homegrOWN #1
„Passage:Werk - Silke Witzsch“
Event Details
August 01 – August 13, 2017
Gastatelier at whiteBOX (Atelierstraße 18, D-81671 München)
Opening hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 14:00 - 18:00
Free entrance
Tuesday, August 1st, 19:00
Opening
Introduction:
Dr. Martina Taubenberger
Laudatio:
Kerstin Möller - Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München
Dr. Verena Laschinger - Kulturwissenschaftlerin und Projektpartnerin Talking in Pictures
Peter Boerboom - Department für öffentliche Erscheinungen
Silke Witzsch, an artist at the whiteBOX studio community since its very inception, departed this world on May 23, 2017 following a serious illness. whiteBOX has dedicated the homegrOWN series to her memory. This will see our very own "homegrowns" – the artists of the Werksviertel – present their own and others' works as they alternate between the roles of curator and/or artist in the whiteBOX Guest Studio. The series will kick off with the works of Silke Witzsch on August 1, the day on which the photo and video artist would have celebrated her 50th birthday.
Silke Witzsch's artistic output primarily focused on the issues of "boundaries" and "space". It deals with issues associated with "public" space – its frontiers and formative power over the individual, about the societal forces that come to the fore in the public arena. Witzsch's photo and video works address the issue of demarcation and control mechanisms at places of transit and passage, concentrating on the shifting of these mechanisms into the "private" and "alien". They illuminate the narrow boundary between the "nothing" and the "something", depicting visible and invisible frontiers both on the inside and outside.
AKTUELLE PROJEKTE
STARTPROJEKTE
ARCHIV
In Cooperation with the Goethe Institute / Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore / India
Digital art created by artificial intelligence
curated by Benjmain Jantzen
Positions on the transformation of the city and appropriation of urban spaces
