Curated by Johann Haehling von Lanzenauer
Beginning with the
Big Bang, matter hurls through the endless depths of the universe. For
human perception, the explosion is spreading in super slow motion,
constantly redefining our extended habitat. We are now sitting on one of
the microparticles of this gigantic eruption: Human beings on the Earth
– as a testimony of the sap of our home planet. And also as a surrogate
of a natural evolution of flora and fauna. We are charged with the love
and strength that life has given us, but detached from the true life
and survival concept of our Mother Earth. Nature has allowed us to
disregard and destroy it, our own foundation of existence. It has
allowed us to dive into an emotional tunnel full of fears and violence.
As if this were the condition for reaching a higher consciousness. A
conciousness that enables us to achieve a technological and spiritual
viability for a life on other planets? A call to the stars? The human as
a pollinator of other planets? The answer to nature’s enormous pursuit
of expansion beyond the hemisphere? If we want to fulfill this given
mission, we have to become one with our origins and re-integrate
ourselves into the systems and logics of nature, which the animal and
plant world never lost. Our current evolutionary step is to be. To be in
us first, to free ourselves from our inner conflicts and to create an
empathic capacity based on being. The selected works by five artists in
this exhibition deal with various positions on current states of being:
In
her performative, abstract paintings, Icelandic artist Katrin Fridriks
deals with themes of space, time and matter, the subcutaneous power of
the planet and universal eruptions. Her work is about creating awareness
for the forces and texture of our planet. Californian painter Kevin
Earl Taylor hovers subtly at the crossroads between the animal world and
the human world in his classical, figurative style. A mystic-spiritual
aura accompanies the dialogue between the species. Anneliese Schrenk
uses discarded cow hides from luxury leather production for her works of
art stretched on frames. The results are minimalist and painterly,
charged with political statement. The smell, haptic and aura of living
creatures are palpable. Transformed into works of art, the hides call
out to deeper-lying senses. In her video work from 2014 “What Are You
Fishing For?”, Annina Roescheisen documents her intimate self-healing
journey to free herself from dark fears and traumas. Her latest abstract
paintings can be seen as a counterplan, reflecting a liberated, light
and healthy soul. A process from being gripped by psychological escapism
to being in the moment. In the here and now. Berlin painter Hoosen
documents the irritating facets of our existence drawing on the style of
Berlin milieu painting of the 1920s. The dark side of human society. A
humorous capitalism critique and a portrait of psychosocial grievances
amongst the party people of Ibiza and Sylt.
“Das DaSein” covers different aspects of today’s being and invites you to meditate and discuss the state of the here and now.
