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Vernissage: Land(e)scapes. Recognizing Fragmentarity
September 14 @ 16:00 - 17:30
Exhibition opening at HALLE 14 as part of the autumn tour of the SpinnereiGalerien. On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Peaceful Revolution, the REVOLUTIONALE Festival for Change, in cooperation with HALLE 14, shows the group exhibition ‘Land(e)scapes. Recognising Fragmentarity.’ The exhibition can be seen from 14 September to 14 December 2024. Ten artistic works from Ukraine, Armenia, Belarus and Turkey will be presented. It is curated by Kateryna Badianova, Susanna Gyulamiryan and Anna Karpenko and is part of the Revolutionale Festival for Change 2024, which will take place in Leipzig from 3 to 10 October 2024.
About the exhibition
Bodies, individual and collective, remain connected to the landscapes they have experienced as their homes, even after people leave or the landscapes are destroyed. The injury of one entails the wounding of the other. Their surfaces may be physical, but underneath their connection is woven from the experience of everyday practices, grown infrastructures, learned languages, identities and feelings of security. If this connection is severed—through war, the expulsion of minorities, forced migration, or the loss of self-determination—liminal corridors open up. These are places of refuge and survival for amputated memories, prophetic symbols and omens that oppose a self-appointed truth of sovereign power. But the cracks also house attempts to reconstruct fragments of history, and in doing so must rely on languages that have become obsolete. Artistic gestures address this lack and emptiness, assembling the fragments of present experience.
A cooperation between the REVOLUTIONALE Festival for Change and HALLE 14 – Centre for Contemporary Art. Exhibition: Land(e)scapes. Recognising Fragmentarity.
Artists: Nazik Armenakyan (AM), Emrah Gökdemir (TR/DE), Armine Hovhannisyan (AM), Tatsiana Karpachova (BY/GE), Oksana Kazmina in collaboration with Freefilmers and Uliana Bychenkova (UA), Piruza Khalapyan (AM), Kateryna Lysovenko (UA/AT), Denys Pankratov (UA), Aliaxey Talstou (BY/DE), Teta Tsybulnyk/ruїns collective (UA).
Curators: Kateryna Badianova (UA), Susanna Gyulamiryan (AM), Anna Karpenko (BY/DE).
Duration: 14 September until 14 December 2024