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PARADISE LOST!

Andrew‘s death in Afghanistan, 1842

Andrew Gilbert
"Andrew's death in Afghanistan, 1842"

06. November 2010 - 03. Dezember 2010

power galerie
Hopfensack 14
20457 Hamburg
www.powergallery.de

BEGEGNUNG MIT EINEM TRUNKENEN GOTT

SPUREN DER SONNE – Eine Apokalyptische Oper

Eine Inszenierung von Markus Selg
mit Werken von Werner Herzog, Jannis Kounellis, Markus Selg

b-05, Montabaur

Jannis Kounellis

Werner Herzog

Markus Selg

b-05 Kunst- und Kulturzentrum Association e.V
Im Stadtwald
56410 Montabaur
www.b-05.org

DAS BESTIARIUM DER HABIMA FUCHS

2.10.2010

Galerie Eva Bracke, Berlin

Galerie Eva Bracke und Astrid Sourkova
laden Sie herzlich ein zur Ausstellung

DAS BESTIARIUM DER HABIMA FUCHS

6.10. - 20.11.10

Eröffnung: Samstag, 2.10., 19 Uhr

Anlässlich der Ausstellung erscheint eine Siebdruckedition in kleiner Auflage.

GALERIE EVA BRACKE
Steinmetzstr.3 / 1. Etage
10783 Berlin
T: 030-60 92 5244
M: 0174-414 2283
www.evabracke.com

Mi-Fr: 12-18 Uhr, Sa: 14-18 Uhr

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Tranzitdisplay, středa 22. září v 17:00,

http://www.tranzitdisplay.cz/

Markus Selg hovoří o “Akademii Isotrop” na pozvání Lenky Vítkové v rámci programu Práce

Akademie Isotrop je nejasná organizace sloužící k vzájemnému posilování, k ustavičnému
podněcování a sdílení skrze zdi. (A. I. 1996)

Založena umělci, herci, teoretiky a hudebníky v Hamburgu, začala Akademie Isotrop roku
1996 mohut...ným prohlášením, jež naplnila, když coby nezávislá umělecká akademie
fungovala do roku 2000. Individuální a kolektivní síly se spojovaly v denním akademickém
provozu, který se uskutečňoval formou seminářů, výstav, performance, časopisu Isotrop
a vlastní A. I. galerie Nomadenoase.

Členové:
Abel Auer
Angela Asanovic
Hardy Bernotavicius
Thorsten Brachmann
André Butzer
Thomas Gann
Gudny Gudmundsdottir
Michael Hakimi
Jasmin Hashemi
Helena Huneke
Marcel Hüppauff
Nina Könnemann
Ruth May
Jonathan Meese
Birgit Megerle
Daniel Megerle
Roberto Ohrt
Patrick Schell
Martin Schmidt
Bianca Schönig
Hanna Schwarz
Markus Selg
David Sickinger
Stefan Thater
Susanne Winterling

Markus Selg (1974 Singen, Německo) žije a pracuje v Berlíně. Byl zakládajícím členem a
součástí Akademie Isotrop v Hamburku a spoluredaktorem časopisu Isotrop (1996-2000).
V roce 2005 získal stipendium na Kunstzeitraum, PIN, Freunde der Pinakothek v Mnichově.
Poslední samotné výstavy měl v galeriích Vilma Gold, Londýn (2010), MeetFactory, Praha
(2009), Guido W. Baudach, Berlín (2009). V roce 2009 organizoval společnou instalaci s
Jannisem Kounellisem a Wernerem Herzogem, b-05, Montabaur, Německo a vystavoval
na druhém Athénském Bienále ‘Heaven’. Založil a řídí nakladatelství Possible Press.
Selg spolupracoval s brněnským galeristou Karlem Tutschem. V současné době je na
rezidenci v MeetFactory. Do 15. září potrvá jeho výstava Pietá v nové pražské galerii Svit.

Filmworks by Markus Selg

17. 09. 2010, Filmscreening, 8 pm

MeetFactory
International Centre of Contemporary Art
Ke Sklarne 15, 150 00, Prague 5, CZ
www.meetfactory.cz

Pietà

Radiointerview
with Radio Wave, Prag
31. 8. 2010

http://www.rozhlas.cz/radiowave/waveculture/_zprava/778640

KabinetT. und Astrid Sourkova präsentieren:

Svet bez mista

Habima Fuchs
Erwin Kneihsl
Markus Selg

9.9. – 22.10. 2010

KABINETT.
32. budova
továrního areálu
Zlín
www.kabinett.cz

Markus Selg, Filmstill, 2010

Habima Fuchs, 2010

Erwin Kneihsl, 2010

MARKUS SELG
Pietà

31. 8. — 15. 9. 2010

Svit, Praha
Stefanikova 43a
150 00 Praha 5
www.svitpraha.org

Selgs multi-faceted practice includes painting, sculpture, digital prints
and the moving image. Selg’s imagery is characterized by density. Selg
compresses the sci-fi and the classical, the primitive and the virtual,
to evoke complex other-wordly places where the dramatic forces of
nature reflect the state of man. Beginning with the creation of a fictional
narrative, Selg’s practice works along two strands: the individual work of
art, which stands always in and of itself, and the Gesamtkunstwerk; the
Total Work of Art, which stages the individual work to play a role within
a larger, all-encompassing production. Often inhabiting the form of
the opera, the Gesamtkunstwerk is orchestrated by Selg using roving
spotlights, sound and projection to create highly symbolic experiential
rooms.
In keeping with Wagner’s formulation of the Gesamkunstwerk as the
clearest expression of a folk tale abstracted from the particular to
become a universal humanist fable, Selg deals with archetypes of
the collective unconscious. He infiltrates ruins of the distant past-
Babylonian, Egyptian and primitive cultures- with modernity’s future-
orientated remains to fuse them into intensive spatial situations and
mental images. In their cumulative states these installations are frozen
world theatres examining the scenario of humanity and its myths of
creation and eschatology.

For his exhibition at SVIT, Selg stages the encounter of two of his
major works, which deal with the motifs of sacrifice, love, death and
resurrection. His sculpture „Pietà“ from 2009 and his film „Schicksal“
from 2010.

The Pieta, one of the strongest images of Christian iconography,
unites the states of desperation and hope in an unrivalled way. As in
Michelangelo‘s ‚Pietà Rondanini‘, Selg presents the dying figure standing
rather than in the traditional horizontal position. Through this break with
the classical composition, Selg brings the image of mother and son,
closer to the one of lovers. A universal and fragile monument for love
and death.

„Schicksal“. Selg’s first film proper. Shot in the mountains of the Czech
Republic where the artist lived for a period in a primitive hut carving
wooden figures. The film depicts the heroic tale of an artist (played by
Selg himself) who trudges through crisp white tundra, falls to his face in
exhaustion and then miraculously rouses himself back to life. In hypnotic
landscapes, following the motifs of searching and the state of being lost,
Selg shows in astonishing beauty the dangers and powers of the artist as
an creator.

Markus Selg, Schicksal, Filmstill, 2010

Markus Selg (1974 Singen, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. Selg was
founding member and part of the Akademie Isotrop (1996 - 2000) and
co-editor of Isotrop magazine. He was the recent scholarship holder of
Kunstzeitraum, PIN, Freunde der Pinakothek in Munich (2005). Selg has
had solo shows at the Vilma Gold, London (2010), MeetFactory, Prague
(2009), Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin (2009). In 2009 he organized
a collaborative installation with Jannis Kounellis and Werner Herzog at
the b-05, Montabaur and was included in ‘Heaven’, 2nd Athens Biennale.
Currently he is artist-in-residence at the MeetFactory, Prague. He’s
a founder and director of the publisher Possible Press.

Exhibition 'Schwarzgold'

Exhibition 'Schwarzgold'Opening 17. Juli

SCHLOSS BEESENSTEDT

Liu Anping, Quirin Baeumler, Bara, John Bock, Heiner Franzen, Andrew Gilbert, Andreas Golder, Thomas Groetz,
Gotcha Gosalishvili, Thilo Heinzmann, Andreas Hofer, Franziska Hufnagel, Janus Kadel, Heike Kelter, Laibach,
Werner Liebmann, Adrian Lohmueller, Rene Luckhardt, Jonathan Meese, Aribert von Ostrowski, Markus Selg,
Astrid Sourkova, Nicola Torke, Michael Trischberger, Joanna Zawodzinska,
sound performance - Oko

Exhibition 17 Juli - 1 August, 2010

Schloss Beesenstedt
Eislebenerstr. 31
06198
Beesenstadt bei Halle/Saale

curated by Claudia Richter and Joanna Zawodzinska

contact
sclossbeesenstedt@gmx.de

Veronika Landa and Andrew Gilbert

Veronika Landa and Andrew Gilbert
Meetfactory Residents exhibition

curated by Dusan Zahoransky

Meetfactory International Centre of Contemporary Art

Ke Sklarne 3213/15
Praha 5

Exhibition 23rd June - 10th July 2010

10th July 18 hours, closing reception with both artists present,
http://meetfactory.cz/