The exhibitions of Tolia Astakhishvili and Angélique Aubrit & Ludovic Beillard focus on the mediums of sculpture and installation, with Astakhishvili additionally including drawing and painting, while the artist duo's practice extends to video and performance. Their works testify to a strong interest in architecture as a place of living, connected with memories and shaped by stories. Places of residence and dwellings can be constitutive for the personality and psychology of each individual. This is also how the philosopher Gaston Bachelard understands the house in The Poetics of Space, 1957. In this publication he provides a phenomenological analysis of the power of fantasy and dreaming in relation to space and the way we inhabit the world. The choice of the artists was guided by this idea and by what the spaces of the Kunstverein Bielefeld can represent and contain. In the 17th century, the building not only served as a residence, but it also offered the right of asylum to robbers and outcasts. Within the walls of today's Kunstverein, these were protected from legal persecution. With their artistic response to the historical spaces, the artists create a dialogue rich in contrast on the topic of living space and, more generally, of personal location in the context of a domestic abode.
Angélique Aubrit and Ludovic Beillard build environments inhabited by figures in which burlesque narratives and absurd theatre unite. Their wearable costumes as well as their sculptures representing characters are a combination of self-sewn clothes and wooden helmets that imitate human faces and other creatures. These figures often represent minorities marginalised by society. Sometimes they appear as protagonists in Aubrit and Beillard's video installations and sometimes they come to life in the exhibition context. In their extensive staging composed of an assortment of recycled furnishings and/or paper walls, a psychologically charged state prevails. In a satirical way, they reflect our present day with its brutal and nebulous aspects. For Aubrit and Beillard, however, it is less about presenting a pessimistic view of the world and more about establishing a state of civilisation and highlighting its relations of domination in order to (re)write new forms of collective venting. For their exhibition in Bielefeld, the artist duo opens a new chapter in their work with three beings from “elsewhere” who have made themselves comfortable at home on the upper floor of the Kunstverein.
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Angélique Aubrit (1988 in Angoulême, lives and works in Brussels) and Ludovic Beillard (1982 in Bordeaux, lives and works in Bordeaux) have been exhibiting together as an artist duo since 2017. They presented their works in solo exhibitions at Galerie Valeria Cetraro, Paris (2022), La Tôlerie, Clermont Ferrand, Lindre-Basse Residency-Centre d'art contemporain La Syngogue, Delme, Etablissement d'en face, Brussels (all three 2021) and Komplot (Chateau Nou)r, Brussels (2019). The duo has been participated in group exhibitions at Le 19 Crac, Montbéliard (both 2022), and CAPC, Bordeaux (2021), among others.
Events:
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10.02.2023, 19:00
OPENING
Tolia Astakhishvili
"I Think it’s Closed"Angélique Aubrit und Ludovic Beillard
"Ich glaube, wir sollten woanders hingehen"Speakers:Andreas Wannenmacher (Chair) and Oriane Durand (Interim Director)
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11.02.2023, 15:00
PERFORMANCE by Angélique Aubrit & Ludovic Beillard
Aliens walking through the East-Teutoburg Forest. Meeting point: Kunstverein Bielefeld
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12.02.2023, 17:00
CURATOR’S TOURS
with Oriane Durand
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17.02.2023, 14:00
CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES for refugee children with Klaus Braun, Valerie Kubakov and Natalia Ehret
The workshop series is a free offer and supported by the Rotary Club Bielefeld-Sparrenburg. Please register at vermittlung@kunstverein-bielefeld.de
Дитяча кампанія для дітей-біженців Дитячу акцію З Клаус Браун
Серія семінарів є безкоштовною і організованою для біженців. Акція створена за підтримки Rotary Club Bielefeld-Sparrenburg. Просимо зареєструватися за адресою, вказавши день, а також кількість та імена дітей: vermittlung@kunstverein-bielefeld.de -
19.02.2023, 17:00
Sunday Tour
with Valerie Kurbakov
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24.02.2023, 14:00
CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES for refugee children with Klaus Braun, Valerie Kubakov and Natalia Ehret
The workshop series is a free offer and supported by the Rotary Club Bielefeld-Sparrenburg.
Please register at vermittlung@kunstverein-bielefeld.de
Дитяча кампанія для дітей-біженців Дитячу акцію З Клаус Браун
Серія семінарів є безкоштовною і організованою для біженців.
Акція створена за підтримки Rotary Club Bielefeld-Sparrenburg. Просимо зареєструватися
за адресою, вказавши день, а також кількість та імена дітей: vermittlung@kunstverein-bielefeld.de -
26.02.2023, 17:00
Sunday Tour
with Cartsten Gude
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02.03.2023, 19:00
LECTURE
Prof. Dr. Kirsten Wagner (FH Bielefeld): " From the practice to the theory of housing. Ramblings through a sociology and philosophy of housing". Narrative using the example of selected building projects and theories.
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03.03.2023, 14:00
CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES for refugee children with Klaus Braun, Valerie Kubakov and Natalia Ehret
The workshop series is a free offer and supported by the Rotary Club Bielefeld-Sparrenburg.
lease register at vermittlung@kunstverein-bielefeld.de
Дитяча кампанія для дітей-біженців Дитячу акцію З Клаус Браун
Серія семінарів є безкоштовною і організованою для біженців. Акція створена за
підтримки Rotary Club Bielefeld-Sparrenburg. Просимо зареєструватися за адресою,
вказавши день, а також кількість та імена дітей: vermittlung@kunstverein-bielefeld.de -
04.03.2023, 10:00
CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES with Klaus Braun
Contribution (donations welcome) min. 15 € / child
Please register at vermittlung@kunstverein-bielefeld.de -
04.03.2023, 11:00
MEMBERS EVENT - KUNST IM DIALOG
Excursion to Hanover with a visit of the exhibition by Gottfried Jäger – with a tour given by the artist – at Sprengel Museum, as well as a visit of the Kestner Gesellschaft and the Kunstverein Hanover.Please register until February 23th, 2023 at mitglieder@kunstverein-bielefeld.de
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05.03.2023, 17:00
Sunday Tour
with Carsten Gude
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10.03.2023, 14:00
CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES for refugee children with Klaus Braun, Valerie Kubakov and Natalia Ehret
The workshop series is a free offer and supported by the Rotary Club Bielefeld-Sparrenburg.
Please register at vermittlung@kunstverein-bielefeld.de
Дитяча кампанія для дітей-біженців Дитячу акцію З Клаус Браун
Серія семінарів є безкоштовною і організованою для біженців. Акція створена за
підтримки Rotary Club Bielefeld-Sparrenburg. Просимо зареєструватися за адресою, вказавши день,
а також кількість та імена дітей: vermittlung@kunstverein-bielefeld.de -
12.03.2023, 17:00
Sunday Tour
with Undine Rietz, Curatorial Assistent
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17.03.2023, 14:00
CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES for refugee children with Klaus Braun, Valerie Kubakov and Natalia Ehret
The workshop series is a free offer and supported by the Rotary Club Bielefeld-Sparrenburg.
Please register at vermittlung@kunstverein-bielefeld.de
Дитяча кампанія для дітей-біженців Дитячу акцію З Клаус Браун
Серія семінарів є безкоштовною і організованою для біженців. Акція створена за
підтримки Rotary Club Bielefeld-Sparrenburg. Просимо зареєструватися за адресою,
вказавши день, а також кількість та імена дітей: vermittlung@kunstverein-bielefeld.de -
19.03.2023, 17:00
Sunday Tour
with Carsten Gude
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26.03.2023, 17:00
Sunday Tour
withValerie Kurbakov
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01.04.2023, 10:00
CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES with Klaus Braun
Contribution (donations welcome) min. 15 € / child
Please register at vermittlung@kunstverein-bielefeld.de -
02.04.2023, 17:00
Sunday Tour
with Katharina Götz
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09.04.2023, 17:00
Sunday Tour
with Katharina Götz
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13.04.2023, 19:00
LECTURE
Prof. Dr. Helga Lutz (Historic Image Science/Art History, Univerty of Bielefeld) on “Unica Zürn - Artistic experiments on the border between sense and non-sense”
In cooperation with the Künstlerinnenforum Bielefeld-OWL e.V. -
16.04.2023, 17:00
Curator's Tour
with Oriane Durand, Interim Director