NIKA FONTAINE exhibiting at Kunsthal Viborg!!!

We are excited to announce that

NIKA FONTAINE

will be exhibited at the Kunsthal Viborg in Denmark alongsite other great artists!

Resting upon the tradition of alchemy, “Corridor 3: Valdemar Daa” – curated by Insitu Berlin – invites to enter a mindset where different kinds of mystical knowledge and beliefs pervaded over today’s version of science, such as the human faith in the potential for natural materials to hold treasures of incredible power.

exhibition

24.06.–03.09.2017

OPENING

Friday 23.06.2017
5.00–7.00pm

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MARIO ASEF filming the video for urban art project TEJIENDO PUEBLO

We are proud that Mario Asef was part of the wonderful project

“Tejiendo Pueblo” (“weaving village“),

an urban project of in situ textile art  produced by the group of women “Fé y Esperanza” (“Faith and Hope”), the colony of proletarian liberation in Santa Fe, Mexico city and the group of collaborators “Identities-Textile art project”.

Through filming this video, Mario Asef was able to capture the consequences of urban development, the sensitivity of the affected inhabitants, their love for their environment and determination in bringing awareness and expressing their protest in an aesthetic way by using traditional hand crafts..

 

 

NIKA FONTAINE and INCOGNITO in WIDEWALLS MAGAZIN!!

Screenshot 2017-04-25 12.04.58wildpalms is a borrowed name from Faulkner’s book “The Wild Palms”.  When the book was published, it surprised the audience. Something was new: into a novel 2 independent stories were narrated. The book changed the way we read, the way literature is produced and the way culture understands how time and place are being constituted. We produced exhibitions with our artists to reach new levels of discourse in society and the arts. We believed strongly in a better future thanks to the cultural work, the artist’s labor, the honest work. This great text explains perfectly the statement and strategies in our latest exhibition “incognito”.

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to read the full article in WIDEWALLS Magazin klick here

PAUL HANCE Solo-Exhibition in Berlin!!

PAUL HANCE NEW PHOTO SERIES

FATHOMLESS PRAYERS AT GKH

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vintage postcard, marmor technique, 2016

if you are not in Cologne for the art fair, you are warmly invited to join Paul’s opening at GKH, Wednesday April 26th 2017. Starting at 6 pm.

Magic works and a lot of respect for the techniques.

GKH at Jochum Rodgers, Mommsenstrasse 3 in Berlin.

NIKA FONTAINE feat. in CANADIAN ART!!

NIKA FONTAINE feat. in CANADIAN ART!!

10 Artists Who Disrupt the Status Qou
„who question, challenge and subvert exected or established frameworks“

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“Vari”, glitter particles and acrylic-glue-mixture on burlap. 50 x 60cm. 2016.

 
“Spirituality is at the core of my practice,” Fontaine says, “but decoration and kitsch
are other important aspects. I want to use these to create something over the top.”
Fontaine’s paintings negotiate the influence of her great-uncle, Plasticiens painter
Jean-Paul Jérôme: “I was always surrounded by his paintings as a child. They are
very beautiful, well-composed and classical Modernist works—but they made me
want to create something more active and challenging to viewers, something aggressive.
I love playing on the edge of good and bad taste.” – Sam Cotter
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NIKA FONTAINE feat. in The Belgo Report!

 

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NIKA FONTAINE was featured in The Belgo Report!

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„Nika Fontaine has said that her interest in kitsch materials comes mainly from aesthetic preference. She is not afraid to be decorative. This is an artist skilled in blending high and low-brow art; her use of materials such as velvet and tasseled curtains would send an artist less bold running in shame. There is a good sense of humour, both about the role of the artist and about herself, which successfully lightens the mood of work that many could find “woo-woo” or taking herself too seriously. They’re fun, light-hearted, pretty and just serious enough. […]they add some humour and playfulness to a show […] so effectively mesmerizing.“ – by Kara Williams

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MARIO ASEF building the pyramid of Raddusch

MARIO ASEF building the pyramid of Raddusch

– Combining science and art to create new forms of sustainability –

 

Since summer 2015, Mario Asef has been working in cooperation with

science students and professors from the TU Cottbus – the technological university –

on a project that focusses on the process of (re-)usage and transformation of the local

landscape within the realm of the Aquamediale 11 (Spreewald 15).

 

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Mario Asef working alongside professors of the TU Cottbus.

Mario has been working on reusing the mudd of the Spree, which is colored

in deep brown in variing tones due to the high occurrence of iron oxide derived

from former mining in that area. His mission is to reuse and transform waste material

that has been hazardous to the environment and animals living in the river

into a useful building material. Expanding the possibilities of environmental

technology.

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