14/9/2000
Moving Cities
Australian Embassy, Berlin
Australian Artists in Berlin 2000. The Australian Embassy, Berlin, Germany in conjunction with the Australia Centre, University of Potsdam, is proud to host an important exhibition of contemporary Australian artists. Moving Cities: Australian Artists in Berlin 2000, curated by Dr Brigitta Olubas and Alison Kubler, features the work of four contemporary Australian artists, Ian Howard, Jay Younger, Donna Marcus and Milan Milojevic.
The Australian Embassy, Berlin,
Germany in conjunction with the
Australia Centre, University of Potsdam,
is proud to host an important exhibition
of contemporary Australian artists.
Moving Cities: Australian Artists in
Berlin 2000, curated by Dr Brigitta
Olubas and Alison Kubler, features the
work of four contemporary Australian
artists, Ian Howard, Jay Younger, Donna
Marcus and Milan Milojevic, and will be
on display in the foyer of the Philip
Johnson Building, which houses the
Australian Embassy in Berlin, Germany
from September 15 - 29, 2000.
The exhibition brings together the work
of four significant Australian artists
working in diverse media - video,
sculptural installation, lithographs and
multi media, to raise questions of the
specific exchanges and displacements
of modern urban and global realities.
Jay Younger's video work explores
individual paranoia through the eyes of
two women, one in Germany and one in
Australia, while Milan Milojevic's prints
construct a dialogue about migration
and the construction of identity. Donna
Marcus's sculptural works infuse the
ordinary with the aesthetics of high
modernism, in contrast to Ian Howard's
computer prints, which develop his work
on public and military sites and
installations.
The staging of the 2000 Olympics in
Sydney provides a starting point for
imagining possible relationships
between different cultures in the
modern world, in terms of media
connections, cultural and commodity
exchanges, political relationships and
travel. In this context, Moving Cities
offers a new dialogue about cultural
difference through the work of four
contemporary artists.
Moving Cities will be officially opened
on September 15 to coincide with the
official opening ceremony of the 2000
Olympic Games in Sydney Australia. The
exhibition will then travel to Singapore
where it will be seen in January 2001 at
'The Art Gallery', Division of Visual and
Performing Arts, National Institute of
Technology, Nanyang Technological
University.
The exhibition Moving Cities: Australian
Artists in Berlin 2000 was developed as
a project of the Australia Centre,
University of Potsdam, with generous
assistance from the following
institutions: The Australian Embassy,
Berlin; The College of Fine Arts,
University of New South Wales; The
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,
University of New South Wales; Griffith
University, and Liveworm Studios,
Brisbane.
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