SKIN DEEP - Solo Show of Jonas Blume, curated by Tina Sauerlaender

SKIN DEEP

Solo Exhibition of Jonas Blume

Jonas Blume, Yes. (Double David), 2022, installation, two Dibond color prints behind acrylic glass, 80 x 180 cm

Curated by Tina Sauerlaender (peer to space)

At SCOPE BLN, Lübecker Str. 43, 10559 Berlin

April 29 – May 27, 2022

Friday, April 29, 6 – 22 pm: Opening

Skin defines the boundaries of our physical bodies and constitutes the interface for interaction with the world. Artist Jonas Blume uses his skin as medium to reflect on the relationship between reality and image worlds. In his works, skin appears in a liminal state oscillating between flat surface texture and three-dimensional volume, as a membrane between physical state and mediated hyperreality. Based on photographs, Jonas Blume transfers his skin to a variety of mediums and materials to create an enhanced human physicality. In his images, videos, sculptures, and installations he distorts, extends, rearranges, and liquifies his appearance. Blume’s works herald the new age of body consciousness transforming bodies into consumable images. Skin becomes a political canvas because it constitutes the inalienable individual capital that everyone may maximally exploit to generate visibility within the attention economy.

Accompanying Program: 

Thursday, May 5, 17:30 - 19:30h: Opening Hours - Artist and curator are present

Afterwards 20 - 22h: LIGHT YEAR 85 screening >> Urban Algorithms - videos by Dennis Rudolph, Daniel Molnar, Jung Soo Cho, Vasilena Gankovska and Anne Glassner, curated by Boris Kostadinov

Monday, May 9, 6 pm CEST (online, in English): Artist Talk of Jonas Blume with Dr. Stephan Schwingeler, professor for Media Studies at HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts, author of the book Kunstwerk Computerspiel – Digitale Spiele als künstlerisches Material (transcript, 2014) - (Registration by email via tina@peertospace.eu)

Sunday, May 15, 14 - 16h: Opening Hours - Artist and curator are present

Friday May 20, 18h: Curator’s Tour and Artist Talk with Jonas Blume and Tina Sauerlaender 

Friday, May, 27, 16 – 20 h: Finissage

LIGHT SHINES THROUGH THE CURTAINS OF TIME

Ornella Fieres, Inverse Fourier 36, 2021 (c) the artist

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On February 10, 2021, peer to space and PRISKA PASQUER kick off PRISKA PASQUER's new ONE TO ONE exhibition series in the new virtual gallery space on Mozilla Hubs with the exhibition LIGHT SHINES THROUGH THE CURTAINS OF TIME, solo exhibition by Ornella Fieres, curated by Tina Sauerlaender.

PRISKA PASQUER's virtual gallery space on Mozilla Hubs will be inaugurated with a new exhibition series called ONE TO ONE, that signifies that the artist and curator are meeting at eye level and developing an exhibition in a mutual exchange. For the kick-off of the ONE TO ONE series, peer to space and PRISKA PASQUER gallery cooperate. In the upcoming months, four curators from peer to space will each present one of four artists whose work addresses the impact of digitization on the individual and society. Curator Tina Sauerlaeender and artist Ornella Fieres will kick things off with the exhibition Light Shines Through The Curtains Of Time.

The title of the exhibition was borrowed from the video work I create paths that lead to the clouds in which we go (2020), in which an artificial intelligence creates a poetic-dystopian vision of the end times based on all the texts that have been written about Ornella Fieres' works to date. In the works of artist Ornella Fieres, new technologies meet analog found objects from times past. The artist instrumentalizes photographs from personal estates and archival material from scientific films for her own purposes. She is concerned with "transferring the past into the present and making the invisible processes of the digital visible." Her works show the world of yesterday, seen through the eyes of today's algorithms.

Exhibition on view from February 10 to March 9, 2021.

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Tina Sauerlaender on a Pioneer of Self-Portraiture in Computer Art: Joan Truckenbrod

Ripped Distance, 1982, Photo: Courtesy of the Artist

Rites of Passage, 1984, Photo: Courtesy of the Artist

Lattice Vibrations, 1986, Photo: Courtesy of the Artist

peer to space’s Director & Head Curator, Tina Sauerlaender, who currently pursues a PhD on Artistic Self-Representation in Digital Art at Art University in Linz (Austria), introduces a pioneering position of self-portraiture in computer art. For one decade, the artist Joan Truckenbrod researched and reflected on her self-image by using the latest digital technologies for her works during the 1980s.

Read Tina Sauerlaender’s article on Joan Truckenbrod for ZI Spotlight, the blog of the German Central Institut for Art History here.

Mirror, Mirror – New Iteration of PARS PRO TOTO

Online from October 1 to December 31, 2020

Works by Jonas Blume, Patricia Detmering, Bianca Kennedy

Curated by Gloria Aino Grzywatz and Peggy Schoenegge

In Cooperation With medienkunst e.V. - Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst mit neuen Medien

The third iteration of PARS PRO TOTO explores how self can be constructed with artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. The artists Jonas Blume, Patricia Detmering and Bianca Kennedy offer AIs their private content or allow them to become an active agent of the artwork. They explore how AIs collect personal and convert data into another form of the artist’s identity. Their works blur fictional and factual personal data into a synthetic personality. Jonas Blume reconciles his own biography with Apple’s Siri, resulting in an uncanny yet seemingly personal narrative. Bianca Kennedy lets an intelligent computer proclaim its own thoughts and feelings about its environment and its users. In a personal soliloquy, Patricia Detmering philosophizes about the perception and dissolution of reality. The artworks in Mirror, Mirror consider the interaction between human and artificial intelligence. They question how today’s algorithms co-create and shape the identity of individuals. This process occurs every day as we are exposed to big data’s algorithms online. Our online identity seems to be a distorted mirror image existing independently from our real self, just like Snow White’s mirror becomes an independent-minded entity, shaping the actions of the person looking into it. What about our digital mirror image? Does it influence our self-perception and our actions?

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Tina Sauerlaender becomes Art & Tech columnist for Netzpiloten.de

Tina Sauerlaender started to contribute to Netzpiloten.de with a column on Art & Tech on the German platform for the online magazine Netzpiloten.de that focuses on digital and tech.

Netzpiloten.de are among the digital pioneers in Germany. Founded in 1998 in Hamburg by Wolfgang Macht and Matthias Dentler, the company was one of the prominent representatives of the so-called New Economy. As such, it experienced the ups and downs of this economic phase with innovative network products. Today, the Netzpiloten, with around 75 employees in Hamburg, Berlin and Barcelona, work in the fields of digital marketing and digital publications. In particular, the independent magazine netzpiloten.de has accompanied the digital change for over 15 years.

See her first text on WebVR conferences here

See her profile on netzpiloten.de here

Mara Johanna-Kolmel's and Tina Sauerlaender's show for Kara Agora

Bunch of Kunst in Quarantine // Paradox Paradise

Artists: Uli Ap (UK), Katharina Arndt (DE), Lara Verena Bellenghi (AT), Hannah Bohnen (DE), Marta de la Figuera (ESP), Ornella Fieres (DE), Bettina Funke (DE), Sabine Funke & Karlheinz Bux (DE), Fabian Hesse (DE) & Mitra Wakil (AFG), Helena Hunter (UK), Dorien Lantin (DE) & Robert Hecht (DE), Marie-Eve Levasseur (CAN/DE), Martina Menegon (IT/AT), Filippo Minelli (IT), Chiara Passa (IT), Agnese Sanvito (IT), Susan Supercharged (US/UK), Thomas Teurlai (FR), Miloš Trakilovic (BIH/NL)

Curated by Mara-Johanna Kolmel and Tina Sauerlaender 

Opening: October 8, 2020, 7 to 9.30 pm CET

Ornella Fieres, I create paths that lead to the clouds in which we go, 2020, Video, 8:55 Min, © the artist

Fabian Hesse & Mitra Wakil, Still Life, 3D-Scan, Screen Capture, 2020 © the artists

Chiara Passa, NULL (void *)0 a material cause architecture, 2017 © the artist

Marie-Eve Levasseur, tactile cravings (exhausted by oversharing everything), 2020 © the artist

Susan Supercharged, The Unlikely Friendship of Mike Tyson and Werner Herzog, 2020 © the artist

Uli Ap, Yellow Alienation, altered video still, immersive video installation, 2020 (c) the artist

Katharina Arndt, Constantly Practice To Take Relevant Selfies, detail, 2020 © the artist

Milos Trakilovic, XYZ, HD Video, 06.47 min, 2016 © the artist

Bunch of Kunst in Quarantine // Paradox Paradise is a virtual exhibition curated by Mara-Johanna Kolmel and Tina Sauerlaender. It turns its lens on artistic production in times of Corona and poses the question of how visual art - in the context of social distancing, national demarcation, domestic retreat, economic downturn, rising nationalism and encompassing surveillance - can open up alternative paths for reflection, transformation and solidarity. As such, Paradox Paradise symbolizes the state of living between the extremes unfolding between physical and the digital worlds. The exhibition at Kara Agora on Mozilla Hubs is a new iteration of Mara-Johanna Kolmel’s open call Instagram exhibition Bunch of Kunst in Quarantine // Reflections On The Viral Vacuum. This edition presents selected European artists from the first edition who have remodeled their artworks especially for the virtual exhibition space.

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