Lumen Travo Gallery

Yvonne Dröge Wendel: Furniture for a Think Tank

Lauren — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:32:59 +0000

Things have been a source of inspiration for scientists, designers and artists for centuries. Where others try to find answers, Dröge Wendel is engaged in making her questions tangible as well as personal, and her intention is to allow for open-ended results. She sets up experimental encounters and questions what it is that objects can actually do.

In her solo show at Lumen Travo gallery Yvonne Dröge Wendel presents an object with humans inside and a soft floor to walk on. Furthermore there are seventeen cardboard objects that teeter on the edge of being nothing. These objects have just enough qualities to be seen as something. They are neutral, ambiguous, or in her words: challenging constellations of restrictions.

These forms are strewn about, ready to be picked up, in what seems to be a purposeful space. Within the same space there are other objects that do not want to be misunderstood and their intentions are obvious: a table, some chairs, plates, glasses, olive oil inside a bottle, oil inside a canister and oil inside of a human body.

Monali meher ~MEAT MARKETS AND SPIRIT HOUSES~

Lauren — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:29:53 +0000

For her solo show, “Meat markets and Spirit houses,” Monali Meher presents a sensitive and contemplative blend of video and mixed media works. She combines experiences and emotions, old and new in order to give the viewer a sense of what it means to be familiar but at the same time distant. She renders the collected materials and reshapes the memory from residencies in Karachi, Pakistan and in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Throughout the collection of works, Meher observes, assimilates and reflects in order to identify with her new surroundings as an Indian artist based in Europe, yet very much present in Chiang Mai or Karachi.

Performative and ritualistic moments in the markets, houses, open spaces, nature and cultures become mystical encounters perceived from vivid perspective.

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CLÁUDIA CRISTÓVÃO: LESS THAN A THOUSAND WORDS

Lauren — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:17:39 +0000

Lumen Travo gallery is proud to present Cristóvão’s solo photography installation. When she was asked to examine and restore damaged photographs rescued from the 2011 tsunami in Japan, Cristóvão uncovered much more than personal leftovers.

Cristóvão pieced together a new archive. She collected photographs which were officially discarded because of extensive damage, and then re-photographed these “trashed” photographs in order to create new images. Images contain all the ragged layers of colour, plus the sand and the sea salt that will eventually make them perish.

The new images contain a physical damage parallel to that of the lives they belonged to. The memories they contained disappear or morph into other meanings.

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JENS PFEIFER: “ALL THAT GLITTERS…”

Lauren — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:24:49 +0000

OPENING: 19.01.13, 17:00 – 19:00

Not everything that glitters is gold. Not everything we perceive as precious or true fulfills the promise of its appearance. In a series of work-sets, Jens Pfeifer explores the deceiving shine of objects, materials, substances and beliefs.

Pfeifer refuses to take established value judgments for granted. Through the prism of his glass works he reacts to 17th century “Golden Age” still life paintings. Continuing his series of “Icon” drawings, using Redouté’s botanical drawings as reference, he tests the visual boundaries of his established body of work. Pfeifer re-frames a collection of psychoactive or hallucinatory plants. He resurrects them in a golden, glorious shine, as attractive as they are misleading.

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Meschac Gaba: Lac de Sagesse – Wisdom Lake

Lauren — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 18:46:42 +0000

“Lac de Sagesse – Wisdom Lake” is a work about memory, history and recognition. Gaba presents an installation of 12 aquariums, with a mirror base, in which 12 brains are placed, representing 12 great people who have made an impression on his life in a humanist, cultural, scientific, philosophical, social, religious and political way.

29th November until 12th January 2012

This exhibition takes place within the Amsterdam Art Weekend, Capital A initiative

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Kristiina Koskentola: ONE HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND

Lauren — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:24:56 +0000

For her first solo show in Lumen Travo Kristiina Koskentola presents a multisensory mixed media installation, ONE HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND (2011 – 2012). Her works relate to graveyards in marginalized spaces of globalization in demolished or due for demolition suburban villages of Beijing. The installation embodies the complexity and dynamic conditions and situations of past, present, future and beyond, as well as the metaphorical possibilities of rituals, phenomena and beliefs related to burials and cremations in contemporary China.
Their (im)materiality as transformative potentials and as alternative rituals in order to produce new frames of reference.

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FRANK BRAGIGAND: IT’s time for politic

Lauren — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:32:45 +0000

“It’s time for politic” was George W. Bush’s reply during an awkward moment during a press conference in 2006.

“We will all go to this new world order, with or without your approval” said Sarkozy without the permission of the French people.

“Fascism starts with corporations”, Mussolini once said.

Artist Franck Bragigand tackles superficial political statements, excuses and rhetoric. From the 8th of September until the 13th of October 2012, Bragigand transforms Lumen Travo gallery into a dark and apocalyptic collection of crafted objects and subversion.

FULL PRESS RELEASE

MARCH – APRIL 2013

Lauren — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 15:39:01 +0000

ZARINA BHIMJI

05.02.12 – 31.03.12
Film: Waiting (2007)
De Appel, Amsterdam
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ANDREA BLUM

29.09.12 – 07.04.13
“SOCIAL STUDIES”
La Conservera
Centro de Arte Contemperaneo
Murcia, Spain
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KATHE BURKHART

10.05.13 – 21.06.13
Nudes
Solo show curated by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz
Osmos Address Gallery, New York

13.06.13 – 20.07.13
‘The Cat Show’, White Columns, NYC.
Featuring ‘The Cats-in-Residence Program’
June 14/15/16 and July 19/20.

14.02.13 – 26.05.13
NYC 1993
Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star
The New Museum, New York
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CLAUDIA CRISTOVãO

13.12.12 – 14.04.13
Imagined Places (Group show)
Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
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OTOBONG NKANGA

Opening 13.03.13 – 13.05.13
Sharjah Biennial

OTOBONG NKANGA &
YVONNE DROGE WENDEL

15.03.13 until 01.09.13
‘Yes Naturally, how art will save the world’.
The GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art
and the Niet Normaal Foundation
The Hague
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MONALI MEHER

08.06.13 – 18.08.13
icastica
1st Arezzo Art Biennial, 2013 project: glocal women
Arezzo, Italy
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STEPHEN WILLATS

27.04.13 – 16.06. 13
Conscious Unconscious
In and Out the Reality Check
Modern Art Oxford

From 05.04.13
Vertical Club
Group exhibition curated by Will Benedict ,
Bortolami Gallery , New York
27.04.13 – 30.06.13
On the Move
European Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria 

27.03.13- 18.05.13
Keywords
Group Exhibition curated by Grant Watson
and Gavin Delahunty 
Iniva  Rivington Place, London

OTOBONG NKANGA: However long the night, the dawn will break

Lauren — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:22:01 +0000

For her solo show at Lumen Travo gallery, Otobong Nkanga proposes a body of works linked with research and various projects done in 2011 and 2012.

In 2011 Nkanga started exploring ways of working with woven textile in combination with the techniques of drawing and photography.

“However long the night, the dawn will break” summarizes the state of creation, being in a space of struggles: at some point things start to make sense and finally one day everything falls in place, maybe not as you had planned it but obviously as it is supposed to be.

Nkanga uses various media such as drawing, sculptures, installations, performances and photography to process her research material and to combine this with autobiographical references in order to create a collage of fragmented narratives.

Stephen Willats: How the future looks from here

Lauren — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:34:28 +0000

Since the early 1960’s, the artist, Stephen Willats (UK), has been leading a critical examination of environments shaped by contemporary life and has initiated the representation of a social agenda in art practice. Willats is one of the forerunners of conceptual art in Europe, embracing cybernetics, computer technology, semiotics and behavioural and social psychology in the furtherance of the element of interactivity which continues to be one of the key drivers in his work. This has inspired Willats to take his art practice directly into a range of environments that represent universally familiar contemporary cultural icons such as the housing estate or the urban shopping street.

How the Future Looks From Here, was made with a young couple living in Brooklyn, New York, and articulates their insights into the conflicts between the intentions of new technologies and media in society, and the actual affects of people’s personal relations. The work is located and referenced to the couple’s home and expresses their questions about the world outside.