Museum Kunst der Westkuste
Alkersum
Hauptstrasse 1 (Island of Fohr)
+49 (0)4681 747400
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Two exhibitions
dal 27/2/2010 al 24/5/2010

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Lucas Haberkorn


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Fiona Tan
Kirsten Klein



 
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27/2/2010

Two exhibitions

Museum Kunst der Westkuste, Alkersum

Fiona Tan / Kirsten Klein


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Fiona Tan
News from the Near Future

Amsterdam-based photographer and video artist Fiona Tan (born 1966) has been a central figure on the contemporary art scene since the 1990s. In her video News from the Near Future (2003) a collage of historic film and audio material tells of man's ambivalent relationship with water as a force of nature. Drawing on the archives of the Amsterdam Film Museum, Tan composed a narrative crescendo starting off with idyllic impressions of the watery world and building to increasingly menacing scenarios of an unleashed nature. Images of floods and churning seas, of wild winds and storms, parade before our eyes the destructive force of water. Tragedies at sea are reported in the style of old newsreels or radio shows, segueing into pictures of flooded cities that - as indicated in the work's title - forebode future catastrophes. The cinematic repertoire of waves, tides and floods acts as an historical memory, presenting the sea as a metaphor for the flow of time.

Fiona Tan represented the Netherlands at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009 with the project Disorient. She has presented her work in numerous international solo and group exhibitions, including at the MCA in Chicago, at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London as well as at Documenta 11 and the Shanghai, Istanbul and Berlin biennials. She received the Infinity Award for Art in 2004 and the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2007.

Kirsten Klein
Traces of Light

Kirsten Klein (born 1945) is one of Denmark's most celebrated contemporary art photographers. For more than thirty years she has been photographing nature, usually finding her motifs on the west coast of Jutland and the Island of Mors in Limfjord. Other landscape images stem from the artist's extended travels in northern Europe, Ireland and America. When choosing her motifs, Klein avoids urban centres and instead sets out in search of the remains of wild, untouched nature. Light and shadow phenomena in the sky, cloud formations, migrating birds, the vast expanses of the sea and coastal landscapes, turbulent eddies and thundering waves are witnesses to a wayward and untameable nature. Kirsten Klein's atmospheric black-and-white photographs dramatise nature as a world between light and shadow, her reduction to a concert of grey tones allowing us to experience its mystery and sublimity anew.

Kirsten Klein has taken part in a number of group and solo exhibitions and has been awarded the key Danish art honours, most recently the Palle Fogtdal Photography Award (2007) for her outstanding achievements in the field of black-and-white photography. Traces of Light, presented in association with the Museum for Photographic Art in Odense (DK), is Klein's first solo exhibition in Germany.

A catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition.

The Museum Kunst der Westküste (West Coast Art Museum) is a non-profit foundation. The museum collects, researches, communicates and exhibits art that deals with the themes of sea and coast. The point of departure is formed by the paintings collection of the museum's founder, Prof. h.c. Frederik Paulsen, whose ancestors came from the Island of Föhr. With this museum he is able to express his close ties with the island and make his extensive Sammlung Kunst der Westküste (West Coast Art Collection) accessible to the public.

The Museum Kunst der Westküste was conceived according to plans by renowned architect Gregor Sunder- Plassmann as a multipart museum complex uniting tradition and modernism in a harmonious whole. Six galleries provide a total of 900 square metres of exhibition space. As daylight floods into the cleverly designed buildings, the museum enters into an ever-changing dialogue with its rural environment. The complex also includes a museum garden and Grethjens Gasthof restaurant, built in the style of a turn-of-the-century Scandinavian manor house.

Image: Fiona Tan, News from the Near Future, 2003, film still © courtesy of the artist

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Museum Kunst der Westküste
Hauptstraße 1 , Island of Föhr, D-25938 Alkersum Germany
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Thursday 10 - 20 h
Monday closed
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Two exhibitions
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