As part of Various Others and in collaboration with Temporary Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Art, Cologne
Milchstr. 4, 81667 Munich
09.09.2022 – 29.09.2022
Opening: 9.09.2022, 5 pm
Hannes Heinrich, o.T. (Hoody) 2022, charcaol and paper on canvas, 45 x 35 cm
GiG Munich is excited to collaborate with the Temporary Gallery. Centre for Contemporary Art, a Cologne-based art association and center for contemporary art, in presenting the work of Hannes Heinrich and Buket Isgören.
The work of GiG Munich and the Temporary Gallery. Centre for Contemporary Art is strongly theoretical and both spaces strive to establish a critically relevant and broad cultural, historical, social, and scientific framework for each of their curatorial projects.
Hannes Heinrich and Buket Isgören paint and draw what is personal and close by: flowers and oil on canvas, found objects in their studios, pencil drawings. Yet their intense shared approach leads beyond the mundane. In a world where the distribution of power is semiotically organized via meaning, each thing a sign for something else, Heinrich’s and Isgören’s objects are so imbued with meaning, they turn away and forge their own paths. Curated by Aneta Rostkowska and Magdalena Wisniowska.
Zuza Piekoszewska, Natalia Karczewska, Magda Starska, Grzegorz Bożek, Paweł Marcinek und Przemysław Piniak
(curated by Łęctwo)
31.07 – 19.08.2022
Lothringer 13 Studio, Lothringer Straße 13, 81667 Munich
We breathe the remains of everything that was, 2022, exhibition viewZuza Piekoszewska, Future Traveller II, 2022, mixed media: bioplastic, spray paint, varnishZuza Piekoszewska, Future Traveller II, 2022, mixed media: bioplastic, spray paint, varnish (detail)Magda Starska, Volcano, 2012, assisted readymade: sideboard, kettle, plasterMagda Starska, Volcano, 2012, assisted readymade: sideboard, kettle, plaster (detail)We breathe the remains of everything that was, 2022, exhibition viewNatalia Karczewska, Avo-hat-touch, 2022, mixed media installation: wood, paper, textiles, lightbulb, pencil, marker, resin, plexi,Magda Starska, Together better, 2021, acrylic on canvasNatalia Karczewska, Avo-hat-touch, 2022, mixed media installation: wood, paper, textiles, lightbulb, pencil, marker, resin, plexi,Pawel Marcinek, Common Horizon, 2022, mixed media installation: umbrella wires, plaster, ashes, dustZuza Piekoszewska, Coarctate pupa, 2021, mixed media: bioplastic, linen and Future Traveller II, mixed media: bioplastic, spray paint, varnishZuza Piekoszewski, Future Traveller II, mixed media: bioplastic, spray paint, varnishPawel Marcinek, Feeling Secure, 2021, mixed media: iron, wood, plaster and Grzegorz Bozek, Gray Crow Spirit, 2022, egg tempera on wooden boardPawel Marcinek, Feeling Secure, 2021, mixed media: iron, wood, plaster
Grzegorz Bozek, Gray Crow Spirit, 2022, egg tempera on wooden boardPrzemyslaw Piniak, PylniceP, 2019, video installation, markerpen on cottonPrzemyslaw Piniak, PylniceP, 2019, video installation, markerpen on cottonPawel Marcinek, The year before, 2021, mixed media: burnt steering wheel, plasterPawel Marcinek, The year before, 2021, mixed media: burnt steering wheel, plasterPrzemyslaw Piniak, Niebieskis, blue-eyed mushroom found on Pucka island, 2022, paper and gold sweet-wrappers, wooden board
Opening Speech:
Many of you here know GiG from its days at Baumstr. 11. Some of you might even remember the last series of exhibitions there, ‘Thinking Nature’ featuring artists such as Elke Dreier, Johanna Strobel, Kalas Liebfried, Julia Klemm, Justin Liebermann, Lilian Robl and many others. This exhibition is a continuation of that series, but with a slight shift in focus: instead of thought, the theme is memory. How it relates to our thinking about nature remains unchanged.
For this exhibition, GiG invite Lectwo from Poznan, Poland, and its director, Przemek Sowiński to be the curator. He in turn responded to the theme through this idea of ‘breath’ as something physical, something shared and something transformative. We breathe out slowly when we hear something surprising – we inhale sharply in fear. Together with our heartbeat, breathing structures our sense of time, each breath already past, present and future. If when thinking, the concept of memory often becomes too much like the concept of history, a series of events arranged according to importance, the memories held in a breath have a linearity free from such punctuation. They are alive.
As an introduction to the exhibition, Dr. Sebastian Truskolaski traveling from Berlin, kindly agreed to hold a brief discussion of Adorno’s short text, ‘Heliotrope’. We chose thistext together as a good way of engaging with the themes of the exhibition: breathing, memory, nature (Heliotropism being the ability of plants to turn towards the sun). The text takes the shape of Adorno’s childhood memory. A glamorous aunt comes to visit, carrying suitcases with stickers from exotic locations. Little Theodor breaths in the heavy scent of her French perfume and is immediately transported to the world of grown-ups, which is also a long-lost fairyland. The child at once gains access to a foreign land, and recovers what he once had.