EXHIBITIONS

ÜBERMORGENKÜNSTLER II

Exhibition in the hall, on the gallery and in the studio
Opening on 18 November 2011 at 7 pm
Exhibition from 19 November until 19 February 2012

With the term „Übermorgen“ (day after tomorrow) we associate uncertainty and the speculation on the arrival or non-arrival of an event in the future. An exhibition that shows only a limited selection of all the talented artists still studying at the academies in the area around Heidelberg gives the impression that the chosen artists are primarily those about whom will be talked the day after tomorrow. For sure, this exhibition is not able to and even doesn't want to give such a promise.

Nevertheless, the 19 chosen artists have unanimously convinced the jury formed by Dr. Nina Gülicher, curator of the collection of the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Bernd Reiss, curator at the MMK Frankfurt am Main and Susana Sáez, interims director of the Heidelberger Kunstverein. A total of 308 students have applied to the second announcement of the Kunstverein – an astonishing number, which also shows in what a small period of time the format of this exhibition has made a name of oneself.

The artists Lucas Fastabend and Leo Wörner take the somehow ironical and self-critical title of the exhibition as starting point for their proposed work. 48 hours before their arrival in Heidelberg, and therefore out of the perspective of the still not arrived “Übermorgen”, they start a journey from Frankfurt am Main over Düsseldorf, Berlin and Leipzig passing by the studios of Katharina Grosse, John Bock and Matthias Weischer. The souvenirs of this road trip are shown in the hall of the Kunstverein – a 48 hour lasting video-documentation of the journey and transport boxes, which all of the three renown artists living and working in the most important German cities for art have given to the up-coming artists.

Zusanna Czebatul deals with the mechanisms of the generation of meaning and power. Doubts on the sovereignty of meaning are also reminiscent in the outside installation of Tobias Donat: Two flags wave on the historical facade of the Kurpfälzische Museum, on each of its side two contrary pairs of meaning: Fake/Real and True/False. Rasmus Søndergaard Johannsen disenchants and at the same time pays homage to the medium film, one of the biggest simulators of reality, with magnificent, especially handcrafted film-projectors which perform simple actions. Enrico Bach plays on large-sized canvases with the illusion of the contemporaneity of impossible geometric spaces.

ARTISTS

FURTHER INFORMATION

Download exhibition panels in English (pdf)
Download press release in German (pdf)
Download exhibition magazine in German (pdf)
Link images

FRAME PROGRAMME

Fr 18.11.2011 | 7 pm | Opening with a performance by Tobia Donat. Greetings: Dr. Manfred Stolzenburg. Introduction: Susana Sáez

Sun 20.11.2011 | 3 pm | Guided tour through the exhibition

Thurs 15.12.2011 | 7 pm | Film „The Great Contemporary Art Bubble“ by Ben Lewis, English, 56 min

Sun 18.12.2011 | 3 pm | Guided tour through the exhibition

Sun 22.01.2012 | 3 pm | Guided tour through the exhibition

Thurs 26.01.2012 | 7 pm | „Todays education of artists “. Panel discussions with professors und students of the surrounding academies of arts and Susana Sáez.

Sun 19.02.2012 | 3 pm | Guided tour through the exhibition

Subject to change without prior notice.

THANKS

The exhibition is kindly supported by the Mercedes-Benz Niederlassung Mannheim-Heidelberg-Landau.

Lisa Meixner

Jessica Twitchell

Rasmus S. Johannsen

Aki Nagasaka