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Exhibition view "Hidden Future"; Photos by BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt;
"Transforming Leadership, Securing our Future" is the theme of the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders Hub during the Munich Security Conference 2023. In the digital age, this transformation has an unprecedented urgency. Leaders today find themselves confronted with the demand to continually readjust and retool, as our world and with it our possibilities to shape the future are changing at tremendous speed, New technologies, political disruptions, dwindling resources, and other parameters from the fluid framework for a future that everybody would like to have all nicely planned and secured.
For all our efforts to secure the future, it ultimately remains hidden, and there is no such thing as a universal vantage point: Looking to and into the future is highly contingent on where we are looking.
The exhibition Hidden Future wants to present non-linear and surprising ways of visualizing the fundamentally hidden future and rendering it emotionally tangible. Hidden Future on Prater Island showcases works by three artists and an artist duo from different generations and different backgrounds but all working and living in Bavaria.
In her Work "Autobahn Evolution - Generation Overload" (2022), Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias deals with the emergence of a fictive evolution by mixing and enhancing textile objects. The artist says about her work: "Taking the exploration of reproduction and DNA as its framework, the project critically inquiries into genetic engineering, for example in animals and plants. The aesthetic language deliberately draws a line of connection to the automotive industry."
Text by Mon Muellerschoen
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Jusha and Sven Müller
Esther Zahel
Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias
Cigdem Aky
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Based on the title quotation of the mystic Teresa of Ávila, whose thoughts on the role of women have lost none of their topicality even after 400 years, the exhibition offers a multitude of starting points for discussions about being a woman worldwide and at any time: What makes a woman? What are the social expectations? What attributes do we attach to women? What role does the female body play?
These questions in an international and supra-temporal context lead to diverse answers, which the artists negotiate individually and in different media. At the same time, the works open up the possibility to question opinions and role models, deal with social norms, and illuminate completely new aspects of being a woman beyond conventional perspectives. What all the artworks have in common is that they offer the audience low-threshold food for thought and material for subsequent discussions. What a welcome opportunity to talk about definitions of femininity in general and in particular.
The SALOON Network fosters a community within the art world that exchanges ideas and expertise and encourages the creation of collabo- rations and projects. The members are women-identifying and non-binary who are curators, artists, gallerists, and other professionals in the arts.
A group exhibition of SALOON Munich in cooperation with Schwere-Reiter-Theater, supported by SALOON Network, BBK Bayern, and Gogia Fine Art Logistics.
Text by Saloon Network Munich
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias, Nina Aeberhard, Veronika Dräxler, Mariella Kerscher, Silvia Gardini, Brenda Franco, Sandra Bejarano & Lilian Robl
Saloon Munich Board: Eva Lengler / Curator: Cordula Gielen
LOCATION
Schwere-Reiter-Theater, Munich
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ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 2022 exhibition view; Photos courtesy of Kendra Jayne Patrick
Working in expansive, intricatelystructured material languages, Teresa Baker, Sharona Franklin and Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias amalgamate fantasy, reality, and alternate continuums of space-time at thelocation of their respective socio-political coordinates. At once theartists analyze and ignore their “place” in societies governed by Western civic conventions.
These women share an immersive approach to overcoming the fissure between the to overcoming the fissure between the conceptual object and the material thing. Their works convene elaborate sets of references: AstroTurf, gelatin,medical accoutrement, buffalo hyde, and weaves that seem to be falling apart,all of which tight rope the borderbetween self and society.
The objects we will show at Art Basel Miami Beach are connected by the artists’ most cryptographic habits. Here, making is an act of sorcery, of summoning the familiar for the telling of entirely new stories, of consulting the ancestors for their crisp takes on how we might better assemble the Future.
Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias is a Chilean, Munich-based artist who secritical examination of textiles as amedium and subject reflects hercultural roots and personal resonance with theories of postcolonialism.Stemming from a theoretical,structural, and historical engagement with looms, her approach is characterized by exhausting their algorithms with deconstruction as her point of departure.
Text by Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias
Teresa Baker
Sharona Franklin
EXHIBITION DATES
VIP PREVIEW 29. + 30.11.2022
PUBLIC DAYS 01. - 03.12.2022
LOCATION
MIAMI BEACH Convention Center
Nova Section
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Exhibition view "We can be heroes"; Photos by Galerie Wolfgang Jahn
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Laura Aberham
Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias
Sophia Mainka
Marion Mandeng
Judith Milberg
EXHIBITION DATES
24 November 2022 - 28 January 2023
LOCATION
Reichenbachstr. 47 - 49, Rückgebäude
80469 München
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"All senses are lost" exhibition view; Photos by Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias
All senses are lost is Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias’ first exhibition in which she explicitly approaches gender debates. Starting point of her artistic contemplation is the discrepancy in the translation between the self-constructed image and the male-dominated representation of female figures. The artist takes up an Instagram meme from 2010 which juxtaposes two photographs of saint Teresa of Avilà (1515-1582) and former Disney star Lindsay Lohan (*1986). Whilst Avilà is sculpted in The Rapture of Saint Teresa (1645-1652) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in a state of transverberation, paparazzi shots caught Lohan 2007 in a moment of intoxicated ecstasy. Instrumentalized by the male subject, attributes such as passivity, dependence and vulnerability are constructed as guiding principles of female existence. Both, are depleted of their lived experience and senses.
In Transverberation Constanza reanimates autonomously Avilà’s self-determined voice fighting for democratizing the Catholic doctrine. Her woven appearance in the RGB color model is pixelated and made to flicker. In A little more personal Lohan’s face is placed in Avilà’s kerchief making the two figures melt together. By using digital techniques of tumbling, hyperlinking and coding Constanza pushes not only the fabric but also the loom to technical and aesthetic limits.
One of the result are floating yarns that create a visual disturbance which resonate the beholders’ confusion about the figure’s identity. In the artist’s first video work Keep a watch on: self-monitoring Constanza deliberately exposes herself to the still male-dominated voyeuristic gaze of the camera. She retains control over what becomes visible and what remains invisible as her body alternately moves into the light beam and disappears into darkness again.In the tension between self-determined objectification and what the camera lens seeks to capture, the artist questions whether feminism as a theme should be evoked, exposed and/or even negated.
Does revisiting feminist thought lead to its incorporation or does it let patriarchal structures stagnate? Can the perpetuum mobile of female objectification ever be brought to a halt? Constanza’s cross-cultural referencing, non-linear historicity, and deconstruction of the weave’s material specificity are queering techniques that make seemingly stable (normative) structures become unstable.
Text by Lorena Harauzek
ALL SENSES ARE LOST - solo exhibition
curated by Lorena Harauzek
NODEPRESSIONroom
Dachauer Str. 157 Munich
13 05 2022 - 22 05 2022
Opening
12 05 2022 18 - 21 Uhr
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"Vingt-deux et pas mille", 2021, Jacquardweave and metal eyelets, 145 x 370 cm, Photo by Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias
Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) poses a crucial question: Is it possible for humans to act in an ethical and meaningful manner in a silent universe? According to him, the answer is yes. The experience and awareness of the absurd create moral values and also set up the limits of our actions. Camus separates the modern form of rebellion into two modes.
First, there is the metaphysical rebellion, "the movement by which man protests against his condition and the whole of creation." The other mode, the "historical rebellion" is the attempt to materialize the abstract spirit of metaphysical rebellion and change the world. In this attempt, the rebel must balance between the evil of the world and the intrinsic evil, which every revolt carries and not cause any unjustifiable suffering. (Text by Venetia Initiatives)
"Quieter than Silence" - Part B
March 3 - April 16, 2022
curated by Venetia Kapernekas
PRESENTING
Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias
Anna Conway
Shirine Gill
Marius Glauer
Joanna Malinowska
Jenny Min
LOCATION
Greenwich Street, New York
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TACKER pre-selection exhibition view at Galerie der KünstlerInnen, BBK München & Oberbayern; Photos by Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias
TACKER pre-selection exhibition view at Galerie der KünstlerInnen, BBK München & Oberbayern; Photos by Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias
TACKER (EXHIBITION SERIES)
The TACKER exhibition series, which takes place annually in the summer, is a pre-selection for the DEBUTANT*INNEN and DIE ERSTEN JAHRE DER PROFESSIONALITÄT (The First Years of Professionalism) programs of the BBK Munich (Professional Association for Visual Artists) in the GALERIE DER KÜNSTLER*Innen.
From all submitted applications for these two exhibition series from all over Bavaria, the BBK Munich commission will select 20 artists who will contest the second round of the jury with original works.
EXHIBITION DATES
5 - 17 July 2022
LOCATION
Galerie der Künstler*innen
Maximiliansstr. 42
80539 München
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"Mega Atobaahn", 2022, at 1Kasten exhibition view; Photos by Christian Kölbl
Curated by Christian Kölbl
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Claudia Holzinger
Pia vom Ende
Fern Liberty Kallenbach Campbell
Brett Seiler
Guy Simpson
Christian Kölbl
Gabriela Guarnizo
Anica Seidel
Frankfurter Hauptschule
Leah Barna
Martin Gross
Valeria Schneider
Felix Leon Westner
Aleftina Karasyova
Sunny Pudert
Valentin Wagner
Felix Kultau
Matthew Griffiths van der Wal
Nicolás Astorga
With a performance of Felix Leon Westner
EXHIBITION DATES
9 - 25 April 2022
OPENING
9th April 2022
LOCATION
Schönwalder Str. 4
13585 Spandau/ Berlin
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Gallery Benjamin Eck exhibition view; Photos by Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias
Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias
& Silvia Inselvini - duo exhibition
GALERIE BENJAMIN ECK
Pestalozzistr. 14, Munich
20 05 2022 - 02 07 2022
Opening
19 05 2022 18 - 21 Uhr
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"Mega Atobaahn", 2022, Jacquardweave and metal chains, 130 x 110 cm; a.topos exhibition view
Photos by Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias
a.topos Venice for the second edition of THE CREATIVE ROOM, invited artists to dedicate their art to the theme "The Future of Art and the Art of the Future".
The artists involved are: Mário Afonso, Damiano Fasso, Lina Zylla, Sève Favre, Sarah Valente, Doris Schamp, Madalena Corrêa Mendes, Armin Amiriam, Lucrezia Costa, Oona Nelson, Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias, Jia-Rey Chang, Elena Xausa e Lorenzo Fonda, Nero Cosmos, Veronika Dräxler, Adélaïde Feriot, Chiara Tubia, Degann, David Michel Fayek, Ian Callender, Finn Theuws, Anna Maconi, Tanguy de Thuret, Lorenzo Peluffo e Fortuna De Nardo, Bernardo Tirabosco, Fadwa Rouhana, Daniela Di Lullo.
For almost two years, the majority of the world’s population was unable to attend any exhibition in a physical space. This new reality was unsurprisingly accompanied by an intense discussion around some of the hottest topics of the period in the art scene - is the virtual realm better than real-world exhibitions? Will digital replace experiencing a show live? Are we witnessing the establishment of a new normal, with the rise of new media hegemony in artistic practice?
Many extensive debates, strained relationships, repetitive arguments and, most of all, many, many, many online exhibitions after, we can take a deep breath and admit that - besides its undeniable contribution to the democratization of Art - virtual is definitely better than nothing. Hopefully, we can also foresee an art scene where both, digital and real, can, if not live happily ever after, at least find a way to peacefully (and in a mutually beneficial way) cohabit. After so much time apart, it’s nice to explore the possibility of encounters. Utopia, Dystopia, and Retrotopia are two of them.
Utopia, Dystopia, Retrotopia
The artworks gathered here are an array of different interpretations about the future, converging into an enlarged horizon of expectation; an immersion in a compelling mixture between optimistic prognosis, cynical readings of the future and a nostalgic dive into a longing - either experienced or idealized - past.
Opening the narrative, the first show harvests works of art offering either utopic sceneries or gateways to a dystopian tomorrow. The audience is presented with an exhibition path that creates visual and sound spaces shifting between an invitation to sail together instead of adrift or attesting the burden of times to come.
In the second exhibit, a world struck by an appalling pandemic and an art scene flooded with NTFs as backdrop brings past and future to walk sideways in what Zigmund Bauman defined as retrotopia. Either through form, content or both, the displayed artworks depict a strive to (re)establish a mityfied - even if unfaithful - past. And in case nostalgically revisting a longing time does not chase uncertainty away, art can at least attempt righteous grief.
Exhibition curated by a.topos Venice, THE CREATIVE ROOM #2 has been organized in collaboration with Portrait Eyewear and Demoni Danzanti creative residency.
Covid-19 precautions
Please note that all visitors must wear masks inside the venue and that the super green pass is mandatory to access the show.
For more information, please contact info@atoposvenice.com
EXHIBITION DATES
3–13 March 2022
17-27 March 2022
LOCATION
SPARC* Spazio Arte Contemporanea
Campo Santo Stefano 2828A
30124 Venezia
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The year 2022 has already brought exciting events:
On 26 January, I had the pleasure of welcoming the Friends of the Pinakothek der Moderne Munich to my studio. Opening PIN.YC's program as the first event of the year was a great honor for me. It was a fantastic experience to receive an official group of visitors to my nearly new studio, where I moved at the end of last year.
The evening was full of interesting questions about my textile practice. And it was a grand delight for me to demonstrate different textile craft techniques to my attentive guests. A big thank you to the PIN. team: Stephanie Rechenberg, Sophie Kirchner, and Franziska Le Meur for organizing this perfect studio visit. And many thanks to the many guests who enriched the evening with their discussions and vibrant exchange.
Photo courtesy of PIN. Friends of the Pinakothek and Ella Malzew, 2022.
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Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias artist portrait presented at a large screen, exhibition pictures by Venetia Kapernekas
”We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates… Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.
At the heart of this philosophy is a fundamental cultural polarity. Unlike the Western conception of beauty -a stylized fantasy constructed by airbrushing reality into a narrow and illusory ideal of perfection the zenith of Japanese aesthetics is deeply rooted in the glorious imperfection of the present moment and its relationship to the realities of the past.” Text by Venetia Kapernekas
Art Project “Quieter than Silence_The Space Between”, New York
curated by Venetia Kapernekas from November 14 till December 16, 2021
Address: Greenwich Street, Hudson Square, New York City
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Exhibition view from "Am Ende gewinnt der Troll" group exhibition at the Orangerie at Englischer Garten Munich.
Photos by Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias
AM ENDE GEWINNT DER TROLL
18.11.2021 - 21.11.2021
Orangerie, München
Englischer Garten 1A
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Marlon Fleischer
Judith Grassl
Oliver Haussmann
Florian Huth
Nele Kakkalaschnikov
Anna Lena Keller
Marlon Möltgen
Julius Niemeyer
Eduardo Palomares
Alexander Scharf
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Installationview "Misiones - Espero que los condores vengan a comerme", 2021, 130 x 130 x 140 cm, Wood & Jacquardweaves, exhibition pictures by Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias
“Chilean Conexión” is an exhibition of Chilean artists living in Berlin that aim to disseminate and increase the visibility of the work being developed by many migrating national artists in the German capital, with hopes to facilitate a meeting and connection between them and also within the local community.
Since the Berlin Wall fell down, many Chilean artists and musicians have been relocating to the German capital, seduced by an effervescent artistic and musical scene, and for social-cultural relations that entice them to this particular city. These migrant artists often go unnoticed due to both their youth and also the large number of artists and musicians who arrive each year in the city, competing for the same workspaces and exhibitions.
A group of them was invited for the first time in 2018 to exhibit part of the works they have been developing here, in a small collective exhibition. About 30 artists of different diciplines were presented in a single night, being received with a massive attendance of the Chilean community and also the local public.
In this 4th edition, the objective is to expand and consolidate the exhibition, with more works and categories on display, which will include: the visual arts, video art, installations, acoustic projects and performances, in addition to several workshops, several of them supporting foreign artists.
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Exhibition pictures by SOMOS Arts Berlin
Ambactia* Memoria is a group exhibition to be presented at SomoS Art House Berlin between September 7-18th 2021. Ambactia Memoria offers artists, critics, and activists an open framework to articulate non-normative artistic positions and peripheral perspectives regarding tradition, memory, and identities in relation to the Hispanic. By exploring the intersection between feminism, transculturalism and (post) migrant approaches on the representations, practices and diverse forms of identity in contemporary society, works selected deconstruct the idea of Hispanicness and collectively imagine its future transformation.
"Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias (HYPERISM) intensively examines her roots and the development of textile projects from postcolonialism, with a flag reappropriated by the Mapuche people since their colonization. This reappropriation of derogatory or traditionally questionable symbols (as the term queer by the LGBTIQ+ community was at the time) is installed in the interstices of irony as a political device for social activation, as evidenced by the actions of the Homo Velamine collective."
Curated by Vanesa Peña Alarcón (ES), the exhibition takes as a starting point an institutional critique of the global stereotypical representation of the Hispanic by international diplomatic organizations and cultural institutes. In Peña’s view, this representation of the Hispanic or the concept of Hispanicness, is a form of patronization of people’s history, collective memory, and subjectivities, a one-sided perspective that doesn’t allow for a genuine inclusion of transculturalism. Curated by Vanesa Peña Alarcón
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TRAVERSE online exhibition view; Screenshots from https://vortic.art/exhibitions/3498
Amalgama is a cultural programme and digital platform devoted to exhibiting, promoting and publishing the work of women artists from Latin America, Spain & Portugal.
Their objective is to help female artists achieve their deserved value in the industry, recognising their significant and important contribution to the global art scene.
#TRAVERSE will take place ONLINE in collaboration with Vortic art from 12th August till 30th September 2021.
Showcasing the work of 15 artists from Latin America, Spain and Portugal, the exhibition explores notions of nature, bodies and culture in the digital age and discussing the evolution of perspectives as a result of technology. Curated by Daniela Galan
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It is a great honor to announce this new exhibition in Japan. For a whole month, the Art Museum in Takaoka City exhibits one HYPERISM artwork as part of the International KOGEI Award from Toyama. The Takaoka Art Museum, which opened in 1951, was moved and rebuilt in September 1994. The Art Museum aims to give a platform to traditional arts and crafts and offers extensive art activities to Takaokas Citizens.
The famous "Fujio F. gallery" in the Museum presents many original Doraemon drawings by renowned Takaoka-born artist-duo Fujiko Fujio.
The exhibition runs from the 10th of April till the 5th of May 2021.
Exhibition pictures with the kind support of the Takaoka Art Museum team, 2021, Takaoka, Japan
Photo source: Wikipedia.com
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After a long year of postponed exhibitions, it is a great honor to announce that one Jacquard piece from the HYPERISM project has won the Honorable Mentions Award including 300.000 ¥ price money in Toyama, Japan.
All award winners have the privilege to participate in an official exposition, which will be held at the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art & Design from 25th February to 4th April in Japan.
The International KOGEI Award in Toyama is for craftspeople under 50 years of age, including artists, artisans, and designers. This award encourages craftspersons all over the world in their expressions, techniques, and ideas.
The award aims to draw the future vision of crafts by reconsidering the stereotypical concept of traditional handcrafts. KOGEI Award captures the global trends in handcrafts and creates new opportunities for international networks and collaboration.
It is a great honor to know that Reiko Sudo, one of Japan‘s most famous textile artists and part of the NUNO textile label, is part of the KOGEI Judges who chose the HYPERISM textile piece. The award aims to draw the future vision of crafts by reconsidering the stereotypical concept of traditional handcrafts. KOGEI Award captures the global trends in handcrafts and creates new opportunities for international networks and collaboration.
All pictures by KOGEI Award team in Toyama, 2021, Japan
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Thank you so much to ART IN AMERICA and chief-editor Emily Watlington for featuring me as one of 20 international artists in this year's New Talent Issue.
A huge thanks to Emily Mc Dermott for the great interview and fabulous article. I am glad to have been published with so many great artists! Enjoy reading it.
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