Donnerstag, 12. April 2012

OSLO10 presents


Bcc 9 : DAS EI OHNE SCHALE.

Harm van den Dorpel
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff
Stephen Lichty
Sara Ludy
Mélodie Mousset


Curated by:
Aurélia Defrance, Julie Grosche, Aude Pariset
www.b--c--c.com

May 11, 2012 to June 2, 2012






















Opening: May 10, 2012, 7pm


Opening hours: Thursday to Saturday, 2-6 pm










































Donnerstag, 29. März 2012

OSLO10 DVD-Release & Screening


COMPILER*04.Replay.

Thursday, March 29, 2012, 8pm





















Film screening on the occasion of the DVD-release COMPILER*04. Replay.
With an introduction by Raffael Dörig

With video works by
Keller Kosmas (Aids-3D), Alden Volney, Sabrina Ratté / Boxcutter, Aleksandra Domanović,John Michael Boling & Javier Morales, Paul Slocum, Oliver Laric, Kari Altmann, Harm van den Dorpel, Guthrie Lonergan, Beni Bischof, Marisa Olson / Tanlines, Körner Union / Larytta,Goldin+Senneby / Hinrich Sachs / Ethidium Gould / Jochen Schmith, Patrick Ward

Curated by Raffael Dörig
Produced by COMPILER/Tweaklab
Design by Dan Solbach

Replay brings together artworks that address the production of versions, either literally, or in terms of their fundamental methodology, with or without referencing meta-discourse on the topic. What they all share is a playfulness and Pop affinity as well as a certain nonchalance, for instance in relation to copyright and the issue of ‘the original’. The work is informed and shaped by current discourse on these issues in art and theory, as well as by the carefree rule-breakers underway in amateur cultures.

COMPILER, founded by Tweaklab (Basel, Switzerland) in 2002, is a series of curated DVD compilations and a platform for film, video and audio works.
www.compiler.ws

Freitag, 9. März 2012

OSLO10 presents


Two solo projects:
Jeroen Jacobs - JJ
Nuri Koerfer - hold down

09.03.2012 - 29.04.2012












Jeroen Jacobs addresses with his sculptures the energy of the sculptural gesture and the potential of the materials used. Coincidence, the incalculable and the unfinished are central aspects in his work. His concrete sculptures are not developed from fixed molds, but from casts resulting from the attempt to grasp the empty spaces between found objects. Poured into only partly closed molds, the material is challenged to autonomy as the brittle concrete seeks its shape. The result is organic, negative forms whose final appearance is only partially controlled by the artist. The notion of negative or liminal space and confrontation with the materials and their characteristics are frequent themes in Jacobs’ work. In Tea Time (Autocenter, Berlin, 2010) he arranged found objects such as foam mats, rubber tires and pieces of wood into formally reduced sculptures, which he distributed throughout the space in tubes made from sheets of transparent PVC. In the double exhibition Lost and Found (with Tony Just at Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, 2009) he detached self-constructed table frames from their customary purpose and form by mounting them on the wall. With simple interventions, Jacobs dismantles, re-forms and exposes objects in space.

With JJ, the artist presents his newest work group at OSLO10. The exhibition title derives from a hammer stamped with the artist’s initials, which he received from his father when he commenced his studies of fine art. Taken aback by a series of personal connections related to this tool that he has used over the years, Jacobs began wielding the hammer on a series of steel and aluminum pipes. The continuous rhythmic blows that create indentations on the pipes are what determine the formation process, which the sculptor controls only as long as he can withstand the density of the material. The mutation of the pipes presents a transformed expression of physical force, examining the material’s inherent potential. The near-extreme restraint Jacobs uses in their formation is carried over into the presentation of the metal pipes. He lets them reach vertically while mounted on flat bases of partly painted wood that seem hardly to have been processed. A tension builds between the sculptures as absolute restraint meets a visibly intentional discharge of energy, force and movement.

In addition to the five steel sculptures, Jacobs presents a modular structure made of poured concrete
blocks. For the exhibition Neue Heimat at Berlinische Galerie (2007) the artist created a wall within the space from concrete blocks. While the blocks are shaped like industrially produced concrete blocks, they are cast by hand. Jacobs again subverts the clear, straight form of the wall by intentionally allowing the inconsistencies and mistakes that occur during manual concrete casting. At OSLO10 he layers the blocks into cubes, offering a counterpoint in their closed form to the seemingly light, bent steel pipes, and thus achieving an impressive juxtaposition of his materials and the possible ways in which they may be processed.

Jeroen Jacobs (*1968, the Netherlands) lives and works in Berlin. The work cycle JJ was presented in January 2012 at Galerie Sommer & Kohl, Berlin. In recent years his works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions, including at Berlinische Galerie, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien, Autocenter and NGBK in Berlin, as well as at Cacaofabriek in Helmond (NL). In Switzerland, Jacobs has been a part of group exhibitions at Projektraum exex, St.Gallen (2007), Galerie Arndt & Partner, Zurich (2006) and Kunsthalle Liestal (2001). OSLO10 presents the artist’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland.





































Photos: Serge Hasenböhler



In her artistic work Nuri Koerfer pursues an ongoing interest in objects and forms and how they can present anthropomorphic movements. Her sculptures, drawings and collages derive from transformations of everyday structures that she transposes into her own visual language. Using the medium of collage, Koerfer often creates new combinations of everyday objects and furniture that reflect a delicate balance between a still recognizable function and free artistic form. Central elements of her sculptures include plinths, frames and shelves, through which she reflects the purposes and perspectives of displays and exhibition furniture. The artist combines these static presentation models with objects of fragile and instable materials such as paper maché, paraffin, wax, cardboard or masking tape, which then refer to real as well as fictitious motifs. In sculptures such as Untitled (Verfaulter Berg I - II) (2008) or Untitled (Der Gipfel) (2010), Koerfer presents on chair-like plinths objects that resemble amorphously shaped mountains. With humor approaching the surreal as well as the melancholic, the formations depict the decomposition of the stable rock or stone. Koerfer scrutinizes how process-oriented gestures and physical actions manifest themselves as traces or imprints in the medium of sculpture. Her works oscillate between utilitarian potential and an intentionally staged dysfunctionality reflecting society and its treatment of everyday objects and consumer goods.

In the current installation hold down, Nuri Koerfer presents four wooden sculptures with a collage series in a site-specific arrangement at OSLO10. The multi-part sculptures About Cool 1 - 4 are furniture-like instruments evoking support structures for poses exemplifying coolness. For the project, the artist researched gestures and poses related to the notion of ‘coolness’, which was popularized in the 1920s in New York in the context of the African American jazz scene. Since then, the term has been taken up by youth culture and vernacular to express a skeptical as well as rebellious attitude.
Koerfer’s sculptures reflect physical poses of nonchalance and countenance that bear at the same time an element of self-defense and insecurity. The wooden structures display performative movement that is absent, but yet remaining preserved in their spatial displayed coordinates.

In Hold Down The Starring Sticks, a series of inkjet prints, the artist presents montages of film stills and photographs of pop culture idols from music and film such as David Bowie, Yves Saint Laurent, Jane Birkin and Glenn Gould. In search of a sense of “romantic coolness,” Koerfer focuses on their individual gestures, which she extracts and presents as reduced silhouettes. The collages have as their background an image of a recycling rubber mat that has been scanned, enlarged and printed on aluminum. The pixelated pattern is echoed in the identical material upon which the wooden sculptures are mounted. The artist thus brings together the individual elements of the spatial setting into an ensemble uniting form and content, reflecting concentrated observations of interpersonal nonverbal communication.

Nuri Koerfer (*1981, Switzerland, lives in Berlin and Zurich) studied art from 2001 to 2004 at Byam Shaw School of Fine Art in London. For six months in 2008 she worked in Kunming, China in conjunction with an artist grant from Helmhaus Zurich. From January to March 2011 she took part in the Mountain School of Art in Los Angeles. She presented her works in exhibitions e.g. 2007 in Nuri Koerfer / Sandy Kozjek at Freymond-Guth, Zurich; 2008 in the group exhibition Walking on Thin Ice, Artnews Projects, Berlin; 2009 in Auction 2009 at the Swiss Institute, New York; 2011 in the groupexhibition Search & Destroy, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin and Hidden-Parts at After the Butcher, Berlin; and in 2011 in the solo exhibition hold down at Galerie Loock, Berlin.











































Photos: Serge Hasenböhler



Opening hours of the exhibition until 29.04.2012:
THU – SAT, 2 – 6pm
Closed: 06.04.2012 - 11.04.2012





























































































































































Donnerstag, 2. Februar 2012

OSLO10 Finissage HOTAVANTGARDEHOTHOT


Finissage HOTAVANTGARDEHOTHOT
With “Things that leave me sleepless”, a lecture performance by Gernot Wieland
in English at 4.30pm & Bar!

Sunday, 26 February, 2012, 4 - 7pm


In his works, Gernot Wieland (b. 1968 in Horn, Austria; lives in Berlin) creates through memories and fiction his own kind of “scientific” approach. As an important aspect of his working practice, his lectures bring together historical reports, personal recollections and scientific data and thereby develop stories between exciting sobriety and tragic-comical incidents. Based on the leading question of the group show HOTAVANTGARDEHOTHOT about avant-garde(s) today, the artist has written a special lecture performance, in which he combines plotlines about the desire of a restart as well as the relevance of heroes.

Opening hours of the exhibition until 26.02.2012:
THU – SAT, 2 – 6pm





















































Photos: Em Yamaguchi

Dienstag, 24. Januar 2012

OSLO10 TALK


Artist Aleksandra Domanovic and curator Carson Chan talk about Domanovic’s work, about their collaboration for the 4th Marrakech Biennale 2012 as well as about the connections between former Yugoslavia and Morroco.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 7pm


Freitag, 25. November 2011

OSLO10 presents

HOTAVANTGARDEHOTHOT
Agnieszka Brzezanska, Aleksandra Domanovic, Karl Holmqvist, Reto Pulfer, Adriana Salazar Arroyo, Gernot Wieland, Amelie von Wulffen

November 25, 2011 to February 26, 2012






















Opening: November 24, 2011, 7pm
With a lecture/performance “Things that leave me sleepless” by Gernot Wieland at 8 pm.
The lecture/performance will be repeated in English at the exhibition closing on February 26, 2012 at 4 pm.

Opening hours:
Thursday to Saturday, 2 – 6 pm



The current group exhibition signals the start of the second phase of the OSLO10 program. Following temporary, one-off events held inside and outside of the exhibition space, a series of solo and group exhibitions will take place from November 2011 until October 2012. The exhibition HOTAVANTGARDEHOTHOT bears the same title as that describing the two-year-long program of OSLO10.

The group show addresses the linguistic and social attributes of the avant-garde and its significance today. In the history of the visual arts, the avant-garde refers to the artistic movements that occurred at the start of the 20th century, and is inseparable from the discourse on modernity. Since the end of the 20th century, the term “avant-garde” has become especially fashionable within the culture industry: it is often used in describing new brands or certain lifestyles. Has the movement of art going forward, in search of new territories, become obsolete, and/or has its vanguard gone elsewhere today?

In contemporary artistic production, the notion of the avant-garde appears most prominently in critical or ironic observations and references. What unites the artists represented in this exhibition is their non-hierarchical treatment of available cultural material. They appropriate it by repeating pre-existing works (Karl Holmqvist, Reto Pulfer), shift its perception through radical fragmentation (Agnieska Brzezanska, Adriana Salazar Arroyo) and alter its meaning by changing its format. They use the aesthetics and techniques of arts and crafts, scientific exposition and applied art and question the value and relevance of the artwork today (Karl Holmqvist, Gernot Wieland, Amelie von Wulffen). The old avant-garde utopias no longer seem appropriate for the times – the wish for change and the attack on existing norms, however, has not yet been lost. Hence the monuments appear in several works, as symbols of established and rigid dogmas – as fragments of a failed ideology in the work of Adriana Salazar Arroyo, and as the means of creating a new identity and a new historical awareness in the works of Aleksandra Dominic and Gernot Wieland.

Today, the realization and implementation of forward movements have become subtler and the abandonment of what has become a historical concept of the “avant-garde” reflects a democratization of the art system. Contemporary artists now have numerous channels of distribution and communication at their disposal and the access to art and its comprehension is no longer limited to a small few. Thus artists such as Aleksandra Domanovic reflect the distribution and production possibilities of the electronic media and use it systematically for their own works. In this sense, the exhibition HOTAVANTGARDEHOTHOT reflects on the intermediate state both for and against the avant-garde(s) and presents individual reflections on its accomplishments, its influence as well as its failure.

































































Photos: Serge Hasenböhler





























































































































































Photos: Em Yamaguchi