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31/1/2014

Two exhibitions

CentrePasquArt, Biel

Telling Tales
Artists from the Baltic States and Switzerland

Eglé Karpaviciute (LT)
Petra Köhle / Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin (CH)
Laurent Kropf (CH)
Paulis Liepa (LV)
Dainius Liškevičius (LT)
Andres Lutz & Anders Guggisberg (CH)
Marge Monko (EE)
Katrīna Neiburga (LV)
Sandrine Pelletier (CH)
Liina Siib (EE)

The exhibition Telling Tales brings together ten artists or artist duos from the Baltic States and Switzerland under the theme of story-telling, in terms of both collective history and personal narrative. A major subject for many Baltic artists is the heritage of the Soviet occupation, followed by Communism and finally independence. Found photographs and film-footage, documenting aspects of the past, provide material for several of the participating artists. Others examine forms of free political and artistic expression or the importance of context for the interpretation of cultural phenomena. In contrast, the Swiss artists are concerned neither with their national past nor with their own biographies. Instead their work develops fictions that concern the creation of myths, evoke period aesthetics or analyse the influence of archival processes on the construction of collective memory.

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Barbara Probst

Barbara Probst (* 1964, Munich, lives in New York and Munich) challenges the traditional use of photography to show only one perspective and a single representation of reality. In the series she has been working on since 2000, entitled exposures, she presents multiple viewpoints to communicate the same subject at exactly the same moment in very different ways. Using up to thirteen synchronised cameras released by a remote control either on tripods or managed by assistants, Probst frequently exploits the visibility of the equipment to include the act of photography itself in the images. The exhibition at the Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt is the first institutional presentation of Barbara Probst’s work in Switzerland and shows photographs produced between 2001 and 2012. From the earlier exposures that first negated the concept of hierarchy between images within the same series to the recent bodies of work juxtaposing a larger number of both interior and exterior views, she has continued to explore new aspects of the concept of observation, as well as the ability of photography not to tell a definitive truth but to show reality as the camera saw it.

Press contact:
Manon Engel T +41 32 3225586 pr@pasquart.ch

Vernissage: Saturday 01 02 2014, 5 p.m.

CentrePasquArt Kunsthaus Centre d’art
Seevorstadt 71–73 faubourg du Lac CH 2502 Biel Bienne
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Wednesday - friday: 2pm – 6pm
Saturday / sunday: 11am – 6pm
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CHF 11.– / 9.–
Access to all exhibitions in the house (incl. PhotoforumPasquArt and espace libre)

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