artissima 2022

4 - 6 November 2022
Installation view artissima 2022 | Photo: Sebastiano Luciano
Installation view artissima 2022 | Photo: Sebastiano Luciano

For its first participation at Artissima, max goelitz creates a dialogue between recent works by Niko Abramidis &NE, Natacha Donzé and Haroon Mirza, which thematically address the guiding theme of this year's Artissima, "transformative experience".


The three artistic positions are united by a shared conceptual approach that questions the effects of technology on both current and future human existence. A reflection on the present, the presentation at Artissima 2022 illustrates our fundamental human need for progress as well as our heightened sensibility for the natural environment.


The presentation brings together a diverse reflection on issues such as digitization, transhumanity and capitalism and will become a transformative place in which natural and technoid elements enter into a dialogue and manifest an alternative vision of our future, past and present.

 

 

Pink Booth 10

Preview 3 November 2022

Fair Days 4 - 6 November 2022

 

OVAL Lingotto Fiere

Via Giacomo Mattè Trucco 70


10126 Turin

Italy


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  • Natacha Donzé

    Natacha Donzé

    In her paintings, Swiss artist Natacha Donzé 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. Instead of treating the surface as an interface to the illusory pictorial space, the focus shifts to the surface of the canvas, on which, in turn, dimensionless spaces unfold. 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.

    In 2018, Natacha Donzé was awarded the Young Artist Prize of the Museum of Art in La Chaux-de-Fonds, which is awarded as part of the Biennale of Contemporary Art. In 2021, the artist followed up with a solo exhibition at the museum, following solo presentations at parliament gallery in Paris (2020) and Unit110 in New York (2018), among others. In 2019, the artist also received the Kiefer Halblitzel Prize for Young Artists, and her work was exhibited at Kunsthaus Pasquart in Biel and at the Swiss Art Award in Basel.

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    • Natacha Donzé, Murmuration IV, monitoring sediments, 2022
      Natacha Donzé, Murmuration IV, monitoring sediments, 2022
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  • Niko Abramidis &NE

    Niko Abramidis &NE

    Niko Abramidis &NE (*1987 in Europe, lives and works in Munich and Berlin, DE) opens up a diverse spectrum dealing with economic structures and visions of the future. Within his drawings, paintings, sculptures and room installations, Niko Abramidis &NEs develops parallel universes in which he creates fictitious corporate identities and appropriates forms of expression from financial economics. This also includes the play with words through signs, symbols and ciphers, via which he transfers his artistic ideas of myth and literary fiction. The artist develops a semiotics of archaic symbols paired with sketchy drawings, which he puts together using the latest technologies.

    Niko Abramidis &NE studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Julian Rosefeldt and Markus Oehlen and at the Berlin University of the Arts with Byung-Chul Han. He is co-founder of the art space easy!upstream, which he artistically directed from 2015-2018. In 2018, he was awarded the prize ars viva for visual arts, which is awarded annually by the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e.V. This was followed by group exhibitions in 2019 at the Kunstmuseum Bern and at KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation in Düsseldorf. He also received an artist-in-residency grant on Fogo Island, Canada.

     

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    • Niko Abramidis &NE, Cryptic Machine Prototype F1, 2022
      Niko Abramidis &NE, Cryptic Machine Prototype F1, 2022
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    • Niko Abramidis &NE, Agenda Table (NRG), 2022
      Niko Abramidis &NE, Agenda Table (NRG), 2022
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    • Niko Abramidis &NE, Big Roll 500 €, 2020
      Niko Abramidis &NE, Big Roll 500 €, 2020
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    • Niko Abramidis &NE, Big Roll 1 $, 2018
      Niko Abramidis &NE, Big Roll 1 $, 2018
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  • 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 Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2019).
     
    • Haroon Mirza, Light Work xliii, 2022
      Haroon Mirza, Light Work xliii, 2022
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    • Haroon Mirza, After the Big Bang, 2014
      Haroon Mirza, After the Big Bang, 2014
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