Conceiving Space
The Colombo Art Biennale (CAB) is the largest and most significant contemporary artmanifestation in Sri Lanka. It was created to showcase contemporary Sri Lankan art and artists,and to build a platform upon which talented Sri Lankan artists would gain recognition bothnationally and internationally.
The theme for CAB 2016 is ‘Conceiving Space.’
As an artistic provocation ‘Conceiving Space’ seeks to open up a paradigm of seeing and possibilities for creative production that engage with explorations and contestations that revolve around diverse senses of space. ‘Conceiving Space’ seeks to reimagine the traditional ‘spatial’ in relation to concept, boundaries and engagement; it demands a foray into space as public and private; space as protest; space as tangible and imagined; space as community, memory and legacy; space as architectural, conceptual, performative, temporal, spiritual, symbolic, intuitive and rhythmic; space as liminal and ritualistic; space as embodied and meditative; space as virtual and transcendent.
Artists representing Germany for Colombo Art Biennale 2016:
The Art and Architecture Historians most recent work includes «Incidental Space», a project by Christian Kerez, which she curated for the Swiss Pavilion of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia 2016, as well as group exhibitions at gta exhibitions at ETH Zurich in November and in Berlin. Together with the general commissioners Alex Lehnerer and Savvas Ciriacidis, she co-curated the German contribution «Bungalow Germania» for the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, in 2014. She has been a critic at the Architecture Department of ETH Zurich and has worked several years as a researcher at ETH Zurich as well as University of Zurich’s Institute of Art History.
From 2010 to 2013, she was Co-Director of Van Horbourg, an artspace for contemporary art in Basel and in Zurich, and also worked as an independent curator. Oehy has realised group and solo exhibitions with artists including Armin Linke, William Forsythe, Simon Denny, Stan Douglas, HR Giger, Rico Scagliola/Michael Meier, Bas Princen, Pennacchio Argentato and Quinn Latimer. She studied History of Art, Political Science and Sociology at the University of Zurich (MA). Since 2014, she has been a member of the Cantonal Art Commission in the canton of Zug.
Eva Priyanka Wegener was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in Germany. She has studied political science, sociology, contemporary dance and yoga in Germany, Sri Lanka and India.
Eva holds certificates in Contemporary Dance and Hatha Vinyasa Yoga and received her yoga education in Sri Lanka (Nilambe Meditation Centre), Germany (Yoga Shala Berlin), India (Krishnamarchaya Yoga Mandiram Chennai), Hong Kong, with David Swenson (Ashtanga Teacher Training Immersion), and Bali, with Louisa Sear, Rose Baudin, Lucy Roberts and Stuart Girling (Yoga Arts Australia).
Rooted in the multiplicity of her movement experience and practice, her interests are socio-political mind-body-spirit awareness through inner and outer movement and stillness; the creation of a moving stillness; the possibilities of a dynamic awareness within oneself, and a spontaneous community; and the ever-evolving search to create a dialogue between “performer” and “audience” and to play with these roles.
Liz Fernando is an award-winning fine artist and photographer, born and raised in Germany. Fernando graduated from the University of Arts, London. The concept of an evolving interplay between the fragile and fugitive existence of a photograph lies at the heart of Fernando’s work, which often derives itself from a sense of nostalgia, building upon a personal archive of aesthetic and practical reflections within non-western cultures.
Her work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern, London and showcased by Photoworks UK. Her highly acclaimed work, “Trincomalee – My Father’s Stories and the Lost Photographs” was recently acquired for the private collection of the World Bank Headquarters in Washington D.C. and is currently on an international travelling exhibition.
Colombo Art Biennale 2016 - Program
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