Dazwischensein 9 - Cana Bilir-Meier

In the organizer's words:

Being in between 9

Cana Bilir-Meier
(space of possibility)

Cana Bilir-Meier
Talya Feldman
Yulia Lokshina
(film program)

Exhibition from November 15 to December 12, 2024
Opening Thursday, November 14, 2024, 6 to 9 pm

In 2024, 'Being in Between' 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.

Cana Bilir-Meier (*1986 in Munich) lives and works in Munich and Vienna. She studied art and digital media as well as film and art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and at Sabancı University in Istanbul. She works as a filmmaker and artist as well as in art and cultural education projects. Her filmic, performative and text-based works operate at the interfaces between archive work, text production, historical research, contemporary media reflexivity and archaeology. She is co-founder of the initiative in memory of Semra Ertan and co-editor of the poetry collection "Mein Name ist Ausländer - Benim Adım Yabancı". In 2021, she was a substitute professor for art education at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.

Talya Feldman (*1990, Denver, Colorado) is a time-based media artist from Denver, Colorado. She earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently a PhD candidate at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. She has exhibited in Chicago, New York, Hamburg, Halle (Saale), Frankfurt and Berlin. Feldman was awarded the 2021 DAGESH Art Prize for her sound installation 'The Violence We Have Witnessed Carries a Weight on Our Hearts' at the Jewish Museum in Berlin and has received worldwide recognition for her projects against right-wing terror in collaboration with activist and research-based networks.

Yulia Lokshina (*1986 in Moscow, Russia) studied documentary film directing at the University of Television and Film Munich. Her film and video works deal with the interference of social environments and their protagonists. Her graduation film - both an artistic and political project - 'Rules on the conveyor belt, at high speed' deals with temporary work and labor migration from Eastern Europe to Germany, questions of social participation and class consciousness and was awarded the Max Ophüls Prize for the best documentary film 2020. Her work asks critically: How do we talk about things that concern us? Who is responsible for what? What becomes an issue? She works in the border area of film and science at the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft Bonn, as well as in open formations with artist friends.

Film program
Cana Bilir-Meier
This Makes Me Want to Predict The Past, 2019
Film, 16 minutes
Cana Bilir-Meier (director), Aleyna Osmanoğlu and Sosuna Yıldız (protagonists), Lichun Tseng (camera), Zühal Bilir-Meier (casting director), Nihan Devecioğlu (music)

Talya Feldman
Elegy, 2020
Single channel video, 6 minutes
Tirza Ben-Zvi (dance & choreography), Christiany Erler, Paul McKenzie, Muhammad Nouman (voices),
Text from statements by survivors, Halle
In memory of Jana L. & Kevin S.

Yulia Lokshina
Days of Youth, Germany, 2016
Film, 30 minutes
Zeno Legner (camera), Philipp Scholz and Andrew Mottl (sound), Yulia Lokshina and Manon Falise (editing), wirFILM Bertolone & Ehlayil and HFF Munich (production), Isabelle Bertolone, Marius Ehlayil and Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF) (producers)

Program
Opening night
Thursday, November 14, 2024, 6 pm to 9 pm
Introduction 7.30 pm

Dance workshop for children
Wednesday, November 20, 2024, tba

Artist talk
Tuesday, November 26, 2024, 7 pm

Finissage with music
Thursday, December 12, 2024, 7 p.m.

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