Felix Contzen
Felix Contzen
ANDREAE CLEMENT PARROTTA | Gallery Weekend Bonn
July 11–13: Bonn-based galleries Judith Andreae, Gisela Clement and Parrotta Contemporary Art welcome you to a joint gallery weekend. The kick-off for this annual event will take place thisJuly at the Parrotta Contemporary Art gallery at Burg Lede. The focus is on the current exhibition ‘Looking for a Place to Hide. Nature as a Refuge?’, which is on display in the salon and park of Burg Lede. It is complemented by curatorial impulses and artistic contributions from the programmes of the Judith Andreae and Gisela Clement galleries. For one weekend, a dialogue with and about art will take place. As individual as the galleries' orientations are, this weekend they will celebrate their common ground in dealing with current topics in contemporary art by opening their spaces, networking and at the same time sending a strong signal about the cultural significance and social contribution of their work in Bonn.
Friday, 11 July
Opening at 6 p.m. with the ‘Hideaway’ cocktail
Guided tours at 7 and 8 p.m.
Saturday, 12 July
3-9 p.m.
Guided tours at 4, 6 and 8 p.m.
Sunday, 13 July
11 a.m.-6 p.m., parallel to the "Tag der offenen Gartenpforte"
featured artists (a.o.):
Blockadia*Tiefsee
Anna & Bernhard Blume
Johannes Brus
Felix Contzen
Martin Feipel & Jean Bechameil
Esra Gülmen
Martin Pfeifle
Ulrike Rosenbach
An der Burg Lede 1, 533225
FELIX CONTZEN, ACHIM MOHNÉ & FRANCIS ZEISCHEGG | Kunstmuseum Ahlen
What about the limits and reliability of our perception in an increasingly computer-generated and AI-influenced visual world? Processes of merging digital media with reality lead to hybrid forms of appearance, located between reality and virtuality. The information and truth content of images therefore appears more problematic than ever. Can we still trust images, can we still trust our own perception? Artists explore this development, provoke an examination of certainties that have become problematic in the realm of images and challenge us to a ‘reality check’. Paintings, drawings, photographs and spatial installations show labyrinthine pictorial spaces, fascinating surfaces and surreal events. Are things as they seem? Art becomes a training ground for critical seeing; the exhibition invites visitors to reflect on differentiated realities and limited truths.
Opening October 12, 6-9 pm, Exhibition duration: 13.10.2024 - 26.01.2024
Vita
Studies at the Academy for Media Arts Cologne, Germany
Professors Jürgen Klauke (pre-degree), Boris Becker,
Peter Bexte, Beate Gütschow, Anthony Moore und Tobias Zielony
Diploma, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Prof. Beate Gütschow
visiting student, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Prof. Marcel Odenbach