Three exhibitions
dal 4/7/2008 al 6/9/2008
Segnalato da
4/7/2008
Three exhibitions
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Ricarda Roggan's motifs appear as if they were everyday situations encountered incidentally. The concentration of her photographs tempt to conclude that all coincidence is staged and things occur only seemingly by chance. Albrecht Schafer's works reveal a magical aspect in the everyday. He deconstructs the objects and spaces around us whilst remaining constantly beholden to the materiality and constitution of things. The exhibition Richard Serra. Thinking on Your Feet is the first to focus solely on the artist's filmic work. On display five early films made in the period between 1968 and 1976.
Ricarda Roggan - Still Life
Curated by Susanne Pfeffer
Ricarda Roggan’s motifs appear as if they were everyday situations encountered incidentally. The precision and concentration of her photographs tempt to conclude that all coincidence is staged and things occur only seemingly by chance. The artist cautiously penetrates real space, undertaking subtle interventions into existing constellations. Things and spaces were detached from their original context of meaning.
School furniture, factory halls, cellars, tables, chairs, or loungers bear marks of past use, but in the new arrangements they forfeit their old function. The loss of their actual spatial context frees them from their functional duty. Bereft of its history, what is depicted eschews narrative. The exhibition Still Life at KW Institute for Contemporary Art is the first institutional solo show of Ricarda Roggan (*1972, Dresden) in Germany.
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Albrecht Schäfer - Winds and Windings
Curated by Susanne Pfeffer
Diffuse light is refracted a hundred-fold, space is infused with
light and darkness. Simple materiality is contrasted with filigree
forms, clear lines spiritedly condensed into a hermetic confusion.
Albrecht Schäfer’s works reveal a magical aspect in the everyday.
The artist deconstructs the objects and spaces around us
whilst remaining constantly beholden to the materiality and
constitution of things. The newly emerging forms seem to have
already adopted the logic of the material. Schäfer reveals both
unexpected and obvious structures and possibilities as he
pushes forward, so to speak, to the very core of the objects.
In an intense engagement with the existing space at
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Albrecht Schäfer has
created a number of new works.
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Richard Serra - Thinking on Your Feet
Curated by Susanne Pfeffer
Seeing Chelsea Girls and Yvonne Rainer’s hand film, I felt
that making film was open to me. Up to that point, I’d felt a
deference for film, and maybe I was a little bit frightened of it;
I wouldn’t have picked up a camera. That must have been
in ’67, and then I started to shoot film in ’68.
The exhibition Richard Serra. Thinking on Your Feet is the
first to focus solely on the artist’s filmic work. The KW Institute
for Contemporary Art will show five early films made in
the period between 1968 and 1976; these provide an unusual
approach to the oeuvre of this artist, who was born in San
Francisco in 1939.
I probably had to shoot these films so as to make the difference
to sculpture clearer to me.
Opening July 5, 2008, 5 – 10 pm
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststrasse 69 - Berlin