WeGetCloser 2
With the second edition of WeGetCloser, artists will find a place in the listed Stoff-Pavillon Köln that allows artistic interventions in situ, in vitro, in planta, to grow together with the architectural organism of the 1950s glass landmark.
In this interdisciplinary and intercultural exhibition, we encounter artists and their works - from performance, sculpture, painting, digital art and installation to works that oscillate between all these media. Artists such as Carolin Eidner, Roy Mordechay, Sarah Kürten, Mounir Ayache and Ilka Helmig, meet in the idea of dialogue, whether out of their practice or through their simultaneous presence in the exhibition space. As part of an ongoing series, WeGetCloser 2 marks a processual continuation of the curatorial concept that began with the debut at the Fahrbereitschaft Berlin (2024) and complements the field of participatory and site-specific practices. The format functions less as a fixed structure and more as a space of possibility, focussing on collective proximity, processual synergy and situational presence. A fourth practice is thus articulated in the course of the exhibition, which extends beyond the familiar modes in situ, in vitro, in planta: in tuto - a state in which the work exists not only in the space, but with it, through it and as part of a larger context.
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Biographies
b. 1984 in Berlin, Germany, lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Carolin Eidner graduated from the University of Applied Arts (Vienna) and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Her works has been shown at the Langen Foundation (Neuss), Bundeskunsthalle (Bonn), Kunsthalle Baselland (Basel), Schmelahaus K21 (Düsseldorf), Kunstverein Krefeld, Ruttkowski;68 (Cologne, Düsseldorf, Paris, New York), Aurel Scheibler (Berlin), Natalia Hug (Cologne) and other venues.
b. 1976 in Haifa, Israel, lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany
Roy Mordechay graduated from the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv and has participated as finalist in the International Art Competition for the Cologne Cathedral. His works has been shown at the KAI10 Arthena Foundation (Düsseldorf), Kunstpalast (Düsseldorf), CCA (Tel Aviv), Tel Aviv Museum, Galerie Haus Schlangeneck (Euskirchen), Nir Altman (Munich), van der Grinten Gallery (Cologne), Kunstverein Krefeld and other venues.
b. 1983 in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, lives and works in Cologne, Germany and Sardinia, Italy
Sarah Kürten graduated from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and was awarded the Villa Aurora scholarship (Los Angeles). Her works has been shown at the Arthothek Köln (Cologne), Fuhrwerkswaage (Cologne), Max Mayer Gallery (Düsseldorf), Bonner Kunstverein (Bonn), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Düsseldorf), ArtJunk c/o Lucas Hirsch (Düsseldorf), Kadel Willborn (Düsseldorf), Kunstpalast (Düsseldorf), KAI10 Arthena Foundation (Düsseldorf), Kestner Gesellschaft (Hannover), Museum Abteiberg (Mönchengladbach) and other venues.
b. 1991 in Morocco, lives and works in Marseille and Paris, France
Mounir Ayache graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. He was a resident at the Villa Medici (Rome) and has participated in the adidas Creators Source programme. His work has been shown at the Villa Medici (Rome), Manifesta 13 (Marseille), Institut du monde arabe (Paris), macLYON museum of contemporary art (Lyon), Silsila: Center for Material Histories (New York), Jeu de Paume Festival (Paris), Biennale de Paname (Paris) and other venues.
b. 1971 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, lives and works in Cologne, Germany, and Paris, France
Ilka Helmig has been a professor of drawing and visual conception at the FH Aachen since 2007. Her works has been shown at the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum (Düren), Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (Aachen), Hans Peter Zimmer Stiftung (Düsseldorf), Museo de la Ciudad (Ecuador), Galerie Obrist (Essen), Michael-Horbach-Stiftung (Cologne) and other venues.
b. 1974 in Cologne, Germany, lives and works in Cologne, Germany
Gesine Grundmann graduated from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as a master student of Rosemarie Trockel. Her works has been shown at the Arthothek (Cologne), Bonner Kunstverein (Bonn), Internationaler Lantz’scher Skulpturenpark (Düsseldorf), Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders (Bergisch Gladbach), Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Kunst im Tunnel (Düsseldorf), Museum Schloss Morsbroich (Leverkusen), Galerie Kudlek (Cologne), Setareh (Düssldorf) and other venues.
b. 1974 in Cologne, Germany, lives and works in Cologne, Germany
Klaus Kleine studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. His works has been shown at the Simultanhalle (Cologne), Kunstverein Bochum, MAKK Museum für angewandte Kunst (Cologne), melange (Cologne), Museum Ca’Rezzonico (Venice), Kunstpalast (Düsseldorf), Berthold Pott Gallery (Cologne), Fuhrwerkswaage (Cologne), Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel and other venues.
b. 1992 in Stühlingen, Germany, lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany
Oliver-Selim Boualam has been a scholarship holder of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg since 2022 and from 2016-19 he was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. His works has been shown at ZKM (Karlsruhe), Museum Ritter (Waldebuch), Superhouse (New York), Nam June Paik Art Center (Yongin), Marta L.A. (Los Angeles), Friedman Benda (New York), Vitra Design Museum (Weil am Rhein) and other venues.
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