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Veronika Wenger 2022
Full HD
Contemporary Art Center Big House, Wuhan 2023

DON’T
REMOVE
VERONIKA
WENGER

as a part of
Intermedia
Art
Exhibition
THE
YANGTZE
RIVER
VIDEO
ART
Big
House
Contemporary
Art
Center
Wuhan
Feb 3 – Apr 16
2023

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/PlKxFoWd8O5cr78MBLnFAw

BROKEN SCREEN OR DIGITAL DRAWING?

FOR EVERY VIEWER IT IS A CHALLENGE TO DEAL WITH A CHARACTER ON PAPER, A MARK OR A STROKE ON PAPER.
BUT HE FEELS THE PAPER, THE MATERIAL, THE DRAWING APPLIED BY HAND.
THE DRAWING IS PART OF THE REAL MATERIAL WORLD AND COMMUNICATES WITH HIM.
THE MARK DRAWS ATTENTION TO THE EMPTINESS OF THE SHEET AND AT THE SAME TIME TO THE FULLNESS OF WHAT IS MISSING.

I DRAW A MARK ON THE SCREEN.
WHAT MAKES SEEING A MARK ON A SCREEN A DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE?
WHY DO SOME VIEWERS ASSUME THE SCREEN IS BROKEN?
IS IT BECAUSE OF THE VIEWING HABIT OF EXPECTING IMAGES AND STORIES ON SCREENS?
IS IT BECAUSE OUR ATTENTION IS FOCUSED ON CONTENT AND INFORMATION?

THE MARK IS NOT PERCEIVED AS AN ELEMENT OF A DRAWING, BUT AS A TECHNICAL DEFECT.
THE DIGITAL MARK DRAWS ATTENTION TO THE SCREEN AS A MEDIUM THAT FORCES USTO FIND SHAPES.
AND SO THE MARK BECOMES A DIGITAL DRAWING.

VERONIKA WENGER

don’t remove
Veronika Wenger 2022
Full HD
Contemporary Art Center Big House, Wuhan 2023
Photo: BigHouse当代艺术中心
don’t remove
Veronika Wenger 2022
Full HD
Contemporary Art Center Big House, Wuhan 2023
Photo: BigHouse当代艺术中心
Contemporary Art Center Big House, Wuhan 2023
Photo: BigHouse当代艺术中心
Contemporary Art Center Big House, Wuhan 2023
Photo: BigHouse当代艺术中心

 

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THE YANGTZE RIVER VIDEO ART

THE
YANGTZE
RIVER
VIDEO
ART

Intermedia
Art
Exhibition
Big
House
Contemporary
Art
Center
Wuhan
Feb 3 – Apr 16
2023
白天
刘纹羊
员家理
李林
张红
张宇
陈瑞琪
祝虹
炭叹
陶陶
袁晓肪
梅健
路昌步
Kokayi
Oleksiy Koval
Veronika Wenger

As screens and digital media become ubiquitous, we have inevitably entered an age of images. The mysterious halo of “video art” is gradually disappearing in the blurred boundary with our daily visual environment, but on the other hand, it shapes the aesthetic concept and viewing mode of the new era. “Video art” has become an inexhaustible driving force to promote human visual transformation and modern thinking with its integrated media characteristics and digital technology blessing.

Since the 1990s, video art began to appear in China, and some pioneering artists in Hubei also began to try to use video cameras to create. In recent years, video art creation in Hubei has gradually become popular. From multiple interpretations of reality to conceptual experimental images, from simple video clips to dynamic images generated by new media technology, a group of artists who use digital images as their creative medium They have formed a force that cannot be ignored in the field of contemporary art in Hubei. The Yangzijiang video art community gathered spontaneously under such a background. Relying on the ideological foundation of the New Wave Art Movement and the academic soil of the Academy of Fine Arts system, this art group shows an avant-garde attitude and experimental genes.

The creation of the Yangzijiang video art community focuses on the relationship between the individual and the region, takes the regional cultural ecology of Hubei as the soil of practice, responds to its own cultural context with video art creation, and explores new possibilities of video art media. The time span of the exhibited works is from 2010 to 2022, reviewing the works of 14 artists in the past ten years, connecting the creative ecology of the entire art community with individual cases, trying to re-examine the boundaries of video media, and presenting the unique features of video art in Hubei. In creation and connection, the artist uses his works to explore the relationship between individuals, times, and objects, and through thinking about individuals and regions, he constructs a visual landscape that is divorced from reality and fiction. The works pay great attention to the expression of concepts and the experimental exploration of the ontological language of the image, breaking the linear structure of “time” and presenting “non-narrative”. Some works draw on the experience of daily life and emphasize personal experience; Sampling documentary, emphasizing the confrontation and communication between body and culture; there are also works using digital technology for virtual modeling, exploring technical form innovation or conveying ideas in generation.

The concentrated presentation of the works of the Yangtze River video art community, on the one hand, traces back to the creative context and multiple expressions of video art in Hubei, and on the other hand, it also expects to absorb more creative power, so as to promote a virtuous cycle of the local video art ecology.

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THE BEAUTIFUL FORMULA COLLECTIVE – DUO WITH STEVE COLEMAN AND KOKAYI + SPECIAL GUEST: ALINA SOKULSKA / VIDEO

 

LIVE
PAINTING
MUSIC
WORD
DANCE
PERFORMANCE

LOTHRINGER 13 HALLE
NOVEMBER 11 2022
20:00

Daniel Geiger (painting)
Oleksiy Koval (painting)
Thomas Rieger (painting)
Veronika Wenger (drawing)

Steve Coleman (alto saxophone)
Kokayi (wordsmith)

Alina Sokulska (dance)

Lothringer 13 Halle
Lothringer Str. 13
81667 Munich

Funded by
Bezirk Oberbayern, Munich
Stiftung van de Loo, Munich
Creaventis, Munich
ViniNocco, Munich

Special thanks to
Luzi Gross and Lothringer 13, Munich
Sooya Arts and Sophia Wong, New York
Saudades Tourneen GmbH, Jenbach

Photo: Lothringer 13
Photo: Gesine Glasauer-Braun

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THE BEAUTIFUL FORMULA COLLECTIVE – DUO WITH STEVE COLEMAN AND KOKAYI + SPECIAL GUEST: ALINA SOKULSKA

THE
BEAUTIFUL
FORMULA
COLLECTIVE

DUO
WITH
STEVE
COLEMAN
AND
KOKAYI
+
SPECIAL
GUEST:
ALINA
SOKULSKA

LIVE
PAINTING
MUSIC
WORD
DANCE
PERFORMANCE

LOTHRINGER 13 HALLE
NOVEMBER 11 2022
20:00

Daniel Geiger (painting)
Oleksiy Koval (painting)
Thomas Rieger (painting)
Veronika Wenger (drawing)

Steve Coleman (alto saxophone)
Kokayi (wordsmith)

Alina Sokulska (dance)

“ The purest rhythm must be the purest expression of life … all expressions of rhythm are true. ”
– Piet Mondrian

The Beautiful Formula Collective is a group of international artists who produce and stage group works not only in the studio, but also as live painting performances in front of an audience. The Beautiful Formula Collective deals with painting and creates collective works, in a combination of spontaneity, improvisation and the logic of rhythm.
www.thebeautifulformulacollective.com

Steve Coleman is an American saxophone player, spontaneous composer, bandleader and music theorist. Since 1994 Steve has done a series of performance and educational residencies around the United States and in many other countries (Cuba, India, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Brazil, France) through his non-profit, M-Base Concepts, Inc. This non-profit also has a an online music community website; m-base.net, which promotes educational activities through various multimedia formats and interactive media events.
www.m-base.net

Kokayi the Grammy nominated artist, preeminent improvisational vocalist, producer, educator and CEO/Creative Director of Less Talk More Walk LLC. Pronounced “Ko-Kah-Yee” his name is taken from the Swahili word meaning “to summon the people”. Kokayi keeps busy on multiple fronts with several solo and side projects.
www.kokayi202.com

Alina Sokulska is an international dance artist, choreographer, performer, instructor and researcher. She has elaborated on her dance language through the inspiration and deep research and more than 12 years of practice of social dances, in a mix with contemporary dance techniques and movement research concepts.
www.alinasokulska.com

Lothringer 13 Halle
Lothringer Str. 13
81667 Munich
Free admission

Funded by
Bezirk Oberbayern, Munich
Stiftung van de Loo, Munich
Creaventis, Munich
ViniNocco, Munich

Special thanks to
Luzi Gross and Lothringer 13, Munich
Sooya Arts and Sophia Wong, New York
Saudades Tourneen GmbH, Jenbach

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THE BEAUTIFUL FORMULA COLLECTIVE | PLATFORMS PROJECT ATHENS 2022

 

THE
BEAUTIFUL
FORMULA
COLLECTIVE

Daniel Geiger
Oleksiy Koval
Thomas Rieger
Veronika Wenger
Michael Wright
In the context of
RHYTHM
SECTION
Platforms
Project
Athens
Booth 54
October 13 – 16
2022
Live
Painting
Performance
Oct 13 – 15 19:00
Oct 16 13:00
Curated by
Sophie-Charlotte Bombeck
www.thebeautifulformulacollective.com

 

Keil composition by Oleksiy Koval
The Beautiful Formula Collective
Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval, Thomas Rieger, Veronika Wenger, Michael Wright
130 x 230 cm, ink on synthetic textile
Platforms Project, Athens 2022

 

Keil composition by Oleksiy Koval
The Beautiful Formula Collective
Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval, Thomas Rieger, Veronika Wenger, Michael Wright
130 x 230 cm, ink on synthetic textile
Platforms Project, Athens 2022

 

Epigonal composition by Daniel Geiger
The Beautiful Formula Collective
Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval, Thomas Rieger, Veronika Wenger, Michael Wright
130 x 230 cm, ink on synthetic textile
Platforms Project, Athens 2022

 

Epigonal composition by Daniel Geiger The Beautiful Formula Collective Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval, Thomas Rieger, Veronika Wenger, Michael Wright 130 x 230 cm, ink on synthetic textile Platforms Project, Athens 2022
Epigonal composition by Daniel Geiger
The Beautiful Formula Collective
Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval, Thomas Rieger, Veronika Wenger, Michael Wright
130 x 230 cm, ink on synthetic textile
Platforms Project, Athens 2022

 

Französischer Wein composition by Veronika Wenger The Beautiful Formula Collective Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval, Thomas Rieger, Veronika Wenger, Michael Wright 130 x 230 cm, ink on synthetic textile Platforms Project, Athens 2022
Französischer Wein composition by Veronika Wenger
The Beautiful Formula Collective
Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval, Thomas Rieger, Veronika Wenger, Michael Wright
130 x 230 cm, ink on synthetic textile
Platforms Project, Athens 2022

 

Französischer Wein composition by Veronika Wenger
The Beautiful Formula Collective
Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval, Thomas Rieger, Veronika Wenger, Michael Wright
130 x 230 cm, ink on synthetic textile
Platforms Project, Athens 2022

 

Low Tide composition by Oleksiy Koval The Beautiful Formula Collective Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval, Thomas Rieger, Veronika Wenger, Michael Wright 130 x 230 cm, ink on synthetic textile Platforms Project, Athens 2022
Low Tide composition by Oleksiy Koval
The Beautiful Formula Collective
Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval, Thomas Rieger, Veronika Wenger, Michael Wright
130 x 230 cm, ink on synthetic textile
Platforms Project, Athens 2022

 

Low Tide composition by Oleksiy Koval
The Beautiful Formula Collective
Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval, Thomas Rieger, Veronika Wenger, Michael Wright
130 x 230 cm, ink on synthetic textile
Platforms Project, Athens 2022

 

Not to be confined by the greatest, yet to be contained within the smallest is a definition, which declared the enterprise of the artists group Rhythm Section.

The substantive trait, which linked the artists of the group Rhythm Section in their works is the commitment to a hyper reflexivity in dealing with the rhythm, not as a compulsion, but as an original constant. The clear handling of the rhythm allows an endless variety of individual variations.

Rhythm Section is a platform for artists, who are interested in an exchange on the subject rhythm in the visual arts.

Rhythm Section consists not only of visual artists representing installation, drawing, video, sculpture, painting, digital art to name a few, but also of art critics and theorists, philosophers, teachers for rhythm and movement.

Parallel to the group shows, Rhythm Section organizes artist talks, lectures and symposiums on the subject rhythm in visual arts.

www.rhythmsection.de

The objective of Platforms Project is to map artistic action as it is produced in the context of collective initiatives by artists who decide to join forces in seeking answers to artistic questions by creating the so-called platforms.

www.platformsproject.com

Funded by
Kreativ-Transfer

 

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