Samples of Works from previous projects referring to the theme “Ruins of Time”.

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Eleonora Bourmistrov
PASSAGE, site-specific installation with industrial sound

Eleonora Bourmistrov’s practice explores issues around transience, precariousness, instability, time, place, perception, dislocation and ruins. She uses deconstructive techniques, such as illusion, simulacra, parody of building processes, mixing genuine and imitation materials to treat themes that are disorienting, ambivalent and challenging, in works including site-specific, audio-visual installations, film, video, painting and sculpture. Her focus is physical and human worlds at the point, where things break down, collapse and fall apart – the moments that demonstrate most powerfully the finality of all things. The work is dark, dramatic and disorienting. It reveals the power of ruination and inevitability but also the beauty of the flux of time and of transitoriness.

Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, MA Fine Art, based in Munich and London http://www.eleonorabourmistrov.com

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Myra Brooklyn
BRIGHTLIGHT 09, site-specific installationMyra Brooklyn’s art has a transient, unrestful and daunting quality, hovering on the edge of ‘black humor’. It reflects her deep awareness of her personal mortality, vulnerability and non-belonging that she expresses in a variety of media ranging from sculpture, installation, drawing to printmaking and video. A dark energy seems to form the center of all her works, which are extremely physical and expressive, yet delicate and fragile; they are often made on site with materials taken from other pieces in acts of rearrangement to form new works. Contemporary materials, such as industrial and technological detritus, electric appliances, wires and lightbulbs, are used in some installations to replicate her own physiognomy and nervous system in a kind of obscure tabletop landscapes: a wire plug could be disconnected, for example, and seen as a metaphor for the physical break-down at the end of life.

Academy of Visual Arts, Munich, Postgraduate Diploma Sculpture, based in Munich and N.Y. http://www.myrabrooklyn.com

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Risha Gorig
FREE ME BECAUSE I AM DYING, performance

Risha Gorig works in variety of media, including film, experimental video, performance, composing, dance, poetry and site-specific installation to create a surreal and hauntingly lyric world of decay and rebirth – work that takes the viewer on a journey of provocative and challenging imagery and motives of multi-layered meaning and that mirror our complex environment and the artist’s states of existence. By mixing technology with fragility of humanity and often using images of elements such as water, fire and the wind in her pieces, she creates visual metaphors of time, death and life – evoking the feeling of otherworldliness and melancholy.

Experimental film-maker, composer and choreographer, based in London and New York http://www.rishagorig.com

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Angelika Hofmann
RAY OF HOPE, light object

Angelika Hofmann’s work deals with tension that can be found between spaces, forms, objects, different materials, and also between matter and word. She finds the nameless, the indescribable, whose vibrancy can only be felt by imagination of the viewer.

A tower rises into the sky cutting off a little bit of it. But what remains is not the brightness of the sky, but the darkness of the tower.

Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, State Exam in 3-dimensional Design, Lecturer for sculpture and drawing, based in Munich  http://www.angelika-hofmann.com

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Monika Kita
DEPARTURE, hd video

Monika Kita’s recent art practice is concerned with the subject of loss, with a strong emphasis on space, time and history. Memory as a psychological journey inwards adds an important dimension to her work. The artist explores fractions of past moments, which often elicits a study of the place and a recording of the passing of time. This allows her to ‘freeze the present’ and to contemplate upon its relationship with the past. This process has its extension in the mind. She is particularly interested in derelict buildings in the context of historical events, such as atomic power stations and disused military objects. Alongside the rather personal nature of such inward contemplations about time and loss, Monika’s works could be also viewed as time documents that record, remind and warn of the dangers of global alienation and destruction.

Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, MA Fine Art, based in London  http://www.monikakita.com

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Milena Michalski
TWO TOWERS, installation+projection

Milena Michalski creates work around themes of place and perception, site and sight. She uses translucency, transparency and layering to construct images, as well as fragmentation or obscuring of images, to deconstruct them, and to treat issues of representation and abstraction. Milena works in a variety of media, including installation, film, video and print-making. Through an emphasis on the materiality of the media, her practice interweaves memory and trace, combining subjective and objective elements and experiences of time and place.

Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, MA Fine Art, based in London http://www.milenamichalski.com

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Brigitte C. Reichl
LONELY NIGHTS OF THE BORDERLINES, installation

Brigitte C. Reichl responds to the fact that in nature everything follows a specific, recurring rhythm. The changing seasons, the heartbeat, birth, decay, re-birth. Her work is inspired by nature, the human experience, and its connected recurring cycles.
In her sight-specific installations she transforms a space from pure location to an atmospheric environment. This is achieved by making lighting, smell, temperature and/or sound an integral part of the installation. She aims to bring the viewer into another world. A world, of inner possibilities (and realities), which the viewer may not always be conscious of, yet which exists beneath the surface. Thus the viewer is not faced with something completely foreign, he/she encounters the more or less familiar, however, from a different or unexpected viewpoint.

Chicago Art Institute, USA, MA Fine Arts, based in Munich  http://www.karton@art.de

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Marcia Teusink
UNTITLED, painting-installation

Marcia Teusink’s practice investigates collapse and the reconfiguration of the built environment through painting, found objects, photography and mixed media. The work takes as a starting point the impact of neglect on our cities and structures, the effects of climate change and extreme weather, and also the normal consequences of time and weathering on objects. Teusink is interested in the political implications of collapse and restructuring, as well as the art historical, psychological, and spiritual ones. Coming from a background painting in particular, the physical structures of paintings are often a primary focus and metaphor for the investigation of these themes.

City University of New York, Queens College, MFA in Visual Art, MA in Museum & Gallery Education, Institute of Education, UCL, London, based in London  http://www.marciateusink.com

 

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