A HYDROGRAPHY 8 BOOK

This group of 25 artists from home and abroad, united under the name Hydrography has been creating international exhibitions in varying combinations since 2013. So this year they are celebrating their 10th anniversary!

Veronika Wenger Hydrography

The group is fluid, just like the material these artists work with. In fact, they seek the challenge of using the “traditional” medium of watercolor in a new abstract way. Watercolor or watercolor is pure pigment combined with gum arabic and water. The strength of the color can range from light and transparent to super intense. Each pigment has its own specific gravity so each color behaves differently.

The artists are guided in part by gravity and chance. The paint is the boss, but the artist masters the technique and knows the material. It is a search for the possibilities in order to get to the essence; the purity of material and form.

I thank Iemke van Dijk, Henriëtte van ‘t Hoog, Alex de Vries and artvark.nl for this publication.

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VERONIKA WENGER | FESHANE ISTANBUL

Touchdown
Veronika Wenger
475 x 200 cm, charcoal, tape, pencil, marker on wall
Feshane Istanbul 2023.
Photo: rhythmsection.de

 

Touchdown (Detail)
Veronika Wenger
475 x 200 cm, charcoal, tape, pencil, marker on wall
Feshane Istanbul 2023.
Photo: rhythmsection.de

 

Touchdown (Detail)
Veronika Wenger
475 x 200 cm, charcoal, tape, pencil, marker on wall
Feshane Istanbul 2023.
Photo: rhythmsection.de

 

Touchdown (Detail)
Veronika Wenger
475 x 200 cm, charcoal, tape, pencil, marker on wall
Feshane Istanbul 2023.
Photo: rhythmsection.de

 

Feshane Istanbul 2023.
Photo: rhythmsection.de

 

Touchdown (Detail)
Veronika Wenger
475 x 200 cm, charcoal, tape, pencil, marker on wall
Feshane Istanbul 2023.
Photo: rhythmsection.de

 

Michael Wright, Daniel Geiger, Veronika Wenger
Feshane Istanbul 2023.
Photo: rhythmsection.de

RHYTHM
SECTION
FESHANE
ISTANBUL

Jun 24 – Sep 30
2023
Daniel Geiger
Oleksiy Koval
Thomas Rieger
Veronika Wenger
Michael Wright
Curated by
Dr. Ezgi Bakçay

Feshane (Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality)
International Fair Congress And Culture Center
Eski Feshane Caddesi, Eyüp
+90 212 501-73
www.feshane.com.tr

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

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VERONIKA WENGER | KUNSTVEREIN AUGSBURG

U
Veronika Wenger 2016
195 x 150 cm, carbon, spray, pencil, marker on paper

U
Veronika Wenger 2016
175 x 150 cm, carbon, spray, pencil, marker on paper
Kunstverein Augsburg 2023. Photo: rhythmsection.de

 

U
Veronika Wenger 2016

U (Detail)
Veronika Wenger 2016
175 x 150 cm, carbon, spray, pencil, marker on paper
Photo: Klaus Mauz

 

Oleksiy Koval, Karina Bugayova, Henriëtte van ‘t Hoog, Thomas Rieger, Veronika Wenger
Kunstverein Augsburg 2023. Photo: rhythmsection.de

 

Aranciata
Veronika Wenger 2018
65 x 55 cm, tape, spray, pencil, marker on MDF
Photo: Klaus Mauz

 

1 5 2 3 8
RHYTHM
SECTION

Kunstverein
Augsburg
June 4 –
July 30
2023
Curated by
Sophie-Charlotte
Bombeck

 

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THE BEAUTIFUL FORMULA COLLECTIVE – DUO WITH STEVE COLEMAN AND KOKAYI

The Beautiful Formula Collective
Veronika Wenger, Daniel Geiger, Thomas Rieger, Oleksiy Koval
Photo: rhythmsection.de
Steve Coleman
Photo: © Michael Weintrob
Kokayi
Photo: Jati Lindsay

THE
BEAUTIFUL
FORMULA
COLLECTIVE

DUO
WITH
STEVE
COLEMAN
AND
KOKAYI

NEW YORKER JAZZ TRIFFT AUF EINE LIVE-PAINTING-PERFORMANCE!
IM RAHMEN DER 1. BIENNALE LINDAU
Sonntag, 3. Juli 2022, 19:30 Uhr
Stadttheater Lindau
88131 Lindau (Bodensee)
Eintritt frei
Daniel Geiger (painting)
Oleksiy Koval (painting)
Thomas Rieger (painting)
Veronika Wenger (drawing)
Steve Coleman (alto saxophone)
Kokayi (wordsmith)
Kuratiert von
Sophie-Charlotte Bombeck

Steve Coleman und Five Elements erkunden mit ihrem in Kürze erscheinenden Live-Auftritt im renommierten Village Vanguard in New York City, “Mdw Ntr”, ein neues Terrain in der Anwendung nicht-linearer Aufführungspraktiken in der Musik des MacArthur-Stipendiaten Steve Coleman. Mit seinem langjährigen Vorzeige-Ensemble Five Elements verwendet er spontane und vorkomponierte Module oder motivische Zellen, die in beliebiger Reihenfolge gespielt werden können und es jedem Musiker ermöglichen, spontan zu verschiedenen Abschnitten vor- oder zurückzuspringen – sogar zwischen Kompositionen – und so verschiedene Schichten der Musik hervorzuheben und die Form bei jeder Aufführung auf völlig interaktive Weise neu zu erfinden.

Die spontane und reflexartige Reaktion auf visuelle Bedingungen einer Komposition auf der Fläche ist
die wesentliche Struktur von The Beautiful Formula Collective. The Beautiful Formula Collective setzt sich mit der Malerei und der Schaffung kollektiver Werke auf der Grundlage der Kombination aus Spontaneität, Improvisation und der Logik des Rhythmus, die beim Anbringen von Farben Strukturen und Regeln gibt, auseinander. The Beautiful Formula Collective produziert und inszeniert Gruppenarbeiten nicht nur im Atelier, sondern auch als Live-Painting-Performance vor Publikum. The Beautiful Formula Collective hat Live-Painting-Performances an Kunsthochschulen, Galerien und Museen in München, Zürich, Istanbul, Teheran und London durchgeführt, um nur einige zu nennen.

Kompositionen mit konstanten rhythmischen Motiven werden von den Künstler*innen beider Disziplinen vor dem Publikum in variabler Form ausgeführt.

Gefördert durch:
1st Lindau Biennale
Jazzclub Lindau
Theater Lindau
Richard Stury Stiftung, München

Besonderen Dank an:
Sophie-Charlotte Bombeck, Lindau
Sooya Arts and Sophia Wong, New York
Saudades Tourneen GmbH, Jenbach

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VERONIKA WENGER | SUPER+ CENTERCOURT

Balla
Veronika Wenger 2020
65 x 100 cm, marker, tape on plastic
Super+Centercourt Munich 2022

 

Daniel Geiger, Vicky Betsou, Veronika Wenger, Oleksiy Koval
Super+Centercourt Munich 2022

 

Veronika Wenger
Super+Centercourt Munich 2022

 

RHYTHM SECTION
super+ CENTERCOURT
München
3.6. – 30.6.
2022

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

www.centercourt.gallery
super+ CENTERCOURT
Adalbertstr. 44
80799 Munich
Germany

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