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1/4/2014

Pool

Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover

To mark the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the personal union of Great Britain and Hanover, the kestnergesellschaft is showing contemporary art from London. In five interlocking solo presentations the group exhibition »pool« presents works by Aaron Angell, Alice Channer, Nicolas Deshayes, Magali Reus and Cally Spooner. The exhibition allows a comprehensive insight into the work of these five London- based artists of international origin for the first time in Germany, and introduces a generation that directs its attention to the various features of our digitalized present.

This »pool« of artistic positions has many overlaps, both in terms of content and the use of materials, although the techniques applied range from the manual to highly technological production methods. Angell, for example, uses a form of reverse glass painting or draws on the technique of ceramics. Deshayes, Reus and Channer employ traditional sculptural procedures and combine them with specialized production processes, while Spooner primarily works with language and performance. Even if these artistic inquiries do not take place in digital media, they reflect the influence of digitalization on contemporary life. They react to a rapidly changing world in which virtual and real space increasingly intertwine, in which our public activity, our means of communication and our desires are becoming important economic resources. Against this background the presented works renegotiate typical sculptural questions about the relationship between body, depiction, material and space. How do we relate to the things that surround us? What forms our environment? Where are our bodies? Where are our possibilities for action and expression?

The artists’ material language is characterized by a fascination for the mutable and ephemeral, for multipart transformation processes and changing states of matter. Recurring motifs of liquidity and water reflect a reality in which things are in a permanent state of flux and dissolution, in which clear boundaries blur and the relationship between human beings and the environment, private and public spheres, subject and object continually need to be redefined. What seems pure and transparent is contrasted in the exhibition with the impure and opaque. Objects, surfaces and materials are contrarily charged, seem seductive and repellent, organic and synthetic, flat and corporeal. Experiences of an increasing abstraction and alienation, which at the same time nurture the desire for the tranquil and controllable, become manifest.

Some of the groups of works and installations, which were specially created for »pool«, take into account the exhibition situation of the kestnergesellschaft in the former Goseriede swimming pool. The presentation opens with Aaron Angell’s Gallery Peacetime: an aquarium occupied by three axolotls in which the artist will curate his own exhibition with London-based artists. In four solo shows, Gallery Peacetime presents works by Isabel Mallet (*1989), Allison Katz (*1980), Esme Toler (*1989) and Aaron Angell himself.

artists
All the participating artists live and work in London.

Aaron Angell (*1987 in Kent, UK) studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London and has had solo exhibitions at SWG3 Gallery, Glasgow (2013), Croy Nielsen, Berlin (2012), Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on- Sea (2011), and elsewhere. He has taken part in numerous group exhibitions, for example at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (both 2013).

Alice Channer (*1977 in Oxford, UK) studied at Goldsmiths College and Royal College of Art in London. Her recent solo exhibitions include Soft Shell at Kunstverein Freiburg, Invertebrates at Hepworth Wakefield, UK (both 2013), Cold Blood at Lisa Cooley, New York, and Out Of Body at South London Gallery (both 2012). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions including The 55th Venice Biennale (2013), Tate Britain (2012, 2008), Whitechapel Gallery, London (2012), Raven Row, London (2010) and Hayward Touring, UK (2009).

Nicolas Deshayes (*1983 in Nancy, France) studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art in London. He has had solo exhibitions at S1 Artspace, Sheffield (2013) and Jonathan Viner, London (2012), and has taken part in numerous group exhibitions including David Roberts Arts Foundation, London (2014), Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, The Approach, London and Marianne Boesky, New York (all 2013).

Magali Reus (*1981, The Hague, Netherlands) studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and Goldsmiths College in London. Recent solo exhibitions include The Approach, London (2014); SPACE, London (2012), IBID Projects, London (2010), La Salle de bains, Lyon (2009). Upcoming solo shows in 2014 include Circuit, Lausanne, and Freymond-Guth, Zurich. She has been included in screenings at Tate Britain (2014) and ICA (2013), London, and has had group shows at Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, David Roberts Art Foundation, London and De Hallen, Haarlem (all2014).

Cally Spooner (*1983 in Ascot, UK) studied at Goldsmiths College in London. She has recently been developing And You Were Wonderful, On Stage; commissioned by and staged at Tate Britain (2014), Performa 13 and Stedelijk Museum (both 2013). She has taken part in numerous group exhibitions and events including Kunstverein Munich (2014), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Jeu De Paume, Paris (all 2013), Serpentine Gallery, London (2012), and is a 2013 recipient of the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Foundation award for artists.

artists at »gallery peacetime«
Curated by Aaron Angell

Aaron Angell (*1987 in Kent, UK)
Allison Katz (*1980 in Montreal, Canada) lives and works in London.
Isabel Mallet (*1989 in Starkville, Mississippi, USA) lives and works in London.
Esme Toler (*1989 in London, UK) lives and works in London.

catalogue The exhibition is accompanied by a magazine in German and English.

Image: Cally Spooner, And You Were Wonderful, On Stage, 2013. Performance at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Courtesy of the artist and MOTINTERNATIONAL. Photo: Ernst van Deursen

Charlotte Schüling, phone +49 511-7012016, presse@kestnergesellschaft.de

accompanying program pool | art from london

director’s tour
Thursday, 26 June 2014, 7 p.m. (in German)
with Dr. Veit Görner, director

kestnerdialogue
Thursday, 17 April 2014, 7 p.m. (in German)
tour with curators Antonia Lotz and Heinrich Dietz

Long Night of Museums
Saturday, 14 June 2014, 06:00 – 01:00 p.m.

live music

Tuten&Phrasen
with the guests Milla Kay and Lukas Wendlandt
Friday, 4 April 2014, 7 p.m.

Music.Art.Live
with Hanz Marathon & Claudia Kudlinski
Thursday, 24 April 2014, 7 p.m.

Fête de la Musique
Saturday, 21 June 2014, 11 a.m.

kestnerklänge
Thursdays 1 p.m. guitar rehearsal by HMTMH students

art mediation

free guided tours (in German)
Wednesdays 1 p.m. »lunch break« tour
Thursdays 7 p.m. | Saturdays 3 p.m. | Sundays 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Good Friday, Easter, 1 May, Ascension Day, Pentecost: 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.

group tours Guided
group tours in English can be arranged at request.

kestnerkids goes international
Saturday, 5 April 2014, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Saturday, 10 May 2014, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Saturday, 14 June 2014, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
in English | please sign up | 5 – 12 years
members 0 € | others 5 €

press preview Wednesday, 2 April 2014, 11 a.m. (the artists are present)

opening Thursday, 3 April 2014, 7 p.m. (the artists are present)

Kestnergesellschaft
goseriede 11 - 30159 Hannover
opening hours
daily 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. | Thursdays 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. | Mondays closed
Good Friday, Easter, 1 May, Ascension Day, Pentecost: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
admission
€7, concession €5
Free entry for members and children under 15
Your ticket entitles you to repeat visits for the duration of the exhibition and can be passed on to others.

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