Asef–Burckhardt: SHELTER–BONE

In the organizer's words:

ACTIVE TERRAIN N°1
Asef-Burckhardt: SHELTER-BONE

Event photo: Asef-Burckhardt SHELTER-BONE, 2022 - 2025, photo rights: Asef-Burckhardt, VG Bildkunst

The residential and office buildings of Sea Ranch in northern San Francisco are integrated into the rugged cliffs of the Pacific Ocean. Strong, salt-soaked winds from the sea, rugged rocks in fine sand and ancient redwood forests characterize the landscape here. The wooden buildings were largely developed and initiated by the landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and his wife, the choreographer Anna Halprin, in the 1960s in an ecologically avant-garde community of multi-professional collaborators. Since then, the settlement has continued to grow and still sets international standards for the interplay between architecture and nature - in other words, "protection" and "environment". But what remains of the Halprins' utopia at the time - "to live lightly on the land" and the idealism of a sensitive approach to the environment for us today?

SHELTER-BONE, the current project by the art duo and couple Asef-Burckhardt, is based on extensive periods of research and work in this visionary settlement in Northern California and presents works created on site and in Berlin. Against the acute backdrop of the global environmental crisis, new anthropological questions such as "What must architecture connect today?" and "What must love achieve today?" are raised and artistically re-explored in close relation to this real topography. Consisting of combined, multimedia works, the project is currently being actively expanded and further developed in order to be shown in changing settings at international exhibition venues. The Kunstverein is very pleased to be able to show this complex of works in Göttingen under the leitmotif: "What does protection mean in our time?".

Program

Sat 11.01.25, 17:00 - 20:00
Vernissage - Reception with
- 17:00: Welcome speeches
≈ 17:30: Performance by Kirstin Burckhardt

Sat 15.02.25, 15:00 - 19:00
The Long Afternoon of Art with
- 16:00: Curator's tour of the exhibition with Stephan Klee
- 17:00: Exhibition talk with Asef-Burckhardt and Elena Engelbrechter, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
The duo Asef-Burckhardt and the curator Stephan Klee will be on site

S0 23.02.25, 15:00 - 17:00
Finissage
- 15:00: Guided tour of the exhibition with the curator Stephan Klee
- 16:00 Closing

In order to be able to plan better, we would be very pleased to receive your reservations for individual program items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone at 0551-44899

Price information:

€ 1,50 / € 1,00 (reduced