We would cordially like to invite you to participate in an Open Forum at the Museum Ovartaci on
14th of March, 4 - 6 pm,
at the lounge area in the current special exhibition of Kathrine Ærtebjerg.
The two artists Lena Mai Merle, Hanna Råst and Brian Benjamin Hansen, PhD in Philosophy, Senior associate professor at Center for Professional Studies, VIA University College, Aarhus/DK together with Georg Schwarz, developer at Museum Ovartaci, welcome you to a conversation about art, trauma and mental health, responsibilities of institutions and society, as well as subjectivity, roles, names, artist and fools. This forum is inspired by Ovartacis experience and his beautiful hay machines.
Lena Mai Merle (NZ/D) is an intermedial artist working with painting and performance. Currently a Maltair resident at the Maltfabrikken/Ebeltoft, she is researching the depiction of a falling-out-of-character and Verrücktheit. As part of that journey, she conceptualizes different forms of experimental open forums.
Hanna Råst from Finland is a Helsinki-based visual artist working on lens-based media, installations and text. The main themes of her artistic practice and interest are memory and trauma. Currently, she is doing an artistic research at Maltfabrikken/Ebeltoft residency for her upcoming works. She was introduced to Ovartaci through Lena Mai Merle and immediately fell in love with the museum concept and story of Ovartaci.
After the talk the museum invites to a drink.
We are all looking forward to seeing you!!!
Olof-Palmes-Allé 11
8200 Aarhus N
STAMMTISCH FLUTWELLE
lädt herzlich ein:
„Bitte dreht mich jetzt um, auf dieser Seite bin ich schon gar!“
09.12.2022
Inszenierung 18-22 Uhr
Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 191
Wuppertal
Anton Josef Stammsen @dermoorech
Jonathan Ungemach @j.ungemach
Lena Mai Merle @lenormai
Lieben Dank an #bergischerkulturfonds
THE HOUSE THAT MUM BUILT
10.09.22 - 17.09.22
a project by Daniel Hopp, Lena Mai Merle & Alex Winterstein
‘The House that Mum Built’ took place in September 2022, spanning lectures, performances, concerts and screenings, allsituated in the house that mum left, not vacant, now adorned with artworks: filling the walls, spanning the living room, nestling amongst plants, shining out from closets and the attic. Over 70 artists convened to rid the house of its ghost: the project may have been spurred on by her departure, but Mother lingers on. Many passed through, often staying camped amongst the artworks, overstaying but not unwelcome.
Despite this ‘The House that Mum Built’ isn’t exclusively about an individual, it also concerns Mother as a concept. Blurred binaries are present throughout: artist and curator; private and public; exhibition and artwork. The project exists within the equilibrium of these, a pliant starting point upon which to build a contradiction of curatorial seriousness and celebratory party, an architecture within itself. It aims not towards a concrete moment but a constant reformulation. Things move, are grown out of and redone; wrong turns and interjections are embraced in the shared experience.
Mother becomes an abstract for the organisers and participants they embody. It is not only about the support that is provided but also space: A mother gives the child space and nutrients, but it is the child which then establishes itself, at once tethered to and independent of Mother. It’s life will oscillate between the formation and dissolution of identity within both the representation and performance of gender, ethnicity and class throughout all the houses it will visit.
In a project of such scope, one with no institutional involvement, there is constant freneticism and there can be no concrete plan, only an unconditional trust that Mother will deliver. She has to, she always does somehow.
- Adam Grainger
WITH
Veneta Androva Babeworld River Cao Keren Cytter Jesse May Fisher Adam Grainger (FORTH) Daniel Hopp Sarah Hablützel and Marko Mijatovic Aidan Jakfar Wednesday Kim Harold Offeh Patrick Panetta Sean Roy Parker Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel Coleman Stewart Alice Theobald Deividas Vytautas Twee Whistler Katharina Jabs Goscha Steinhauer Paola Estrella Chloe Langlois Qingqing Liu Imran Nafees Siddiqui Sophie Schweighart Raphael Sbrzesny Friederike Steinert Max Weisthoff Rieko Whitfield Rainer Ganahl Anna Gohmert Laal Hartaal Olga Hohmann Charlotte Klink Hannelore Paflik-Hubber Henning Lundkvist Marcus SteinwegAnnabelle Agbo Godeau Belia Brückner Amalie Gabel Johannes Herrmann Laura Franzmann Magdalena Los Lena Mai Merle Kevin Siwoff Clara Palmberger-Süße Henrik Potter Chloe Rose Purcell Leomi Sadler Øyvind Sørfjordmo Alex Winterstein Layan Hell Stanislav Iordanov Leonie Kellein Tammy Langhinrichs Jano Möckel Justin Piccirilli Andy Prepp Wieland Schönfelder Tim Skinner Esther Dow Ungemach Fritz Lehmann Joscha Blankenburg Serena Ferrario Ruudu Ulas Takeo Marquardt Tizian Baldinger Paul Voggenreiter
Text: Adam Grainger
Photos/Video: Goscha Steinhauer
Design: Paul Voggenreiter
Instagram: Patrick Fabian Panetta