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Research NATURE | LIFE

An exhibition focusing on the representation of nature and life, a presentation of the innovative interdisciplinary field of "biological art" around the intersection between art and science.

05.10.2019 bis 01.12.2019

Research NATURE | LIFE

Events

5. October – 1. December 2019 
Exhibition in the vault on the first floor and in the gallery on the ground floor

4 October, Friday 7 pm: Vernissage
Greeting: Josef Mederer, president of the District Council
Introduction: Björn Vedder, art historian and philosopher
Shuttle service from Freising station: 6.55 pm; return: 8.50 pm

5 October, Saturday 4 pm: LIFE contemporary
Shuttle service from Freising station: 3.55 pm; return: 7.30 pm

Symposium LIFE contemporary
05.10.2019
KUNST#TAG 069 - Symposium with the artists Oron Catts and Erich Berger as well as Prof. Michael J. Gorman, director of the museum BIOTOPIA in Munich ... weiterlesen

19 November, Tuesday 4 pm: meetup+art
Guided tour through the exhibition with A. M. Ho™mann

The exhibition spaces and the Café Botanika are accessible to
the disabled. The entry to the exhibition and the accompanying
programmes is free.

About the exhibition

participating artists:

  • Erich Berger (Austria-Finland)
  • Johann Brandstetter (Germany)
  • Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr, Tarsh Bates (Australia)
  • Terike Haapoja (Finland-USA)

The exhibition Research NATURE | LIFE at the Schafhof this fall takes up a highly current theme: nature as the basis of human life, its beauty, its transience, its microscopic and macroscopic dimensions. The exhibition presents the new vocabularies of forms and media possibilities that have opened up for art in its appropriation of modern technologies and reflecting on scientific working methods. Also introduced are ideas and content that intersect with scientific-research-based and science-initiated thought processes. The interdependence of art and science is also an essential feature of our experience of life today.
(Eike Berg, exhibition curator)

Sustainability, species protection, climate change, energy transition, animal ethics, designer plants and animals, patents on genomes; the list of currently controversial terms discussed is long. Reflecting artistically on these themes is a vital indication of a positioning of a generation of artists that goes beyond aestheticization and which operates in the margins of “social practice.”
(Johann Brandstetter, artist)

Nature

Welcoming visitors are the fascinating tableaus of Johann Brandstetter, meti¬culously detailed drawings in the style of Alexander von Humboldt’s flora and fauna of the entire world. Notations add depth to the depictions and give an indication of vital dependencies and symbioses in nature. With and through his art he demands that ecological systems be re-examined as well as the role that humans play therein. Brandstetter is also a successful book illustrator whose latest volume, “Über Leben. Die Wiederentdeckung der Natur” [About Life. The Rediscovery of Nature] will be released in early October. The exhibition presents images from all of the work series appearing in the book.

Transience

Death is part of life, an often still terrifying self-evident fact, which is impressively demonstrated in the New York-based Finnish artist Terike Haapoja’s installation Community. Various animals were filmed after their death with a thermal imaging device, the brightly colored photos depict how their energy is gradually release into the surrounding environment. The notion of a world that is deeply rooted in the physicality and co-existence of beings and their multiple lifeworlds is at the core of Haapoja’s politically and ethically driven practice. The installation was pre¬sented in 2013 at the Venice Biennale as a solo exhibition in the Nordic Pavilion.

Microcosm

The work of Australian artists Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr and Tarsh Bates provides a glimpse into the microcosm of nature.The Tissue Culture and Art Project, co funded by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr started in 1996, is considered one of the leading biological art projects. Crossing Kingdoms; the latest of their projects is an ongoing, interdisciplinary research project that poetically explores the implications of yeast-mammalian cell fusion to form a single hybrid cell. The hybrid cells produced by cross-kingdom fusions challenge our categories and understandings of life. Crossing King¬doms traverses the tangible and con-ceptual borders of life and living systems.

Planetography

The macrocosm and the depths of time are explored by Austrian-born Helsinki-based artist Erich Berger in his installation Polsprung [Pole Shift]. A reversal in the polarity of the geomagnetic field is called a pole shift, which, according to science, is cyclically and presently long overdue. Starting with (im) possible disasters during a pole shift, a general attempt is made to address threatening scenarios and states of emergency. Erich Berger is the director of the BioArt Society in Helsinki, which also runs an artist-in-residence program in Finland.

More infromation about the projects and the artists in the exhibition catalogue.

opening hours:
October: Tue-Sat 2 pm to 7 pm, Sun and holidays 10 am to 7 pm
November/December: Tue-Sat 1 pm to 6 pm, Sun and holidays 10 am to 7 pm
and by appointment

The exhibition is supported by:
Kulturfonds Bayern
Government of Western Australia - Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries

Schafhof Logo Kulturfonds Bayern Kunst  Goverment of Western Australia - Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries


Öffnungszeiten

Ausstellungen

Sommer (März-Okt)
Di - Sa 14-19 Uhr
So + Feiertage 10-19 Uhr

Winter (Nov-Feb)
Di - Sa 14-18 Uhr
So + Feiertage 10-18 Uhr
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Das Titelbild des Flyers über die Kunstwerke im Skulpturengarten im Außenbereich des Schafhofs - Europäisches Künstlerhaus Oberbayern zeigt die Skluptur "SpaceSheep" des ungarischen Künstlers Csongor Szigeti, ein silbernes, halb abstraktes Schaf auf einer Wiese.
Flyer über den Skulpturengarten im Außenbereich des Kunstforums
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