Visit Eva Duerden’s impressive installation, using familiar motifs in office carpets and night lights to create a nostalgic atmosphere and question traditions.
Eva Duerden – @eva.duerden (b. 1991, Bolton, UK, works and lives in Berlin) is a graduate of Central Saint Martins previously working in London and Co-founder of project space and Collective, 12ø, whose international project 30work30days engaged with thousands of artists from 40 countries. Previous exhibits include, ‘Another day, Another Archytype’ at Lewisham Art House (London), Resident at PIPE factory (Glasgow), ‘on plon air’ as part of Art Licks weekend (London) and ‘Nawki’, The Royal Standard (Liverpool). She has also been a guest lecturer for Liverpool John Moores University, and METAL and assisted curation at Focal Point Gallery (Southend). She has also worked with artist-led spaces and organisations across the UK to collaborate on best working practices.
Artist Statement:
Eva Duerden aims to create a perpetual feeling of novice-hood. The works employ symbols and aesthetics from memories, reamalgmating them to create novel approaches from the user/viewer, to create contradictions, double takes, and (mis)understandings. Fascinated by how we categorise and standardise objects, how they belong to hierarchies of value by mode, material, and context, determining their ‘correctness’, Eva aims to highlight the performativity that permeates these objects and, in turn, ourselves when we engage with them.
„I met Stepanida (Stefani) Vakhotina a few months ago. She came to the opening of the provocative exhibition and wrote a very nice and funny post about it. Gradually it became clear that Stepanida has been describing the events of her life since 2005. Stepanida’s life turned out a little differently from the normal life of an ordinary Russian girl. At the age of 33, she managed to experience about as much as not everyone at 45. Some lyrics are very sad and dramatic, others funny and others cynical.“ – I. Zaidel.
Geboren 1995 in Dänemark, lebt in London und Paris. Er hat in Göteborg studiert und absolviert derzeit seinen MFA in Bildender Kunst an der Goldsmiths University of London. Seine Praxis ist interdisziplinär und umfasst Musik, Literatur, Philosophie, Kuration, Film, Performance, Installation und Skulptur. Er hat bereits in der Tschechischen Republik, Schottland, Frankreich, Norwegen, Schweden, Dänemark und Deutschland ausgestellt. 2021 nahm er an der Kunstmesse FIAC 2021 in Paris teil. Er lebt und arbeitet in London und Paris.
Markus Feiler (*1977, Rotenburg an der Fulda) ist ein deutscher Konzeptkünstler. Mit seinen Arbeiten hinterfragt er Routinen und öffnet ästhetische Räume, die zum Denken, Wahrnehmen und zur eigenen Positionsbestimmung einladen. Seine Werke umfassen vor allem Objektkunst/Installationen, Fotografie und Malerei, ohne sein Schaffen jedoch auf einzelne Techniken zu beschränken. Feilers Arbeiten sind in zahlreichen privaten Sammlungen vertreten und werden in Ausstellungen in Deutschland und im europäischen Ausland gezeigt. Er lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.
Last year Olga Mos moved from Berlin to Hamburg and is working on her master’s thesis at the HFBK and Jorindes Voigt class. After five years of nomadism, moving into the institutional is not easy. Much is thrown overboard at her new place of residence, the port city. New territory is explored – but her work doesn’t seem to be as wild as it was a year ago. But Olga explores new possibilities, formulates new goals.
