art düsseldorf 2023

31 March - 2 April 2023
art düsseldorf 2023 | Photo: Dirk Tacke
art düsseldorf 2023 | Photo: Dirk Tacke

max goelitz presents a dialogue between current works by Natacha Donzé, Lou Jaworski, Rindon Johnson, Brigitte Kowanz, Haroon Mirza, Jürgen Partenheimer and Troika within a multimedia installation at Art Düsseldorf 2023.

 

Kowanz and Troika follow a long tradition in the fine arts of utilizing scientific methods to question the transmission of information while developing powerful conceptual aesthetics. Their works explore experimental approaches to human perception and the representation of reality through coded language and algorithms. The poetically abstract oeuvres of Jürgen Partenheimer and Rindon Johnson are often based on language and are characterized by their exploration of a mental, geographical, historical, scientific and political spaces. Natacha Donzé opens up a new approach in her paintings in relation to digital references. At the same time Haroon Mirza's and Lou Jaworski's works are also characterized by technological features that unfold a mystical component and take up pop cultural references or ancient cultures. Mirza's installations including electricity, sound, light and solar panels allow for contemporary technologies to merge with environmental issues. Bringing these artistic encounters together, the booth presents a diverse reflection on contemporary issues such as digitization, language, mysticism, and climate policy.

 

Booth G03

Preview 30 March 2023

Fair Days 31 March – 2 April 2023

 

Areal Böhler

Hansaallee 321

40549 Düsseldorf

 

Further informations on the artist and exhibitied works can be found on the art fair viewing room.

 

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  • preview of selected works

    • Natacha Donzé, Gathering into order, 2020
      Natacha Donzé, Gathering into order, 2020
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    • Troika, Irma Watched Over by Machines, 2022
      Troika, Irma Watched Over by Machines, 2022
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    • Haroon Mirza, After Lofoten (Solar Powered LED Circuit Composition 47), 2022
      Haroon Mirza, After Lofoten (Solar Powered LED Circuit Composition 47), 2022
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    • Troika, Path of Least Resistance, 2014
      Troika, Path of Least Resistance, 2014
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    • Brigitte Kowanz, Keep it up, 2010
      Brigitte Kowanz, Keep it up, 2010
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    • Lou Jaworski, JET 003, 2022
      Lou Jaworski, JET 003, 2022
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    • Jürgen Partenheimer, Maze V, 2022
      Jürgen Partenheimer, Maze V, 2022
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    • Troika, Evolutionary Composite, 2022
      Troika, Evolutionary Composite, 2022
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    • Lou Jaworski, STRATOS 001, 2023
      Lou Jaworski, STRATOS 001, 2023
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    • Lou Jaworski, STELLAR X, 2023
      Lou Jaworski, STELLAR X, 2023
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    • Troika, Fahrenheit 251, 2014
      Troika, Fahrenheit 251, 2014
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    • Troika, Fahrenheit 251, 2014
      Troika, Fahrenheit 251, 2014
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    • Troika, Fahrenheit 251, 2014
      Troika, Fahrenheit 251, 2014
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    • Brigitte Kowanz, In light of light, 2016
      Brigitte Kowanz, In light of light, 2016
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  • artists

  • Natacha Donzé

    Natacha Donzé

    In her paintings, Swiss artist Natacha Donzé (*1991 in Boudevilliers, CH) deconstructs power structures of institutional, political and commercial systems of our time by taking up fragments of these orders and embedding them in her visual worlds without hierarchy. She combines pop culture quotes, such as architectural elements from films, with scientifically influenced images and brings them to the canvas by means of meticulous brushwork and air brush technique. In strong color, the artist explores the influence of humans on their environment and creates interfaces between our own reality and an imaginary representational space in her paintings. Solo exhibitions of the artist's work have been shown most recently at Kunst(Zeug)Haus in Rapperswil-Jona (2022), Musée des Beaux-Arts in La Chaux-de-Fonds (2021), and Unit110 in New York (2018). Her work has been exhibited in group shows at the MCBA in Lausanne (2023), the Kunstmuseum Appenzell as part of the Vordemberge-Gildewart Fellowship (2023), CAPC Bordeaux (2022), and Hagiwara Projects in Tokyo (2021), among others. In 2023 Natacha Donzé was nominated for the Swiss Art Awards in Basel and received the Kiefer Hablitzel Prize in 2019, as well as the Young Artist Award of the Art Museum in La Chaux-de-Fonds.

     

     → CV Natacha Donzé

  • Lou Jaworski

    Lou Jaworski

    Lou Jaworski (*1981 in Warsaw, PL) creates works and installations with reduced visual language and the use of materials such as marble, ferrite magnets, graphite and meteorites, which carry a timeless character and create a universal space, in which the haptic presence of the material unfolds mystical components, which at the same time reminds of digital spaces, their grids and 3D renderings. The artist is interested in metaphysical questions, as well as in phenomena of human perception, and thus his concept-based works are characterized by the interaction of material autonomy, ephemeral abstraction, and physical laws, which he implements in a site-specific manner. In doing so, he sees his works as amplifiers: amplifiers of architectural elements and material properties, as well as trains of thought and energies that combine to create spatial installations.
    His works were u. a. exhibited in Phingyao (China), New York, Munich and Tel Aviv. In 2017 Jaworski was part of the Festival of Future Nows at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, under the direction of Udo Kittelmann. In 2016 he received the debut award from the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture and in 2017 the studio grant from the City of Munich. Lou Jaworski's works are part of the Bavarian State Painting Collections and are represented in private collections in Germany and Switzerland.



    → CV Lou Jaworski

  • Brigitte Kowanz

    Brigitte Kowanz

    The Austrian artist Brigitte Kowanz (1957-2022) made light her primary artistic medium. She continuously examined its different qualities and manifestations via objects, installations, and spatial interventions using various illuminants. The medium of light is made tangible and treated as an independent phenomenon, material, and information carrier, as well as a metaphor for a search for new forms of representation of visible reality. Kowanz combines language—for instance political statements and news transmissions— with formal aesthetics, illustrating that light is not just a neutral vehicle for information, but plays a decisive role in shaping it.

    Kowanz was awarded the Großer Österreichischder Staatspreis (Grand Austrian State Prize) in 2009 and exhibited at the Austrian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017). She has held a professorship at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1997-2021. Selected solo exhibitions have taken place in Schlossmuseum Linz (2022), Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2020), Taxispalais, Innsbruck (2011), and the Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig, Vienna (2010).

    → CV Brigitte Kowanz

  • Haroon Mirza

    Haroon Mirza

    British-Pakistani artist Haroon Mirza (*1977 in London, UK) views himself as a composer and utilizes sound, video, electronic circuits and everyday objects to develop a complex body of work in which he examines the function of the components used while changing the significance of their cultural and social code. Mirza challenges the categorization of artistic expression with his strong collaborative approach and draws on diverse scientific, historical, art historical, pop cultural as well as spiritual influences.
    In his multi-sensory installations, he explores the interplay and dissonance between sound, light and electricity, challenging thw viewers to abandon their individual perception of noise, sound and music. He forces the viewer to evaluate the relationship between the elements and the surrounding space to be experienced in an unusual way. In doing so, he formally refers to fundamental strategies of minimal art and allows for contemporary technologies to merge with environmental issues.
    In 2011, Haroon Mirza received the Silver Lion at the 54th Venice Biennale as well as the Nam June Paik Center Prize in 2014. Solo exhibitions of the artist were a.o. shown at the New Museum, New York (2012), the Museum Tinguely, Basel (2015) and the Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2019).
     
  • Jürgen Partenheimer

    Jürgen Partenheimer

    The poetically abstract oeuvre of the German artist Jürgen Partenheimer (*1947 in Munich, DE) stands in the great tradition of modernism, from which he consistently develops his work. In various forms of artistic expression – painting, sculpture, works on paper, artists books and text - he combines minimalist formal vocabulary with lyrical content. While avoiding the narrative, Partenheimer explores in his art a mental, geographical, historical and political space for a new correlation beyond sensual perception. Solo exhibitions of the artist's work have been held by the National Gallery Berlin (1988), the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (1997), the National Museum of Fine Art, Beijing (2001), the CGAC in Santiago de Compostela (1999 and 2004), the S.M.A.K. in Gent (2002), the Pinacoteca do Estado in São Paulo (2004), the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and the Kunstmuseum Bonn (both 2008), and most recently at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the Gemeente Museum Den Haag, The Falckenberg Collection-Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (all 2014) and the Musée Ariana, Geneva (2016). 


    → CV Jürgen Partenheimer

  • Troika

    Troika

    Troika is a collaborative contemporary art group founded in 2003 by Eva Rucki (*1976, Germany), Conny Freyer (*1976, Germany), and Sebastien Noel (*1977, France). The artists live and work in London. With a particular interest in subjective and objective readings of reality and various relationships involving humans and technology, Troika examines how information is transmitted in the digital world and how it transitions into physical reality. Their works deal with different systems of representation and illustrate how technological progress and human reality influence each other.

    Selected solo exhibitions have been presented at Espacio Arte Abierto in Mexico City (2021), Barbican Gallery in London (2019), NC Arte in Bogota (2015) und Daelim Museum in Seoul (2014). Troika’s cross-media works are part of the collections of the Center Pompidou, Paris; M+, Hong Kong; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Jumex Collection, Mexico City; and the Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv. Troika realized three site-specific installations for the British Pavilion at World Exhibition 2010 Shanghai.

     

    → CV Troika