[spectre] Creating New Spaces (Kunstverein Langenhagen)

[geert lovink]

From: "Kunstverein Langenhagen" <mail at kunstverein-langenhagen.de>

Programme for 2003: "Creating New Spaces"

Gunilla Klingberg
16.03. - 02.05.2003
Opening: 14.03.2003

Isa Rosenberger
01.06. - 25.07.2003
Opening: 1.06.2003

Festival "Creating New Spaces"
5./6./7.09.2003

"The Sky's The Limit"
Fiona Banner, Daniela Brahm, Raphael & Tobias Danke, David Hatcher, Andrew
McLeod, Peter Robinson, Yvonne Todd
Curated by Astrid Mania
21.09. - 07.11.2003
Opening: 19.09.2003

Jonas Dahlberg
30.11.2003 - 01.02.2004
Opening: 28.11.2003

This year's programme at the Kunstverein Langenhagen is dedicated to the
artistic perception of social, individual, philosophical and utopian
spaces. However, spaces are not understood as rigid containers which only
allow for change from within their given constants, but as flexible bodies
that can be consolidated into spaces by acts of any kind- including
artistic practice. Under the heading "Creating New Spaces", solo
exhibitions by Gunilla Klingberg (S/G), Isa Rosenberger (A/G), Jonas
Dahlberg (S) and a group exhibition by guest curator Astrid Mania explore
different conceptions of space. The artists investigate how space is
constituted and reflect on the perception of space as they transform its
appearance. The festival "Creating New Spaces" which is currently in
planning features videos, films and talks by Dorothee Albrecht (G), Ricarda
Denzer (A), Pia Lanzinger (G), Jacques Tati (F), Isa Rosenberger (A/G), Pia
Rönnicke (DK) and others. An interdisciplinary programme consisting of
lectures, discussions, excursions and events stimulates and deepens insight
into the links between the individual exhibitions.

The year began with an exhibition by Berlin-based Swedish artist Gunilla
Klingberg, born 1966. In her works, she creates contemporary icons of
today's consumer world. The source material for her hallucinatory
sculptures, videos, sound and spatial installations is the unpretentious
design of the supermarket chains we associate with the low-price daily
satisfaction of our basic needs. For her exhibition at Kunstverein
Langenhagen she created "Repeat Pattern", Linoleum Floor, 2003, a
three-dimensional installation that lures the spectator into the
astonishing world of the consumer temples.

Vienna-based artist Isa Rosenberger (born 1969) examines in which way and
to what extent human activities constitute space. For her project in
Langenhagen she will investigate the strategies developed by the town's
citizens in positioning themselves within their individual and urban
surroundings, and will explore the means they adopt to create and shape
that environment: how do people appropriate these planned, architectural
spaces and what meaning do they allocate to them?

In her exhibition "The Sky's The Limit" curator Astrid Mania investigates
our comprehension - or rather our lack of comprehension - of space with
regard to theories and models developed by contemporary philosophy, astro
and quantum physics, digital and virtual worlds. Works by international
contemporary artists probing this phenomenon will be presented: drawings
and sculptures that explore the boundaries of conceptual space provide a
formal framework for works that visualise the collapsing of space through
metaphors such as black holes, parallel universes, Plato's cave, linguistic
fragments and space capsules. Featured artists are Fiona Banner, Daniela
Brahm, Raphael & Tobias Danke, David Hatcher, Andrew McLeod, Peter
Robinson, Yvonne Todd.

The work of Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg, (born 1970, lives and works in
Stockholm) deals with the ambivalent positions and psychological or
political aspects of observation (from an inside) and being observed (from
an outside). Many of his works reference the analyses of French philosopher
Michel Foucault who investigated the relationship between forced and
voluntary surveillance. Jonas Dahlberg builds meticulous architectural
models of public environments or private interiors that he also employs as
film sets for his videos - allowing the viewer to be at the same time
inside and outside of the centre of the mise-en-scène. For his exhibition
in Langenhagen he will realize a film-project that deals with the invisible
city. Like Gunilla Klingberg, Jonas Dahlberg will also be participating in
this year's Venice Biennale.

The programme has been generously supported by:
Land Niedersachsen, Stiftung der Kulturregion Hannover, Stadt Langenhagen,
Hannover Airport, Reemtsma Zigarettenfabriken, Universal, Schlütersche
Druckerei, Forbo Linoleum, IASPIS-International Artists' Studio Program in
Sweden, Schenker Logistics, Aus- und Weiterbildungszentrum Fabrik
Langenhagen, ZF-Art Logistics Berlin, Logoplan Konstruktion GmbH in
Langenhagen, Malermeister Volker Köhler, Meunier Gebäudeservice.

Kunstverein Langenhagen
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D-30851 Langenhagen

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Opening times during the exhibitions: Tue - Fri, 2 - 6pm; Sun, 3 - 5pm