Renata Lucas / Dor Guez
dal 10/9/2010 al 6/11/2010
Segnalato da
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
10/9/2010
Renata Lucas / Dor Guez
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Brazilian artist Renata Lucas usually works with already existing situations. In her new work she creates a geometric alteration at the extremes of the terrain of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, destabilizing its boundaries and crossing its thresholds. With his video works and photographs, Dor Guez creates direct access to a narration, which embodies Israel's past and present at once. Guez questions ideas around ethnic identity by exploring the history of his family; a family in which elements of Christian, Arab, Jewish, Palestinian and Israeli history merge.
Renata Lucas
Ernst Schering Foundation Art Award
Brazilian artist Renata Lucas usually works with already existing situations. Based on fictions, she intervenes into found landscapes and architectures making the background become the main character. Her displacements cause spaces to become the main focus of attention revealing their deeper structures and proposing meaningful transformations. In her new work she creates a geometric alteration at the extremes of the terrain of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, destabilizing its boundaries and crossing its thresholds.
Renata Lucas (born 1971 in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil) was awarded the Ernst Schering Foundation Art Award 2009. With the presentation of two artworks specially made for KW Institute for Contemporary Art she will debut her work in Germany.
The exhibition is a collaboration between the Ernst Schering Foundation and KW Institute for Contemporary Art.
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Dor Guez. Al-Lydd
A Greek Orthodox church in Lod, a wedding, a ghetto, Israel 1949. A café in Jerusalem in 2009. Three generations, two Samiras in conflict between ethnic groups, borders, and religious beliefs.
With his video works and photographs, Dor Guez creates direct access to a narration, which embodies Israel’s past and present at once. Guez questions ideas around ethnic identity by exploring the history of his family; a family in which elements of Christian, Arab, Jewish, Palestinian and Israeli history merge. Very personal, yet mediated through the camera, the protagonists move between the levels of the narration, thus, multi-layered and split identities surface and internal and external points of views become apparent.
In his first large-scale solo exhibition in Europe, Al-Lydd, Dor Guez, who was born in Jerusalem, conceived three new works, the two photo series Al-Lydd and Scanograms # 1, as well as the video work Watermelons Under the Bed.
The exhibition is supported by Artis – Contemporary Israeli Art Fund and the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv.
Special Appearance
In addition to the two exhibitions Vertical attempt (2009) by Mircea Cantor will be shown at KW’s staircase.
Opening: Saturday, 11.09.2010, 5 – 10 pm
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststrasse 69, Berlin
Opening hours Tue - Sun noon - 7 pm
Thur noon - 9 pm
Admission: 6 Euro, 4 Euro concessions
Groups of 10 or more:
per person 5 Euro, 3 Euro concessions