Birgit Brenner Video

Apocalypse Now! The artist Birgit Brenner specializes in catastrophes large and small. Have an insight into her solo show at Museum im Kleihues-Bau Kornwestheim.

In tiny ink drawings as well as huge spatial installations, Brenner poses questions: Why can't politicians find a solution to the global crises? Why do we revolve so unwaveringly around ourselves?The exhibition in Kornwestheim could therefore be pitch-black. But it isn't, because the artist always includes a good dose of black humor.

Production by SWR Kultur, 10.03.2024, Moderation Sabine Willkop
Exhibition:
Never Happy. Never Sad.
Museum im Kleihues-Bau, Germany
9 March - 9 June 2024
Interview in German

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Filmstill, Lada Nakonechna, Studium des Menschen, 2022
Lada Nakonechna Video

"The exhibition was set up before Russia invaded the whole of Ukraine. “But for me, for us,” says the artist, “the war has been here for eight years.” Learn more about Lada Nakonechna, her art and "Studium des Menschen" at our gallery in Leipzig.

This long-planned project of the Ukrainian artist is already the 6th solo exhibition at Galerie EIGEN + ART since the first cooperation in 2012.

The materials used for the objects – paper mâché and metal – are extremely divergent in terms of haptics, weight, and stability. The knee shapes connect with the tubes, or the tubes penetrate the shapes. Coolly illuminated, they appear quite different from the models from which the artist molded them: simultaneously elemental and extremely vulnerable and precarious."
(Text excerpt by Carolline Krahl)

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Film & Edit: TABLEAU Films (Matthias Maercks)
English with German subtitles

Tim Eitel
Tim Eitel, Vie imaginaire, chapitre II: Ensemble, Exhibition view, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, 2021
Tim Eitel Video

"Art is the opposite of general ideas, it describes individuals, desires only the unique. It does not classify, it unclassifies."
Marcel Schwob, Imaginary Lives, 1896

And yet this second chapter in Eitel’s collection of imaginary lives—staged three years after the first at the same gallery—achieves a marked coming-together, more in the style of Éric Rohmer, and a new proximity between protagonists. (...)

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Film & Edit: TABLEAU Films (Matthias Maercks)
Music: Gillian Wood (composition/ cello / piano/ 808)

Filmstill, Louisa Clement, Off-target-effect, 2023
Louisa Clement Audio

Dangerous desire for perfection - Bonn Art Prize for Louisa Clement

Listen to this radio interview by Deutschlandfunk between Louisa Clement and Anja Reinhardt and get to know the story behind the new artworks for her solo exhibiton Becoming Lost. The exhibition is on view at Kunstmuseum Bonn until June 16, 2024.

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Production by Deutschlandfunk
Moderation and production: Anja Reinhardt
Interview in German

Installation view, BODEN, Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig, Photo: Uwe Walter, Berlin
Ricarda Roggan Audio

Jens Trocha spoke to artist Ricarda Roggan about her exhibition, which is on view at the Leipzig gallery until March 2, 2024 and got even more information out of her.
Listen to 30 Minutes of Art!

You will get an insight into how Ricarda Roggan approaches and develops such an exhibition and the work process.

Find more information on the podcast @30_minuten_kunst and at all the major streaming platforms.
The podcast is in German.

Filmstill, Gabrielle Kruger, 2024
Gabrielle Kruger Video

It's worth taking a look behind the scenes – South African artist Gabrielle Kruger takes us into her studio and shows us her very individual way of working.

Gabrielle Kruger's work has already been shown in several group exhibitions at our gallery in Leipzig. Now we are also presenting her work on our stand at the fair in Cape Town, where the South African artist also lives and works.
Gabrielle Kruger has developed a process where the paint mimics the viscosity of glue when wet and the elasticity of rubber when dry. Drawn to the malleability of her chosen medium, the artist pushes and plays with the limits of acrylic paint.
You can now look over her shoulder as she creates her works using this exciting technique. So dive in and enjoy Gabrielle Kruger's weave!

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In association with Brundyn Arts & Culture
Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin
for Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2024

Filmstill, Ricarda Roggan, BODEN, Leipzig, 2024
Ricarda Roggan Video

Enjoy this intimate view into the solo presentation BODEN by Ricarda Roggan at our gallery in Leipzig and take a look behind the scenes.

The photographer describes her artistic work, the process of searching and finding, what interests her in a particular motive and how the always analoge images come into being. In the second part of the video, Ricarda Roggan is taking us into her studio for an exclusive sneak peek into the exhibtion making.

"It is always a conversation with the things or with the spaces, so that I can ask questions like, “What's going on here and why is it like this? And why are there such strange, such scratch marks in these clay walls?” Who was there 100, 200 years ago?” I'm just incredibly interested in that." (Ricarda Roggan)

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Film & Edit: TABLEAU Films (Matthias Maercks)
German with English subtitles

Filmstill, Madeleine Roger-Lacan, Lay down with me, Berlin, 2024
Madeleine Roger-Lacan Video

Madeleine Roger-Lacan is taking us in her first solo show Lay down with me at our Berlin gallery into a very honest and raw cosmos, full of emotions, obsessions and failure.

Enjoy the interview with the French artist and see the making of the great wall painting, exclusively for the space. And dont' miss the end, with a surprise Performance during the opening!

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Film & Edit: Paul Ott
Music: Mono Ono - Piano Piano, ERPS - Rota
English with German subtitles

Natalie Paneng, Podcast interview, Jude's List, 2023
Natalie Paneng Audio

Listen to a talk with Natalie Paneng in an episode of the podcast “Judes's List” by Jude Brandford-Sackey.

Here you will get some insights about her working process, her background in theater and self discovery.

The podcast is in English.
Find more information on the podcast @judeslist and at all the major streaming platforms.

Filmstill, Stefan Guggisberg, Facing the Light, Berlin, 2023
Stefan Guggisberg Video

Follow us into the universe of painting and drawing by Stefan Guggisberg and learn how his works are created with very unique techniques.

In this video the artist is giving you a tour through his exhibition Facing the Light at our Berlin gallery and great insight into his work series of oil on paper and iPad drawings.
"In fact what impresses me about painting is that you can go back 40,000 years and these images are still there and, above all, they still reach us. So the drawings permeate everything - it reaches and touches us. And that's a form of communication that I think only exists once." (Stefan Guggisberg)

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Film & Edit: TABLEAU Films (Matthias Maercks)
Music: "Out of the Dark" by Crowander "Slow Smoke" by Crowander Source: Free Music Archive and license type: CC BY-NC

German with English subtitles

Please find the version with Chinese subtitles here

Filmstill, Maja Behrmann, Findling, Leipzig, 2023
Maja Behrmann Video

Don’t miss this video about Maja Behrmann's first major solo show FINDLING at our gallery in Leipzig. Great insight into the working process of the artist and installation of the hanging sculptures.

Maja Behrmann (*1994, lives and works in Leipzig) avoids restricting herself to one medium, using sculptures, textiles, and prints in equal measure. In her work, she takes up the challenge of putting together a repertoire of forms that she expands through their relationship with each other.

Find more information on www.eigen-art.com

Film & Edit: Paul Ott
Music: Purple
German with English subtitles

Please find the version with Chinese subtitles here

Filmstill, Sua Im, Entropy, EIGEN + ART Lab Berlin, 2023
Suah Im Video

Let's have a look into EIGEN + ART Lab and the solo exhibition Entropy by Korean artist Suah Im.

Suah Im describes her artistic work as “the search for the essence of the self“, with themes that give content to “confronting challenges“ and “overcoming limitations“. Discover her installation with sculptures, drawings and video works.

Film & Music: Suah Im
EIGEN + ART Lab 2023

Filmstill, Ryan Mosley, The Bridge, Taipei 2023
Ryan Mosley Video

Follow us to Taipei to get a tour by Ryan Mosley through his solo exhibtion The Bridge at Tao Art Space.

The first show by British artist Ryan Mosley in Asia was curated by Mark Gisbourne and is a fluent narrative, moving with the viewer like a river. A sensual, colorful experience. Enjoy the insights by the artist!

Produced by Tao Art Space Taipei / ART EMPEROR, 2023
English, with Chinese and English subtitles

Gerd Harry Lybke
Deutschlandradio, Interview Gerd Harry Lybke, Berlin, 2023
Gerd Harry Lybke Audio

"Das Ziel meiner Arbeit ist Unsterblichkeit / The aim of my work is immortality." (Gerd Harry Lybke)

Listen to this radio interview with Gerd Harry Lybke about the history of the gallery, the times in the former GDR and the cooperation with our artists.

Deutschlandradio feature / mediatheque
Interview with Marietta Schwarz
German

Filmstill, Ulrike Theusner, Mahagonny, Leipzig, 2023
Ulrike Theusner Video

In this interview, Ulrike Theusner is taking you with her to Mahagonny. Enjoy!

Mahagonny – that’s the city of unbridled hedonism invented by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, where having no money is a crime punished by death. Ulrike Theusner has turned her years of interest in Mahagonny into her current exhibition. She conceived an oversized fictional studio wall on which she has pinned pastels and drawing, prints, and photographs, all shreds of memories of her life between Europe and the United States.
"All images are of course always closely related to my current emotional state, to my experience, to life itself. You can't put it into words very well, but if something is transferred, then I've definitely achieved what I wanted, which is to transport something and to touch the emotional level of the viewer. That's what art is for."

Film & Edit: TABLEAU Films (Matthias Maercks)
Music: Elisa Demonki
German with English subtitles

Filmstill, David Schnell, stereo, Leipzig 2021
David Schnell Video

Throwback: Join us for a tour through Schnell's exhibition in Leipzig 2021. We associate the resounding word S T E R E O with the world of sound and music. The letters are spaced out on the amplifier of the audio system, and the lowering of the needle on the record starts a crackle; a short wait, and then, the instruments and sounds coming from the left and right open up a space.

The pleasure of listening to music on a good stereo system has a lot to do with looking at David Schnell’s pictures. The quality of the stereo system plays an important role here, because a high-quality system makes the details that play the space ring out properly.

Excerpt from a text by Katharina Immekus, September 2021

Film & Edit: TABLEAU Films (Matthias Maercks)
Music by Kilchhofer, Leng, from The Book Room

Self Portrait by Martin Eder
Martin Eder Audio

In this podcast episode of DAS IST KUNST at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Friederike Herr talks to Martin Eder about his art, rainbows - and about Otto Dix.

The conversation took place in the context of the exhibition Dix und die Gegenwart at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, in which Martin Eder is represented with some works.
"You have to make pictures that you are afraid of, so anyone who is afraid of fluffy pets should give the artist's large-format oil paintings a wide berth.", says the Berlin artist.

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DAS IST KUNST is a production of the Deichtorhallen Hamburg in cooperation with ByteFM / Moderation and production: Friederike Herr / Editing: Julia Schulze Darup, Matthias Schönebäumer / Music: Alex Blancke / Photo: Self Portait by Martin Eder
Interview in German

Filmstill, Carsten Nicolai "unicolor" at LUX 2023
Carsten Nicolai Video

Carsten Nicolai’s artistic output has taken many forms over the past three decades. His 2014 piece unicolor – showing at LUX: New Wave of Contemporary Art, a new exhibition co-curated by Fact and SUUM Project in 2023 – is one of the artist’s most immersive works.

In this film, Nicolai talks to Fact about the ideas behind unicolor and how the musical experimentation in Berlin that followed the fall of the wall in 1989 kickstarted an ongoing career of artistic innovation. You will see the installation unfolding against a long projection wall with two mirror walls on each side, creating the impression of extending into infinity.

Presented at LUX: New Wave of Contemporary Art at London’s 180 Studios and SUUM X, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul until December 2023.

Produced by LUX: New Wave of Contemporary Art / Fact 180

Filmstill, Interview Louisa Clement, Human Error 2023 / NDR
Louisa Clement Video

In this Interview, the German artist Louisa Clement is giving you striking insight into her solo show Human Error at Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum in Bremen. Asking the question: What is the meaning of identitiy in the digital era?

The question of identity has always been essential for artists. The art of Louisa Clement (*1987, Bonn) is also based on herself, but goes even further. She focuses on how it will develop in the future and explores ways of transformation.

Louisa Clement
Human Error
Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen
September 2, 2023 – January 21, 2024

NDR exhibition feature / mediatheque
German, no subtitles

Installation view, Oh Sega Sunset by Martin Gross, Seoul 2023
Martin Gross Video

Have a look at this exclusive installation video of the work Oh Sega Sunset by Martin Gross. The work is part of his first solo exhibition Dream File in Korea from July 21 to September 16, 2023.

The show consists of 12 new drawings, 2 site-specific animation video works, and this large-scale animated video, presenting a survey of Martin Gross’ artistic world where the artist creatively perceives various forms of information such as images, symbols, and sounds, and reconstructs them on an infinitely expanding screen.

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Martin Gross
Oh Sega Sunset, 2023
animation and audio
5:38 min
Dimension variable
Site specific installation view, Music by @leibinz_hundert

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