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ART from ELSEWHERE: Mexico City

The MOMENTUM Collection @ LAGOS

 

Part of Mexico City Art Week 2023

& the First Event Launching the Cultural Program of the
30th Anniversary of Berlin & Mexico City as Sister-Cities

 

OPENING:
2 February 2023 @ 20:00

 

EXHIBITION:
3 February – 2 March 2023

 

Opening Hours:
Art Week, 6-12 February: 11:00 – 18:00

All Other Times,
OPEN BY APPOINTMENT
info@artelagos.mx

 

Featuring:

aaajiao – AES+F – Inna Artemova – Claudia Chaseling & Emilio Rapanà – Margret Eicher – Nezaket Ekici – Thomas Eller – Theo Eshetu – Amir Fattal – Christian Jankowski – Ola Kolehmainen – David Krippendorff – Milovan Destil Marković – Almagul Menlibayeva – Gulnur Mukazhanova – Kirsten Palz – Nina E. Schönefeld – Caroline Shepard – David Szauder – Vadim Zakharov

Curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch & Emilio Rapanà


Laguna de Tamiahua 3,
Anáhuac I Sección,
Mexico City, 11320, Mexico

 
 



 

Special Program for Mexico City Art Week:

 

EXHIBITION & LAGOS OPEN STUDIOS:
6 -12 February 2023 @ 11:00 – 18:00

 

ZONAMACO VIP Event: [please RSVP]

9 February 2023 @ 11:00

CURATORS from ELSEWHERE: Exhibition Tour with MOMENTUM Curators

 

ART WEEK PARTY & EXHIBITION TOUR

Saturday 11 February – Public Program

@ 20:00 – CURATORS from ELSEWHERE:Exhibition Tour with MOMENTUM Curators

@ 22:00 – The Berlin-Mexico Connection Party

 
 

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of partnership between Berlin and Mexico City as sister cities, and of Mexico City Art Week 2023 – and to mark the opening of LAGOS Berlin in partnership with MOMENTUM – we present ART from ELSEWHERE: Mexico City with a selection of work from the MOMENTUM Collection, Berlin. With 55 international artists currently comprising the MOMENTUM Collection, the artworks selected for this exhibition are by 20 artists based in Berlin, who are as diverse as Berlin itself. Presenting artists from China, Denmark, Ethiopia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, and the US – they are all also Berliners. At the geographical center of Europe, Berlin is a city of mobile people and moving images, where art and artists alike are often from elsewhere.

Today most of us live lives of perpetual motion from one piece of information to the next, from one opportunity to the next, and – until the pandemic briefly stopped us in our tracks – from one place to the next. Mobility – both geographical and social – not so long ago the privilege of the few, is now taken for granted as the entitlement of the majority. Artists are at the forefront of this peripatetic existence, travelling the world for inspiration, exhibitions, and artist residencies, experiencing new places and cultures through the critical lens of the outsider, and then reflecting back upon their own locales through the prism of their expanded world views.

ART from ELSEWHERE is an exhibition about otherness; about communication and its opposite; about the many different ways in which we see the world and interact with it. Moving images move us, and artworks serve as windows onto the world. As we emerge after periods of isolation, and learn how to negotiate the new realities of a post-pandemic world, it becomes more important than ever to have such windows through which to gaze. In these uncertain times, they remind us that, for all our differences, we are all in this together.

The works shown in this exhibition focus on global issues, equally relevant to us all, no matter where we live or where we have come from. They reflect on the social and environmental repercussions of globalization and its impact on the transformation of cultural identities; they interrogate issues of identity, inequality, and poverty; they scrutinize the environmental traumas we inflict on our planet and its creatures; and they ponder the (un)quiet poetry, conflicts, and beauty of how we must live from day to day.

 

CLICK HERE for MORE INFO on
the MOMENTUM COLLECTION > >

 



 

Featuring:
[Click on the name of each artist to see the bio and the work description below.]


aaajiao
AES+F
Inna Artemova
Claudia Chaseling & Emilio Rapanà
Margret Eicher
Nezaket Ekici
Thomas Eller
Theo Eshetu
Amir Fattal
Christian Jankowski

Ola Kolehmainen
David Krippendorff
Milovan Destil Marković
Almagul Menlibayeva
Gulnur Mukazhanova
Kirsten Palz
Nina E. Schönefeld
Caroline Shepard
David Szauder
Vadim Zakharov



 

ART from ELSEWHERE – The MOMENTUM Collection, Berlin

ART FROM ELSEWHERE Collection Trailer from Momentum Worldwide on Vimeo


 

MOMENTUM enters its second decade in a post-pandemic world radically altered in numerous ways, and yet remarkably unchanged when it comes to aspects of human needs and desires, and our impact upon the planet and one another. In this post-pandemic era of travel restrictions, ART from ELSEWHERE reframes the MOMENTUM Collection as an array of windows onto the world, a selection of works celebrating otherness. ART from ELSEWHERE is a series of travelling exhibitions, which began in 2021 to mark MOMENTUM’s 10th Anniversary. Taking a new site-specific form in each edition, developed in concert with curators at the host locations, ART from ELSEWHERE showcases works and artists from the MOMENTUM Collection, Berlin.

 

Click on the icons below to see previous editions of ART from ELSEWHERE:


ART from ELSEWHERE:
Danube Dialogues
European Capital of Culture 2022 Novi Sad, Serbia
19 August – 15 September 2022

PARALLEL WORLDS
ART from ELSEWHERE: Samarkand
At Ruhsor Museum of Contemporary Art
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
18 October – 16 November 2021

ART from ELSEWHERE:
Seoul Selection
Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival, South Korea
19 – 27 August 2021



ART from ELSEWHERE
At Kulturforum Ansbach, Ansbach, Germany
11 JUNE – 25 July 2021



 


ABOUT LAGOS
Mexico City & Berlin

LAGOS is an art studio and residency space in Mexico City dedicated to the production and development of contemporary art projects and their exhibition. LAGOS is an organization that supports artists and promotes the intersection of art professionals. Lagos seeks to support artists at crucial moments in their careers in three ways: by offering workspace, facilitating collaborations with specialists in various disciplines, and promoting new audiences through a diverse program that includes open studios and exhibitions. One of th first of its kind in Mexico City, the LAGOS Studios & Artist Residencies, is open to artists, curators, writers, editors and cultural agents, offering them the opportunity to insert themselves in the creative panorama of Mexico City; as well as proposals, collaborations and projects that broaden the discussion of current problems addressed via contemporary art.

In the autumn of 2022, LAGOS opened a branch in Berlin, at the MOMENTUM space in the Kunstquartier Bethanien Art Center. Beginning in January 2023, LAGOS and MOMENTUM are initiating their Art Exchange Program – FAR AWAY SO CLOSE – with artists residencies, exhibitions, curatorial research trips, and other cultural initiatives exchanged between Mexico and Berlin.

 

MORE INFO @ www.artelagos.mx > >

 

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