KATJA LOHER / GREEN ISLAND 2011
pořádáno Galerií Vernon
12. - 17.4.2011
vernisáž 12.4. v 19 hodin
The artist will be present!
via Cola Montano 15, Milan, Italy
Sunday, 17 April, 5 pm – Appointment with the artist - Meet the artist and attend a presentation on the TINA B. Contemporary Art Festival in Prague
The exhibition is traveling to Vernon Project Gallery in Prague and opens 22 April – 4 pm.
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12–17 April 2011
KATJA LOHER
Swiss video artist Katja Loher, who is based in New York, may be regarded as a rising - but already known and discovered - star in the international field of video art. In her art technology and nature go hand in hand. Her characteristic visions involve performance art and three-dimensional forms of sculpture. You rarely see her videos projected on a flat screen. They live in their own worlds - hidden in the round design sculptures or spread onto the surface of fragile inflatable balloons. The magic symbol of the circle comes back again and again in her work. Her playful installations and objects and her diverse worlds are so alive that they have the power to draw the viewer into them.
Katja Loher (1979) graduated from the Art Academy in Basel in 2004 (Diploma Dept. of Art and Media Art) and then immediately moved to New York, where she lives and works today. She has participated in artist-in-residence programmes in Berlin and in Beijing. She has been showing her work officially since 2005, and the list of her solo or group exhibitions is surprisingly long and diverse. Loher has exhibited in Europe (e.g. Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Ireland, the Czech Republic), Asia (China) and the USA. She regularly takes part in art fairs such as Diva Digital & Video Art Fair- New York, the Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, and VOLTA BASEL. You may have encountered her work at a number of outstanding festivals of contemporary art, such as La Biennale di Venezia - 12th International Architecture Exhibition in 2010, or the TINA B. Festival for Contemporary Art in Prague in 2009 and 2010. The artist was been awarded many prizes. Most recently in 2010 she won the Art Credit Award in Basel.
Loher’s artworks can be found, for example, in the eN Arts Collection in Tokyo, Japan, in GC. AC - Galleria Comunale d‘Arte Contemporanea of Monfalcone in Italy, in the Sara Lahat Private Collection in Herzliya in Israel, in
The Horsecross Collection/Permanent Collection of Digital Art in Perth, UK, and in the collections of private collectors in Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Russia, Israel and the USA.
WHY DID THE BEES LEAVE?
The exhibition Why Did the Bees Leave? in Milan presents the artistic language of Katja Loher showing her works Collapsocope, Bubbles and 6 Videoplanets. The objects are invading the gallery space, floating in it or freely beeing like in the Universe.
In Videoplanets the projection covers large shiny orbs, big balloons that no one can overlook. Loher uncovers the virtual life of an unknown society highlighting the theme of the human condition in a globalised world.
Collapsoscope, created for the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010, is a solid object hanging from the ceiling. The futuristic visions of humans collapse with a crashing sound creating an abstract feeling of the unimaginable end of society.
Another planet could be Bubbles where the projection steers onto the glass object. The material evokes the feeling of something fragile, something that is always near the end, near the ethereal realities, lives after lives.
‘Projections onto large weather balloons (Videoplanets, since 2006), or inside circular sculptures (Miniverses, since 2008), through the colored water in three glasses (RGB Well, 2009/2010), or – in her latest work – inside glass bubbles (Bubbles, 2010) – these are just some of the ways in which Katja Loher’s videos are transformed into sculptures. A skilful film editor and an artist who embarks on in-depth experiments with materials, shapes and colors, she collaborates with professionals from different backgrounds to create „planets“ or imaginary universes which mentally and emotionally embrace the audience… Questions or simple dialogues occasionally alternate with the representation of „micro-societies“, such as the one of men working like bees depicted in one of her scenes, whose existence is reflected in the mechanical tasks that assure their survival.’
Elena Giulia Rossi Independent Curator, Rome
English version edited by Margret Powell-Joss
KONTACT
Markéta Faustová / PR
+420 773 915 501
marketafaustova@seznam.cz, www.galerievernon.com
