Passage II, Werkschauhalle Leipzig
Passage II, Werkschauhalle Leipzig
Exhibition in exchange between her partner cities of Leipzig and Lyon with: Thibault Brunet, Marc Desgrandchamps, Stefan Fischer, Margret Hoppe, Tamami Iinuma, Karim Kal, Oliver Kossack, Aurélie Pétrel, Laurent Proux, Andreas Schulze and Mengzhi Zheng.
Curated by Ilina Koralova (Leipzig) und Isabelle Bertolotti (Lyon)
Ende vom Lied/Künstlerhaus Bethanien
The exhibition Ende vom Lied looks back at the expatriation of songwriter Wolf Biermann from the GDR in autumn 1976. Although that event was forty years ago, memories of the artist’s audacious poems and songs and his courageously expressed criticism of those wielding power in the unjust state of the GDR are still very much alive, even today.
Together with Karl Mickel and Adolf Endler, poet and songwriter Wolf Biermann, born in 1936, is regarded as a shaping influence on many intellectuals and artists of his own and the following generation in the GDR: they opened up wounds and delineated broader horizons beyond the GDR’s provincial ways of thinking.
Curated by Christoph Tannert.
Artists: Tina Bara / Rainer Bonar / Kurt Buchwald / Mahmoud Dabdoub / Thomas Florschuetz / Seiichi Furuya / Sabina Grzimek / Lydia Hamann & Kaj Osteroth / Harald Hauswald / Margret Hoppe / Stefanie Ketzscher/ Thomas Kilpper / Daniel Knorr / Alexander Lahl, Max Mönch & Volker Schlecht / Via Lewandowsky / Maix Mayer / Simon Menner / Arwed Messmer / Barbara Metselaar / Berthold Stefan Micheel / Karin Plessing/ Arne Rautenberg / Erasmus Schröter / Roger David Servais / Hans Ticha / Joerg Waehner / Ute Weiss Leder/ Ulrich Wüst
Der Dritte Blick, Stadtgalerie Kiel
Raster Beton, D21, Leipzig
After the Fire
After the Fire, HorseAndPony Fine Arts, Berlin
Exhibition with Julie Beugin, Clémence Grieco und Margret Hoppe / HorseAndPony Fine Arts, Berlin.
After the Fire presents painting, sculpture and photography that abstract from architecture through focused engagements with formal concerns alongside
a casual and idiosyncratic approach to the modernist canon. Digressing from iconic concerns of form and material by engaging with the anecdotal and the suggestive, the exhibition combines works that imbues abstractions with a sense of intimacy, born out of individual bodily experience.
In Clémence Grieco’s assemblages, abject construction materials come together with a delicate sensitivity to form and allusion. Working with the raw components of architecture, she makes abstract sculptures that have a personified sense of physical presence. Margret Hoppe works directly with the modernist architectural canon, reframing iconic buildings by Le Corbusier by conveying an experiential view of buildings often only seen, and remembered as, a singular image. By creating abstractions of space through close-ups of details of construction and capturing the details and irregularities of human inhabitation, Hoppe opens new ways to see and think about famous buildings. Julie Beugin’s abstract paintings suggest place and space by merging collaged fragments with gesture and texture to create ambiguous pathways into the canvas that oscillate between flat surface and spatial depth. Emphasizing the transitory and accidental through a focus
on material process, no one moment or gesture is overly special; the paintings emerge out of a constant and endless flow of collage, where nothing is too precious not to be cut up.
While loosely borrowing from modernist sculpture, painting and architecture, the artists use abstraction to create a slippage of meaning within a sense of place and space, expressing the constant invisible flow of physical sensation, and multiplicity of emotional tones, underlying the experience of both place and abstraction.
Reflective Architecture, Ahmedabad, Indien
Reflective Architecture, Mill Owner´s Association, Ahemdabad, India
Exhibition together with Sebastian Stumpf, Elsa Grégoire, Lukas Rabe and Benedikt Brachtel. The works of the show reflect on the architecture of Le Corbusier’s Ahmedabad Textile Millowner’s Association building through the mediums of photography, sound & video. The five artists have created their works especially for this exhibition at the ATMA building. The exhibition reflects the idea of Le Corbbusiers architecture as a „Gesamtkunstwerk“ (a total wokr of art) that unifies different medias.
Sponsored by IFA and Kirow Leipzig.
Ortstermin mit Leonie Wirth, Kunsthaus Dresden
Ortstermin mit Leonie Wirth, Kunsthaus Dresden
MODELS AND DRAFTS FROM THE STUDIO OF LEONI WIRTH AND CONTEMPORARY POSITIONS ON ABSTRACTION AND MODERNISM
Leoni Wirth and Rimma Arslanov, Susan Hefuna, Margret Hoppe, Ali Kaaf, Su-Ran Sichling, Mona Vatamanu / Florin Tudor
Curated by Torsten Birne and Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz