Vector curating on a flash drive between Karnataka (India) and Germany (EU)
Exhibition on Flash Drive is an exhibition project with works by artists from Germany and India. On display will be eleven works that have been produced by qualified, third-party craftspeople based on instructions provided by the artists – i.e., so-called “instruction-based art”. This method – which has been in vogue since the time of conceptual art – will be transformed in
Exhibition on Flash Drive to reflect our digitalised everyday lives: By using the formal principles of responsive design and object-based media production, the artworks will be freed from every last essence of existence as ‘originals’ and will thus avoid any form of tradability on the art market.
The goal of this cultural exchange is to experiment with an innovative, flexible and open exhibition format that is particularly suitable – in the context of global media developments – for exhibiting contemporary art and conveying it in various cultural contexts, questioning the relationship between artists, recipients and curators, networking those interested in this type of dialogue and also opening up paths for exhibiting art that do not depend on the creation of an aura or on auratic effect.
Every instruction for action is created by the invited artists according to the formal principles of responsive design or object-based media production. In other words, the individual implementation steps are described by using primitives and splines, in relations or with the aid of operations. However, neither aleatory methods nor a notation that allows scope for interpretation are used here. On the contrary: the instructions for action result in precise plans that are familiar in each particular craft and are required by specialist personnel so that they can carry out works in the form of a commissioned order to a high level of quality.
Opens: March 20, 2019, 5.00 p.m.
On view till March 28, 2019, 11.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. daily
Artists:
A Naveen Kumar
© A Naveen Kumar
Born in 1985,
A Naveen Kumar received a Bachelor of Visual Arts at KEN School of Arts in 2008 and a Master of Visual Arts in Printmaking at Bangalore University, Dept. of Visual Arts in 2010.
His Solo Exhibitions include: Magical Stories from 81 sq.ft. Studio at Gallery Sumukha, Bengaluru, 2017; Magical Stories, MOD, Bengaluru, 2014.
Naveen Kumar has been Artist in Residence at Pirmal Art Residency, Mumbai. 2018; Art For Change, New Delhi. 2018; Indian Ateliers, International Residency Program, Goa. 2013
Numerous awards and scholarships, such as Karnataka Lalith Kala Akademy Printmaking fellowship, 2017; K.K. Hebbar Art Grant, 2017; CAF Europe art tour award 2016; Camel Art Foundation Award 2015;Shenoy Art Foundation “Emerging artist” Award 2015; Aranawas, S.G Vasudev Scholarship for 2007-09; Nadoja R.M. Hadpad Scholarship for 2006
Vineesh Amin
© Vineesh Ameen
Vineesh Amin was born in 1991 in Bangalore, India. In 2013, he completed his Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts specialising in Sculpture from Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore and post-graduation (2018) from National Institut of Design, Gujarat. Exploring the nature of form and materiality, he understood material handling by working with various media like clay, cotton, wood, stone, metal and created sculptures that retained their natural characteristics. He then began to bridge material and technology to unravel the process of perceived reality formed by mind + matter + space through a series of installations in his solo show “FORMULA” which was showcased in 2014 at 1 Shanthi Road.
“Time Machine” a time piece created by him in 2016 bridges a triangular aesthetics between analog, digital and form and tells time through the movement of ferrous particles submerged in water and concealed in a dial. Vineesh’s nature of work lies in the interception of art, design and technology by interacting various media and processes with the idea of time and space. He works with electronic components and mechanisms to collaborate interactivity and kinetics through material and space. His most recent work in 2018 involved a performance by a mechanical machine at Walkin Studios in Bengaluru, which physically draws visually interpreted theories and questions regarding the idea of time and its possible theories of existence.
Vineesh is currently working on rediscovering the idea of time through material while specifying it to the surrounding space or body it is subjected to. He believes that time has limitless possibilities of being understood and that it is purely a relative subject of existence.
B N Vichar
© B N Vichar
B N Vichar has an MFA in Sculpture (2003 - 2005) from Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts, Mysuru and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), in Sculpture (1997 - 2002), also from Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts, Mysuru, also a Ph.D in Animation (2011) from Jain University, Bengaluru
Vichar is a skilled and experienced 3D professional with 10+ years of combined experience in Production and Gaming. His specialties: Strong modeling abilities to create and supervise; Characters, Environments and facial blend shape.
Additional knowledge includes 10+ years in traditional art, clay modeling, stone, metal, painting, illustration, landscape gardening, restoration, installation art and intermediate knowledge on various special effects makeup.
Vichar worked as Personal Sculptor for the Maharaja (king) of Mysore at Mysore Palace Sculpture March 2003 - November 2006, Mysore and Bangalore.
Honours/Awards include 3D Total Excellence Award, Zbrush Sculpt Off 2016; Karnataka Lalitakala Academy Award, October 1996.
Ina Ettlinger
© Ina Ettlinger
Ina Ettlinger uses found clothes as the base of her work, mostly trouvaille from flea markets. She deconstructs the textiles step by step to let amorphous objects grow from the colour patterns and material structures. With the use of cotton wool as a filler, organic creations emerge that are, regarding the traces of the needlework, obviously structured. The small-sized objects trim the room, serene, soft organic creations partially come through the wall. The question about the relations between clothes and room is always in the centre. Analytically, Ettlinger makes use of special patterns and colour combinations within the material to spatialise them or play them in an altered form into the room.
Ina Ettlinger, born in 1969 in Munich, studied until 1994 in Augsburg und Belfast and later Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. 2007 she received the advancement award of the state capital Munich and 2008 the debutante prize of the Free State Bavaria. Her latest exhibitions: Gallery of the borough Upper Bavaria (2018), Orangery Munich (2015), Gallery Kullukcu, Munich (2013), City Hall Gallery, Munich (2012).
Anjana Kothamachu
© Anjana Kothamachu
Anjana Kothamachu graduated from The Academy of Fine Arts and Crafts, Rachana Sansad, India with a major in sculpture. Prior to this, she studied animation and completed a Bachelor’s in Psychology. She has participated in several residency programmes including The Last Ship, Mumbai; Stiftung Futur Foundation, Switzerland; Sandarbh International Artists Association’s residency and Khoj. Anjana received the Inlaks Fine Art Award and installed a large-scale outdoor sculpture at the India Art Fair. Since then she has been part of the Creative India Public Art Intensive; the Changwon Sculpture Biennale, Korea; ISCP New York, Prohelvetia Switzerland and the Hyderabad Literature Festival. Her work has been part of both national and international exhibitions.
“I am interested in the internal landscape of the human mind, the structure of emotions, thought and the nature of being. The relationship between the internal psyche of the individual and the external world; how these forces shape the individual and the resultant states of being. These explorations form the content of my work and take shape as drawings, object, video and audio installations.”
Antonia Low
© Eric Tschernow
Hidden places, situations behind the scenery of the publicly visible, overseen niches, corners and rooms, mostly in Institutes of Arts build the context and the starting point of
Antonia Low’s artistic work. These are discoveries of “different places”, often more or less invisible, beyond the perception and presentation of outlying architectural events, the backside of installations, technical facilities, provisional arranged lounge areas, storerooms and stocks. These views will – photographically documented – be transferred into a process of artistic adoption, which will start a procedure of tracing, subtracting, disassembling and reassembling. It’s a substantial centring, which will bring those “non-places” to the light.
Hareesh V. Malappanavar
© Hareesh V. Malappanavar
Born in Motebennur, Byadgi Taluk 1985,
Hareesh Malappanavar received a Bachelor of Visual Arts in Painting from the University College of Fine Arts in Davangere in 2008 and a Master of Visual Arts in Sculpture from Bangalore University in 2010.
He has won several prizes in 2007 amongst South Zone Festival painting prize in Tirupati, Sahyadri Utsava painting prize in Shankaragatta Shimoga, Rotary club Org, painting prize in Davanageri and Karnataka Science and Technology Academy of Bangalore Org, painting prize in Davanagere in 2008.
Hareesh’s Solo Exhibitions in South India include Karnataka Lalit Kala Academy sponsored Painting Exhibition in Mangalore, 2010; Installations Exhibition in Davanagere, 2006; Installations Exhibition in Tirupati, 2007.
Hareesh has been awarded the following scholarships: Arnawaz Vasudev scholarship 2009 & 2010; Karnataka Shilpakala Academy Scholarship 2010 Bangalore and awards: In the name of Karnataka Pradesh Janamanya late.V L Patil (ABAJI) foundation honoured “National Award” at Rayabag in 2017; Award of “Gold medals/cash prizes” and first rank certificates received 46th annual convocation of Bangalore University, 2010; 23rd “All India Art Contest” , south central zone cultural centre Nagpur, 2009 [for sculpture]; Mahendra Pandya Foundation Trust Award, Baroda, 2008.
Alaka Rao
© Alaka Rao
Alaka Rao is a visual artist based in Bengaluru, India. Having earned a Diploma in painting at Ken School of Art, Bengaluru, she started her career as an art teacher and moved on to working as a freelance artist for Coats Viyella Ltd., and later, heading the Design Department at Gokaldas Exports Ltd., Bengaluru, for more than 13 years, she leads a team of artists catering to the design requirements of the local and global market. After working as practicing artist at the Graphic Studio of the Central Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, India for 3 years, she was awarded the Karnataka Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship in prints.
Her earlier works are watercolour landscapes and graphic prints. Currently she works with various media - paintings, prints, frescos, installations, live art performances and interventions. Some of the works include: ‘131-B Auromirra -A Tribute’ (Presentation and performance, Bengaluru), ‘Across Me Across Us!’, ‘Putting pieces together’, ‘Private Collections Public Museum’, ‘Beware of your Carbon Foot Prints’, ‘ I am…..’, ‘My FoodUU My ChoisUU!?’ (Interactive performance, Bengaluru) ‘Break Free’ & ‘Seeds of Unity’ (Performance, Bengaluru/Kochi/Kolkata).
Alaka is an active member of Venkatappa Art Gallery Forum, All India Mahila Samskrutika Sanghatane & Aavishkara Film Society & Progressive Cultural Forum. She is interested in social activism focusing on women’s rights. Being a nature lover and adventure enthusiast, she loves to travel.
Thomas Rentmeister
© Bernd Borchardt
Besides found pieces of the everyday world, Thomas Rentmeister also works with well-known branded articles such as Nutella, Tempo and Penaten since 1999. Taken out of the daily usage, these products receive a new semantic level in formal and contextual view throughout decontextualising. The abstraction, which the transfer of those daily products creates, unsettle the viewer in their as “safe” believed perception. The view on these consumer products as formal creations plays a casting role and refers to Rentmeister’s connection to American Minimalism Art. The aesthetic of the material and the given, complex structure of the product packaging generate an aesthetic-artistic result.
Rasso Rottenfusser
© Bernhard Müller
The human building and shaping, the entanglement of the perception mechanisms between Architecture and Art are the starting point of
Rasso Rottenfusser’s opus. His works are extremely site specific and debate given structures and localities, relations between inside and outside and current circumstances of socio-cultural contexts. Furniture-like installations with pawns, like vitrines, screens, photography and mirrors open up further insights and views and new perspectives of the perception. For the viewer, this creates sculptural situations.
Rasso Rottenfusser, born 1966 in Munich where he also lives and works at Riva del Garda. Parcour-like installations amongst others for Barcelona, Bologna, Paris and Zurich (until 2013). His latest exhibitions: Studio im Hochhaus, Berlin (2017/18); House of Arts, Munich (2017).
Hans HS Winkler
© Hans HS Winkler
Since 1984,
Hans HS Winkler realises worldwide art projects, interventions and actions mostly in public space e.g. „un incidente in gondola“ (Nuova Icona, Venice, 2002), granizza“ (Dialog Loci, Kostryzn, 2004) oder die „Flucht des Ötzi“ (Eurac, Museion, Bolzano, 2008). From 1988 to 2000 he worked under the name “p.t.t.red” (paint the town red) amongst others on urban space installations as “the golden cut” or “redshift”. Hans Winkler (co-)curated exhibitions such as “legal/illegal” in Berlin (2004) or “looking for mushrooms” in Cologne (2008).
Curators:
Ralf Homann
© Ralf Homann
Ralf Homann studied Sculpture in Munich. From 1997-1999 he was Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, from 1999-2007 Professor and Member of the Faculty of Media at Bauhaus-University Weimar, where he established the new artistic area of “Experimental Radio”. Ralf Homann is currently based in Munich.In general, Homann's work deals with spatial concepts and with such of the media while also reflecting upon their interdependency. He is interested in activating the public space by means of performative practices. In his works, which are negotiating the boundaries of art and politics, he investigates knowledge – its hidden narrative or invisible design – to engender new perspectives on reality and its representations.
Ralf Homann is a member of the curatorial board of Kunstraum Munich where he recently realised the exhibition “podcast” about art and radio. The show will move to Cologne in May 2019.
Uwe Jonas
© Uwe Jonas
Uwe Jonas (born 1962 in Hamburg, studied political science) works since 1993 as an artist and curator in Berlin. Followed a conceptual and context-oriented attempt with a focus on the transformation of the society, mostly in the public space. Exhibitions in Bangalore, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Dakar, The Hague, Helsinki, Innsbruck, Vienna, etc.Curatorial projects: Areale Neukölln 2001 (Berlin), Pilotprojekt Gropiusstadt 2002-2008 (Berlin), Magistrale 2002 (Berlin), First View 2004 (Berlin), Okkupation 2004-2006 (Berlin), space thinks 2008-2009 (Berlin), Pilotprojekt Auwiesen 2009 (Linz/Austria) and since 2011 Lichtenberg Studios (Berlin).
Operater of the Neues Problem 2000-2013 and since 2015 as a curator studio im HOCHHAUS (Berlin).
Suresh Kumar G
© Suresh G Kumar
Suresh Kumar G is a visual/performance artist, curator, arts facilitator and arts mentor. Graduated from College of Fine Arts, Bangalore in 1997 and with a Masters in Sculpture from College of Art, New Delhi in 2000. His earlier practice has been into three-dimensional works, site specific works, addressing social, environmental issues.
Since 2002, he is mostly into Performance art, curating and facilitating community, public and collective art projects, which were some time short term and long durational too. His approach to art is inter-disciplinary and experimental, which questions notions and it propose alternatives within contemporary art practice outside the commercial and gallery module. Being one of the founder and active member of BAR 1, the oldest Bangalore based Artist Residency program in the city. During the years he has Initiated, curated and supported art programs in BAR 1 for promotion of inter-city artist exchange program and pedagogy in arts.
Suresh is one of the founders and an active member of BAR 1, the oldest Bangalore-based Artist Residency. He has initiated, curated and supported art programmes in BAR 1 for promotion of inter-city artist exchange and pedagogy in arts. In 2009, he initiated “Samuha” Artists Initiative and Collective, which was conceived as a time-bound art and community project calling space as art and common ground, curating and facilitating 20-plus artists to inhabit the project space for larger outreach with exhibitions, artist talks and presentations.
Between 2010 and 2016, he initiated a digital archival project, called Per-Fumes, a long term video archival project, documenting and archiving art in public and artist talks in the city, to make it available online for research, educational and pedagogical purposes. Loopholes was his facilitation/curatorial project initially started in 2011 at BAR 1 studio-artist residency space and later the project ventured into informal public spaces of Bangalore. Under this larger Loopholes project, he initiated a year-long public art project called 080:30 with the group of 15 to 20 young artists and art students in the city, all under the age of 30. The core idea was to facilitate, curate and propose possibilities for budding artists to intervene in city through public art and performative interventions.
Since then he has been curating and co-curating performance and public art projects independently and on invitation. Suresh has participated in many artist residencies, workshops and festivals both in India and abroad. And has also been teaching and conducting workshops on performance art and public art in Bangalore, India.
Surekha
© Surekha
Surekha, a visual/video artist and curator from India, who explores artistic forms through installations, video & photography since the past two decades. Her works investigate how visuality can engage with gender/ecology/socio-political aesthetics, negotiating public and private spaces.
Her work has been shown in Indian and International galleries and museums like, Kunstraum Kreuzberg (Berlin), Sanjose Museum & Ulrich museum (USA), Kunsthaus (Langenthal), Museum Guimet (Paris), EAWAG (Zurich), National Gallery of modern art (Bangalore), Devi Art Foundation & Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (New Delhi), Lakeeren art gallery & Chemould Prescott Road (Mumbai), Kastrupgard Samlingen (Copenhagen), Herbert J.Foundation (Cornell University), Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, (Rio de Janeiro), Fondacio La Caixa (Barcelona), Bucharest Biennale, Pleasure Dome (Toronto) , Loveland Museum (USA), New media festival (Dhaka), Alharama Art Center, Lahore / Karachi, Minneapolis art Institute/Newark Museum , Ivam Museum (Spain), Videonnale-Malmo Museum (Stockholm), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Jerusalem Show- Al'mamal Foundation, Asia Triennale (Manchester), Royal academy (London), Fluss (Austria), Kunst Museum (Bern) , Ecole Beaux Arts (Paris), Dakshina Chitra & Boros Museum (Sweden ), Ethnographic Museum (Geneva), Aboa Arsanova/Lappenrenta Museum (Finland) and IMA (Brisbane).
Surekha lives and works in Bangalore.
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