Exhibitions
29 Jun 01 Nov 2018
IL MONDO IN FUGA
Villa Romana Fellows 2016 /2017, Andrea Bellu /Matei Bellu, Carina Brandes, Kasia Fudakowski, Flaka Haliti, Stefan Pente, Farkhondeh Shahroudi, Stefan Vogel, Nico Joana Weber, Jonas Weichsel at Kloster Corvey, Höxter, DE
curated by Angelika Stepken
exhibition view, Kasia Fudakowski, The Worry Wall, 2017, rattan, dyes, steel, production notes (video)
exhibition view Refectory
Stefan Vogel (front right), Andrea Bellu /Matei Bellu (left and center), Carina Brandes and Stefan Pente (background)
exhibition view with works by Farkhondeh Shahroudi
exhibition view, Jonas Weichsel, Flag II, 2018, acrylic on linen
exhibition view, Andrea Bellu /Matei Bellu, Untitled, 2018, cotton fabric
in the background: Carina Brandes, Untitled, 2017, photo emulsion on wood and Untitled, 2017, photography on baryta paper
exhibition view, Nico Joana Weber, Capensis, 2018, HD video, 2 channel, sound, colour, 23’’
photos: Thorsten Schomeier
IL MONDO IN FUGA
Special exhibition in the Museum Corvey: Villa Romana Fellows 2016 /17
Andrea Bellu /Matei Bellu, Carina Brandes, Kasia Fudakowski, Stefan Pente, Flaka Haliti, Farkhondeh Shahroudi, Stefan Vogel, Nico Joana Weber, Jonas Weichsel
The Villa Romana Prize is the oldest art award in Germany. Initiated by Max Klinger and his circle of artists in 1905, it has helped write modern art history, having been awarded to such famous names as Max Beckmann (1906), Käthe Kollwitz (1906), Ernst Barlach (1908), Emy Roeder (1936), Georg Baselitz (1965), Michel Buthe (1976) and Anna Oppermann (1977). Year after year the award gives outstanding visual artists living in Germany the opportunity to spend ten months in Florence, concentrating on the development of their artistic work.
Now that their time in Florence is behind them, the works of the Fellows from the last two years are exhibited in the Abbey of Corvey. Andrea Bellu /Matei Bellu, Carina Brandes, Kasia Fudakowski, Stefan Pente and Farkhondeh Shahroudi were nominated for the Villa Romana Prize 2017 by jurors Natascha Sadr Haghighian (artist) and Moritz Wesseler, Director of the Kölnischer Kunstverein. The 2016 Fellows - Flaka Haliti, Stefan Vogel, Nico Joana Weber, Jonas Weichsel - were selected by the artist Katharina Grosse and by Bettina Steinbrügge, Director of Kunstverein Hamburg.
Under the title IL MONDO IN FUGA (World on the Run), the exhibition unites current artistic positions, including painting, photography, sculpture, installation and film. Many of the works have been composed especiallyfor the exhibition.
