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23/9/2008

Two exhibitions

Salzburger Kunstverein - Kunstlerhaus, Salzburg

Antje Majewski My Very Gestures

Lecture Series Painting today. The Medium and its Message.

In autumn the Salzburg Kunstverein presents a solo exhibition of the German artist Antje Majewski entitled „My Very Gestures”. For the first time the artist is bringing together different collections of her work from the last ten years, which deal with gesticulation, dance, expression, and costumes. Antje Majewski became known especially through series of realistic paintings, which grapple with existential questions like friendship, love, masquerade, and death. The subject also revolves around the development and change of individuals in relation to society, history, and social norms.

In her youth Majewski had already begun photographing her sisters in photo stories. Many of her images are based on staged photos with models, for which she designed settings, costumes, and face painting. In the past few years a dance theater piece and multiple films have emerged in which she conveyed the stagings with actors in movement. Paintings and films work together in the exhibition. The staging of image, sculpture, film, and costume shown here, which brings the rough part of Berlin, Wedding, to Salzburg, emerged in cooperation with the Berlin artist, Juliane Solmsdorf.
An extensive publication is being released from Sternberg Press in New York and Berlin for the exhibition.

Antje Majewski, born in 1968 in Marl, lives and works in Berlin
http://www.antjemajewski.de

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Eulogy for the Mêlée

In the year of intercultural dialogue the art education team ARTgenossen, located in the Künstlerhaus, developed the participatory project „Eulogy for the Mêlée”, which deals with questions around migration and integration. Children, students, teachers, artists, and art educators participate in the multi-part project. The exchange of „cultural goods” and the profit, which both immigrants and locals gain from an exchange and dialogue, will be explored with visual and hands-on means.

The results of the previous project sections „Eulogy for the Mêlée” and „KinderSommerAkademie – Begegnungen” (Children’s Summer Academy – Encounters) are presented in the Cabinet. Visitors are simultaneously invited to add to the exhibited pieces in a „work in progress”. The Viennese artist, Songül Höll-Boyraz, will also present her contribution to „Eulogy for the Mêlée”. An additional educational program will be provided for the exhibition.

In the spring 90 school children used artistic and hands-on means to explore questions like „Are there immigrated words?” or „What is my favorite food and where does it come from?”. During the “KinderSommerAkademie – Begegnungen” (Children’s Summer Academy – Encounters) in August 2008 children from Salzburg and Waging probed questions like „How can I make the foreign my own, what is foreign, and how do I create encounters?” Work was done with clay and drawing pencils, filming, and crafts. Needless to say, the children from the two towns also met each other and experienced the „encounter” on a real level.

ARTgenossen has been working since 2001 as an independent art education group in Salzburg with a studio in the Salzburg Künstlerhaus. Art and culture should be experienced as something that is not only financed and intended for „the others”, but rather something where everyone can contribute and discover his or her skills and ideas. The ARTgenossen team is made up of Cornelia Meran, Doris Oberholzer, Petra Schagbauer, and Dagmar Sonnleitner-Soyka (http://www.artgenossen.cc).

Press preview: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 11 a.m.
Opening: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 7 p.m.
Artist Talk: Thursday, September 25, 2008, 7 p.m.

Salzburger Kunstverein, Kunstlerhaus
Hellbrunner Strasse 3 - Salzburg
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 12 midday to 7 p.m.

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