Herman Kolgen: INSCAPE—Voyage to Hidden Landscape

Paradise Art Space, in collaboration with ELEKTRA, has launched an exclusive audiovisual media art exhibition by Herman Kolgen, INSCAPE—Voyage to Hidden Landscape. This large scale event, on view from September 17, 2021 to February 6, 2022, will be the first comprehensive solo show of artist Herman Kolgen that presents his entire oeuvre at the largest scale ever. The exhibition is curated by Jay Bang, Senior curator of Paradise Art Space and co-curated by Alain Thibault, Artistic Director of ELEKTRA, a Montreal-based cultural institution dedicated to international contemporary digital arts.

As one of the pioneering artists in the media art scene, Herman Kolgen displays his profound contemplation on the mutual dynamics of the human-nature relationship in the post-pandemic era through the lens of media art. It offers the audience an opportunity to navigate alongside the theme of Little Things Big Routes.

The exhibition presents eight artworks ranging from his new commissioned works to mega-scale versions of his representative pieces. His works will be featured in five different venues, including Paradise Art Space, Cimer, Chroma, Art Garden, and Plaza, thereby providing a voyage of inspiring amusement to the visitors. With its outstanding synesthetic presence, the exhibition encourages the audience to raise awareness of the hidden aspects that will shape the post-pandemic reality: Human and the artificial, Human and nature, and Human in a new societal landscape.

In October, a constellation of five artists from Quebec, Canada, and Korea will showcase a live performance festival at Paradise City CHROMA club. After the premiere, the performance program is scheduled to make its first global tour at ELEKTRA Montreal in 2022 and planning extension in France and Japan. The participating artists are as follows: Herman Kolgen, Lucas Paris, Matthew Biederman, MACHINA, and YEONO. *Details of the event will be announced via the exhibition’s official social media channels.

The super week event, October 21 to 24, will be streaming on YouTube.

Herman Kolgen: Contemplation
Exhibition: September 17, 2021–February 6, 2022

Herman Kolgen, Matthew Biederman, Lucas Paris, MACHINA, YEONO: Empathy
Media art performance: October 21–22, 2021

Herman Kolgen, Yiyun Kang: Rumination
Media façade premiere: October 23, 2021

Herman Kolgen, Matthew Biederman, Lucas Paris, MACHINA, YEONO, Shoei Fujimoto, KYOKA: Contextualization
Artist talk: Octber 24, 2021