Skulpturale Poesie (Sculptural Poetry)
March 26–August 14, 2022
Centre for Artists’ Publications
Among the fruitful relationships between art and literature, the dialogue between poetry and sculpture plays a special role in contemporary art. With an international selection, the group exhibition is dedicated to the multi-faceted forms of sculptural poetry since the 1960s. Objects are inscribed with texts, or the letters themselves appear as three-dimensional works of art, form spaces and are the subject of actions and performances.
In collaboration with the international literature festival Poetry on the Road.
At the same time, the German Museum of Books and Writing at the German National Library in Leipzig is showing an exhibition on the topic in cooperation with the Centre for Artists’ Publications.
Artists: Alain Arias-Misson, Eduard Bal, Robert Barry, Josef Bauer, Carlfriedrich Claus, Eugen Gomringer, Jenny Holzer, Dieter Jung, Käthe Kruse, Franz Mon, Geza Perneczky, Hannah Regenberg, Konrad Balder Schäuffelen, Andea Tippel, Marcel van Maele and others
Silvia Bächli
June 4–October 9, 2022
Silvia Bächli (1956 in Baden, lives in Basel) is considered one of the most important drawing positions of her generation. For 40 years, her works in ink, charcoal, pastel chalk or gouache have enriched the oldest genre of fine art with new and unexpected impulses.
Silvia Bächli is a precise and sensitive observer of her surroundings. In a special way she focuses on the body and its movements. Her response in drawings, however, does not attempt to first intellectually grasp what she sees and then to interrogate it through drawing, but is put on paper intuitively and in the most direct way possible. Her works trace the representability of things beyond their visual recognizability. Perhaps in the context of her approach one cannot speak of representations in the classical sense, but rather of translations of the perceptible into atmospheres.
Silvia Bächli’s exhibition at the Weserburg is retrospective, with a special focus on her most recent work, which includes small sculptures, collages, and small book objects in addition to drawings.
The Use of Colors. Nan Groot Antink und Fransje Killaars
July 9, 2022–January 22,2023
Centre for Artists’ Publications
The different use of color is the theme of the two Dutch artists Nan Groot Antink and Fransje Killaars. In the works of Nan Groot Antink (1954), colors appear in their purest form, while Fransje Killaars (1959) uses textiles as carrier of color.
Nan Groot Antink works with natural colors, which she produces herself from plants and other natural materials. The material aspects of plant dyes and the way they are applied are determining elements—for her paintings, watercolors, installations and prints as well as her artist’s book produced in 2021.
The basis of Fransje Killaars’ works is paint on colored, hand-woven fabric panels. In her artist books, objects and installations, she uses textiles as the raw material to draw the viewer into her world.
Teresa Burga
August 6–November 6, 2022
The Peruvian artist Teresa Burga (1935–2021) is considered one of the pioneers of Pop Art and Conceptual Art in Latin America. Since the 1960s, she has proven to be a detailed protocolist of contemporary social conditions. Her extensive oeuvre includes paintings and environments that can be classified as Pop Art, as well as conceptual drawings and objects, and cybernetic installations. The unifying factor in this medially and formally broad spectrum is the artist’s consistent effort to make complex social structures just as visible as the individual’s possibility for self-determined action.
The political circumstances in her native Peru, which for a long time suffered from a military dictatorship and severe economic crises, meant that Teresa Burga remained largely isolated from both the local and the international art scene. In the meantime, however, the significance of her artistic work has been discovered and recognized internationally.
The exhibition at the Weserburg presents for the first time her last series of drawings, created between 2019 and 2021 in the seclusion of the Corona period. These last sheets are combined with drawings and a room-sized installation from the 1960s, and in this way link to her early oeuvre, both formally and in terms of content. Teresa Burga passed away in February 2021 in the age of 84.
A cooperation with the MUSAC Castile and Leon.
UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN. Regional Writings (Southeast Asia)
September 10, 2022–January 29, 2023
Centre for Artists’ Publications
UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN. Regional Writings (Southeast Asia) takes the act of writing as a starting point to think about a variety of post-conceptual art practices within and around Southeast Asia. It is developed as a research process to identify, locate, collect and discuss artist books, with a focus on the complexities of reading, understanding and translating of these texts. The artist’s books, which are often also published in English and have only appeared increasingly in recent decades, still reflect in part the legacy of colonial rule and dictatorial regimes.
The exhibition will include a wide selection of works existing within the collection of the Center for Artists’ Publications, as well as works that are previously unseen.
Artists: Miti Ruangkritya (Thailand), Navin Rawanchaikul (Thailand), Ruangrupa (India), Czar Kristoff (Philippines), Lena Cobangbang (Philippines), Ringo Bunoan (Philippines), Shubigi Rao (Singapore), Chua Chye Teck (Singapore), Thao Nguyen Phan (Vietnam) and others
So Wie Wir Sind 4.0 (The Way We Are 4.0)
October 1, 2022–August 13, 2023
With So Wie Wir Sind 4.0, the Weserburg is presenting for the fourth time its version of a collection presentation that is flexible and changeable in itself and fundamentally reassembled once a year. Again, works from different contexts and times are arranged into thematic areas, or artists’ spaces take a concentrated look at separate artistic positions.
The exhibition draws from a variety of private collections, from the museum’s own holdings, and from loans from artists.
What is the Proper Way to Display a Flag?
November 19, 2022–April 23, 2023
Flags are vividly expressive political symbols; from time immemorial, they have found a place in artistic works. They stand for shared, communal convictions and values, emphasize national sovereignty, mark territorial borders, enclose and exclude. But flags are also used for protest and resistance. They are a fixed element of social conflicts that are fought out on the streets of this world.
The group exhibition What is the Proper Way to Display a Flag? focuses on international positions from an international context and endeavors, by means of contemporary artistic production, to reflect upon the significance, impact and utilization of flags. The selected works present artistic strategies that use flags as material or as a contentual point of reference; included in the exhibition are space-encompassing installations, painting, photography, and video works.
The focus is on the bringing to light of historical contexts, on currently topical, socially critical statements and counter-images, on contentual reinterpretations of symbols and of signs of domination, but sometimes also on poetical, enigmatic approaches. Questions concerning our various conceptions of identity, nation, and provenance come into view; there is simultaneously a focus on freedom of opinion and the right to demonstrate, on activism, empowerment and respect.
Artists: Yael Bartana, Rufina Bazlova, Fernando Sanchez Castillo, Yvon Chabrowski, Stephen Dean, Igor Grubić, Sharon Hayes, Samson Kambalu, Ahmet Ögüt, Julian Röder, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Nasan Tur and others
Director: Janneke de Vries
Press contact: Jan Harriefeld, presse [at] weserburg.de / T + 49 (0) 421 5983934
