Susann Maria Hempel
& Stefan Jeep
9 – 23 October 2014
Video
artists Susann Maria Hempel and Stefan Jeep present their works at the ARTos
Foundation and the Goethe-Institut Nicosia, Cyprus. For this exhibition they
developed new works each which are displayed together with already existing art
works.
At the
ARTos Foundation Susann Maria Hempel shows her most recent film while Stefan
Jeep installs a site specific intervention. Both works have been directly
influenced by their experiences in Cyprus during a stay in June 2014. Having
found many absurd aspects of the island that not only match with an absurd
general touch in their art works and art practice but also with the Bremen
background they are coming from, a dominant influence of their perception of
Cyprus has been absurdity which in many ways is a focus of their new works.
For the
Goethe-Institut the artists and curator Ingmar Lähnemann chose four works that
seem to deal explicitly with the strange situation of the building being
located in the buffer zone, although all four works have been developed before
the artists came to Cyprus. Two films by Susann Maria Hempel take place in
settings of deterioration and decay and create an emotional ambience of
displacement, vanitas and loss. Stefan Jeep reflects on militarian structures,
sensations and operations via objects that viewers can use and via a video.
The Absurd
as it was perceived to be a paradigm of Cyprus – and as it could be named a
paradigm of Bremen, too – runs through all exhibited art works and gives the
disparate media art projects of both artists a common ground that much
resembles the experiences
they gained
in Cyprus together.
ARTos Foundation, Nicosia
Goethe-Institut Nicosia
21, Markos
Drakos Avenue CY 1102 Nicosia
Tel: 22674608
Organized
by Ursula van den Busch, Kunst Satellit Projektbüro, Künstlerhaus Bremen
Curated
by Ingmar Lähnemann
Opening Night: Thursday, 9th October 2014 at 8.p.m,
at ARTos Foundation
(in the presence of the artists)
Opening Hours:
ARTos Foundation: 9 – 23 October 2014
Monday – Friday 3.p.m –
7.p.m
Goethe-Institute gallery: 10 – 23 October 2014
Monday – Friday 12.a.m – 6.p.m
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