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Notes about Chema Alvargonzalez
The journey is a constant process of disconnection and reconnection. Along the route, Chema Alvargonzalez sees himself as an itinerant figure and it is during this experience of "spinning around the world" that Alvargonzalez establishes points for connection with his surroundings. As part of this journey, in 2006 Chema Alvargonzalez (b. Jerez de la Frontera, 1960 - Berlin, 2009) founded GlogauAIR. After studying Fine Arts in Barcelona, Alvargonzalez continued his studies in HdK (Berlin) under the direction of Rebecca Horn, where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts and Multimedia. From that point on he worked and lived between Barcelona and AlvargonzalezBerlin. experienced the exciting events surrounding the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the period that followed it. During that time, he was part of Künstlerinitiative Tacheles and dedicated a lot of his time introducing incoming artists to the city of Berlin and its art scene, something that was formalized when he conceptualized GlogauAIR. Alvargonzalez was a representative of the generation of artists whose artwork was highly influenced by globalization and technology. As a consequence, Chema’s pieces, as well as GlogauAIR, were conceived as transcending geographical boundaries. After Alvargonzalez’s early death, his siblings Pablo and Columna took over Chema’s heritage, founding Memoria Artistica Chema Alvargonzalez in order to preserve Chema’s artwork and taking over the direction of GlogauAIR.
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The Journey
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Artists in GlogauAIR’s on-site Residency Program live and work in one of thirteen studios. They receive curatorial and technical support, as well as a diverse program that aims to help them in their professional careers; encouraging not only the development of the artist’s work but also the opportunity to share ideas and opinions with the other artists living in the Throughbuilding. the on-line Program, the artist has the opportunity to receive curatorial support, regular group meetings, talks by experts, and workshops, from their homes or personal studios located anywhere in the world. This on-line program was set up as a result of the challenges faced in 2020. Far from letting this stop us, we expanded our program to make it available for artists who can’t join us physically in Berlin. Above all, GlogauAIR continues the project created by Alvargonzalez, built on openness, receptivity to new ideas, and support of local and international contemporary art practices.
GlogauAIR
6 GlogauAIR today is a non-profit art space and residency, located in a beautiful, modernist-style building that was originally designed to be a school. The building was one of the first projects erected by architect Ludwig Hoffmann in 1896, during his time as the Building Advisor of Berlin.
Focused on the principles of exploring, creating, and exhibiting, the residency offers an on-site and on-line program for international artists of all fields.
The space and the program
Open Studios
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GlogauAIR’s open studios invites the public to witness the result of three months of intensive research and production by the artists taking part in GlogauAIR residency program on site in Berlin and online throughout the world. These artists join GlogauAIR to dedicate themselves to the creation of new work and to explore new processes together with an international cohort of artists. While each of the artists prepare and produce an individual project, it is also possible to observe topics and themes that overlap among the artworks. Topics such as intimacy, belonging and self-reflection continue to be important themes. The idea of healing oneself or collective healing through art and artistic practices arises can also be observed in the work produced. For many onsite artists, Berlin itself becomes the nexus of their work, from the found objects incorporated into new creations or discovering the secret histories Berlin has to offer. Being able to observe these coincidences and influences is one of the most exciting aspects of the concept of open studios, which offers the chance to see all-new artworks presented to the public for the very first time. Open studios is the culmination of a program of activities in different formats such as curatorial visits, tours within the city of Berlin, talks and workshops that have provided resources, inspiration, and understanding to enhance their artistic work and create a platform for their career. While the entrance level and garden are dedicated to exhibition proposals and local initiatives. Opening the ground floor project space to a visiting exhibition, entitled ‘Animal Games’, in collaboration with the video art platform LOOP as we continue to form important international ties with other cities and countries. This time and as always, GlogauAIR keeps finding opportunities to develop, exchange and invite conversation on contemporary art and multidisciplinary culture. Summer 2022
Open Studios // June 2022 Lilit Lesser and Jack Clearwater, "LILIT"
Picture by Beatrice Lezzi © GlogauAIR gGmbH 2022 rights reserved to GlogauAIR gGmbH
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Carrie Stubbs (USA, CH) 34Kayleigh Maimaran (DE, IE) Maria Paz Bascuñan (CL) Martyna Lebryk (PL, IE) 38 Mascoga (UY) 40 Noah Gokul (USA) 42 Sophie Nathan-King (UK) 44
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14Aitor Lajarin-Encina (ES, USA)
Ariella Robinson (USA) 16 Carina Chang (USA) 18 Carlos Asensio (ES) 20
Daria Veshtak and Matilda Marina (UA) 26 Elizabeth Littlejohn (CA) 28 Finn Theuws (NL) 30 Heikki Kaski (FI) 2232
Since 2020, Lajarín-Encina has been working on a series of what he calls, Collaborative Paintings. For this project, he invites artists and artist groups to create interventions and exhibitions inside his paintings. In other words, he reaches out to artists, he works collaboratively with them to come up with a space that is both appealing for them to intervene and for him to paint. Then he paints this space on canvas, and the artists make artworks specific for this pictorial, bi-dimensional, small space. The result is a hybrid artwork, a collaborative painting-object-curatorial project-exhibition that teases painting, exhibition, curating, collaboration, representation, presentation, and authorship notions.
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Meteorito (2022) Acrylic on canvas 16 x 20 inches with Guanabana collective, Merida, Yucatán.
Aitor Lajarin-Encina
Spain • United States of www.aitorlajarin.infoAmerica
Through his paintings, videos, and objects, Aitor Lajarín-Encima confronts the viewers with intriguing events, vignettes of existential suspense and situations that invite them to explore territories of thinking and emotion in relation to a wide range of psycho-social aspects of the average contemporary life conditions in his most immediate surroundings. His practice is an effort to find productive spaces of aesthetic fulfilment and critical engagement in times of social anxiety. This search is circumscribed by different modes of critique of modernity, its derivations, and its globalized management of both subjectivities, environments, and everyday human and non-human life.
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Textiles trace the boundaries between our external and internal worlds — curtains, clothes, blankets are instruments for assessing self and all the rest. This body of work, Pith, named after the bitter, peripheral part of an orange shares a definition for one’s truest and inner most essence. It has grown out of a body of research on the life and work of Jewish-Romanian, Germanlanguage poet Paul Celan, the use of hydrogen cyanide to fumigate California citrus trees in the 1880s, and discovery of the artist’s multi generational preoccupation with orange, both in fruit and color. International Orange (2022) Pigment on satin with hand stitching, batting, cotton 50.8 x 66 cm
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Ariella Robinson (b.1995 Los Angeles) is an artist and critic based in San Francisco. Working in and around photography, fibers, research, text, and archival methodologies her practice superimposes the personal and the political and aims to develop a language with the ephemeral.
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Xinnian (2022) Oil on canvas 35 x 40 cm
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Carina Chang is a first-generation Chinese American painter born in Queens, New York. Her parents immigrated from Hong Kong and the Dominican Republic, and she was raised between the USA and Hong Kong. Her autobiographical figurative paintings examine the dysphoria around the constructs of identity, culture, sexuality, and belonging. By observing her space and surroundings, she seeks to confront the unreliable narrator and rewrite her own narrative. Her method of painting challenges standards and deconstructs societal and cultural expectations through a process of dismantling, reflecting, and building oneself through creation. Using observations, memories, relics, and references in history and literature, her paintings seek to question memory to understand generational trauma and work towards vulnerability. This project documents the experiences of loneliness and the search for belonging. As we shift our gaze inwards and reflect internally, there is an emotional and mental process of observing our thoughts and surroundings. If the search is infinite, memories are susceptible to fabrication, people change depending on their environment, what are the sources of one's sense of belonging? The project seeks to write the stories of experience, placing it in a larger framework with a beginning, middle, and end, to discover the many truths about being human.
United States of www.carinachang.comAmerica
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www.carlos-asensio.blogspot.comSpain
Glitch houses (2019) Mixed media on canvas 76 x 59 cm
Carlos Asensio is a Spanish painter based in Castellón who is interested in mixed media to explore all the expressive possibilities offered by mixing paint with digital image transfer techniques. His work arises from a need to talk about the necessity to review the values on which human morality is based today. For this reason, he focuses his study on the most recent crises, including elements that speak about the resulting acts produced by humanity and the consequences on the environment. This body of work is a continuation of the series “Glitch Houses” in which the intention is to generate a link between that anomaly that appears in the image with the malfunctioning of the system that poorly manages some aspect of he examines the degradation of nature over the last seventy years. For this he uses the diptych format that presents, on the one hand, two original photographs from the fifties, taken by his relatives and which are part of his personal archive. Next to each painting, he includes an interpretation of each image that has been digitally manipulated with the aim of creating a vision of the current state of those landscapes that today are in a worse condition.
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Carlos Asensio
uses packaging material (cardboard boxes, inexpensive wood that is often used to make transportation crates) to create her work as a comment on
From her knowledge of art history and admiration of different artists, she appropriates from minimalists, using the geometric design and mass-produced materials from her surroundings.
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Carrie Stubbs is an American painter and installation artist living in Switzerland. Her work is concerned with the idea of how light and color change our perception of space. Her work has been described as decorative and kitsch, definitions that she embraces. It also questions the sanctity of pure, reduced Shebeauty.often
Studio shot of "Blue/ Red" (2020) MDF and flourescent light each element: 80 x 40 x 16 cm
www.carriestubbs.comSwitzerland
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During her residency, Carrie will be exploring the connection between cast light, drawn line of light and planes of color. Both paintings and light pieces will examine the connections of how our perception of light and color is affected by a surface. The installation ‘The Space Between’ is formed by four circular, freestanding forms which are filled with a red fluorescent light. In this piece, Carrie contemplates the loss of a friend, a confidant, and co-creator whose input always had a place in her creative process. The work explores the yearning to fill the void such a loss leaves one with.
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1. Film soup with lsd (2022), film photography 2. House party (2022), film photography 3. Can we imagine the future together? (2022) Image rendering with an A.I.
On the other hand, lejeune’s work relies on materials that reflect or produce light in order to observe its performative qualities and how it interacts with human bodies and perceptions. They are inspired by studies demonstrating that light stimulation can induce inner peace, meditative trance states and altered thought processes that can lead to cure health issues such as depression and anxiety.
www.catherinelejeune.caCanada
catherine lejeune is from Tiohtià:ke – Mooniyang; Montréal (Canada).
Influenced by their studies in psychology and their professional experiences in the healthcare system, their installation works question social and mental health as well as the rhizomatic links between spirituality, politics, science and Ontechnology.onehand,
this artist-researcher is exploring how partying helps to create communities within the actual psychopolitical context. Festive gatherings need to be cared for and thought of for their power to transform spaces, identities and intimate worlds. Celebration is an important social gesture through which it is possible to resist and transcend neoliberal isolation in order to experience togetherness.
While relying on collaboration, theory and intuition to develop projects, lejeune's methodology is grounded in experimentation that unfolds in simultaneous approaches, techniques and ideas. With this interdisciplinary procedure that acknowledges the same question from a multitude of perspectives, their goal is to create new connections and associations between spaces, times, materials, media, images and concepts.
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Daria Veshtak (Sirakusy) is an electronic musician and CG artist, performer and representative of the Ukrainian underground art community. The theme of loneliness and the urban environment provides the coordinates on which the landscapes of her compositions are built, emphasizing the contrast between the familiar and the imaginary. Through symbolism, irony and fictional characters, she recreates events and images that traumatised her, turning them into a visually harmonious journey for the viewer.
Curly Bald (2021)
© Ryan Christopher Collins (US) GlogauAIR collaborates with the Goethe-Institut's matching platform for cultural professionals in cooperation with the international NGO Artists at Risk is part of a comprehensive package of measures for which the Federal Foreign Office is providing funds from the 2022 supplementary budget to mitigate the consequences of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
Matilda Marina is a director and producer, founder of "33 Hypnotheatre & Technocircus" an artistic company that works with modern performing arts, experimenting and combining them with original, mainly electronic music, media art, films, design and visual arts, aiming to achieve a synthesis of various fruits of creative thought.
Daria Veshtak and Matilda Marina
Ukraine Matilda Marina and Daria Veshtak are an artistic duo from Ukraine.
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At GlogauAIR Matilda and Sirakusy have a chance for the first time to work together, dealing with self-acceptance as refugees fleeing from the Russian war against Ukraine. The duo presents an audiovisual installation, a collage of sounds, and videos from unfinished works interacting with the studio space atmosphere. A living room filled with objects where reality and dreams clash. Together they create an imaginary world, with a feeling of home that is missed somewhere and fantasies that are lost in the subconscious.
Photos taken in November 2021 in Vovchansk, Kharkiv region. Four months before the full scale invasion. At the moment Ryan is a soldier in an international battalion, defending Ukraine in the Kharkiv region.
Elizabeth Littlejohn is a documentary film-maker, communications professor, and photojournalist, who focuses on revealing the hidden histories of cities. She works directly with community-based storytellers to tell complex narratives. Through in-depth research and interviews, Littlejohn stitches together locationbased stories that are launched through photogrammetric representations of building façades and street objects in augmented-reality. These stories are triggered by QR codes through an AR application, thus to be superimposed through viewers’ smartphones on each locale, as they are held up in situ.
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Berlin: Hidden Heroes was inspired by bubblegum machines and their automated three-slot dispensing of tiny rewards. Camouflaged by stickers, these machines represent the delightful dynamism of Berlin’s neighborhoods. This AR-TOURMAT focuses on Berliners who work hard, yet who receive little recognition, while maintaining its democratic street life and historical past. As a Kaugummi-Mann says, “They sell joy, which is a great business.”
Normalcy bias (2022) Oil pastel on paper 65 x 50 cm
Berlin: Hidden Heroes is an AR-TOURMAT that celebrates civic heroes as part of a four-part poster series, with QR codes to launch different stories. The tour guide is Kaugummi-Mann, the bubblegum machine operator, who dispenses these stories. The first QR code triggers the history of the Trümmerfrauen, who reconstructed the city, brick by brick after WWII, the second, a heroine who keeps a nightclub’s bathroom safe, and the third, a Späti-owner, who sells late night necessities.
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www.vimeo.com/elittlejohnCanada
During the GlogauAIR residency period he wants to expand his research on primal forms of hegemonic masculinity and interpretations of social roles dating back as far as hunter-gatherer societies; and embody the research into new tangible work.
He employs and reassigns materials and objects which he considers as being able to speculate metaphorically (or even clichéd) about the different aspects and properties of the masculine; with a focus on a non-normative social orientation. His practice includes and combines both organic materials, such as carnivorous plants impersonating hegemonic behavior, and artificial objects, like a medieval chainmail covering a massage mechanism speculating on the forbidden history of sodomy.
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Jawbreaker (2022) Lobster claw, tin, epoxy 25 x 20 cm
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Finn Theuws (b. Amsterdam 1997) is a multidisciplinary artist whose artistic practice consists of the various media of sculpture, installation and writing. His work presents a visual language of personal memories and figures of Thespeech.research accompanying his practice is based on the dynamic of his interpersonal relationships and the urgency to dissect the many aspects of ‘contemporary masculinity’.
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The task is to try to employ a practice that is ever-evolving and gradually expanding like a child that picks up an instrument before they can speak. With time and work the instrument becomes a pathway for the most exciting kind of Kaski’sfreedom.work has been exhibited at FOAM Museum Amsterdam and the Finnish Museum of Photography Helsinki, and his works are held in their permanent collections. Before pursuing art, Kaski worked in the service of the sugar industry.
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Heikki Kaski
UntitledRa-4(2022)print
@heikkikaskiFinland
Heikki Kaski is a Finnish artist working with photography, video, performance and Kaski’ssound.work
can be described as rhizomatic and accumulative. He is interested in the omnipresence and lightness of the photographic medium; a simple vessel to which one can attach meaning. To try to arrest the materiality or sculptural aspects of a photographic image is like grasping at sand. It is both weightless and HEAVY.
Kayleigh Maimaran is a multidisciplinary artist based in Cork, Ireland. Her practice combines mediums such as 3D animation, sculptural elements and sound. She is interested in the connection between the subconscious mind and space, and how installation art can be used as a tool to draw attention to our inner world. Her current work investigates the concept of a psychological space, which is the idea of an internal space formed by our feelings and is understood as something that is outside of the conceptual and physical level of space. She is visualising this invisible territory through an interactive mixed-media installation that plays with sensor-activated elements and reflective surfaces to allow the viewer to interact with the work and become part of the space. The interactive approach explores the relationship between the artwork and the viewer and creates an active setting where the different qualities of space such as depth, dynamic and surface can be explored. She uses 3D video animation and multi-coloured acrylic sculptures that are inspired by the shapes and angles of the cityscape to create a blend of architectural elements and the indistinct nature of the feeling-space. Sound is used as an element to support the ambiguous tone of the work. As many parts of our subconsciousness remain unknown, her work can be seen as a playful approach to experiencing this space through visual and auditory encounters.
Beyond Lininal (2022) 3D
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Germany • www.kayleighmaimaran.comIreland
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María Paz Bascuñán is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Chile. Bascuñán works with natural fabrics and investigates the idea that identity is fragmentary and is made up of pieces that are woven together to form a whole that never remains fixed.
www.mpazb.comChile
Diversity in the Unity (2022) Mixed media: Cyanotype, pins and natural dyed threads on cotton 50 x 43 cm
Through this idea she re-signifies the concept of territory as an instance of an encounter, a threshold that does not limit the possibilities, but rather enhances and amplifies them. It becomes an ambiguous terrain where different threads coincide and intermingle. Threads come off, overlap and cross from one end to the other, to form a fabric that reveals the hidden framework behind the illusion of uniformity. Paz configures a threshold where the traditional temporal and spatial conceptions of observation dissolve, it is possible to observe a simultaneous construction from different corners and with different orientations, shaping a dialogical vision, where different voices converge and syncretically shape the discourse.
The act of doing and undoing seams forms a metaphor for our own cultural trajectory. To unravel what has been done is an attempt to return to an original and complete state of things, denying time and its destruction.
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María Paz Bascuñán
Poland • www.martynalebryk.comIreland
Sirens (2021) Oil and oil pastel on paper 70 x 83 cm
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Formally, Lebryk works with semi-familiar shapes and ludic colours, which help to shape these ambiguous and crooked narratives. In the sculptural pieces, she reimagines figures from her paintings. She is curious about how threedimensional forms support these bodies while simultaneously controlling them. This power affects and works through the body. She sees it as a metaphor for our modern struggles.
and sculpts cartoonish bodily creatures occupying dreamlike spaces. Through these figures, she examines our existence where the serious and the laughable coexist. These fanciful scenes explore themes of identity, agency, self-determination, and longing. It is a distinctively humorous and seductive universe, both beautiful and hideous.
Martyna Lebryk is a visual artist born in Poland and based in Dublin, Ireland. She studied Architecture and Urban Design and, in 2021, graduated from an MFA program at NCAD, Dublin. She works in painting, sculpture and Lebrykinstallation.paints
Lebryk's work has a certain perversity, humour, and fragility to it. The bodily elements in both paintings and sculptures are unsettling, quietly humorous and subversive (verging on grotesque). They appear to be both comical and tragic—as if a sense of humour is critical to survival in this strange world she has created. Hesitant and restless, they waver between feelings of enthusiasm and despair. This awkward tension explores a sense of confusion, which affects our moral, social, and political hopes.
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DESMEDIR EXPOSED (2021-2022) Acrylic on canvas and digital 100 x 70 cm
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Towards a new approach between art and climate change. MASCOGA is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Uruguay based in Berlin. Bringing to life something from nothingness is the central idea of MASCOGA’s work. For the artist the creative process happens twice (from idea to execution) questioning created absolutes and imaginaries, proposing new paradigms. The notion of circularity allows him to approach themes in a multidisciplinary and interconnected way. The curatorial narrative is part of this indivisible process. Is it possible to trace the impact of Climate Change on Art? IACCA - (Indicador de Afectación del Cambio Climático en el Arte; Climate Change Affect Indicator in Art) is a prospective exercise towards the creation of a platform (EsoEraArte | ThatWasArt) for a dialogue between Science, Technology, Innovation, Climate Change and Art; a site that allows, after adaptation and linkage, to calculate the impact of climate change on art. The project is presented as a work in progress. There is a consensus on climate variability and change: all values and results of measurement indicators are on the rise. That element has been transferred as: all digital adjustment values of a photograph reproducing an artwork have been taken to their maximum level. In the scale of adjustments of the photographic values lies the parameters to the variability of the climate change measurement indicators.
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www.bindiram.comAmerica
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Noah Gokul is a Queer multidisciplinary artist and educator from Oakland, CA here to create liberated worlds through art, storytelling, and sound. They work primarily with sound, blending Soca, Indian folk, House, and experimental noise to create expansive, multi-genre music. They also work with film, writing, performance art, and video. Through their work, they seek to create spaces of radical imagination and possibility at intersections of art, healing, and liberation.
Noah is passionate about redefining how we care for ourselves and others. They do mental health activism and training, through the Institute for Development of Human Arts (IDHA) and independent facilitation. They believe transformation of our society and oppressive systems is key to our care and sustainability, and healing, alongside liberation, is a creative act. Recently, they have been interested in visual arts to research and express differently. They used their residency at GlogauAIR to examine spirals as a symbol and a mental state. Spirals carry meaning for them because of their connections to Maori culture, and the fern spiral Koru symbolizing new life and transformation. They connected this symbol to anxious spiraling, which can look like intrusive thoughts that whirl around them, seemingly looping without end. Using painting, mixed medium sculpture, and video they explored what it’s like to create in this mindstate. This has been a generative process, to acknowledge and create within the spiral.
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Sophie Nathan-King is a multidisciplinary artist, originally from London. Working primarily in textiles, painting and site-specific installation, her reference system consists of the abstraction of everyday encounters, exposing the materiality of routine, the layered process of objects and their design, whilst drawing on our spatial relations to the urban city.
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Bellyache (2022) Aluminum, bedding 190 x 70 cm
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The historical and practical origins of materials often inform the works Nathan-King creates. For example, enamel, predominantly used as coating for household features such as door frames and window sills, is applied to her paintings in an attempt to blur parameters between the subject and its environment. Her canvas paintings, left unstretched, invite the opportunity to be pinned, draped, and hung, to further subvert our understanding of such boundaries, and the liminal spaces in which they operate.
During her time at GlogauAIR, Nathan-King has been collecting materials from the streets of Berlin and incorporating these into her work. Using items often discarded from homes, she seeks to recontextualise her findings by repurposing the objects, while fetishising materiality and form to stimulate new associations and spatial relationships. Once assembled, the structures operate collectively to generate urban simulacra, replicating the inherent qualities of the city-scape and the bodies and social structures that lie within.
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Group exhibition "Animal Games" in collaboration with LOOP Barcelona Curated by Laura Olea López and Suzy Royal 48
Observing animals through the lens of games and play gives a sense of absurdity in which repetitive gestures can appear like costumes or rituals.
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‘Animal Games’ can also be seen as an epistemological overview of the studies around animal games and culture in relation to other scientific fields. This ‘play instinct' can also be found in art: an artist's studio is often a room full of games, riddles, and rules to break inside and outside of the art world, as well as creations and social organisations. Philadelphia Postcards collection
Group exhibition in collaboration with LOOP Barcelona
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Animal Games
The group show in GlogauAIR’s project space displays a selection of video artworks that question, in a humourous tone, the capabilities of non-human animals to think symbolically and how that relates to a biological perspective.
The seriousness of the concepts of purpose and intentionality can invoke the ‘Theory of Mind’. The Theory of Mind, as explained by Tijs Goldschmidts - a Dutch writer and evolutionary biologist who questions the text ‘Homo Ludens’ by Johan Huizinga - explains the Theory of Mind as the ability to attribute mental states (beliefs, intents, desires, pretending, knowledge, etc…) to oneself and others and to understand that others have beliefs, desires, and intentions that are different from one’s own, creating a sense of self-awareness.
Curated by Laura Olea López and Suzy Royal Western culture has made unquestionable the distinction between natural beings and cultural beings but this selection of videos shows an anthropological approach to the so-called natural world and especially animals. It is a composition of absurd and poetic situations regarding the relationship between humans and nature through play and games.
This exhibition is produced in collaboration with LOOP, a Barcelonabased platform dedicated to the study and promotion of the moving image. curatorial team selected artworks from the video art platform VIDEOCLOOP, which is an archive to support and make visible video artists from around the globe.
GlogauAIR’s
Every three months, GlogauAIR releases a new catalogue collecting the work and projects of the artists in residence. The catalogue in your hands not only showcases this term’s creations but also constitutes a reflection of this past term’s experiences.
Catalogue's cover
Our first catalogue edition was released in 2006, and it has changed a lot since then. Starting in 2021, the catalogue cover is now decided by an open call to all of the participating artists, giving them the opportunity to present their work on the cover. Making this publication a canvas in which our artists in residence can intervene results in a more personal publication for every residency term. Participating in the cover of the catalogue also allows the artists to translate their work into a different medium. After carefully reviewing the proposals for this session, the jury selected the image submitted by Martyna Lebryk, a Polish-born artist based in Dublin, Ireland, who joined us in the residency in July, 2022. The image that was selected ultimately captures both something about the present moment and about the experience of the residency itself. Lebryk is a painter who also creates sculpture and installations. Using bright, cheerful colors, she creates a striking contrast between her chosen pastel-colored palette and the imagery she paints - dismembered body parts and floating heads.
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Lebryk describes her work as exploring notions of identity, agency, self-determination, and longing by creating fanciful scenes with semirecognizable bodily motifs. She gives these characters power and agency while placing them in frustratingly hopeless situations. These scenes represent the human experience, which can be both funny and tragic; seductive and repulsive; marked with pleasure and trauma. Lebryk's works can be seen as introspective, a journey into the unconscious and a mirror of what is suppressed. Her works are vibrant, bold, sexual - even violent, but also humourous and grotesque.
Martyna Lebryk © "Visitor", 2022
In the painting 'Visitor', the bodily form looks both adorable and chillingly lifeless. The centipede represents for her the beauty of nature, and simultaneously, danger. GlogauAIR residency is a place for artists to fully concentrate on their artwork; exploring, experimenting and exhibiting. During Lebryk’s threemonth residency, she was able to explore her themes freely, trying ideas out during her week-long presentation in our showcase window and culminating with all of the resident artists in our open studios event.
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