"Felt Temperature..."

Group Exhibition with
Sonja Alhäuser, Mark Formanek, Julia Gröning, Antonia Low, Alex McQuilkin, Daniel Müller-Friedrichsen, Regine Müller-Waldeck, Annika Ström, Silke Wagner, Heike Weber

August 23 – September 23, 2007

Opening hours:
Tuesday–Friday 2–6 pm, Sunday 3–5 pm

Opening and Performance

You and your friends are cordially invited to the opening and performance on Thursday, August 23, 2007 at 8 pm.

Welcoming remarks: Holger Graab, chairman
Introduction: Veronika Olbrich, curator

Performance: "Bloody Mary" by Sonja Alhäuser

Introduction

When we speak about love, we unhesitatingly get pathos-filled sensations of enraptured abandonment, sweet romanticism and glowing adoration. We simultaneously also associate the counter-images linked to anguished desperation, pain, and coldness. These ambivalences belong to the essence of the human being: While we experience joy and lust as unlimited, we face pain and listlessness as limitations or violations of boundaries. We often find critical dealings with the medial clichés of unfulfilled desires and the sell-out of love in an age of conspicuous consumption in connection with the great emotion of "love" in contemporary art. The exhibition draws together very personal works that allow us to experience existential borderline states and forms of obsession in an immediate an sensual manner as well as works that deal with the question of perspective and the mental frame of a supposed ideal image.

Program

Thursday, September 6, 2007, 4 pm
Guided tour with suggestions for class work

Saturday, September 15, 2007, 3–5 pm
Children's tour with practical activities (from age 10)
Supervision: Tanja Wöhle, M.A. art historian

Tuesday, September 18, 2007, 8 pm
Film & Lecture: "Buster's Bedroom", 1990, 104 Min.
Direction and screenplay: Rebecca Horn "Buster's Bedroom" deals with the incursion into a magical space in which people occupied with staging themselves and their "great emotions" gather.
Lecture: Dipl. med. Birgit Homuth / Dr. med. Mattias Kayser

Sunday, September 23, 2007, 4 pm
Gallery talk with Antonia Low and Heike Weber

Guided tours: every Wednesday at 6 pm

Special tours by appointment: 0511 778929.

Sponsors

The exhibition and the programme are sponsored by
Land Niedersachsen.

Concept sponsor is the Sparkasse Hannover.

Cooperation partners:
Stadt Langenhagen,
Hannover Airport, and
Benatzky Verlag und Medien