VOLTA NY - New York
Represendet Artist: Martin Krenn
Exhibition: Thursday, March 8 – Sunday, March 11, 2012
Website: http://www.voltashow.com
MARTIN KRENN
In my art I occupy myself with sociopolitical themes. In doing so I work with various type of media, mainly photography and video. The majority are series of photographs or short films, which sometimes complement each other. Projects are realised in exhibitions as well as in public spaces.
My key area of interest lies in the strained relationships between art and society. How does art intervene with societal processes? How through art can one question the balance of power and bring forth new experiences? What importance does society attach to actual art? In the past 10-15 years there has been a re-politicization in the art world. This process is accompanied by various definitions of “political art” and complicates the verification of the true effect. Though, the belief that art should be a display a beauty is disappearing more and more from society.
In all of my videos and series of photographs I work with a photographic approach, which documents things, spaces, and events, and simultaneously take a critical view of their claims of truth. Most pictures are not merely influenced by my point of view as a photographer. They are influenced by different external factors that impact composition and artwork. That means behind the picture could be a participatory project, re-photographed scenes from existing publications, or even the location where a feature film was filmed. In my work, formal aspects are of equal importance to the contents of debate.
I think that art offers wonderful opportunities to explore truth. I find the possibility of successfully expanding the field of art fascinating when art can initiate discussion and challenge conventional thinking, thereby having an influence on the balance of power and even occasionally shaping reality. In this case, the aesthetic has a central role.
Martin Krenn
(translated by Fraser Bliss)
Federico Solmi:
The Swine Philosophy
Opening:
November 19th 2011, 11am to 3pm
the artist will be present
Exhibition data:
November 21st 2011 to Janurary 7th 2012
Monday to Friday, 10 am to 6 pm; Saturday, 10 am to 1 pm
Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill proudly presents FEDERICO SOLMI:
The Swine Philosophy, a major show of painting, drawing and video from November 19th, 2011 to January 7th, 2012.
With this show Federico Solmi's work will be exhibited for the first time in Austria.
Entitled The Swine Philosophy, this exhibition takes stock from an
episode in Solmi's video installation "Douche Bag City", extending the
title as an umbrella term to encapsulate the basis of his artistic vision.
Federico Solmi will present works from his recent series Douche Bag City,
The Evil Empire, King Kong and The End of the World, Rocco Never Dies and The Giant.
The artist depicts a degenerated society aiming for corrupted truths
though selfcreated myths and models of hopelessness, hostility and harm.
Urgent matters are collaged with historical ones. Taking the apocalyptic not
as a cathartic solution for the evil in the world but as a present-day state of life.
The artist creates an idiosyncratic universe marked by bright colors combined with a darkly ironic sensibility. Driven by a love of challenges, conflicts and contradictions,
the artist strips reality of all semantic contortions, and presents viewers with absurdist fables and satires that highlight and amplify the aesthetic conditions of chaos.
Solmi accumulates images from pop culture and digital media and incorporates
them into innovative video animation. The artist’s technique, painstaking and
complex, combines traditional hand drawn animation with digital models, utilizing computer gaming engines. The result is an absolutely unique hand-made texture
within a realtime 3D framework.
Since 2005 Federico Solmi produced a series of video animations:
Douche Bag City (2009-2010)
The Evil Empire (2007-2008)
King Kong and the End of the World (2006)
Rocco Never Dies (2005).
Chinese Democracy and The Last Day On Earth entitles the artist's current project which was commissioned by the Guggenheim Foundation of New York.
All the video animations were made in collaboration with Russell Lowe, a 3D artist who is a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia.
Manuel Ocampo:
The Ghost Poop of Painting
Opening:
November 19th 2011, 11am to 3pm
the artist will be present
Exhibition data:
November 21st 2011 to Janurary 7th 2012
Monday to Friday, 10 am to 6 pm; Saturday, 10 am to 1 pm
Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill proudly presents MANUEL OCAMPO:
The Ghost Poop of Painting, a major show of painting from
November 19th 2011 to January 7th 2012.
With this exhibition Manuel Ocampos works will be shown for the first time
in Austria.
Originally from the Philippines Ocampo is already very well known in Asia
and America. But also in Europe he plays an important role in the art scene.
He was invited to Dokumenta IX in Kassel in 1992 an two times to the
Venice Biennale.
Ocampo’s early work occasionally crossed towards that ignominious shore of
history relating to the (post) colonial. And the quality of those works possesses
the veneer of social critique, which becomes another way of retelling history
through the Other’s gaze.
Accordingly, it felt like judgment day every time you see those powerful
remastering of classical art that would make every sinner penitent.
The theme that comes up again and again are figures that connect to a
sort of myth induced stereotype rendered iconic but are bludgeoned into a
farcical conceptual iconoclasm rendered absurd by its exaggerated impotence
as carriers of meaning or the esthetics of politics. The paintings are a
comment on desire as painting itself is an object accustomed to this wish of
being desirous yet in the series they have a knack of providing some difficulty
to the viewer as the conventions of painting are dismantled to the point of ridicule.
Art Stage Singapore
12-15 January 2012
Marina Bay Sands
with Poklong Anading, Gaston Damag and Manuel Ocampo
Booth Numbers B2-04 and C5-03
steirischer herbst 2011
Second world
herbst-exhibition
23/09 - 16/10
c/o Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill (Openring 7, 8010 Graz) & Festivaldistrict
Mon - Fri 12 noon - 8 pm
Sat & Sun 10.30 am - 8 pm
with Jumana Emil Abboud (PS), Yael Bartana (IL), Nemanja Cvijanović (HR/I), Marcelo Expósito & Verónica Iglesia (E/ARG), Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency / DAAR (PS), Ruben Grigorian (ARM), Bouchra Khalili (F/MA), Daniel Knorr (D/RO), Tom Nicholson (AUS), Maha Maamoun (EG), Mona Marzouk (EG), Chan-Kyong Park (ROK), Lala Raščić (HR/USA), Marko Tadić (HR)
curated by What, How & for Whom / WHW (HR)
Second Worlds: in which the past had different
consequences and the future does not depend on the
present. Parallel worlds, possible worlds, impossible
worlds, ideal worlds. Worlds apart, worlds connected. The
programme invokes the unrealised possibilities haunting
our present day, as well as the realistic dangers that
could wipe out any conceivable future.
The notion of another world has become largely
apocalyptic – a world in the wake of an unimaginable
natural disaster, for example, or a human-induced
self-destruction with capital as the sole survivor. The
geopolitical construction of a second world from the
Cold War era, that for decades euphemistically sought
to conceal the dark chasm between the First and Third
Worlds with the illusion of progress that would, sooner
or later, embrace all people, has gone out of fashion. But
the inequalities and divisions that it manifested have
continued to grow. Only the ideology of economic growth
has superseded that of progress.
This year’s herbst exhibition – conceived by the Croatian
curator collective WHW, who were, amongst other things,
responsible for the Istanbul Biennial 2009 – uses the
potential of possible and impossible second worlds as a
projection surface for an imaginary and political change
of perspective – but still firmly rooted in the geopolitical
reality of our time.
Hermann Nitsch
das sein
Opening:
July 14th 2011, 6 to 10 pm
the artist will be present
opening remarks:
Günter Brus
Exhibition data:
July 15th to September 1st 2011
Tuesday to Friday, 10 am to 6 pm; Saturday, 10 am to 3 pm
VOLTA7 - Basel
Represendet Artist: Poklong Anading
Booth number: B10
Exhibition: Monday, June 13 – Saturday, June 18, 2011
Website: http://www.voltashow.com
POKLONG ANADING
“My practice is the act of accumulation as a meditative process in pursuing an idea
of mishap for the critique of myself in a subjective relation to my environment.”
We can say that Poklong Anading is an alchemist of the ordinary. And yet it would
be more precise to call him a meta-alchemist, for his work, while surprising and
pleasing us, makes us keenly aware of the impossibility of true transcendence or
transformation of matter without remainder. In Without With, for example, dreamedof
gold is only spray-painted and is meant to flake off, turning back to dust. In Anonymity,
light itself – that symbol of immateriality – becomes the mark of erasure, the
opaque light of the negative.
The artist’s choice of materials – the accidental (folds, creases, cutouts), and the
discarded (human fat, plastic bags) – places an emphasis on the by-product, exposing
our very condition: In our world, the forward march of Capital tends to no real
end-product in the first place. Everything becomes a by-product as the doctrine of
built-in obsolescence and innovation conceives of every commodity as a disposable
good. The end-product is but a mirage wavering at the horizon of the production
line. The plastic shopping bags – those flags blowing in the wind of consumerism –
are emblematic of this realization.
These portraits and the pictures of Anonymity foreground these and other questions
of subjectivity under the plastic shroud and the hard light of Capital. These portraits
are mirror images of each other, punctuating the exhibit. They express the defining
conundrum of our times. The question they ask is this: How do you face the problem
if the problem is your face?
By Jose Perez Beduya
MM YU
inventory
Opening:
May 27th 2011, 6 to 10 pm
the artist will be present
opening remarks:
Dr. Iris Stöckl
Exhibition data:
May 28th to July 2nd 2011
Monday to Friday, 10 am to 6 pm; Saturday, 10 am to 3 pm
In her exhibition “inventory” MM Yu presents new photographs and paintings.
Yu is interested in the actuality of her surrounding and preserves it photographically. By means of mundane images of Manila she documents life on
the threshold to globalization creating impressions that operate like stages, in terms of conception and colour.
An installation with 12 iPads arranged like a window is one of the main works in the exhibition. The viewer is invited to interact directly with her work.
Yu puts the terms postmodern computer- and media-culture to discussion. With her paintings MM Yu ties up to the abstract expressionism of the 1940’s
and 50’s. Yu’s drip paintings appear like documents of a coincidental clash of colour and canvas and somehow like side products of her work. The drip
paintings serve as base for video works and consistently occur, partly in different forms, in Yu’s photographs.
MM Yu works in photography, video and painting. Her work is conceptual, project based and affected by autobiographic influences.“inventory” in
Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill is the first solo exhibition of MM Yu in Europe.
Herbert Soltys
1956 geboren in Graz, lebt und arbeitet in Graz | 1956 born in Graz, lives and works in Graz
In der Ausstellung “The Sound of Music” zeigt Herbert Soltys aktuelle Arbeiten zum Thema.
Als langfristiges Projekt angelegt, versteht sich die Ausstellung als Auftakt einer mehrjährigen Auseinandersetzung des Künstlers mit den Begriffen
Heimat und Fremde. Anhand des Beispiels des Musicals “The Sound of Music”, eine der erfolgreichsten Produktionen der Filmgeschichte, mit der
9köpfigen Trapp Familie als Hauptfiguren, geht Soltys der Fremdinterpretationen traditioneller österreichischer Werte und Lebensweisen nach.
Er konzipiert begehbare Rauminstallationen, die den Besucher mit Geschichtsbildern konfrontieren. Heimat bezogene Motive, in schwarz-weiß gehalten,
verweisen auf den eigenen Umgang mit Geschichte. In einer Bild-Ton-Installation dienen Cut-outs der Trapps, vor blauen Bergketten, als filmische
Projektionsflächen. Soltys bezieht sich in seiner Arbeit auf unterschiedliche Medien: Er greift auf klischeehafte Bilder der Österreich Werbung zurück
und bezieht Filmstills und -musik aus “The Sound of Music” ein.
Herbert Soltys arbeitet medienübergreifend mit Malerei und Zeichnung. Mit der Ausstellung “The Sound of Music” präsentiert er den ersten Teil der
namensgleichen Serie. Das Überarbeiten zählt zu Soltys’ konzeptueller Methode und wird anhand eines mehrjährigen Ausstellungszyklus dokumentiert.
Im Herbst 2011 wird Herbert Soltys als artist in residence in Manila, Philippinen, das Projekt “The Sound of Music” weiterenführen.
Herbert Soltys will present actual works in the exhibition “The Sound of Music”.
The exhibition is the prelude to a perennial examination of the notations homeland and outland. On the basis of the musical film “The Sound of Music”,
one of the most famous productions in history with the nine Trapps as chief characters, Soltys examines the foreign interpretations of traditional
Austrian values and lifestyle.He confronts the visitor with historical images through accessible room-installations. Austrian referred images, painted
in black and white, point on the handling of Austrian history. In an installation Soltys uses cut-outs of the Trapp family, installed in front of a blue
mountain series, as surface for film projection. Soltys work uses various forms of media as reference: He resorts to clichéd images of Austrian advertisements
and involves film stills and audio from “The Sound of Music”.
Herbert Soltys works trans-medial with drawing and painting. With the exhibition “The Sound of Music” he presents the first part of the homonymous series.
Revising is central part of Soltys’ conceptual method and will be documented by means of perennial exhibition cycle of the works presented. In autumn
2011 Herbert Soltys will refine “The Sound of Music” project during his residency in Manila, Philippines
Herbert Soltys
The Sound of Music
Opening:
May 27th 2011, 6 to 10 pm
the artist will be present
opening remarks:
Dr. Iris Stöckl
Exhibition data:
May 28th to July 2nd 2011
Monday to Friday, 10 am to 6 pm; Saturday, 10 am to 3 pm
The exhibition is the prelude to a perennial examination of the notations homeland and outland. On the basis of the musical film “The Sound of Music”,
one of the most famous productions in history with the nine Trapps as chief characters, Soltys examines the foreign interpretations of traditional
Austrian values and lifestyle.He confronts the visitor with historical images through accessible room-installations. Austrian referred images, painted
in black and white, point on the handling of Austrian history. In an installation Soltys uses cut-outs of the Trapp family, installed in front of a blue
mountain series, as surface for film projection. Soltys work uses various forms of media as reference: He resorts to clichéd images of Austrian advertisements
and involves film stills and audio from “The Sound of Music”.
Herbert Soltys works trans-medial with drawing and painting. With the exhibition “The Sound of Music” he presents the first part of the homonymous series.
Revising is central part of Soltys’ conceptual method and will be documented by means of perennial exhibition cycle of the works presented. In autumn
2011 Herbert Soltys will refine “The Sound of Music” project during his residency in Manila, Philippines.
Viennafair - Vienna
Represendet Artist: Poklong Anading, Gerardo Tan, Gaston Damag, David Griggs, Jayson Oliveria, Manuel Ocampo, MM Yu, Lena Cobangbang, Robert Langenegger and Federico Solmi
Booth number: A0729
Exhibition: Thursday, May 13 – Sunday, May 15, 2011
Website: http://www.viennafair.at
Robert Langenegger
Mental Hygiene
Opening:
April 15th 2011, 6 to 10 pm
the artist will be present
opening remarks:
Mag. Günther Holler-Schuster
Exhibition data:
April 16th to May 14th 2011
Monday to Friday, 10 am to 6 pm; Saturday, 10 am to 3 pm
Exhibition Guideline for download - Please click here
Opening shots - Please click here
Langenegger deals with actual socio-cultural and (global) political questions, formulated in sarcastic, humorous images.
In complex image-systems he visualizes subjects like paedophilia, corruption, social exclusion and physical deformation.
Langengegger’s works are narrative, sometimes speciously (naive), shocking (honest) and affected by apocalyptic hopelessness.
Robert Langenegger works in different media like drawing, photography and video but mainly realizes his ideas through painting.
„Mental Hygiene“ is his first solo exhibition in Austria.
He will present works from his residency in Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill
Jayson Oliveria
ruined before it hits the ground
Opening:
April 15th 2011, 6 to 10 pm
the artist will be present
opening remarks:
Mag. Günther Holler-Schuster
Exhibition data:
April 16th to May 14th 2011
Monday to Friday, 10 am to 6 pm; Saturday, 10 am to 3 pm
Exhibition Guide for download - Please click here
Opening shots - Please click here
Jayson Oliveria‘s works do not examine painting, they are paintings. For Oliveria painting means „the act of creating a painting.“
He sees his work as a persiflage of himself and painting itself.
Oliveria‘s works consist of several layers which do not necessarily correspond- just like a train of thoughts. Figurative elements become
abstract through the superimposing of layers and painting becomes a method – on which end a new beginning appears.
Oliveria works consistently and in series. He has been invited to join international exhibitions, for example the Tate Turbine Hall, London
in 2010, and has received several awards, such as the CCP 13th Artist Award 2006 and the Ateneo Art Award 2004.
„ruined before it hits the ground“ is Jayson Oliveria‘s first solo exhibition in Europe.
He will show works from his residency in Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill.
MARTIN KRENN
MEMORY IN (POST-) TOTALITARIANISM
Opening:
March 11th 2011, 6 to 10 pm
the artists will be present
Exhibition data:
March 12th to April 9th 2011
Monday to Friday, 10 am to 6 pm; Saturday, 10 am to 3 pm
Exhibition Guide for download - please click here
Opening shots - please click here
Martin Krenn’s exhibition, “Memory in (Post-)Totalitarianism”, reconstitutes a photographic journey by depicting various historical locations, memorials, museums and archives in Germany and Romania. It analyzes evolutionary developments in the politics of memory and history in totalitarian and post totalitarian societies. The artist is interested in how the traces of communist and fascist ideologies have affected succeeding generations and the influence of a totalitarian past in reshaping political spaces. Kren examines the role that memorial sites, feature films and historical novels play in the creation of collective and cultural memory. He interviewed experts in various areas and looked into the various presentational strategies used at official and unofficial memorial sites.
The core of the exhibition comprises photographs which are part of a three-channel slide and sound installation. In his photographs Martin Krenn refers to different media: historical construction in the GDR about the Buchenwald concentration camp is investigated using film stills from the DEFA classic “Naked among wolves”. Furthermore, paralleling his first visit, the artist wanders through the Sighet memorial in Romania a tour that is simulated in great detail in 3D on an available DVD. The text passages in the installation cite the expert interviews. Another part of the exhibition shows video interviews with the journalist and author Oliver Lustig and the president of the Association of Romanian Jews Victims of the Holocaust, Liviu Beris. The interviews provide insight into historical and political developments in Romania from the point of view of Holocaust survivors.
POKLONG ANADING
DIE MAP FÜR GUDBUYS
Opening:
December 10th 2010, 6 to 10 pm
the artists will be present
Exhibition data:
December 11th 2010 to March 5th 2011
Monday to Friday, 10 am to 6 pm; Saturday 10 am to 3 pm
Exhibition Guide for download - Please click here
We can say that Poklong Anading is an alchemist of the ordinary. And yet it would be more precise to call him a meta-alchemist, for his work, while surprising and pleasing us,
makes us keenly aware of the impossibility of true transcendence or transformation of matter without remainder. In “Without With”, for example, dreamed-of gold is only spraypainted
and is meant to flake off, turning back to dust. In “Anonymity,” light itself—that symbol of immateriality—becomes the mark of erasure, the opaque light of the negative.
Anading’s materials could not help but retain their materiality as materials. This is seen most clearly in his drawings: pencil lines (even as they are animated by a video
documenting how they are made) become a wall of graphite (“Line Drawing”); bright geometric shapes coincide with actual creases on crumpled paper (“Black and Gold
Series”; and abstract contours are but outlines of found, discarded woodboard cutouts (“Dragon Kites”).
The artist’s choice of materials—the accidental (folds, creases, cutouts), and the discarded (human fat, plastic bags) —places an emphasis on the by-product, exposing our
very condition: In our world, the forward march of Capital tends to no real end-product in the first place. Everything becomes a by-product as the doctrine of built-in
obsolescence and innovation conceives of every commodity as a disposable good. The end-product is but a mirage wavering at the horizon of the production line. The plastic
shopping bags—those flags blowing in the wind of consumerism—are emblematic of this realization. And the plastic bags over people’s heads in Anading’s aptly titled “--------”,
suggests even further, in no uncertain terms, that selfhood itself is a by-product of Capital.
These portraits and the pictures of “Anonymity” foreground these and other questions of subjectivity under the plastic shroud and the hard light of Capital. These portraits are
mirror images of each other, punctuating the exhibit. They express the defining conundrum of our times. The question they ask is this: How do you face the problem if the
problem is your face?
Jose Perez Beduya
GASTON DAMAG
DER KUNST IHRE ZEIT
Opening:
December 10th 2010, 6 to 10 pm
the artists will be present
Exhibition data:
December 11th 2010 to March 5th 2011
Monday to Friday, 10 am to 6 pm; Saturday 10 am to 3 pm
Exhibition Guide for download - Please click here
Gaston Damag is a performance and installation artist who has lived in France for nearly twenty-five years. Although he acknowledges the way in which French culture have had
some bearing on his way of thinking or responding to what he experiences, he continues to identify himself as a Filipino, particularly of his ethnic group Ifugao. He studied
Beaux-Arts (Fine Arts) mainly in Paris that allowed him to establish exchanges with artists of different backgrounds and origins.
Damag may be described as an ethnographic artist, tapping into objects that are classified as anthropological and posing questions about their reference and
representation…Damag is one artist who keeps his perspective as Filipino and Ifugao in his concepts and making of art despite his years of absence from the Philippines …
Damag is interested in processes and the way in which space and time coincide or brake apart. It seems he is responding to the quickness of technology being able to transport
people quickly from place to another, even if the mind and being of travellers have not caught up with the instant dislocation…
Ana Maria Theresa P. Labrador
Text from: Museum of Ethnology Vienna Early collections (PHILIPPINES), A RE-APPRAISAL OF THE BULUL
Opening
Inversion of the Ideal
Opening:
October 28th 2010, 6 to 10 pm
the artists will be present
Exhibition data:
October 29th to November 27th 2010
Monday to Friday, 10 am to 6 pm, Saturday, 10 am to 3 pm
Inversion of the Ideal
gives an introduction into the work of eighteen different artist from three continents and therefore the future gallery programme.
Artists represented:
Poklong Anading (RP), Alfredo Barsuglia (A), Lena Cobangbang (RP), Gaston Damag (F/RP), Markus Dressler (A), David Griggs (AUS), Martin Krenn (A), Robert Langenegger (CH/RP), Otto Muehl (A), Hermann Nitsch (A), Manuel Ocampo (RP/USA), Jayson Oliveria (RP), Isa Rosenberger (A), Federico Solmi (I/USA), Herbert Soltys (A), Gabriele Sturm (A), Gerardo Tan (RP), MM Yu (RC/RP).