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Archive
Exhibitions 2009
Isa Rosenberger / Nira Pereg
5 June - 9 August 2009
| Opening:
| Thursday, 4 June, 8 pm
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| Press:
| Wednesday, 3 June, 2 pm
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Isa Rosenberger: Ružena Dinková im Restaurant der Nový Most-Brücke
Photo: Isa Rosenberger, 2008
Nira Pereg: Sabbath 2008, 2008
With Nira Pereg and Isa Rosenberger, the Edith Russ Site for Media Art presents two artists who deal with sociopolitical developments in their respective works. Both trace the relationship between the state and the individual based on history and the alteration of urban spaces and architectonic structures.
Isa Rosenberger: Nový Most, Exhibition
view Wiener Secession, 2008
Photo: Werner Kaligofsky,
Courtesy Wiener Secession, 2008
Sociopolitical changes in post-Socialist Europe are a continuous theme in the works of the Austrian artist Isa Rosenberger. Based on three generations of women, she reflects in her video Novy Most (2008) on the history of the bridge of the same name in Bratislava which was built between 1967 and 1972 as a futuristic landmark of the city. Archival footage and staged material in which three women relate the history of the bridge and their own personal memories and hopes with regard to political developments provide insights into occurrences from the city’s recent history as well as the tensions between West and East. The recent series of photographs entitled Ruzinov (2009) also deals with urban changes in the Slovakian city after the fall of the Iron Curtain. A fountain that was used as a stage for concerts during the Socialist era now serves the artist as a sculptural “blank space” for her intervention. A collage of texts comes about in the exchange with passersby and residents of the district that reflect on a possible new use.
Nira Pereg: Location 8 - Ramot Polin/Polish Hills,
2008
The Israeli artist Nira Pereg creates pieces which juxtapose the personal and the public, the political and the poetic. Her photo series Location 8 – Ramot Polin/Polish Hills (2008) documents the Orthodox Jewish district of the same name which was planned by the Israeli avant-garde architect Zvi Hecker in the nineteen seventies. The architecture serves as the starting point for her reflection on the constitution of community within a social structure.
Nira Pereg: Sabbath 2008, 2008
The video Sabbath 2008 (2008) depicts the closing of an ultra-Orthodox district in Jerusalem on Sabbath Evening. The district is blocked off for 24 hours with temporary barriers erected by the inhabitants. Pereg observes this ritual of exclusion and inclusion. With her precise and sensitive cuts, she succeeds in transforming the documentary material into a theatrical event visualizing the religious ritual as a complex social phenomenon in a divided city.
Events
Thursday, 18 June 2009, 5-8 pm
Late opening hours with guided tour at 6 pm
Thursday, 2 July 2009, 5-8 pm
Late opening hours with guided tour at 6 pm
Saturday, 4 July 2009, 10:30 am - 1:30 pm and
Sunday, 5 July 2009, 2-5 pm
Trickfilmworkshop "Mein Kamm tanzt"
Age 6-10 years, Workshop fee 5 €
Thursday, 23 July 2009, 8 pm
Videoscreening and talk with Isa Rosenberger
Sunday, 26 July 2009, 11 am - 5 pm
Museum Day
at 11 am / 3 pm / 4 pm Guided tours
11 am- 5 pm Trickfilmworkshop "Bewegte Gedanken"
Age from 5 years up, Workshop fee 5 €
Tuesday, 28 July 2009, 2 pm - 5:30 pm
Workshop "Mit Spiegeln filmen"
Exhibition visit and videoexperiments for young people
Age from 12 years up, Workshop fee 5 €
Sunday, 9 August 2009, 11 am - 5 pm
"Momentaufnahmen" – flüchtige Begegnung mit Fotografie
Free exhibition visit guided by Rosenberger/Pereg: 12pm and 3 pm
Press interviews by appointment.
| Inquiries:
| Stefanie Möller
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| Tel. 0441-235 3194
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| Fax 0441-235 2161
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| E-Mail: info@edith-russ-haus.de
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