6 September - 15 December, 2018
Leipziger Str. 47 / Entry Jerusalemer Str., Berlin
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Photos by Alex Mirutziu
Alex Mirutziu & TAH 29, soon at KVOST Berlin
Alex Mirutziu / Opportunistic mise en scene #16 / 2016 / Mixed media on photograph / 20,3 cm x 30,5 cm
Romanian artist Alex Mirutziu explores the fringes of what can be seen or represented. His lightly rendered strokes, referred to as “homeless lines” by the artist, approach the portrayed objects without ever keenly contouring them.
This intended vagueness, leaving room for inconclusiveness, misunderstandings or the indefinable, is also palpable in the artists’ installations and performances. Mirutziu's work surveys the periphery of things and inquires the possibilities of intervention into a fixed order.
Like many artists of his generation growing up in the former eastern bloc, Mirutziu names the wishfully observed culture of the west as an important reference point to his practice. Yet his escape route from the limitations of a post totalitarian Romania wasn’t shaped by the pop cultural iconography that we often see imprinted in contemporary visual aesthetics, but rather radical poetic and philosophical ideas.
Mirutziu's interventions, inscribing bodies, overpainting photographs or installing objects resembling rearview mirrors, often feel crude, direct and brutal. They expose the relationship between concrete reality and subjective actuality as deceptive and constructed. Truth, as reflected in the title of this solo exhibition, is not understood as a moral or absolute category but as an empty center within a complex system of ascriptions, presumptions and fictionalizations.
In his piece „The urgency of the idea of closure in drawing“ Mirutziu will perform alongside his younger self, symbolized by a graphite mask, on the opening night. „The project The Artist as Himself at 29“ (TAH 29) focusses on the instability of self-narrations and the inevitable distortion of past events.
Text by Diana Weis / 2018
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Alex Mirutziu was born 1981 in Sibiu (RO) and lives in Cluj-Napoca (RO). Mirutziu has been lecturing in performance and theatre focused institutions from Royal Academy of Arts, London, to Von Kraal Theatre, Estonia, Konstfack, Stockholm, and collaborated with various artists, among which Grit Hachmeister (DE), Paul Devens (NL), Elias Merino (ES), Graham Foust (US), Graham Harman (US). His most recent projects have been hosted by IASPIS, Stockholm; ZDB, Lisbon; Power Plant, Toronto; The Glass Factory Lab, Boda; Mucsarnok Kusthalle, Budapest; the Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, and the National Museum, Warsaw.
6 September - 15 December, 2018
Opening: 5 September 2018, 7pm
Performance: 8pm
Leipziger Str. 47 / Entry Jerusalemer Str., Berlin
'Travelling with a blind map' in pictures
Travelling with a blind map
Anca Benera and Arnold Estefán (RO), Kitti Gosztola and Bence György Pálinkás (HU), Hiwa K (IQ), Alex Mirutziu (RO)
Curator: Flóra Gadó
Kisterem Gallery, Budapest
06 June – 06 July 2018
Gadó Flóra
The starting point of the exhibition is the notion of home and its goal is to map out the uncertain situations departing from there. What does the notion of searching for a home, belonging mean today, can we still use this word in its traditional sense? How can the process of constant travelling, nomad lifestyle which often affects contemporary artists, alter this? Instead of talking about looking for home, could we talk about a constant homecoming, when the person is in a continuous moving and intends to find stability within this drift. Another keyword in the exhibition is the notion of travel in which the joy of discovery coming from free will are paradoxically intertwined with those social-political situations when leaving is forced.
The artists reflect on these themes in a more poetic, indirect way and present different kinds of strategies, starting from their personal background, through analyzing their countries past, towards wider geopolitical and ecological aspects. Through these they bring into notion such pressing issues as migration, nomadism, the ownership of land and the so-called green xenophobia.
Shan’t Shalt Paint
Helene Appel, Thomas Helbig, Alex Mirutziu, Andrew Palmer, Sophie Reinhold, Elif Saydam, Florian Süssmayr
in Kooperation mit der GALERIE RÜDIGER SCHÖTTLE, München
am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2018 um 19 Uhr
im TKA Schaulager in der alten Speicherstadt
Brooktorkai 15, 3. Boden, 20457 Hamburg.
+ kleine Speisen.
Wir freuen uns auf ein interessiertes Publikum!
Abb. v.l.n.r.: Thomas Helbig, Homo Homini Lupus, 2007, 59.4 x 42 cm; Elif Saydam, L for Loyalty (Lividity), 2018, 30 x 21cm; Sophie Reinhold, Untitled, 2018, 200 x 160 cm
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle
Mit der Gründung der Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle 1968 entstand in München ein Forum für zeitgenössische Kunst, das eine Reihe von Künstlern zum ersten Mal mit einer Einzelausstellung vorstellte. Konzeptuelle Inhalte und die Reflexion des Kontextes stellen bis heute eine generationen- und medienübergreifende Verbindung zwischen den von der Galerie vertretenen Künstlern dar. Das Programm zeigt etablierte als auch junge, aufstrebende Positionen aus Malerei, Fotografie, Skulptur oder Videokunst.
www.galerie-ruediger-schoettle.de
Tilman Kriesel Art Advisors GmbH
In einem Schaulager in der historischen Speicherstadt präsentiert TKA Art Advisors wechselnde Künstlerpositionen in Kooperation mit ausgewählten Galerien, Sammlungen oder Künstlern. Tilman Kriesel ist u.a. Gründungsmitglied des Kunstsammler e.V., des Bundesverbandes unabhängiger Kunstberater (BVUK) und Mitglied im Vorstand mehrerer Kunstinstitutionen.
The artist with the Artist and Himself at 29 at CCA Tel Aviv
The first exhibition curated by newly appointed chief curator and director of CCA Tel Aviv, Nicola Trezzi, entitled KEDEM-KODEM-KADIMA encluded two works which belong to Alex Mirutziu and The Artist and Himself at 29.
- Alex Mirutziu -- If your love is right your life is right, 2011
- The artist and Himself at 29 -- The Urgency of the Idea of Closure in Drawing, 2011 --
Installation shots / camera: Barak Rubin