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.
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the MOMENTUM COLLECTION > >
[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.
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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.
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With Thanks To:
404404404
2017, Installation, ink & sponge roller, dimensions variable
Free Will, Open Mic, GFW, Confessions
2021, Video installation, LCD screen, acrylic fittings,
16 x 24 x 3,8 cm, 10” on loop, on loan from the artist
Utopia # 3337
2020, 130 x 170 cm graphite, oil on canvas, on loan from the artist
Utopia # 4145
2020, 75 x 110 cm , ink, marker, pencil on paper, on loan from the artist
Utopia #4374
2020, 75 x 105 cm, ink, marker, pencil on paper, on loan from the artist
deluge of delusion 1
2021, Digital print on canvas and 10 watercolors on paper, 190 x 390 cm, on loan from the artist
Zeus Appears To Eva In The Shape Of A Rocket
2013, Wallpaper Tapestry, color print on paper, 171 x 240 cm
ATARA
2019, HD Video with sound (single-channel version of 2-channel installation), 15’20”
Traveling Artist
2018, Video Performance, Japanese with English subtitles, 15’47”
Traveling Artist
2018, HD Video, 7’9″ on loop
Messenger Irma / Messenger Dora / Messenger Megi /
Messenger Maria / Messenger Mangkhut [Barcode: Commodity Dream]
2021, 5 framed prints, ink print on paper, each 29 cm x 42 cm (31 x 44 cm with frame)
Songbook/ Nunca más la guerra, un lamento. Edition.
2023, Ink on paper, A4, edition of 20
B. T. R. [BORN TO RUN]
2020, HD Video with sound, 20’3”
W H Y D O W E K I L L
2022, HD Video with sound (single-channel version of 3-channel video installation), 6’39”, on loan from the artist
Light Space Materia
2020, HD Video, Digital Animation, 8’27”
Light Space Modulator at MOMENTUM
2020, HD Video, 2’20”
BAFF BAFF! What Are The Politicians Talking About
2021, Video Performance, HD with sound, 4’20”
(edited for exhibition from original 65 min. performance)