Urban Creatures
dal 26/1/2006 al 20/5/2006
Segnalato da
Ulf Aminde
Sergio Belinchon
Shahram Entekhabi
Remy Markowitsch
Bjorn Melhus
Olaf Nicolai
Maya Roos
Michaela Schweiger
Mathilde Ter Heijne
Albert Braun
Dorothee Bienert
26/1/2006
Urban Creatures
Pori Art Museum, Pori
The artists of the exhibition all live in Berlin, although they represent six different nationalities. Their sculptures, installations, videos and photos explore the urban matrix as a space of everyday life and as cultural production. The artists are Ulf Aminde, Sergio Belinchon, Shahram Entekhabi, Remy Markowitsch, Bjorn Melhus, Olaf Nicolai, Maya Roos, Michaela Schweiger, Mathilde Ter Heijne. In the Wing space: Albert Braun
Hall, Project Room
The theme of Urban Creatures arises from the phenomena common to modern big cities. Isolation, narcissism, insecurity and fragmented interaction are the flip side of the culture of mass urban societies, where individuals must try to construct an identity for themselves. The interpretation and construction of reality, just as the formation of self-image, take place under the powerful influence of the media and their codifications. The artists of the exhibition all live in Berlin, although they represent six different nationalities. Their sculptures, installations, videos and photos explore the urban matrix as a space of everyday life and as cultural production. The exhibition is curated by Dorothee Bienert, an art historian from Berlin. The artists are Ulf Aminde, Sergio Belinchon, Shahram Entekhabi, Remy Markowitsch, Bjorn Melhus, Olaf Nicolai, Maya Roos, Michaela Schweiger, Mathilde Ter Heijne.
ULF AMINDE: Weiter 27.01. - 12.03 Project Room
Video work is linked with the Urban Creatures exhibition.
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ALBERT BRAUN
Me, Myself, Nykarleby [the world] and I
27.01. - 19.03.2006, Wing
The German-born artist Albert Braun (born Vilseck, 1958) explores the nature of identity, using as an example his Swedish-speaking hometown of Nykarleby in Finland. Braun sees himself as a foreigner who observes his surroundings and life with undisguised interest, critically, narratively and also with humour. His works combine documentary photographic printouts with objects and structures. Braun looks at parochialism and romantic nationality with an ironic twinkle in his eye.
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Maire Gullichsen And Modernism
INA COLLIANDER. PRINTS.
27.01. - 28.05.2006 MEDIApoint
Themes from the Collections of the Maire Gullichsen Foundation.
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