Calendar
Calendar
The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Gill Gatfield, Alter Ego
Foyer Gallery - Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany
27 November 2021 —
31 March 2022
On the occasion of her first solo presentation in Berlin, Alter Ego, Aotearoa New Zealand born artist Gill Gatfield conceived a project in two chapters – a large scale crystal-glass sculpture and a public space virtual reality installation – which talk and expand towards the human being.
Renowned for her minimal, conceptual and abstract sculptures, and for her inclusive public monuments, Gatfield’s project relates to the public, the architecture, structures and infrastructures of the city, the area of Berlin Mitte and the L40 building, home of the Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz.
On the occasion of her first solo presentation in Berlin, Alter Ego, Aotearoa New Zealand born artist Gill Gatfield conceived a project in two chapters – a large scale crystal-glass sculpture and a public space virtual reality installation – which talk and expand towards the human being.
Renowned for her minimal, conceptual and abstract sculptures, and for her inclusive public monuments, Gatfield’s project relates to the public, the architecture, structures and infrastructures of the city, the area of Berlin Mitte and the L40 building, home of the Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz.
Annea Lockwood at the Heroines of Sound Festival
Berlin, Germany
8.00PM — 10.00PM
03 July 2021
Since 2014, Heroines of Sound Festival has been presenting early and current hero*ines of electronic sound exploring uncharted musical territory and making important contributions to current aesthetic discourses. The Festival showcases a broad spectrum of artists and represents not only a wide array of aesthetics, but encourage the audience to re-think current sound practices and investigate new forms of dialogue.
The 2021 edition places an emphasis on sound art and highlights the widely influential electronic pioneer Annea Lockwood, featuring her works Streaming, Swirling, Converging (2017), Buoyant (2013), Dusk (2012) and For Ruth (2021).
Since 2014, Heroines of Sound Festival has been presenting early and current hero*ines of electronic sound exploring uncharted musical territory and making important contributions to current aesthetic discourses. The Festival showcases a broad spectrum of artists and represents not only a wide array of aesthetics, but encourage the audience to re-think current sound practices and investigate new forms of dialogue.
The 2021 edition places an emphasis on sound art and highlights the widely influential electronic pioneer Annea Lockwood, featuring her works Streaming, Swirling, Converging (2017), Buoyant (2013), Dusk (2012) and For Ruth (2021).
Michael Stevenson, Disproof Does Not Equal Disbelief
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
03 July —
19 September 2021
The exhibition Disproof Does Not Equal Disbelief by Berlin-based artist Michael Stevenson (born in 1964, NZ) presents an unconventional invocation of his practice over the past 35 years. Since the 1980s Stevenson has developed an artistic language that operates at the juncture of economy, technology, education, and faith, exploring the infrastructural systems that condition these disciplines and their entanglement. The exhibition marks Stevenson’s first institutional solo presentation in Berlin and presents a focused revision of his work, in which early paintings are brought into dialogue with more recent expansive installation.
Fragmentation becomes the default mode to display older bodies of work akin to the boneyards of industry. Navigation in these galleries is through analogy—that of a great fish or a whale’s digestive tract. In this way, architecture becomes anatomy and, by extension, the contents therein, on the floor, on the wall, studies in its entrails. With this exhibition, Stevenson provides insights from the belly of our constructed world to raise awareness that disproving rational theories does not automatically and irrevocably equal disbelief.
The exhibition Disproof Does Not Equal Disbelief by Berlin-based artist Michael Stevenson (born in 1964, NZ) presents an unconventional invocation of his practice over the past 35 years. Since the 1980s Stevenson has developed an artistic language that operates at the juncture of economy, technology, education, and faith, exploring the infrastructural systems that condition these disciplines and their entanglement. The exhibition marks Stevenson’s first institutional solo presentation in Berlin and presents a focused revision of his work, in which early paintings are brought into dialogue with more recent expansive installation.
Fragmentation becomes the default mode to display older bodies of work akin to the boneyards of industry. Navigation in these galleries is through analogy—that of a great fish or a whale’s digestive tract. In this way, architecture becomes anatomy and, by extension, the contents therein, on the floor, on the wall, studies in its entrails. With this exhibition, Stevenson provides insights from the belly of our constructed world to raise awareness that disproving rational theories does not automatically and irrevocably equal disbelief.