Anna Meyer: »WHITE CUBE · SITCOM«
August 31 to October 5, 2008
Opening hours:
Tuesday-Friday 2–6 pm, Sunday 3–5 pm
Opening
You and your friends are cordially invited to the opening on Sunday, August 31, 2008 at 11:30 am.
Welcoming remarks: Holger Graab, chairman
Introduction: Veronika Olbrich, curator
Introduction
Under the Title »WHITE CUBE • SITCOM,« Anna Meyer deals with a story concerning power, money, and politics in the art world of her native city of Vienna. The exhibition takes place in conjunction with our program for this year that stands under the motto »Can this be true?«
Anna Meyer painted buildings of symbolic importance as well as individual persons and groups in various comic book-like text-andimages sequences with lush and brilliant oil paints on 35 transparent Plexiglas panel. As a direct participant in the hair-raising events, the artist does not omit herself from the pictures. In doing so, she assumes the role of a participant, as well as an observer and an observed. The artist is in no way concerned with a representation of the truth. It is rather the case that Anna Meyer very deliberately reflects in »WHITE CUBE • SITCOM« on various perspectives and points of view on the topic of truth and its conveyance in the media.
Anna Meyer (born 1964 in Schaffhausen/Switzerland, lives in Vienna/Austria) studied at the design schools at Zurich and Lucerne. She devotes herself to the global consumer culture and the resulting conflicts and shifts in living conditions in her paintings and largeformat billboards in public spaces. Together with the Tokyo-based fashioned designer Edwina Hörl, the artist contributes to collections in the form of co-operations.
Fotos
Programme
Tuesday, September 2, 2008, 4 p.m.
Guidet tour for teachers with suggestions for class work
Saturday, September 13, 2008, 3 – 5 p.m.
Guided tour for children with practical activities (from 7 years): »Are we marionettes?!«
Supervision: Tanja Wöhle, art historian
To register please call: 0511 778929
Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 5 – 7 p.m.
Workshop »Power Plays 1« (exhibition round tour, creative writing)
Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 5 - 7 p.m.
Workshop »Power Plays 2« (exhibition round tour, shadow plays)
Both workshops deal with biases, rumors, and intrigues. The participants respond to the theme of
the exhibition with creative writing exercises and the staging of shadow plays. One's own
experiences with »Power Plays« can be integrated. Persons of all ages are invited to take part in
one or both workshops. Schools and other institutions can arrange further appointments.
Supervision: Nanna Lüth and Steffi Prange, art educators (Berlin/Hildesheim)
To register please call: 0511 778929
Sunday, October 5, 2008, 4 p.m.
Gallery talk with Anna Meyer. Coffee afterwards.
Guided tours: Every Wednesday at 6 p.m.
To arrange special guided tours please call 0511 778929
You are cordially invited!
Sponsors
The exhibition and the programme are sponsored by
Land Niedersachsen
VGH-Stiftung
Concept sponsor:
Sparkasse Hannover
The Kunstverein Langenhagen is supported by
Stadt Langenhagen
Hannover Airport
Benatzky Verlag und Medien
LOGOPLAN Konstruktion GmbH,
Langenhagen
Courtesy Galerie Krobath Wimmer
