Exhibitions
minding the gap
Group show
14.04.23 — 05.05.23
Alte Handelsschule
Gießerstr. 75
Leipzig, Germany
Mon. — Wed.: 9 - 12 h
Fri. + Sat: 15 - 18 h
With Tobia König, Vanessa A. Opoku, Roxana Rios, Nathalie Valeska Schüler.
MINDING THE GAP spans fields within supposed gaps and politically constructed dichotomies. In a multidisciplinary manner, the exhibition endures anti-capitalist work under the pressure of production and occupies the in-between of singular and collective reality. Minds space for what is repressed in pre-political spheres, and insists on connections between body and space.
MINDING THE GAP spans fields within supposed gaps and politically constructed dichotomies. In a multidisciplinary manner, the exhibition endures anti-capitalist work under the pressure of production and occupies the in-between of singular and collective reality. Minds space for what is repressed in pre-political spheres, and insists on connections between body and space.
When The Atmosphere Is Less Than Perfect
Group show
07.04.23 — 25.04.23
MZIN
Museum der bildenden Künste
Katharinenstrasse 10
Leipzig
Tue. & Thu — Sun 10 - 18 h
Wed. 10 - 20 h
With
Susanne Beck, Alicia Franzke, Nancy Göring, Alexandra Ivanciu, Kassandra & Apostolos, aNNa Lebedev*a, Mahshid Mahboubifar, Tess Marschner, Vanessa A. Opoku, Felix Pacholleck, Julia Perkuhn, Katharina Schreiter, Stefania Smolkina.
Curated by Tess Marschner and Felix Pacholleck.
In the multimedia installation WHEN THE ATMOSPHERE IS LESS THAN PERFECT, 13 artists approach the complications and potentials of the posthuman condition, which Rosi Braidotti describes as a moment of compelling transformation. Formerly inanimate, mute or ineffective bodies and materialities become perceptible as actors of relational modes and movements. These multiform creators of changing environments were never only human: in the installation WHEN THE ATMOSPHERE IS LESS THAN PERFECT they appear as historical, timeless, invisible, productive, threatening, linguistically gifted and collaborative co-beings and events.
Curated by Tess Marschner and Felix Pacholleck.
In the multimedia installation WHEN THE ATMOSPHERE IS LESS THAN PERFECT, 13 artists approach the complications and potentials of the posthuman condition, which Rosi Braidotti describes as a moment of compelling transformation. Formerly inanimate, mute or ineffective bodies and materialities become perceptible as actors of relational modes and movements. These multiform creators of changing environments were never only human: in the installation WHEN THE ATMOSPHERE IS LESS THAN PERFECT they appear as historical, timeless, invisible, productive, threatening, linguistically gifted and collaborative co-beings and events.
REST IN PEACE Simulation
Solo Show
28.12.22 — 08.02.23
Nanfei Bar, hosted by Times Museum's Huangbian Station Contemporary Art Research Center (HBS)
Guangzhou China
and online
Review in Arts of the Working Class: https://artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/meditations-against-linearity
Rest in Peace Simulation is part of the transnational project Escaping Involution, hosted by HB Station in Guangzhou (CHN) and Synnika, Frankfurt/Main (DE).
In their collaborative work Rest in Peace Simulation (2022 – ongoing) the artists Philisha Kay and Vanessa A. Opoku approach and oppose the dominant narrative of linear time, that often goes hand in hand with the notion of progress, through guided meditations in virtual space. It aims to create a space to experience temporary disembodiment, and to dive into a sphere of being contrary to the seemingly irrevocable state of restless self-optimization – a place of resting. The 360° virtually generated environment of the Rest in Peace Simulation is designed by Vanessa A. Opoku, and accompanied by a voice over written and spoken by Philisha Kay. The simulation is set out to be launched in three chapters, with the now published first part: Out-of-Sync Recalibration.
In their collaborative work Rest in Peace Simulation (2022 – ongoing) the artists Philisha Kay and Vanessa A. Opoku approach and oppose the dominant narrative of linear time, that often goes hand in hand with the notion of progress, through guided meditations in virtual space. It aims to create a space to experience temporary disembodiment, and to dive into a sphere of being contrary to the seemingly irrevocable state of restless self-optimization – a place of resting. The 360° virtually generated environment of the Rest in Peace Simulation is designed by Vanessa A. Opoku, and accompanied by a voice over written and spoken by Philisha Kay. The simulation is set out to be launched in three chapters, with the now published first part: Out-of-Sync Recalibration.
ZENTRUM
Group show
01.12.22 — 08.02.23
Kunstraum IDEAL
Schulze-Delitzsch-Straße 27
Leipzig, Germany
Wed. + Sun: 15 - 18 h
www.idealartspace.de
In collaboration with: KV Leipzig, OxfordBerlin, Rosa Stern Space Munich and FAR - Foundation for Artistic Relations.
With digital and analog works by: Samuel Bich, Moving Target Collective (Alexa Steinbrück, Natalie Sontopski, Amelie Goldfuß), Fabian Hampel, Vanessa Opoku, Nadine Rangosch, Lion Sauterleute, Merlin Stadler, Paul Valentin.
ZENTRUM highlights models of self-organization, decentralized networks and collective work. As a contact zone of different art spaces, the exhibition offers a space to jointly develop approaches for solidary structures and the sharing of resources. How can these shared spaces be maintained and organized? How can collective structures be preserved from institutional fixation?
With digital and analog works by: Samuel Bich, Moving Target Collective (Alexa Steinbrück, Natalie Sontopski, Amelie Goldfuß), Fabian Hampel, Vanessa Opoku, Nadine Rangosch, Lion Sauterleute, Merlin Stadler, Paul Valentin.
ZENTRUM highlights models of self-organization, decentralized networks and collective work. As a contact zone of different art spaces, the exhibition offers a space to jointly develop approaches for solidary structures and the sharing of resources. How can these shared spaces be maintained and organized? How can collective structures be preserved from institutional fixation?
Wunderblock BETA
Screening
01.12.22 — 31.12.22
DOCK 20 – Kunstraum und Sammlung Hollenstein
Pontenstraße 20
Lustenau, Austria
Wed. + Sun: 15 - 18 h
www.dock20.lustenau.at
February to December 2022, online and in the shop window of DOCK 20 at Pontenstraße 20. The video becomes a means of introspection, a link between life reality, wishful thinking and archive, and an external memory of collective experience.
Award winners exhibition, gute aussichten, new german photography award 2021/2022
Group show
22.07.22 — 01.11.22
Haus der Fotografie
Festung Ehrenbreitstein
Landesmuseum Koblenz
Greiffenklaustraße
Koblenz, Germany
Mon. — Sun.: 10 - 18 h
www.2022.guteaussichten.org
In the 18th year of "gute aussichten," the eight-member jury selected eight prize winners from 72 submissions from 31 German universities: Max Dauven, Tamara Eckhardt, Maximillian Gessler, Alexander Kadow, Natalia Kepesz, Fiona Körner, Vanessa A. Opoku and Zoyeon.
The current award winners examine Internet memes, observe the sad reality of children, deal with the technical contrasts inherent in photography, have technical images changed by means of AI, are shocked by the reality of children playing war, wonder about the standardization of life in model home parks, and deal with foreignness and racism.
The current award winners examine Internet memes, observe the sad reality of children, deal with the technical contrasts inherent in photography, have technical images changed by means of AI, are shocked by the reality of children playing war, wonder about the standardization of life in model home parks, and deal with foreignness and racism.
2525
Group show,
22.07.22 —24.07.22
SPOILER Berlin
Quitzowstraße 108a
Berlin, Germany
Curated by Niklas Jeroch.
Artists: Martin Bauer & Maj Mlakar, Ulrike Buhl, Christo Daskaltsis, Flavio Dege, Fanni Florian, Luke E. Holden, Christian Holz, Niklas Jeroch, Lefteris Kastrinaki, Wie-yi T. Lauw, Vanessa A. Opoku, Oded Yone, Lion Sauterleute
Artists: Martin Bauer & Maj Mlakar, Ulrike Buhl, Christo Daskaltsis, Flavio Dege, Fanni Florian, Luke E. Holden, Christian Holz, Niklas Jeroch, Lefteris Kastrinaki, Wie-yi T. Lauw, Vanessa A. Opoku, Oded Yone, Lion Sauterleute
tender intelligences
Group show
07.07.22 — 14.07.22
(im)Mutable Studio
1206 Maple Ave
Los Angeles, USA
www.b-la-connect.org
tender intelligences is a curatorship by Paloma Oliveira and Renata Gaui that aims to bring a plurality of artistic perspectives on artificial intelligence (AI). The intention of the curatorial approach hopes to inspire other communities around the globe to be co-creators of this technology that will likely impact their lives.
tender intelligences is an exhibition on the use, design and care of community-driven AI that will first take place at the (im)Mutable Studio in Los Angeles this next summer and in the summer of 2023 at the Zentrum für Netzkunst in Berlin.
tender intelligences is an exhibition on the use, design and care of community-driven AI that will first take place at the (im)Mutable Studio in Los Angeles this next summer and in the summer of 2023 at the Zentrum für Netzkunst in Berlin.
Edizione Multicolore #7
Book release & group show
03.07.22 — 31.07.22
HALLE 14
Zentrum für
zeitgenössische Kunst
Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei
Spinnereistr. 7
Leipzig, Germany
Tue. — Fri.: 11 - 18 h
www.halle14.org
Gabi Garland, Vanessa A. Opoku & Lion Sauterleute, Erik Swars & Tobias Muno
Edizione Multicolore is a platform for independent publishing. The initiators Dana Lorenz and Fine Bieler accompany selected artists from the creation of their own books to their publication. The exhibition in our art library presents the three latest publications and corresponding artworks. "Bussi بابا" is (d)a travel companion in a practical dust jacket by Gabi Garland. "Techné-Mythologies" includes an essay and eleven artistic works by Vanessa A. Opoku and was designed by Lion Sauterleute. "This and That" juxtaposes Polaroids by Erik Swars with texts by Tobias Muno.
Edizione Multicolore is a platform for independent publishing. The initiators Dana Lorenz and Fine Bieler accompany selected artists from the creation of their own books to their publication. The exhibition in our art library presents the three latest publications and corresponding artworks. "Bussi بابا" is (d)a travel companion in a practical dust jacket by Gabi Garland. "Techné-Mythologies" includes an essay and eleven artistic works by Vanessa A. Opoku and was designed by Lion Sauterleute. "This and That" juxtaposes Polaroids by Erik Swars with texts by Tobias Muno.
Award winners exhibition, gute aussichten, new german photography award 2021/2022
Group show
26.03.22 — 01.05.22
Künstlerhaus Dortmund
Sunderweg 1
Dortmund, Germany
Thu. — Sun.: 16 - 19 h
www.2022.guteaussichten.org
With Max Dauven, Tamara Eckhardt, Maximilian Gessler, Alexander Kadow, Natalia Kepesz, Fiona Körner, Vanessa A. Opoku, Zoyeon.
"gute aussichten" comes of age! In the eighteenth year of its existence, the renowned prize for young artists is visiting the Künstlerhaus Dortmund with the works of the eight prize winners. As last year, the Künstlerhaus is the first stop of the exhibition, which will then be shown in Koblenz and Hamburg. A renowned jury selected the winners - all photography students were eligible to participate in the competition exclusively with their final projects, which they submitted to a qualified German institution.
"gute aussichten" comes of age! In the eighteenth year of its existence, the renowned prize for young artists is visiting the Künstlerhaus Dortmund with the works of the eight prize winners. As last year, the Künstlerhaus is the first stop of the exhibition, which will then be shown in Koblenz and Hamburg. A renowned jury selected the winners - all photography students were eligible to participate in the competition exclusively with their final projects, which they submitted to a qualified German institution.
Berg Versetzen (Moving Mountains)
with PARA
04.03.22 — ongoing
GRASSI Museum Leipzig
Johannisplatz 5-11
Leipzig, Germany
Tue. — Sun.: 11 - 18 h
www.berge-versetzen.com
With the opening of the first exhibition rooms, the museum shows the progress of its transformation. In the first part of the exhibition, visitors gain insights into the museum's colonial history and get to know some of the actors and networks that brought large parts of the ethnological collections to Saxony.
Berge Versetzen wants to return the peak of Kilimanjaro, which colonial geographer Hans Meyer took to Germany in 1889. To this end, the artists' group PARA invites the public to purchase replicas of the mountain peak, which will be produced in the exhibition at the GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig and sold as part of a crowdfunding campaign. The proceeds of the sold replicas shall enable the return of the actual piece of the summit.
Berge Versetzen wants to return the peak of Kilimanjaro, which colonial geographer Hans Meyer took to Germany in 1889. To this end, the artists' group PARA invites the public to purchase replicas of the mountain peak, which will be produced in the exhibition at the GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig and sold as part of a crowdfunding campaign. The proceeds of the sold replicas shall enable the return of the actual piece of the summit.
Nichts als Solide
Solo show
03.09.21 — 06.11.21
Synnika
NIKA.haus
Niddastraße 57
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Fri.: 15 - 10 h
and by appointment
www.synnika.space
At Synnika, Vanesa A. Opoku shows works that can be understood as an examination of those traces that people leave in their surroundings and that are burned into landscapes and places. In conversation with poems by the Jewish poet Mascha Kaléko and the Afro-German poet May Ayim, which serve as a data set for an artificial intelligence, a monologue emerges in which a new, fictional lyric self is formed. Through the medium of this virtual being, the artist not only asks questions about identity, but also answers them with self-empowerment by placing the statements generated by the AI in a context that gives rise to a decided stance.
ARCIPELAGO
Group show
22.10.21 — 24.10.21
Église APS
Via dei Credenzieri 13
Palermo, Italy
www.egliseart.com
With Hammam Alawam, Fabio Aranzulla, Cihan Çakmak, Eli Eichler, Nancy Göring, Raisan Hameed, Genesis Kahveci, Johannes Ocker, Susanne Kontny, Lisa Kuznetsova, Christoph Liepach, Mahshid Mahboubifar, Tess Marschner, Mandy Moebes, Vanessa A. Opoku, Simon Osten, Felix Pacholleck, Anna Perepechai, Julia Perkuhn, Jay Ritchie, Julius C. Schreiner, Nina Schwartz, Pooya Sedighi Mournani
ARCIPELAGO traces the connections between origins and futures, examines specific points of relationship breakdowns, and tests the fatigue of the individual. The interconnected roots of plants-commonly referred to as rhizomes-serve as a medial philosophical conjunction in the search for potential polymorphic, postcolonial, queer, and ecological micro-appearances.
ARCIPELAGO traces the connections between origins and futures, examines specific points of relationship breakdowns, and tests the fatigue of the individual. The interconnected roots of plants-commonly referred to as rhizomes-serve as a medial philosophical conjunction in the search for potential polymorphic, postcolonial, queer, and ecological micro-appearances.
DOSIS II
Group show
26.08.21 — 23.09.21
Institut für Zukunft
An den Tierkliniken 38-40
Leipzig, Germany
With Thomas Baldischwyler, Katrin Becker, Dominika Bednarsky, cylo, Svenja Deking, Paula Eggert & Lukas Hartmann, Anaïs Goupy, JH Hamann, Yannick Harter, ILL, Barbara Lüdde, Sophia Kesting & Dana Lorenz, Salome Lübke, SaouTV & SupaKC, Ewa Meister & Johanna Ralser (mit Giuli Giani & Kristin Gruber), Larissa Mühlrath, Theresa Münnich, Murat Önen, Vanessa A. Opoku, Anna Raczynska, Daniel Rode, Juli Schmidt, Lisa Schumann & Johanna Stolze, Annika Stoll, Florian Wendler, 076**KRU
بوخنفالد مسيرة صوتية
Buchenwald. Ein Audiowalk
Buchenwald. An Audio Walk
بوخن ولد . یک پیاده روی صوتی
Buchenwald. Bir Audiowalk
Audiowalk release
2021 — ongoing
Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora
Weimar, Germany
www.buchenwald.de
The audio walk enables a first arrival at the Buchenwald Memorial. As a story with many voices and perspectives, it welcomes guests to the memorial and accompanies them for about an hour on a very specific path through Buchenwald. It begins at the edge of the memorial parking lot, in its southeast corner, in front of the mailbox there. The rest of the path is described in detail in the course of the audio walk.
Instability — Planetary Transformations
Group show
24.09.20 — 27.11.20
FIBER Festival 2020
Tolhuistuin
IJpromenade 2
Amsterdam, Netherlands
www.2020.fiberfestival.nl
With the festival exhibition Instability, FIBER presents a range of emerging artists who respond to the transformative impact humans have on earth. Climate change, ecological crises and the underlying social and economic inequalities are causing global living environments to rapidly change into uninhabitable areas.
Slowly the absolute necessity for change is becoming more accepted, but what do these changes look like? And most importantly, what adjustments to our thinking about the planet – including thinking about ourselves – are needed to change course? Instability aims to contribute to this matter through artistic thoughts, experiences and imaginations.
Slowly the absolute necessity for change is becoming more accepted, but what do these changes look like? And most importantly, what adjustments to our thinking about the planet – including thinking about ourselves – are needed to change course? Instability aims to contribute to this matter through artistic thoughts, experiences and imaginations.
Cinema Hamlet #1, Five Weeks of Moving Image exploring Transformation
Screening
31.08.19 — 06.10.19
HAMLET
Dörflistrasse 67
Zurich, Switzerland
www.hamlet.love
Programmed by Kelly Ann Gardener.
Cinema Hamlet is a new series in Hamlet’s program. In the first edition the term „Transformation“ is examined by five artists, curators and programmers, each on the basis of a weekend long program showing moving image.
Cinema Hamlet is a new series in Hamlet’s program. In the first edition the term „Transformation“ is examined by five artists, curators and programmers, each on the basis of a weekend long program showing moving image.
Cartographies of the Vanishing Now
Group show
09.09.19 — 13.09.19
Waag
Nieuwmarkt 4
Amsterdam
www.fiber-space.nl
Cartographies of the Vanishing Now (COTVN) is a new research and development project exploring the potential of sensory art and alternative cartographic methods to remap reality in the age of environmental collapse. It sets out to capture the impact of the growing ecological instability on the way we organise and model our modern world, traces the forces behind environmental change and simultaneous shifts perspectives to move to brighter futures.