Young European Landscape
dal 3/3/2011 al 7/5/2011
Segnalato da
Gabor A. Nagy
Juan Bejar
Adam Bota
Jozsef Bullas
Szilárd Cseke
Konstantin Dery
Fabian Faltin
Deenesh Ghyczy
Peter Hampel
Rene' Holm
Chelushkin Kirill
Franziska Klotz
Tibor Iski Kocsis
Adam Magyar
Svatopluk Mikyta
Alberto Petro'
Jan Ros
Jean Noel Schramm
Mirjam Siefert
Stepanek & Maslin
Anna Szigethy
Horst Waigel
Anne Wolk
Markus Wüste
Uwe Goldenstein
Veronika Baksa-Soos
3/3/2011
Young European Landscape
Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Berlin
Through an intelligent selection, this exhibition wants to provide new perspectives and reflections upon the lives and realities of young people today. The artists focus their work on human perception and self-reflection in the wake of a post-modern dissolution of all known boundaries.
curated by Uwe Goldenstein
Co-Kuratorin Veronika Baksa-Soós
Artists: Gábor A. Nagy, Juan Béjar, Adam Bota, József Bullás, Szilárd Cseke, Konstantin Déry, Fabian Faltin, Deenesh Ghyczy, Peter Hampel, René Holm, Chelushkin Kirill, Franziska Klotz, Tibor Iski Kocsis, Adam Magyar, Svätopluk Mikyta, Alberto Petrò, Jan Ros, Jean Noël Schramm, Mirjam Siefert, Stepanek & Maslin, Anna Szigethy, Horst Waigel, Anne Wölk and Markus Wüste.
The landscape genre, understood in a contemporary manner, can be read as a
metaphorical projection surface with a wide open horizon. The landscape as a
formal-aesthetic basis for the localisation of the relationship between mankind to the
environment is the locus of a fascinating study of contemporary problems and
dilemmas. Idea and actuality lie on the same plane, and are both socially and
historically constituted.
Contrary to a haphazard rendering of the world, this
exhibition proposes to stage a wide-ranging, both profoundly psychological and
emotional landscape, in tune with different moods, emotional registers and desires,
while at the same time inquiring into different definitions of and relations to nature,
or addressing the crisis of social norms and orientation. In this understanding of
landscape, the evocation of a primordial, original nature forms an accessible,
universal backdrop, against which all too human doubts and self-questioning in an
instable environment becomes tangible.
Through an intelligent selection, this exhibition wants to provide new perspectives
and reflections upon the lives and realities of young people today. The artists I
envisage focus their work on human perception and self-reflection in the wake of a
post-modern dissolution of all known boundaries. These works offer different
insights and aesthetic manifestations of the latent, individual forces, energies and
auto-suggestions that conspire to shape our age; exhibited together, they create a rich
portrait of the present moment and its zeitgeist.
The combination of these different positions is to be read as a single European
landscape that postulates an aesthetic unity and intricate interdependency of east
and west. The exhibition wants to shed light upon the contemporary European
condition, a complex, post-modern mix of simultaneities; while at the same time
drawing attention to its philosophical limitations. Furthermore, the exchange
between western and eastern contemporary artists and their heterogeneous artistic
strategies draws attention to the historical depth of today’s lived reality.
Uwe Goldenstein
BSA - Berlin Selected Artists
Image: Franziska Klotz
Opening 4 march 2011, 19
Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (Haus Ungarn)
Ungarisches Kulturinstitut
Dorotheenstraße 12, 10117 Berlin
Hours: daily 10-19 h