Lena von Goedeke traveled through Spitzbergen at minus 40 degrees.
The Kallmann Prize winner processes the experiences of her expedition in an exhibition.
Ismaning
- The Kallmann Museum has long been attracting nationwide visitors because there are artists who exhibit here, whose works go far beyond the suspended rectangle.
The third Kallmann Prize winner Lena von Goedeke, who created unique works for her winning exhibition, also fits into this series.
She plays with the spaces and has created art to think about.
While the whole world was fighting against Corona, Lena von Goedeke was without the risk of infection, but also at a crisp minus 40 degrees on an expedition in Spitzbergen, an archipelago between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole.
She made experiences under extreme conditions, which she has now also artistically processed for the exhibition in Ismaning.
Museum director: "I'm totally thrilled"
A curtain hangs in the large room, suggesting the mountains in the eternal ice, around which are rubber boots in different states. The guest stands in the middle of the work of art and can explore the boots. What looks like rubber is baked clay that has been softened with water. The boots are white without chichi and partly broken. A tribute to Svalbard. The artist shows that in extreme situations, people's clothing should not be beautiful, but effective and, above all, protective. Another example is a nice down jacket with barnacles. At first glance, the barnacles are a nuisance on the beautiful piece of clothing. The climatic rethinking of mankind includes the statement,that at some point people's clothing ends up as garbage in one of the world's oceans and the barnacles annoy their home.
The Kallmann Prize
The Kallmann Prize is in its fourth edition and is now in the hot phase.
Artists can apply until June 20th on the subject of “animals”.
The winner can look forward to an exhibition from December 11th to February 20th as well as a high-quality publication.
Animal, portrait and landscape were the three central areas of the artistic work of Hans Jürgen Kallmann, which is why the topics are alternately given for the applications.
In 2018, the theme "animals" started and this year the second animal phase is coming.
This time, too, all artists who live and work in Germany can apply.
Only people who have already exhibited in the Kallmann Museum within the past five years are excluded.
Museum director Rasmus Kleine is not interested in reaching the limit of 400 applications again. “It is important that you include a very special application,” says Kleine. The museum director will soon also be part of the seven-person jury, which also includes Luca Daberto, research assistant at the museum. The third Ismaninger in the committee is former mayor Michael Sedlmair as chairman of the Kallmann Foundation.
The Kallmann Prize winner stands for art to reflect on.
"I am absolutely thrilled," says museum director Rasmus Kleine.
The unique works that are disposed of after the exhibition are also an accolade for the Ismaninger Museum.
With the effort and play with the museum rooms, the artist shows how valuable and prestigious the Kallmann Prize is for her.
It was number one among 400 applications and with the exhibition that runs until July 18, it confirms the jury's verdict.
A visit to the museum cannot be replaced by digitization
In the first few days after the museum reopened, there was great interest.
“After seven months without art, people are really starved,” says Rasmus Kleine.
And it is precisely the exhibition by the award winner Lena von Goedeke that shows "that a visit to the museum, during which you let a room work on you, cannot be replaced by digitization".
If the number of infections remains low and there is further relaxation, there could also be guided tours and other small events around the exhibition at short notice.
The museum provides information on further developments on its website.
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