Tea Mäkipää: "Motocalypse Now"
31 May–22 July 2007
Opening hours:
Tuesday–Friday 2–6 pm, Sunday 3–5 pm
You and your friends are cordially invited to the opening on Thursday, 31 May 2007, 8 pm.
Welcoming remarks: Dr. Annette von Stieglitz, vice chairperson
Introduction: Veronika Olbrich, curator
Introduction
Tea Mäkipää (born 1973 in Finnland, lives in Weimar/Germany) deals critically in her artworks with aspects of our globalized western lifestyle. She is especially occupied with our survival strategies and questions regarding the social life of man, our irresponsible dealings with nature, and the negative effects of globalisation. The beauty of her often monumental installations, photographs, and objects offer pleasurable moments of seeing: but they also mercilessly depict the cruelty and pitilessness of the world in which we live.
In her new installations "Motocalypse Now", conceived for the Kunstverein Langenhagen, Tea Mäkipää visualises fundamental questions about the ecological condition of our earth. The ideology of never-ending freedom earlier associated with driving is no longer visible in the overgrown auto entitled "Petrol Engine Car, 1860s–2010 R.I.P." on the Kunstverein's courtyard. The dramatic installation "Micro Climate" inside shows a wrecked automobile from which people are apparently trying to free themselves. The putting forward of Ten Commandments for the 21st century offers simple suggestions for more a vigilant treatment of our environment.
Pictures
Programme
Saturday, 2 June 2007, 4 pm
Gallery talk with Tea Mäkipää
Tuesday, 5 June 2007, 4 pm
Guided tour for teachers with suggestions for related classroom work
Saturday, 16 June 2007, 3 – 5 pm
"We're planting ›Autos‹" – Children's workshop (ages 6–8)
Supervision: Tanja Wöhle, M.A. art historian
Saturday, 7 July 2007, 3-6 pm
"Creative vehicles of the future�? – children's workshop (ages 7–11)
Supervision: Tanja Wöhle, M.A. art historian, and Dr. Oliver Bock, pedagogue
Guided Tours: Every Wednesday 6 pm
You are cordially invited!
Sponsors
The exhibition and the programme are sponsored by
Land Niedersachsen and
Concept sponsor ist the Sparkasse Hannover.
Cooperation partners:
Stadt Langenhagen,
Hannover Airport,
Reemtsma and
Benatzky Verlag und Medien
