Gallery 2008
Visitors to the kunst:raum sylt quelle will find a new sculpture near the Rantum Becken: the Sylt Basket by the artist duo Winter/Hörbelt. This is more than a new piece of art. It is a whole new place, a whole new way of seeing – and of viewing the nature reserve around the lake. Sylt Basket is remarkably present; it is solid and heavy. At the same time it is delicate, lacy, strangely ephemeral. It is as pragmatic as it is poetic.
Sylt Basket will be open to the public as of march 15th, an important part of the Exhibition “home bound", in which 15 artists look at the concept of house as refuge from an the essentially nomadic state which is human existence. Home: the crystallization of our being. A place to hide from a noisy world but equally a place of horror. Is there not a very thin line between comfort and confinement, between privacy and peril? What happens to someone who has no home?
The exhibition of the South African photographer Jürgen Schadeberg also looks at the question of being at home or being lost in post modern society. Schadeberg, who is a keen observer and sensitive portraitist, has recorded life and people in Johannesburg from the destruction of the multicultural heart of the city, Sophiatown, in the 50s, through white apartheid and the development of the city in the 90s into the African Boomtown it is today. Schadeburg’s pictures are powerful narrations of life itself. The Schadeberg Retrospective „Egoli – Tales from the City of Gold" is part of the Foundation’s South African Programme which has been running for several years. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of film and literature events.
2008 will see also the beginning of a new series of exhibitions: “werk:schau im kunst:raum". Here artists will present their ideas of the site and the island in specific dialog with the kunst:raum space. The first of these exhibitions will be in the Autumn with two artists, Ka Bomhardt und Oliver Oefelein.
In November the author and visual artist Arne Rautenberg, a frequent visitor to the both the island and the Foundation, will curate a group show called Überweltigt – Eindrücke des fassungslosen (overwhelmed – the impressions of someone left speechless). Once again, the gallery and outside space will be seen in a completely different light.
1. November 2007 – 28. Februar 2008
Aus der Landschaft
Alfred Graf
28. Juni - 14. September 2008
Egoli - Tales from the City of Gold
Jürgen Schadeberg
15. März - 15. Juni 2008
home bound
von der (Un)Behaustheit menschlichen Lebens
21. September - 20. November 2008
Schaum und Schein
werk:schau im kunst:raum
Ka Bomhardt und Oliver Oefelein
5. Dezember – 28. Februar 2009
ÜBERWELTIGT –
Eindrücke des Fassungslosen
Elsbeth Arlt, Karl Fritsch, René J Goffin, Olrik Kohlhoff, Matthias Langer, Johanna Ludwig, Matthias Meyer, Volker Tiemann
