EIGEN + ART Lab

Last week to come by and see the solo exhibition "Three Years Later He Was Still Dancing" by Nassim L’Ghoul @n_lghoul „(…)Nassim L’Ghoul combines 3D-modelled elements and elements found in databases to „re-create“ dreamed or remembered moments in the digital – giving them a new, ambiguous dynamic. The most recent work Teapots Waltz (2023) presents a dim flea market setting. Our gaze jumps between white sheets, undefined decorative objects and stacks of cutlery vying for our attention in the display. They look like leftover stock, the big rush already seems to be over. At the beginning of the 20th century, flea markets were already a popular place for surrealist artists to get hold of found objects – objets trouvés, charged with the lives, the touches of others, which, in part, after all could also have been and become their own touches, memories, dreams.(…)„ Excerpt from press release by Ellen Wagner @ellenmaria_w Exhibition views: @johannes410 @galerie_eigenart #eigenart_lab #nassimlghoul #berlin

Now exhibited at EIGEN + ART Lab: “Three Years Later He Was Still Dancing“ by Nassim L’Ghoul @n_lghoul. The show runs until 19.8. "Under a night-black sky, glistening streets – a chessboard illuminated by floodlights – flea market stalls in the pale reflection of an invisible light source: Nassim L’Ghoul’s works envelop us in the gentle, chilling waves of a 3D-modelled environment, charged by personal memories, yet completely stripped of its concrete colours and textures. We are theatrically directed through sections of surreal landscapes as if by a relentless spotlight. The bare surfaces brush against us. Their lack of haptics characterizes the atmosphere of a transitional zone of intersubjectively communicable and yet elusive experiences. The abstracted spaces open and close, thereby acting as their own counterparts.“ 

 Press release by Ellen Wagner: @ellenmaria_w Image 1: Nassim L’Ghoul Pig From Head To Toe, 2022 3D Animation, Ton: ungemach 2:25 min. Image 2: Nassim L’Ghoul Untitled VI, 2023 3D print 12,5 x 09,5 x 1 cm Exhibition views: @johannes410 @galerie_eigenart #eigenart_lab #nassimlghoul #berlin

Exhibition feature: Three Years Later He Was Still Dancing @n_lghoul Nassim L’Ghoul’s solo-exhibition @eigenart_lab is on view until August 19, 2023 and features a series of new 3D animation videos, prints and objects by the artist. Under a night-black sky, glistening streets – a chessboard illuminated by floodlights – flea market stalls in the pale reflection of an invisible light source: Nassim L’Ghoul’s works envelop us in the gentle, chilling waves of a 3D-modelled environment, charged by personal memories, yet completely stripped of its concrete colours and textures. We are theatrically directed through sections of surreal landscapes as if by a relentless spotlight. The bare surfaces brush against us. Their lack of haptics characterizes the atmosphere of a transitional zone of intersubjectively communicable and yet elusive experiences. The abstracted spaces open and close, thereby acting as their own counterparts. EIGEN+ART Lab Torstraße 220 10115 Berlin Tuesday ‐ Friday 2 pm ‐ 6 pm Saturday 11 am ‐ 6 pm Text by Ellen Wagner | Exhibition views by Johannes Kremer Art: © Nassim L'Ghoul, 2023 #pylon #pylonhub #exhibition #featured #nassimlghoul #eigenartlab #3d #3danimation #videoart #contemporaryart #exhibitionviews #animation #digitalart #berlinart

Nassim L’Ghoul Three Years Later He Was Still Dancing 21.7-19.8.2023 EIGEN + ART Lab @n_lghoul “Three Years Later He Was Still Dancing” is an exhibition of experimental arrangements: Among other things, we associate the color white with the atmosphere of clinically sterile rooms that are never as neutral and isolated as they appear at first glance. The "laboratory-like" situations into which L'Ghoul's video works throw us are also constructed down to the last detail; our gaze within them is predetermined and directed. The work softlinks, for example, was created on the basis of a ride simulator of the Frankfurt subway. The scene sucks us in, but then leaves us standing in the mere excerpt of a possible narrative. In all the works shown, we encounter means of transportation: a raft drifts by, a canoe, a bathtub that fulfills a similar function of transporting bodies and thoughts-but they remain strangely separate from us, moving alongside us while we ourselves are moved by the encircling zoom of the camera. L'Ghoul's videos do not offer a ride through immersively experienced stories. They thrust us into a space where animate and inanimate actors alike relate their movements to our passive being moved by the perspective provided by the artist and the technology.” Excerpt from the press release @ellenmaria_w Exhibition views: @johannes410 #eigenartlab #nassimlghoul

Final week to come by and see the solo exhibition "You will succeed where I have failed." by Alexander Klaubert @alexander.klaubert „(...) In close proximity stand objects that once held lights. Light boxes that no longer radiate, no longer advertise or announce anything; fissures appear in the surface and the exhibitors turn into the exhibited. Their erstwhile function shed, they move themselves into the center of attention, and a melancholy optimism spreads.(...)" Excerpt from press release by Julia Lübbecke @uli.ecke 
 Translation by Mitch Cohen Image 1: Alexander Klaubert Leuchtkasten, 2023 Stainless steel and safety glass 140 x 105 cm Image 2: 
 Alexander Klaubert Kokon I, 2023 Textiles, epoxy resin and stainless steel 221,5 x 41 x 84 cm Exhibition views by Peter Oliver Wolff @peteroliverwolff @galerie_eigenart #youwillsucceedwhereihavefailed. #eigenart_lab #alexanderklaubert #berlin

„Alexander Klaubert creates an echo from the painful past that we have an inkling of, based on our own very individual biographies. But with his displayed diverse forms of appropriation, a possible approach is transported and with it also a possibility, held in common, of healing. I know I’m not alone, because I’m going with, because I’m going with you.* *Excerpt from the Sound Art piece that accompanies the Performance.“ Excerpt from press release by Julia Lübbecke @uli.ecke Translation by Mitch Cohen Performance: Concept, dramaturgy: Alexander Klaubert @alexander.klaubert Performes: Carloline Beach @_beach_ball._, Francis Kussatz @franciskussatz , Yurika Yamamoto @yurikasyamamoto Music & Sound: Klaubert & Kussatz Sound Engineer: Maxim Schmidthals @maxim_noa @galerie_eigenart #youwillsucceedwhereihavefailed. #eigenart_lab #alexanderklaubert #berlin

Now on view at the EIGEN + ART Lab: the exhibition "You will succeed where I have failed." by Alexander Klaubert @alexander.klaubert "The starting point of the expansive installation You will succeed where I have failed. initially seems a dystopian one. A sick system that regenerates itself ad infinitum. No exit, no escape. Or is there a possibility to withdraw, to refuse this spiral?
 Alexander Klaubert translates these questions in his artistic work by dealing openly with his own grief, rage, and fragility and by taking us along and touching us, sometimes demandingly, sometimes reservedly. This becomes clear especially in the sensitively and precisely designed performances that are part of his spatial installations, which play an important role also in You will succeed where I have failed." Excerpt from press release by Julia Lübbecke @uli.ecke Translation by Mitch Cohen Exhibition views by Peter Oliver Wolff @peteroliverwolff @galerie_eigenart #youwillsucceedwhereihavefailed. #eigenart_lab #alexanderklaubert #berlin

Last Friday we opened the solo exhibition "You will succeed where I have failed." by Alexander Klaubert and showed the accompanying performance at the EIGEN + ART Lab. @alexander.klaubert Performance: Concept, dramaturgy: Alexander Klaubert Performes: Carloline Beach, Francis Kussatz, Yurika Yamamoto Music & Sound: Klaubert & Kussatz Sound Engineer: Maxim Schmidthals @_beach_ball._ @franciskussatz @yurikasyamamoto @maxim_noa "How can we learn to deal together with the subjective perception of relationships and situations, and how can a fundamentally different togetherness be shaped? Alexander Klaubert translates these questions in his artistic work by dealing openly with his own grief, rage, and fragility and by taking us along and touching us, sometimes demandingly, sometimes reservedly. This becomes clear especially in the sensitively and precisely designed performances that are part of his spatial installations, which play an important role also in You will succeed where I have failed." Excerpt from press release by Julia Lübbecke @uli.ecke Translation by Mitch Cohen Views of the performance by Peter Oliver Wolff @peteroliverwolff @galerie_eigenart #youwillsucceedwhereihavefailed. #eigenart_lab #alexanderklaubert #berlin

"It starts with a cocoon made of clothing. Fused with each other, the individual items are still recognizable, and the many small traces they bear – the sweat and skin particles of their former wearers – are now conserved with them forever. The form is reminiscent of a punching bag, but no hand can make its mark here anymore, no frustration be discharged, thoroughly hardened and protected at the same time." Excerpt from press release by Julia Lübbecke @uli.ecke Translation by Mitch Cohen @galerie_eigenart #youwillsucceedwhereihavefailed. #eigenart_lab #alexanderklaubert #berlin

The duo exhibition "Elsa & Emil" by Elsa Rouy and Emil Urbanek is currently on view until 3 June. @elsa.rouy @urban_e_rror 
 "Elsa Rouy’s paintings suck the viewer in, plunging them into places dark and sensual. Her bold figures bare their and our burden with bravery while Rouy reclaims the grotesque in a novel and queer way. The graphic display of obscenities and the raw aesthetic of the bodies reclaim the sanctioned and supposed excessiveness of deviant sexualities. But the exploration does not stop there; the paintings seem to probe the threshold of spectacle in which the carnal bodies are invariably on. They engage our attention first through provocation, but we stay with them as they literally embody the wounds and conflicts of each of us. 
(…) Emil Urbanek’s paintings carry a distinct presence. Their subtle boldness is at once ephemeral and substantial. They tend to feature muted colours with both sharp and blurred lines, adding a hint of nostalgia and transience. However, beyond their instant appeal, they have depth in the way they fill the canvas and the room, which is a recurring feature of Urbanek’s formal language. The apparently serene paintings throw contradictions at the viewer, keeping the work exciting and humming. The ambiguity is deliberate and an inherent part of Urbanek’s exploration of gender and identity, as tangible as the movement the graphite traces suggest." Excerpt from press release by Seda Mimaroğlu @sedamimaroglu Exhibition views by Peter Oliver Wolff @peteroliverwolff @galerie_eigenart #elsa&emil #eigenart_lab #elsarouy #emilurbanek

Now on view at the Lab: “Elsa & Emil“, a duo exhibition by Elsa Rouy and Emil Urbanek. @elsa.rouy @urban_e_rror ”(…) There is no doubt that the new era of figurative painting is upon us—it is alive and open as never before, and the exhibition Elsa Rouy & Emil Urbanek at EIGEN + ART Lab gives viewers an idea of what is at stake.” Excerpt by press release by Seda Mimaroğlu @sedamimaroglu Elsa Rouy Beware of a holy whore, 2023 Bleach, acrylic and bitumen on canvas 64 x 54 cm Emil Urbanek Untitled, 2023 Casein, oil and dammar on wood 40 x 50 cm Exhibition views by Peter Oliver Wolff @peteroliverwolff @galerie_eigenart #elsaemil #eigenart_lab #elsarouy #emilurbanek

During the Gallery Weekend we show the exhibition "Elsa & Emil" by Elsa Rouy and Emil Urbanek at the EIGEN + ART Lab. @elsa.rouy @urban_e_rror 
 "(…)Both these artists relate to tradition in their own way, evoking possible paths they might be taking, establishing their work as ones to watch. In a compelling twist, these two different positions show proximity in their provocative fragility and the solidity they find in working with and through it in painting." Excerpt from press release by Seda Mimaroğlu @sedamimaroglu Image 1: Emil Urbanek Untitled, 2023 Graphite, acrylic and oil on canvas 50 x 60 cm Emil Urbanek Untitled, 2023 Graphite, acrylic and oil on canvas 50 x 60 cm Emil Urbanek Untitled, 2023 Graphite, acrylic and oil on canvas 50 x 60 cm Image 2: Elsa Rouy Pleasure of a silent image disturbed, 2023 Bleach, acrylic and charcoal on canvas 170 x 185 cm Exhibition views by Peter Oliver Wolff @peteroliverwolff @galerie_eigenart #elsa&emil #eigenart_lab #elsarouy #emilurbanek