Tag: Heidelberger Kunstverein
Antje Schiffers
Antje Schiffers collects the material for her projects in foreign environments and countries: by drawing flowers in Mexico, painting farms in Russia and Kyrgyzstan or as a commissioned artist in German corporations. The encounters, gifts and stories that Schiffers receives in exchange for her paintings and drawings form a body of work that juggles with the perception and reactions of different groups of people.
In the exhibition in Heidelberger Kunstverein, Schiffers has not concentrated on the documentation of a specific journey. Taking a conversation with the director of the Heidelberg based collection for Outsider Art the Sammlung Prinzhorn as a starting point, she leaves her position as an observing traveller. Instead she rather questions her own role as a visual artist. The selection of works in the exhibition allow the visitor to learn something about the artist Antje Schiffers through the round-about way of the gaze of others.
Following the opening, at 8 pm, actors from the Heidelberg theatre will read the one-act play “Die Führung” (The guided tour) by Antje Schiffers and Thomas Sprenger. In the play, managers and chairmen of German middle-sized companies exchange experiences of their daily work routine.
ARMIN LINKE
The images in Armin Linke’s solo exhibition at the Heidelberger Kunstverein stem from such widespread places like Algeria, South Korea, Brazil, Uzbekistan, Italy, Mexico and Switzerland. In the main space of the Kunstverein the exhibition presents select images from the astounding photographic archive, that includes more than 100.000 images. From 1999 and onwards the archive has documented the globalized world with images from Pjöngjang to Genova, all composed in the same unagitated but precise and understated manner.
Alongside the framed prints a digital version of the entire archive, which is designed by Alex Rich and Peter Hanappe will be on display. With a recently completed software the viewer can select images for an individual print-on-demand book. Armin Linke was born in Milano, lives in Berlin, teaches in Karlsruhe and exhibits worldwide.