GROUP SHOW LAZY EYE, SPOILER ZONE BERLIN
Erol Eskici, Felix Findeiß, Bettina Krieg, Toni Meyer
Irritating and childlike, sometimes attractive, that is how the lazy eye is perceived. Its gaze seems sluggish and is shifted in a different direction.
It appears to be able to see through you or behind you. The lazy eye leaves us ambiguously touched.
Erol Eskici, Felix Findeiß, Toni Meyer and Bettina Krieg treat the term also as an inertia of viewing habits: The change of perspective and the possibility
of different perceptions are the conceptual pivots of the exhibition.
On the surfaces of the exhibition space made of tiles, glass and mirrors, the works examine the relationship between sharpness and blurring, shine and rawness, surface and substance.
Where the first cursory glance may smooth out bumps, fade out the unusual and simply ignore information, a closer look reveals new layers and the unexpected. Here, the lazy eye leads to new associations – and thus for a moment leaves behind the expected.
In the group exhibition, drawing, sculpture, painting and photography works are shown.
SOFA SERIES @ prêt-à-parler
The digital platform prêt-à-parler is a hybrid that gives space to both – art and people who experience it. It becomes clear that in times of separation we are not left without art, because even if we cannot experience it physically, it is part of our mindset and our identity. The project invites you to pause for a moment, to dig out precious memories and to reflect, to associate and think back about times of coming together. Prêt-à-parler shows a range of media, including video, photography, painting and works on paper and reflects each work through a personal lense from todays perspective.
MONOPOL MAGAZIN INTERVIEW ABOUT “CLOTHIES”
“…an apt visual metaphor for the oversaturated abundance of fast fashion. Toni Meyer’s performance-activated sculptures resembling two-legged piles of clothes roam malls and shopping streets. Silke Hohmann talked to the artist about consumer culture, contingency and lockdown decluttering.”
DIGITAL EXHIBITION I CLEANED OUT MY WARDROBE
Über die digitale Plattform I Cleaned Out My Wardrobe werden die flüchtigen Begegnungen und Streifzüge der Clothies gesammelt. Manchmal heimlich, manchmal proaktiv, dokumentiert und inszeniert die Künstlerin eine Produktions- und Konsumeuphorie. Neben Video- und Fotoaufnahmen gibt sie durch Textbeiträge Auskunft über eine imaginierte Persönlichkeit der einzelnen Charaktere. Ähnlich der Angaben in naturhistorischen Schaumuseen verweist sie auf „Habits & Habitats“. Die damit verbundenen ökologischen und humanitären Kosten der (billigen) Produktion werden ebenfalls zu einem lesbaren Thema und verschiedene Eindrücke einer vom Konsum geprägten Gesellschaft verschmelzen zu einer digitalen Collage.
(Auszug aus dem Essay Today, I cleaned out my wardrobe. Wohin mit der Kunst im Zeitalter der Krise? von Aileen Treusch)
EXHIBITION MAKING CRISES VISIBLE SENCKENBERG MUSEUM
The performance, video and photo project “I Cleaned Out My Wardrobe” is part of MAKING CRISES VISIBLE, the interdisciplinary exhibition connecting science, art and design at Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt: www.makingcrisesvisible.com
PUBLISHED WORK IN “TEXTUREN”
Texturen: Nr. 6 Rübern / Verlag der Univ. der Künste Berlin, 2020, Hrsg. Thomas Düllo, Konstantin Daniel Haensch, Daniela Kuka, Elena Dellasega ISBN 978-3-89462-336-4
“Der Band 6 in der Reihe „texturen“ goutiert ein produktives Auf-Der-Grenze-Sein und setzt inno- nein pränovations-verdächtige Grenzen-Überschreitungen in Gang. Er zeigt durch die Vielfalt thematischer Rahmungen und stilistischer Zugänge, die sich von persönlichen Erfahrungsberichten über theoretische Essays bin hin zu künstlerischen Expositionen erstrecken, dass Rübermachen als Bewegung nicht nur heißt, von einer Seite auf eine andere zu wechseln. Vielmehr umfasst es ein mannigfaltiges Repertoire an veränderungs-vorbereitenden, -begleitenden und –nachbereitenden Bewegungsfiguren.”
PUBLISHED WORK IN “DESIRED LANDSCAPES”
Unsought Normalities: 20 photo essay with words by Natassa Pappa in “Desired Landscapes”, issue 3, 2020
GROUP SHOW, BABYRICHMAN
Munich, Opening: 15th November, 2019
INTERVIEW WITH SCHIRN MAGAZINE
feature about my city series in the magazine of SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE Frankfurt, 2019
INTERVIEW ON WUNDERBUZZ
Read interview
EXHIBITION GROSSSTADT (BIG CITY)
Show on Potsdamer Straße, Berlin, 2018
PUBLISHED WORK IN FLANEUR MAGAZINE
issue 7, São Paulo, 2018
“Photo collages that display a virtual reality of São Paulo. From an outsider’s perspective. Viva Meyer likes big cities. And coincidences: places, people and stories belong together without knowing it. Only until they find themselves in simple collages. On Treze de Maio Viva found the stories of São Paulo during carnival season. The pictures show the street between fiction and reality. They have never actually been taken like this, but give a glance of the city in its multiplicity. Viva works as a photographer and video artist. She is currently based in Berlin, but tries to collage as many cities as she can.”