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Group SHOW "NEW SPACE-NEW VISION", Autumn Gallery Tour of Spinnerei, September 21-22

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22.09. Presentation of Catalog and quided tour "Perspektive - Lada Nakonechna“ by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Johannes Schneider und Anna-Louise Rolland at 3pm, University Library Leipzig 

Artists:
Tamari Khmiadashvili (GE)
Hyeja Kim (KR)
Bianca Tainsh (AU)
Aika Furukawa (J)
Ivan Gorshkov (RU, VCCA)
Ilja Dolgov (RU, VCCA)
Nikolaj Alekseev (RU, VCCA)
Kirill Garshin (RU)

For Autumn Gallery Tour 2013 LIA has invited a young Center for Contemporary Art from Voronezh / Russia, represented by Nikolai Alekseev, Ivan Gorshkov, Ilya Dolgov and Kirill Garshin, to take part in the residency and introduce themselves to the art community associated with Spinnerei. For last five years the center existed without a fixed location and organized activities such as exhibitions, workshops, lectures and discussion in different spaces. Meanwhile the artists of the center were drawing attention from Moscow art scene, which hailed the artists as "New Voronezh Wave ". The artists of the Centre got honorable national awards and have been invited to numerous exhibitions in Moscow.  In 2013 the center has got a location in the city center of Voronezh where they can present exhibitions and develop educational program. What challenges face the organizers of the center in a country where the repressive practices against artists are on the duty? What are the advantages and disadvantages of a fixed location for the activities of artists? What plans and perspectives the Centre has in the future? These and other questions will be discussed in the panel discussion with the artists in LIA where we would like to invite you. (Moderator of the panel discussion Kristina Semenova, HGB/Curatorial Studies)

The Australian artist Bianca Tainsh is engaged during her stay in LIA with the theme of participation and new forms of activism. Her interdisciplinary project "Wiber" explores the natural area around the lake "Wiber" in Australia, which is threatened by a proposed privatization and was demoted to the tourist attractions. She works with different media such as video, photograpy, text and installation to draw attention to this current problem.  The newly arrived artists Tamari Khmiadashvili from Tbilisi / Georgia and Hyeja Kim from Seoul / South Korea will present the first results of their stay in LIA. Aika Furukawa finishes her one year residency  with a solo exhibition in Berlin. This is a start of a new LIA project series: LIA SOLO BERLIN.

(Heyja Kim, Alexanderplatz,91x130cm, Oil on canvas, 2013)

HEYJA KIM (SOUTH KOREA), aweerdee of Arts Coucil Korea, about her work:

"Streets,Arcades, squares and central stations, the places in a constant state of flux where people ceaselessly gather and disperse, are the main inspiration for my work. These places are symbolic of everyday life in cities ruled by a capitalistic system, in which their spectacular transitory nature sees situations happen then disappear.  I focus on the invisible, formless energy, endlessly evolving and surrounded by the images and symbols of contemporary cities.  A city is an assembly of artificiality that modern people feel more intimacy for than nature.  It blinds us with joy and vitality, but at the same time fills us with fear, confusion, nervousness, and a sense of detachment. I see the city as an ecstatic landscape where the present and the past shift and swirl, and in my paintings I attempt to capture this vital movement. As reference I collect images, shifting, and assembling them based on my own bodily experience.  By using landscapes of city in Seoul  , Berlin and Leipzig, where I used to live, as references of my work, I try to visualize an illusion which is an accumulated form of an invisible energy.  An energy that is generated from endless desires and temptations fusing and dividing people, and making them repeat the creative evolutionary process, where social and economic relationships cause the inexorable duel sidedness of the city."

Please visit Heyja's website here:  www.hyejakim.com 

We cordially thank LIA main partner BMW, Consulate of Russian Federation in Leipzig, European Cultural Foundation Step Beyond Travel Grant, the Voronezh Center for Contemporary Art Russia, Tbilisi State Academy of Art, Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, Art Council Korea, Stadtkarawane e.V. and University Library as for their kind support.