Dazwischensein 4 - Andrea Wolfensberger

In the organizer's words:

In-between 1-9
Spaces of possibility
2024

In-between 4
Andrea Wolfensberger
(space of possibility)

Manaf Halbouni
Judith Neunhäuserer
(film program)

Exhibition from May 3 to May 29, 2024
Opening Thursday, May 2, 2024, 6 to 9 pm

In 2024, 'Dazwischensein' provides the conceptual superstructure for nine short, individual artistic presentations that explore the theme in its various aspects. Being in-between can be a thought, a state or even a feeling. We want to understand being in-between as a possibility to see more and to grasp different perspectives at the same time.

Andrea Wolfensberger (*1961 in Zurich) lives and works in Waldenburg and Zurich (CH) and is a sculptor and installation artist. She studied at the École Supérieure d'Art Visuel in Geneva. In the artistic discourse on the subject of nature, Andrea Wolfensberger takes a very unique, stringent position with sculpture, video and installations, combining scientific abstraction and narrative poetry. Most of her works are based on classical studies of nature. Recognition is understood as a moment of touching, as situated, embodied and partial knowledge. Is recognition as a moment of contact reciprocal? What is the relationship of the individual to the whole? The position of the subject in relation to the group is particularly addressed in those works that deal with swarm intelligence and self-organizing systems. The concept of emergence is central. She has received various grants and awards as well as residencies in Paris and Rome. She teaches at the Bern University of the Arts. Since 1986 she has had numerous exhibitions in Switzerland, Germany and France and has realized works in public spaces and as art in architecture.

Discussion partner: Prof. Dr. Boris Previšić (*1972) is Professor of Cultural and Literary Studies at the University of Lucerne and Director of the Uri Institute Cultures of the Alps in Altdorf. He publishes and teaches on the relationship between literature and music, interculturality and climate issues. In 2021, Previšić founded the online magazine Syntopia Alpina, which focuses on the challenges in the Alps.

Manaf Halbouni (*1984 in Damascus, Syria) lives and works everywhere, as he says. Halbouni studied sculpture at the University of Damascus and the Dresden University of Fine Arts. His "escape car" on Dresden's Theaterplatz, the scene of Monday's Pegida rallies, has made the Syrian-German artist Manaf Halbouni famous. He ironically dealt with Islamophobic statements and the fear of refugees. Since then, he has been traveling internationally with his vehicle loaded with German devotional objects such as garden gnomes, beer crates and bicycles. After participating in the Venice Biennale, his works were presented at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, where he also exhibited one of his getaway cars. As part of his installation Monument, he had three buses erected vertically in Dresden to commemorate the war in Syria and send a message of freedom to the world. In 2017, the installation was set up on the Platz des 18. März in Berlin on the initiative of Shermin Langhoff, director of the Maxim Gorki Theater. Most recently, his works were on display in the exhibition 'Wer wir sind' at the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn.

Judith Neunhäuserer (*1990 in Bruneck, Italy) lives in Munich and Milan. In her artistic practice, she deals with attempts at demarcation and aesthetic and epistemic similarities between science and religion. This involves, for example, myths and dreams as the basis for discoveries, the ritualization of research processes and different languages and symbol systems for formulating models of and for the world.
Judith Neunhäuserer studied sculpture as well as religious and cultural studies in Munich and Istanbul. Expeditions have taken her to Neumayer Station III in the Antarctic, by sailing ship to Spitsbergen and across the Atlantic on board the CMA CGM Puget, to the Spanish underground laboratory LSC Canfranc and to archives in Cambridge and London. She recently returned from South Korea. In addition to exhibitions, she presents her research in lectures, talks and publications such as the journal Albedo 2018 and the encyclopedia Tekeli-li 2021.

Program
Opening day
Thursday, May 2, March 2024, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Introduction 7.30 pm

Andrea Wolfensberger in conversation with Prof. Dr. Boris Previšić
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 7 pm

Finissage with music by Pre Art
Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 7 pm

Further information and current dates can be found at www.dg-kunstraum.de