Group show: Robert B. Lisek, Jarek Potok, Mirek Chudy, Wojtek Ulrich, Dellfina Dellert, Karolina Kotnour, Dominik Podsiadly, Pawel Mikulowski.
Curator: Barbora Ticha and PLH
Supported by the Czech National Heritage Institute and Karlovarský kraj.
2021.07.15 - "Obsessions", Tete Gallery, PEP, Berlin
In their creative practice, many artists gravitate towards certain ideas that are intruding on their mind and to which they keep on returning over and over again - some forms of obsessions that drive them to create. The extraordinary perseverance and the willingness to take risks that arise from them are often the driving force that feeds artists’ productivity, allowing them to grow in their practice and deliver exceptional outcomes while expanding their singular universe.
For this new exhibition, PEP invited artists to show how their photographic practice can express this notion of ‘obsession‘ - an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person's mind. Where is the line between returning to a theme or a concept over and over again and an obsessive behavior? Do artists nurture a pathological obsession with their creations, or is it on the contrary the necessary force that will help them persevering despite all the obstacles they will encounter along the way, allowing them to reach a certain form of greatness? Which kind of ideas or themes keep coming up in their work?
These questions have been explored in many different ways by artists who responded to PEP's open call. This exhibition will present their respective visions on the topic.
Selected artists:
Kristina Borinskaya, Giada Cicchetti, Stefano Conti, Nicolas Polli, Allison DeBritz, Harry Flook, Bart Walraeve, Juan Giraldo, Chloé Azzopardi, Anna Haillot, Dafni Melidou, Makis Makris, Jeremy Knowles, Martyna Benedyka, Federico Monty Kaplan, Magda Pacek, Dellfina Dellert and Luka Lukasiak, Yanova Ekaterina, Philip Welding, Katerina Tsakiri.
2021.06.01 – 2021.09.30, "Art of Forgiveness", Labirynt Gallery, Lublin
Od myśli do czynu. Uzdrawiający neon Dellfiny Dellert
„Sztuka wybaczania” Dellfiny Dellert stanowi apel o pojednanie i uleczenie międzyludzkich relacji. Słowa „przepraszam”, „wybacz mi”, „dziękuję”, „kocham cię” są nawiązaniem do polinezyjskiego rytuału Ho’oponopono, co można przetłumaczyć jako naprawianie, oczyszczanie czy przywrócenie do najlepszego stanu.
Każde ze słów obecnych w pracy niesie określony ciężar. Osoba, która przeprasza bierze odpowiedzialność za swoje czyny. Prośba o wybaczenie wiąże się z wyjściem poza obszar własnego ego. „Dziękuję” zmienia perspektywę skupiania się na brakach i niedostatkach naszego życia na wdzięczność za to, co zostało dane. Miłość to bezwarunkowe uczucie dla bliskich, innych ludzi, natury, całego świata. Cztery słowa-zdania zawierają moc pradawnej ceremonii, która pozwalała nie tylko rozwiązywać spory, ale i wyzwalała pozytywną energię, która pozwalała społeczności harmonijnie funkcjonować.
Sięgając po tę mantrę, Dellfina Dellert pragnie zapoczątkować proces symbolicznego uzdrawiania, wykorzystując potęgę ludzkiej myśli, która warunkuje nasze patrzenie na świat, a w dalszej kolejności postępowanie. Praca stanowi odpowiedź na pogłębiające się społeczne podziały i wciąż podsycaną nienawiść. Artystka się nie łudzi, ale ma nadzieję: Z jednej strony działania artystyczne nie zbawią świata, z drugiej, ponieważ nasz umysł przyjmuje symboliczne akty jako fakty, nie można nie doceniać mocy symboli. Ta modlitwa-mantra to piękne i silne lekarstwo na mowę nienawiści i przemoc – podkreśla.
2020.12.28-2021.03.28, Body. Round Lemon, London, UK
BODY
Round Lemon would like to introduce you to ZEST Hall’s current exhibition: “BODY”, a powerful thought-provoking show exploring the human form through a selection of works involving 39 artists from all around the world. BODY digs deeper into the investigation of sexuality, gender, identity, objectification, abjection, nature, body art, and traditions - the body as material.
https://www.roundlemon.co.uk/zest/the-art-of-dellfina-dellert
2020.10 - 2021.03 "Our own room", feminist international art project curated by Inés R. Artola
“I would like to dedicate this project to all the women who have disappeared or been mistreated during this period of confinement, precisely because they do not have their own room.” Inés R. Artola
Based on the words of Virginia Woolf in A Room of My Own, I would like to propose a project that will be developed, in a first stage, in a completely virtual way and that will go viral in a period of six months and, in a second stage, that will crystallize in a real exhibition.
Virginia Woolf gave these lectures in 1928 at two women's universities in Cambridge in which her basic thesis is something as simple as it is difficult to achieve even today: a woman, in order to become a writer, needs her own room, that is, to be economically independent. Here, and from today, we want to widen the spectrum, first of all, to women artists from different disciplines, and also leave a space for anonymous women (or with their own name, if they wish) who reflect on the importance and need to be independent. (…)
My aim is to invite women artists (here I am referring to the feeling of being a woman, not to the sex one is born with) to take Woolf's words as a starting point, to reflect on them and then show their work from their own rooms, in the format they choose and in total freedom. I want to support them and make them known in the different geographies in which I have moved, and I also want their networks to expand the group and involve more and more people in the project, regardless of the country they are in.
A simple action that will use social networks (FaceBook and Instagram) but with a constant drip programme, which aims to become a viral phenomenon.