Christina Zück: TOGETHER MAKING YOU SAFER

27th March 2009 - 26th April 2009

Opening hours:
Wed–Fri 2–6 pm and Sun 3–5 pm

Opening

You and Your friends are cordially invited to attend the opening on
Thursday, 26th of March 2009 at 8 p.m.

Welcome: Holger Graab, Chairman
Introduction: Ursula Schöndeling, Director

Introduction

The exhibition 'together making you safer', presenting new works of Christina Zueck (*1969) opens this year's programme, 'Research Stations', that artists whose practice involves research will apply themselves to. Within this theme, individual positions investigate not so much the connection between the sciences and artistic work, rather the participatory practice of researchers that occurs within foreign and local field work. The invited artists all explore and transpose the lifeworld, each reflecting their own standpoint.

Christina Zück's photographs were made in October and November 2008 during her stay in Karachi, Pakistan's 12.5 million metropolis in the South of the country. Not just since the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Karachi is considered as an "epicentre" of jihadist terrorist activities. Having already visited Karachi in September 2001, her second journey was a renewed look at familiar and notorious places that had already begun to interest her during her preparatory researches and led her to the area in which Ramzi Binalshibh lived and where he was arrested in 2002.

Christina Zück's interest in places of contemporary history made her operate in areas that she could sometimes only enter accompanied, or that are at least under latent observation. And yet in spite of the partially overt threat that she encountered, her images bear witness less to an overt violence than to a many-facetted co-existence of differing forms of existence and religious practice in one of the largest settlements in the world. In direct contrast to the strongly regulated norms of public behaviour, Christina Zück looks for spaces of free social interactivity.

For the Kunstverein, Christina Zück has selected new images from the extensive series produced in Karachi and combined them with images from the group exhibition, 'Embedded Art Kunst im Namen der Sicherheit' (until 22/3/09 in Akademie der Künste, Berlin). A newly produced sound collage from field-recorded material and selected text/image combinations from her blog that she wrote during her travels on http://zueck.wordpress.com/, will accompany the photographs.

Sundays at the Kunstverein

Sunday, 29.03.2009, 3:30 p.m.
Lecture and artist's talk with Christina Zück, moderated by Ursula Schöndeling.

Sunday, 05.04.2009, 3:30 p.m.
'Fernweh' (Wanderlust). Tour and workshop with Steffi Prange,Team Art education: What makes us pack our cases and travel? What interests us about distant places? Or why does someone prefer to stay at home? Christina Zück's journey to Pakistan serves as the starting point in questioning our own wanderlust.

Easter Sunday, 12.4.2009 closed

Sunday, 19.04.2009, 3:30 p.m.
Curator's tour guide and introduction to the work of Christina Zück by Ursula Schöndeling

Sunday, 26.04.2009, 3:30 p.m.
Finissage, converstation with Gabriele Lämmerhirt-Seibert, Chair of the Langenhagen Kunstverein.

Children's Workshops

Saturday, 04.04.2009 , 3 - 5 p.m.
'Images of People“
For children of 8 years and older, introduction and practical workshop by Tanja Wöhle. Please register your children: for 0511-778929 or send an email to mail@kunstverein-langenhagen.de

Monday, 20.04.2009 8.30 a.m. - 1:35 p.m.
As part of 'Talents Day - Encounters with Books', organised by the Langenhagen Club for the Highly Skilled, the Kunstverein is offering a workshop entitled 'Travel Stories - Text - Image - Sound Stories’,,with Tanja Wöhle and Ursula Schöndeling. The collaboratively developed storiy will be presented during the closing event on 23.4.2009 as part of World Book Day, venue to be announced.

Project Art Education

Monday, 30.03.2009, 3 - 5 p.m.
Monday, 06.04.2009, 3 - 5 p.m.
'A new Look', photography workshop, 10 participants maximum, from 12 years old, with Steffi Prange (concept Nanna Lueth and Steffi Prange), team art education.
Christina Zück's images convey her impressions of Pakistan. As a travelling artist she sees the country from a different perspective than its native inhabitants. What is normal and everyday for them becomes something new and special for her. What effect does her altered view have? What are its characteristics? In a tour around Langenhagen we will find places that could be interesting for tourists and photograph them. In the exhibition we will look at our results and compare them with the photos of Christian Zück.
If possible, please bring a digital camera with you.
Please register on: tel. 0511-778929 or send an email to mail@kunstverein-langenhagen.de This offer is also available to school classes and groups by arrangement

Members' Programme

Saturday, 21.03.2009
'Embedded Art - Art in the Name of Security' at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. Christina Zück will talk about her work in the exhibition. Afterwards we will visit the exhibition, 'wiederentdeckt - George Cup and Steve Elliott' in the Niedersächsischen Landesvertretung, Berlin.
Please register as soon as possible on: tel. 0511-778929 or send an email to mail@kunstverein-langenhagen.de. Contribution towards entry and travel costs.

Wednesday, 22.04.2009, 7 p.m.
Lecture on the year's theme, Research Stations:
Tanja Wöhle: 'Alchemy in Art History'. Slide lecture with examples.

Thursday, 30.04.2009, 6 p.m.
Studio visit with Julia Schmid in Hanover.
Julia Schmid invites us to a talk in her studio in Hanover. She has recently realised a work within the exhibition, 'Wildwuchs, Interventionen aktueller Kunst', in the collection of the Niedersächsischen Landesmuseum in Hanover.
Please register on: tel. 0511-778929 or send an email to mail@kunstverein-langenhagen.de

Wednesday, 14.05.2009, 7 p.m.
Lecture on the year's theme, Research Stations:
Ursula Schöndeling: 'Images of the World - World Images?' Slide lecture with examples of artistic cartography from early modern times to contemporary practises.

Members' Visit to Venice
This year the 53rd Venice Biennale takes place, one of the most important worldwide exhibitions of contemporary art. We are offering a trip to Venice: a long (3-day) weekend with a tour of the Giardini, exhibition venues in the city Palazzi and the Arsenale, as well as selected exhibitions of earlier art.
Planned for the middle of September. Please contact if interested and tell us your preferred dates.

Free, public guided tours on Wednesdays at 6 p.m.
To arrange guided group tours, please call 0511-778929 or send an email to mail@kunstverein-langenhagen.de

Holidays: the Kunstverein is closed: Friday, 10th and Sunday, 12th of March 2009


Archiv	Deutsch Christina Zück: TOGETHER MAKING YOU SAFER 27th March 2009 - 26th April 2009 Opening hours: Wed–Fri 2–6 pm and Sun 3–5 pm Opening You and Your friends are cordially invited to attend the opening on Thursday, 26th of March 2009 at 8 p.m. Welcome: Holger Graab, Chairman Introduction: Ursula Schöndeling, Director Introduction The exhibition 'together making you safer', presenting new works of Christina Zueck (1969) opens this year's programme, 'Research Stations', that artists whose practice involves research will apply themselves to. Within this theme, individual positions investigate not so much the connection between the sciences and artistic work, rather the participatory practice of researchers that occurs within foreign and local field work. The invited artists all explore and transpose the lifeworld, each reflecting their own standpoint. Christina Zück's photographs were made in October and November 2008 during her stay in Karachi, Pakistan's 12.5 million metropolis in the South of the country. Not just since the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Karachi is considered as an "epicentre" of jihadist terrorist activities. Having already visited Karachi in September 2001, her second journey was a renewed look at familiar and notorious places that had already begun to interest her during her preparatory researches and led her to the area in which Ramzi Binalshibh lived and where he was arrested in 2002. Christina Zück's interest in places of contemporary history made her operate in areas that she could sometimes only enter accompanied, or that are at least under latent observation. And yet in spite of the partially overt threat that she encountered, her images bear witness less to an overt violence than to a many-facetted co-existence of differing forms of existence and religious practice in one of the largest settlements in the world. In direct contrast to the strongly regulated norms of public behaviour, Christina Zück looks for spaces of free social interactivity. For the Kunstverein, Christina Zück has selected new images from the extensive series produced in Karachi and combined them with images from the group exhibition, 'Embedded Art Kunst im Namen der Sicherheit' (until 22/3/09 in Akademie der Künste, Berlin). A newly produced sound collage from field-recorded material and selected text/image combinations from her blog that she wrote during her travels on http://zueck.wordpress.com/, will accompany the photographs. Sundays at the Kunstverein Sunday, 29.03.2009, 3:30 p.m.* Lecture and artist's talk with Christina Zück, moderated by Ursula Schöndeling. Sunday, 05.04.2009, 3:30 p.m. 'Fernweh' (Wanderlust). Tour and workshop with Steffi Prange,Team Art education: What makes us pack our cases and travel? What interests us about distant places? Or why does someone prefer to stay at home? Christina Zück's journey to Pakistan serves as the starting point in questioning our own wanderlust. Easter Sunday, 12.4.2009 closed Sunday, 19.04.2009, 3:30 p.m. Curator's tour guide and introduction to the work of Christina Zück by Ursula Schöndeling Sunday, 26.04.2009, 3:30 p.m. Finissage, converstation with Gabriele Lämmerhirt-Seibert, Chair of the Langenhagen Kunstverein. Children's Workshops Saturday, 04.04.2009 , 3 - 5 p.m. 'Images of People“ For children of 8 years and older, introduction and practical workshop by Tanja Wöhle. Please register your children: for 0511-778929 or send an email to mail@kunstverein-langenhagen.de Monday, 20.04.2009 8.30 a.m. - 1:35 p.m. As part of 'Talents Day - Encounters with Books', organised by the Langenhagen Club for the Highly Skilled, the Kunstverein is offering a workshop entitled 'Travel Stories - Text - Image - Sound Stories’,,with Tanja Wöhle and Ursula Schöndeling. The collaboratively developed storiy will be presented during the closing event on 23.4.2009 as part of World Book Day, venue to be announced. Project Art Education Monday, 30.03.2009, 3 - 5 p.m. Monday, 06.04.2009, 3 - 5 p.m. 'A new Look', photography workshop, 10 participants maximum, from 12 years old, with Steffi Prange (concept Nanna Lueth and Steffi Prange), team art education. Christina Zück's images convey her impressions of Pakistan. As a travelling artist she sees the country from a different perspective than its native inhabitants. What is normal and everyday for them becomes something new and special for her. What effect does her altered view have? What are its characteristics? In a tour around Langenhagen we will find places that could be interesting for tourists and photograph them. In the exhibition we will look at our results and compare them with the photos of Christian Zück. If possible, please bring a digital camera with you. Please register on: tel. 0511-778929 or send an email to mail@kunstverein-langenhagen.de This offer is also available to school classes and groups by arrangement Members' Programme Saturday, 21.03.2009 'Embedded Art - Art in the Name of Security' at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. Christina Zück will talk about her work in the exhibition. Afterwards we will visit the exhibition, 'wiederentdeckt - George Cup and Steve Elliott' in the Niedersächsischen Landesvertretung, Berlin. Please register as soon as possible on: tel. 0511-778929 or send an email to mail@kunstverein-langenhagen.de. Contribution towards entry and travel costs. Wednesday, 22.04.2009, 7 p.m. Lecture on the year's theme, Research Stations: Tanja Wöhle: 'Alchemy in Art History'. Slide lecture with examples. Thursday, 30.04.2009, 6 p.m. Studio visit with Julia Schmid in Hanover. Julia Schmid invites us to a talk in her studio in Hanover. She has recently realised a work within the exhibition, 'Wildwuchs, Interventionen aktueller Kunst', in the collection of the Niedersächsischen Landesmuseum in Hanover. Please register on: tel. 0511-778929 or send an email to mail@kunstverein-langenhagen.de Wednesday, 14.05.2009, 7 p.m. Lecture on the year's theme, Research Stations: Ursula Schöndeling: 'Images of the World - World Images?' Slide lecture with examples of artistic cartography from early modern times to contemporary practises. Members' Visit to Venice This year the 53rd Venice Biennale takes place, one of the most important worldwide exhibitions of contemporary art. We are offering a trip to Venice: a long (3-day) weekend with a tour of the Giardini, exhibition venues in the city Palazzi and the Arsenale, as well as selected exhibitions of earlier art. Planned for the middle of September. Please contact if interested and tell us your preferred dates. Free, public guided tours on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. To arrange guided group tours, please call 0511-778929 or send an email to mail@kunstverein-langenhagen.de Holidays: the Kunstverein is closed: Friday, 10th and Sunday, 12th of March 2009 Sponsors Exhibition and Programme made possible by the support of the Ministery of Science and Culture Lower Saxony and the VHG Foundation
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