and sculpture – a diverse skill set which has culminated in a unique and experimental approach to ceramics. Her work is a tapestry woven from the elemental and the feminine, reflecting her love of structure and tactile materials.

Her process is inquisitive: Clay from the earth, metals created of supernova, water, air and fire come together forging her unique and fascinating sculptures.

chantelwoodman.co.za

B In wooh YUKSou th Korea

My recent works are the drawings of printer output, which were produced from the photographs I took on certain landscapes in a forest. Regarding the meaning of a forest and why I paint it, I explained with substan-tial refinement and dramatization. However, the true reason is that while I paint a forest I get consolation and I can give relief to myself.

I do not work on paintings which expose my pain or deal with the irrationality in society where my situation is ruminated. I just hide my pain and console myself by painting a forest or something which does not express pain.

binwoohyuk.tumblr.com

Grunewald 21Charcoal and acrylic on canvas, 90 x 100 cm, 2014

SL IM CHELTOUTar t i s t i n r e s i dency p rogram

“A roo f above your head ”

M I CHAEL EBERT

ED I TH KOLLATH

KAR INE PORTAL

KAZUE TAGUCH I

SYLV I E UNGAUER

Zwischenze i t l ich19 .09 – 30 .09 .2014

Open i ng hour s

Monday - Sa tu rday 11am - 6 pm

cura ted by Va l é r i e Le ray l a m i r e

la mire

Showing both new generation and more experienced artists, la mire, originally the non-profit organization Lumen (1999 - 2008), plays an important role in the cultural life in the fields of photography and visual arts.

The program alternates between collective and monographic exhibitions, and educational meetings to foster exchanges and reflection.

La mire strongly supports the status of the artist and offers funding for each exhibition and the edition of a booklet, thirty of which are sold with an original work in the same format as the booklet.

Until 2011, la mire was sharing the exhibition space Oulan Bator Contemporary Art Centre, with the col-lective Le Pays où le ciel est toujours bleu. La mire has extended its activity to Berlin with the research residen-cies entitled A roof above your head. These artistic residences take a nomadic form on Berlin territory. The head office remains settled in Orléans at Oulan Bator. The city will also be the exhibition place for the new cycle of Orléans/Berlin residences A roof above your head and for the series of photo installations and video documentaries Dire le monde / Donner la parole.

Our presence at the Project Space of GlogauAIR gives la mire an opportunity to share our work in an interna-tional context.

Light on wallinstallation, wood, plastic, electronic, 2014

SLIM CHELTOUT

Using modest materials, Slim Cheltout delights the quotidian. His nomadic pictorial transforms an ordinary supportive landscape. In mechanical installations, the artist puts his technical knowledge to use for poetry.

The non-concealed mechanical escapes nevertheless the functionalism and leads the viewer into the essence of the artistic gesture. Motion detectors integrate visitors into kinetic landscape, echoes of the environment ex-posure which appear with delicacy and lightness: the world of Slim.

cheltoutslim.com

InverseSite specific video installation, 2012

MICHAEL EBERT

Works in the field of sound art and installation. His installation work deals with poetic reduction and minimization to expose the essential, the subject in transitional phases. He aims to show the fragility of the past and the conflicting results of perception and expectations of the individual and the other.

For the exhibition Zwichenzeitlich, Ebert will present a new specific installation Closer in the garden of GlogauAIR.

michael-ebert.org

Draft of air Mixed media, motor, 2013

EDITH KOLLATH

The Poetry of the ImmaterialIn her work Edith Kollath seems to be breathing life into

inanimate things, just like Pygmalion in Ovid’s Metamor-phoses. Kollath creates a manifold universe of aesthetic transformations that stimulate reflection: a cloth falls again and again and yet differently every time; an arti-ficially generated cloud emerges and vanishes; a slight movement - just like a draft of air - in a row of five square white papers.

Kollath is aware of the hubris implicit in making human breath the quintessence of her art: she encroaches on a prerogative of the gods. The resulting works are of com-pelling minimalist elegance and calm eloquence.

edithkollath.net

KARINE PORTAL

The concept of ‘inframince’, invented by Marcel Duchamp, focus on the tenuous aesthetic made by tiny, where subtle dif-ferences take place, sometimes impercep-tibles. This results in objects, situations, where the work is present and also absent.

Through the use of maps, these sculptures, in small formats, play with real physics of the object, in the accumulation of layers, where depth become evanescent, where relief become intangible. Here, this is the ‘spaces between’ which conforms the landscape.

karineportal .com

SurfacesPrints on transparency film, 10 x 15 cm, 2013

KAZUE TAGUCHI

Currently I work using reflective materials and lights. When light hits the surface, a complex interplay of re-flections and shadows is created.

The relationship between my work and my interest in reflection is the most exciting part of my creative re-search. Light is intangible and invisible, but its effect on our lives is profound. My interest in creating works with light is based on experiencing the phenomenon of their visual qualities as well as on the creation of a relaxing and sublime space.

kazuetaguchi.com

Landscape in mindSite specific installation. Tube, light, motor, 2014

Le Cameroun, c’est le CamerounVideo HD, 14 min, 2014

SYLVIE UNGAUER

The interest she has in issues concerning identity and feminism is more systematically supported by thought around the relationship to ‘the Other’.

Sylvie Ungauer developes artwork focused on the observation and study of the networks that structure our society, the relationships between individuals, the places where we live as well as the outside world.

The creation of networks between various protagonists – professionals, artists or art lovers – is a recurring element in the conception and production of her work. Similarly, her work is marked by a certain heterogeneity in the choice of techniques and materials used.

With the recent video, Cameroon is Cameroon, Ungauer puts in perspective the images realized during an excursion in dugout on the river of Nyong and the voice of the Cameroonian philosopher of the post-colonialism Fabien Eboussi Boulaga, conversing about this expression currently used by young people on social networks. He highlights the importance of the relations and interactions to think about the concept of nation 50 years after the independence achievements in Africa.

ddab.org/fr/oeuvres/Ungauer

GlogauAIR Artist in residence program

Glogauer Str. 1610999 Berlin

www.glogauair.netinfo@glogauair.net

.0049 / 30 61 222 75

Graphic design: Diana Loja / Isabel MorenoArt direction: Sergio Frutos

Open Studios

Fri 19 sept / 7pm -12pm Performance 8:30pm Digital Intoxication Fernanda Antolá Porto

Sat 20 sept / 3pm - 7pm

Zwischenzeitlich Project Space Exhibition

19 sept - 30 sept Mon - Sat / 11am - 6pm

www.glogauair.net