Kate Mackeson
Hygienic Sigh
MARS! is pleased to present "Hygienic Sigh”, a solo show by British artist Kate Mackeson.
For this exhibition MARS! is hosted by super+CENTERCOURT, an independently run exhibition space in Munich. We highly appreciate the neigbourly cooperation.
Opening: Saturday 5.12.2015 | 6 pm
6.12. - 3.01.2016 | open by appointment
Teboho Edkins
GANGSTER BACKSTAGE
MARS! is pleased to present GANGSTER BACKSTAGE, a project by artist and director Teboho Edkins.
The protagonists of GANGSTER BACKSTAGE are non-professional actors from Cape Town who answered a call to a casting in a local newspaper: 'looking for actors for a gangster film - experience of gangsterism would be appreciated'. Scenes on an empty stage alternate with intimate interviews. In addition to the film, photographic portraits, taken during the casting process, are on display.
Screening every hour on the hour.
Teboho Edkins lives and works in Berlin and Cape Town.
Edkins‘ films and projects have been presented and awarded internationally. In 2014 he has won the Principal Prize of the International Competition, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen for Gangster Backstage.
Opening: Friday, 27.03.2015, 6 pm
28.03. and 29.03.2015 | 11 am - 5 pm
RELEASE | Pingo Magazin
PINGO DUCKTALES
MARS! is pleased to present the 9th issue of Pingo Magazin
This time it is all about comics and spirituality.
Robin Thomas from Munich and Luca Hillen from Amsterdam have collaborated to select contributions for this special issue:
PINGO DUCKTALES
With contributions from:
Egon Schiele - Jasmin Eghbaly - Mels van der Mede - Patrick McDonnell - Clara Saito - Martin Fengel – Ty - Robin Thomas - Jan Ludwig - Luca Hillen - Isadora Tomasi - Glitterende Eenhoorn - Eric Guzman - Mario Chiattone
Jonathan Drews
SCHNITT
MARS! is pleased to present SCHNITT, a solo show by German artist Jonathan Drews.
In his exhibition at MARS! the artist presents works on aluminium. Surfaces, layers, colour fields. Motifs and medium determine each other - abstracted and condensed.
Jonathan Drews lives and works in Munich.
www.jonathandrews.de
Opening: Friday 6.02.2015 | 6 pm
Exhibition: 7.02.2015 - 27.02.2015
Malte Wandel
JANUARY
MARS! is pleased to present JANUARY, a solo show by German artist Malte Wandel.
Photography in different formats. Light. Shadows. Shapes. In his exhibition at MARS! Malte Wandel presents a selection of photographs that
reflexively deal with the indexical properties of the medium.
Malte Wandel lives and works in Cologne and Munich.
www.maltewandel.de
Opening: Friday 9.01.2015 | 6 pm
Exhibition: 10.01.2015 - 30.01.2015
Robin Thomas
Millennium
MARS! is pleased to present Millennium, a solo show by German artist Robin Thomas.
First of all "Millennium" was a term that opened up vast spaces, rose expectations and triggered associations.
In his exhibition Robin Thomas uses this terminology of Zeitgeist as a starting point for a reflection on the power of suggestion, of surfaces, forms and content.
Digital painting and photography.
Robin Thomas lives and works in Zurich and Munich.
Exhibition: 09.11.2014 - 30.11.2014
Andreas Peiffer
ФOHTAH
Exhibition: 18.10.2014 - 05.11.2014
Liam Tickner
Be Like Water
Exhibition: 14.09.2014 - 05.10.2014
“Be Like Water” is a solo show by German artist Liam Tickner at MARS!.
The artist presents a series of objects and sculptures that comment on the desires we address towards technological devices as encouraged by marketing and advertisement strategies. The works illustrate the inherent failure and disillusion that come with these suggestions.
Selected exhibitions:
Paparazzi, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt und Centre Pompidou Metz; Dizziness of Freedom, Bermondsey Projects, London; ... but, imagine (YSC) ..., Hockney Gallery, London; VANUIT HIER / OUT OF HERE - The Collectors Show, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven; unseen photo fair, Amsterdam; Offprint Amsterdam.
Johannes Willi
Kanu
Exhibition: 4.7. - 3.8.2014
For his project 'Kanu' Johannes Willi carved a canoe from a tree trunk combining performative elements with an archaic-intuitive craft-strategy, to be part of the „Happy People“.
Kentaro Yamada
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Exhibition 24.05.2014 - 27.06.2014
b.d.b.d.b.d.b.d.b.d.b.d.b.d.b.d.b.d.b was a solo show by London based Japanese artist Kentaro Yamada.
On this occasion Yamada presents a series of objects and situations that address his interests in the intersection between human creativity, subjectivity and their relationship with bare material that came to form our surroundings since the beginning of time.
The artist sees craft as an embedment of our subjective self in material history. A creative act is a human way to interact with materials that compose all matters on earth and in Space. For the artist primordial creativity can be found in simple actions ever since thinking of how cavemen probably woke up in their caves and started tussling with muddy clay as a way to make sense and create reality in their world.
For his first solo show at MARS! Kentaro Yamada presents a series of objects that each refer to such ideas. Planes from various materials, objects and perspectives are intertwined to create poetic rhythm and balance. This collection of objects are supported by copper tubings - see-through structures that will change their colour due to oxidation over the duration of the exhibition.
By the window ledge, a black pool of used engine oil collected from a local garage, is juxtaposed with a horizontal yellow florescent light alluding to a horizon line, activating the installation as a whole to create a situation similar to landscape.
Works list:
Stoneware Chawan bowls hand made by Kenju (the artist's father) and Kentaro Yamada, resin cast, Copper tubings
250 million year old salt rock crystal, concrete replica with added table salt, resin cast, Copper tubings
Well travelled German rock, well travelled New Zealand rock, Wood cast concrete, Copper tubings
Copper glazed stoneware volcano, Ceramic rock cast with rock from Thames river glazed with powdered rock Wood cast concrete, Copper tubings
Unfired Clay pool with used engine oil
Fluorescent light, incandescent light bulb, copper glazed ceramic form
Nora Kapfer
PONY
Exhibition 26.04.2014 - 18.05.2014
For PONY the Vienna based artist Nora Kapfer further develops her metal sculptures, condenses them with paper mâché and covers them in latex rubber. The sculptures are presented together with Cellophane curtains.
An additional work by the artist will be displayed in the exhibition cabinet [ ] Theresienstr. 48, opposite the Sammlung Brandhorst.
Nora Kapfer (Munich, 1984) lives and works in Vienna.
Selected exhibitions:
HERBSTSALON, Deborah Schamoni Galerie München 2014; Nora Kapfer. Body Apart, Ve.Sch Wien 2013; Pubic Republic, L'Ocean Licker Wien, 2012
SAMARA SCOTT
BAGGY
Exhibition 28.03.2014 - 17.04.2014
Approaching the genre thematically, Samara Scott embraces the flatness and the experience of the painterly, maneuvering its dilemma with decoration.
Scott’s paintings are a semiotic mélange where materiality and the physical existence of components have gone through a cycle of not only appropriation but proper consumption. Tense textural encounters create what the artist calls a “lasagna effect”: Fractions of memories, moments and sensations are held together by a porous membrane that allows for an osmotic exchange between the components. Textures and matter ooze into each other, pollute each other and even overstimulate each other in a constant flow and swirl - like heating up a metabolism.
Indulging into the intensities of her own behavior and into the beauty of sensual and physical consumption of products, objects and matter, Scott’s works are not so much a comment on capitalism but rather laying out how we are lured into the enjoyment of consumption and the experience itself. Rather than taking up a resolved perspective on the collective fantasies of capitalism and postmodernism, the artist allows herself to succumb to the overpowering pseudo- romance of 21st century commodification and spin out its absurdities.
Like a vessel that contains the whole of this cycle, including its metabolic byproducts, Scott's works contain all passages of what follows the first contact of the consumer experience: From the touch to mastication to appropriation and finally dispersion. Things slip through the interstitials of the membrane, squeezed bread rolls, dough, like the consumer’s body fluids, coughing up or blowing his nose.
An additional work by the artist was displayed in the exhibition cabinet [ ] Theresienstr. 48, opposite the Sammlung Brandhorst.
Samara Scott (London, 1984) lives and works in London.
Selected exhibitions:
Still Life, Palazzo Peckham, Biennale di Venezia 2013; Verging on the absurd, Contemporary Art Society, London 2013; CdOxdsspi, Rowing, London 2013; Poems, Almanac Projects, London 2013.
KRISTER KLÄSSMAN
TASCHENSTEINE
Ausstellung 07.02.2014 - 14.03.2014
MARS! is pleased to present Taschensteine, a solo exhibition by Swedish artist Krister Klässman.
Taschensteine is an investigation of ideas of time, history and human labour and their manifestation in objects, matter and space. The artist's sculptures and site-specific installations explore the passage of time and the course of human history through their poetic embodiment in quotidian materials.
Just as fossils preserve the history of the earth by holding traces and bodies recorded in stone, Krister Klässman’s sculptures preserve human presence and everyday actions. By taking the object itself away and leaving only its shell behind, what remains is a space. In this space human actions and circumstances are recorded. But unlike fossils which are dead and inanimate objects, these testimonies tell stories of poetical presences that have actually just started to exist. Freed from all duty and completely useless, these tools are joyful remains of human vitality and action recorded in stone able to last the test of time.
The works tell a story of the social body as an interpretation of norms, either through their materiality or their shapes: A resin pole is made by pouring liquid resin in a sausage skin fixed around a metal bar. Filling the space between the bar and the skin, the social body comes alive, wobbling freely around the bar, expressing its own interpretation of the given structure. The connection to food - sausages - a reference to social gathering, transgressing rules of orderly behavior or interpreting them anew around the rigid given structures of life and its politics.
An additional work by the artist will be displayed in the exhibition cabinet [ ] Theresienstr. 48 | Munich opposite the Sammlung Brandhorst.
Krister Klässman (Stockholm, 1981) lives and works in London.
Selected exhibitions:
Hausfrau, COLE, London 2013; This Glitch, Blythe Gallery, London, 2013; Krister Klässman, COLE, London, 2012; Only A Suggestion, Galerie Flute Douce, Frankfurt, 2012; Arab Spring, Plaza Plaza, London, 2011; New Contemporaries, A Foundation, Liverpool/ICA, London, 2010; Bold Tendencies III, London, 2009.
JULIUS HEINEMANN
277 x 336 x 391
22.12.2013 - 30.01.2014
277 x 336 x 391 is a site specific work by German artist Julius Heinemann.
An additional site-specific work by the artist was displayed in the exhibition cabinet [ ] Theresienstr. 48 | Munich opposite the Sammlung Brandhorst.
Every object defines itself in relation to its surroundings. With every movement we perpetually put ourselves in relation to our environment. And every of our movements creates an endless number of combinations of ourselves in this environment.
Through Julius Heinemann's pictorial gestures a volume of a space becomes visible. Leaving traces the artist sets a rhythm to his surroundings. Marks come together, create tensions and put spatial plains in new relation to each other. Through the intervention of light – a dimension of time – these traces and marks come to life. The light allows them to connect and to spread out, tracing a territory; a territory that contains an endless number of dynamic connections and combinations, based on the simple formal relations of the room. Painting turns into an accessible space, giving us hints and at the same time questioning the nature of our surroundings. Painting becomes the abstraction of a moment – the here and now.
277 x 336 x 391 is an attempt to render the holistic reality of a specific space.
Julius Heinemann (Munich, 1984) lives and works in London and Munich. He studied at Folkwang University of the Arts Essen (2005-8), HGB Leipzig (2008-11) and Royal College of Art London (2011-13).
Selected Exhibitions:
Solo shows: Nusser & Baumgart, Munich and Hilary Crisp, London
Group shows and projects: A Drawing Dialogue, with Marianne Eigenheer, Performance Studio (V 22), London; Porzellan, with Edgar Leciejewski, Bruch&Dallas, Cologne; Jamsessions, with Felix Leon Westner (H&W), Weltraum, Munich; OHNE TITEL – abstrakt konkret konstruktiv, Kunsthalle der Stadtsparkasse, Leipzig; MUSE, Lempertz, Berlin; Imaginary Landscape, Kunstverein Gera.
PIOTR KRZYMOWSKI
a glitch
09.11. - 08.12.2013
‘a glitch’ is a presentation of works by Polish artist Piotr Krzymowski.
Krzymowski is interested in how repetition of images and the transferal of immaterial contents onto material support, transform their meanings. Giving a material and physical dimension to the otherwise meaningless creates exposure and generates new ways of reading these situations and messages.
Mrs Heo and mrmchael1l2@westnet.com.au are spam emails, that the artist received from anonymous senders, asking to establish specific relationships. By stitching the messages by hand on fabrics of poor quality - the size of a protest banner – the anonymous sender and their private messages are exposed in a physical space and turn what has never been private in the first place into a public concern.
73 explores the complexity of filmed instances through thorough but apparently seamless repetition. Short fragments of beauty, memory and absurdity are looped. Like haunting memories, the scenes propose themselves over and over again. The counting of their repetitions becomes an opportunity for an identical instance to transform itself into something new and invites the viewer to wallow in short moments of instant obsession.
Piotr Krzymowski (1989, Poland) graduated in 2012 from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London.
Selected exhibitions and screenings include:
When they meet again, collaboration with Katharina Aigner, 3A Project Space, Gdynia, 2013, Poland.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Liverpool Biennial and ICA, London, 2012, UK.
Selected III, FLAMIN - Film London Artists' Moving Image Network, 2012, UK.
MALTE WANDEL
a piece of land
15.10. - 06.11.2013
Malte Wandel presents ‘a piece of land’, a photographic installation. Specifically conceived for [ ], photography and sculptural elements are combined. An expanded conception of landscape photography is challenged.
Digital print, ferns, soil - 2013.
Malte Wandel lives and works in Munich and Cologne.
www.maltewandel.de
∞ brings together contributions of twelve international artists that present the dream of exploring the universe by undoing and leaving behind the worldly order and reach for the outer-worldly instead.
Facing a topic of eternal fascination the artists have been asked to project into a place that has always been subject of our deepest fears and biggest hopes yet almost certainly impossible to be explored in our lifetime: space.
The result is a collection of visual encounters with eternal abstraction, weightlessness, chaos, mystical hungers and the all encompassing. Trying to give up on the microcosmic perception the artists are reflecting on a cosmic perspective mediated through their individual contributions.
With contributions by
Kentaro Yamada - Henrik Potter - Nigin Beck
Marco Bruzzone - Jonathan Drews - Sebastian Lahera
Hanakam & Schuller - Derek Maria Francesco Di Fabio - Sam Austen
Fay Nicolson - Malte Wandel - Daniel Schnitterbaum
8/10 | 12 Works | max. 148 x 210mm | price on request
MARS!
June 2013
all that is alive merely evaporates
16mm to video, 3:07 min, without sound, 2012
Sam Austen
MARS! presented a selection of zines and artist books at Art Book Fair Basel 'I never read'.
www.ineverread.com
18. – 21.06.2014 with publications of
BLEK #3 / LEIPZIG -
LABOR / BUENOS AIRES -
PATRICK GODDARD / LONDON -
VERLAG DER GEHEIMEN SCHÖNHEIT / MUNICH - LIAM TICKNER / LONDON -
ROBIN THOMAS / ZURICH -
TENDERBOOKS / LONDON - MARS! / MUNICH - TORIL JOHANNESSEN / BERGEN
13. - 16.06.2013 with publications of
Almanac Projects / London -
Dupe / London -
Hammann & Von Mier / Munich
Hanakam & Schuller / Vienna -
Johnny Bunting / London
Kleine Schwester Verlag / Munich -
Labor / Buenos Aires
Luca Feigs / Munich -
Lloyd Corporation / London
Misery Connoisseur / London -
Nigin Beck / Munich -
PANEL / Vienna
Philipp Gaisser / Hamburg -
Patrick Goddard / London
Quirin Brunnmeier / Munich -
Steffen Bunte / Berlin
Sebastian Lahera &
Ignacio Parodi / Buenos Aires
Susi Gelb / Munich -
Tim Wandelt / Berlin -
ULT / Zurich
In October 2011 HKLA and MARS! brought together five artists from Europe with five Chinese artists.
Chinese painting meets video art from different european countries. This connection is made either in a conceptual
way or referring to classical ways of composition and genres of painting, but also employing paint and canvas to
produce the video work itself. This project was the inaugural exhibition in the '21 product gallery' off-space in Shanghai, China.
Shanghai, 18. - 25.10.2011
Participating artists:
Kelin Hu - Xiao Tang - Peng Li - Duanni Li - Wen Ma - Yue Qin - Johannes Evers - Christian Falsnaes -
Claudia Larcher - Victor Hausladen - Patrick Topitschnig
BYOB, an acronym for Bring Your Own Beamer, is a series of one-night exhibitions.
BYOB has already taken place in different cities throughout Europe and the US and has been curated by different people all over the world. Artists are invited to bring their own “beamers” and explore the medium of projection, helping this way making a big exhibition with zero budget.
BYOB aims to bring together local and international artists, to explore the medium of projection and its different forms of expression and to create new dialogues.
Munich, 30.04.2011
Participating artists:
Christoph Brech - Kentaro Yamada - Claudia Larcher
Johannes Evers - Cristiano Luciani - Sebastian Pöllmann
Susanne Wagner - Hyo Myoung Kim - Patrick Topitschnig
Daniel Permanetter - Claudia Grassl - Victor Hausladen
www.byob-munich.de
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