HOUSE_June_week 37

2021 - Week 37

...and indeed it is already September, this year is flying by and fall is here. With pumpkin spices, leaves blowing in the wind, and all the art fairs. This week if you are lucky enough to be allowed entry, join our Aleksei at the 9th edition of Cosmoscow, or if you happen to be in Zürich make sure to visit the Galleries who are all mounting special shows for the Zürich Art Weekend, there is also the long night of the museum in which our friends at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst (contemporary art) are participating in. In Berlin, we are diving headfirst into the Art Week, and are particularly excited to highlight member Yulia's show at Haus am Lützowplatz. Then there is of course the annual drinks and show at Schinkel and a thousand other gatherings. Milan can attend a lovely opening tomorrow call befittingly the "Last Days of Summer" on the other side of the pond Los Angeles Member Keelin is showing at Gruin. Find her in the directory and maybe there will be a finissage to her lovely show that you get to attend ;) she'd love to hear from you LA House folk. And coming soon: Basel is of course on all our minds ;) Anna shows the amazing Sola at VOLTA and we will also pop up with a little something. Do let us know if you are in town and will share the details. LoveCordelia, Maja & the Girls 

IRL Moscow Event9th Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fairpreview on September 17, 2021contact Dubai Head of HOUSE Aleksei at [email protected] if you are in town

The 9th Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair will be held from 18 to 20 September at Moscow Manege, with the preview on September 17, 2021. If you are in Russia, you can connect with our Head of House Aleksei Afanasiev, who can get exclusive access to the fair for TAG House members, as well as insider info on best things to see and do in Moscow during the fair. Website link: https://www.cosmoscow.com/en/

House of BerlinHR Giger & Mire LeeSchinkel PavillionOPENING

* Join us for drinks & music on our terrace *

17.09.2021, 6-9pm

no RSVP necessary :) 

The exhibition HR Giger & Mire Lee brings together the sculptures, early paintings, drawings and private diaries of the late Swiss visionary HR Giger (1940-2014) – creator of the iconic Alien in the movie of the same name – alongside site-specific kinetic installations by the South Korean artist Mire Lee (*1988). The darkly surrealist, erotic visions and grotesque mutant-like figures depicted in Giger’s works coalesce with Lee’s forms, which are at the same time seductive and repulsive, evoking dysfunctional organisms, dissected body parts and umbilical cords. The Schinkel Pavillon turns into a womb-like cell where the darkest aisles of the human body and psyche are explored. Image Captions: HR Giger, Hommage à S. Beckett III, 1968; Courtesy HR Giger Museum / Mire Lee, Carriers - offsprings (Detail), 2021; Photo: Eoghan Ryan, Sollee Kim

House of ZürichZurich Art Weekend 202117. - 19. September no RSVP necessary :) 

ZURICH ART WEEKEND is a non-profit organisation that brings together Zurich’s major public and private art institutions through a variety of initiatives and events. The yearly highlight event, ZURICH ART WEEKEND, gathers major public and private art institutions to shed new light on the art scene of Switzerland’s largest city.For the occasion, art lovers and art professionals are invited to participate in a rich programme of more than 100 events in over 60 different locations. Among those, exhibition openings and collection visits, guided tours, performances and urban interventions, artists talks and thought-provoking panel discussions, cocktails and other gatherings all around town that put the arts centre stage. In parallel, online-only curated events allow to make new discoveries and to meet the protagonists of the local art scene.The fourth edition of ZURICH ART WEEKEND will take place between Friday, September 17 and Sunday, September 19, 2021.Zurich Art | March, 5–7 and Zurich Art | June, 11–13 are two new initiatives created in response to the challenging and yet resourceful circumstances that the art world continues to face.https://zurichartweekend.com/https://www.lowenbraukunst.ch/home/Herbstprogramm.html

Zürich IRLLange Nacht der Zürcher Museen - Program at the Löwenbräu Areal - Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst4. September von 18-02 Uhr

Throughout - Food & BarFeaturing Löwenbräukunst beer, bar and food and of course hot dogs for the little ones. 6-7 p.m., 7:30-8:30 p.m., 9-10 p.m.Drawing in Motion - Drop-in WorkshopHere, movements are translated into abstract drawings. We observe bodies in motion in dialogue with art and visualize them on paper.Performers: Hae Yeon Lim (performer, yoga & pilates teacher), Manuela Runge (theater & dance teacher).Meeting point: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, ground floor. 6-6:20 p.m., 7-7:20 p.m., 9-9:20 p.m.Modern Minuet - Dance WorkshopTry out a ballroom dance for the year 2021.Meeting point: Kunsthalle Zurich, 2nd floor 18:30-20:30STUDIO Screen Printing StationTingly screen-printing subjects are available in the STUDIO on the 2nd floor. Bring your own pillowcases, t-shirts or other clothing items. We'll help you artfully enhance them with a colorful print.Meeting place: Studio, 2nd floor 19-19:30 h, 20:45-21:15 h, 22-22:30 hGuided tour - Spotlight Kunsthalle ZürichQuick spotlight on the two current exhibitions.Meeting point: Kunsthalle Zürich, 2nd floor 20-21 h, 22-23 hPrint Performance - WorkshopAn artist and a barman work with the same material. This will result in an edition of the evening on paper and in glass. We need your help to drink up.With Michael Günzburger and in collaboration with VOLUMES Art Publishing Days.Meeting point: Kunsthalle Zurich, 2nd floor 20:15-20:45, 22:30-23 hrs.Spotlight Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst - Guided tourQuick spotlight on the current exhibition Yael David's "One Is Always a Plural".Meeting point: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, ground floor.

Los Angeles Member Love KEELIN MONTZINGO - Cosmic Latte Nostalgia

at LA Gruin GallerySept 09 - Oct 10 2021go see it IRL or online here 

Longing for a time that never was and a place that is accessible only within the imagination, Keelin Montzingo presents a collection of new work that navigates the space between notions of home and the projected world we occupy online. Here, home refers not to where we live, but how we exist within our bodies and how this has changed over time as technology has developed and our sense of self has become increasingly warped and abstracted.

Cosmic Latte is known to be the average color of the universe, the compression of all we know to exist, a milky beige which is found in all of Montzingo’s new paintings. Referencing the mirroring of the cosmos within the Internet, these works explore the dichotomy between self expression and entrapment within simulation. The search for authenticity in the contemporary world is inextricably linked to public displays of fictionalized behavior. As we seek to find ourselves we develop increasingly more sophisticated ways to invent who we are for others.https://primer.gallery/KeelinMontzingo_CosmicLatteNostalgia

IRL BerlinMember Love Alert Ceremonycurated by Yulia BelousovaHaus am Lützowhaus28. August - 10. October, 2021

“Astonish me!” With these words, the Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev describes the universal power of Russian cultural heritage.

The Western world was famously introduced to the Russian culture at the beginning of the 20th century by Sergei Diaghilev, an art critic and ballet impresario. Known under the famous title „Ballets Russes Company“, he organised and launched a series of major art exhibitions and performances across Europe. It was Diaghilev’s dream to bring Russian culture to the West and create a world of art in which décor, costumes, music, and expression were one harmonious whole. In one world – it was a celebration, an act, in which Russians are real virtuosos.

As the title proposes the exhibition Ceremony: Russian Seasons, The Wedding is following in Diaghilev’s footsteps of promoting Russian culture. Diaghilev’s achievements are priceless and yet we see mainly male names in the history of the 20th century art associated with Russia. The exhibition Russian Seasons: The Wedding symbolises a new stage in the formation of Russian culture in a woman’s face, whose activities have been hidden in the shadow of the masculine society. Ironically focusing on the theme of the Ceremony of the Wedding, another dance and a celebration like a ballet,  the following exhibition is bringing together a new generation of female Russian artists re- thinking the role of the modern women in the Eastern society.

Historically, a wedding has long been considered the most important event in the life of a Russian woman, whose role was defined by serving and making the life of her husband and future children. The wedding as a system of ceremonies that consolidate marriage took its final shape in Russian culture by the 15th century. Young girls were prepared from a very early life-stage for their future marriage and had to acquire all the necessary skills to run the future household, which included cooking, sewing and taking care of the family. Among the Slavs, marriage was one of the most important social institutions and was accompanied by numerous rituals that were filled with certain motives and symbols.

Despite the rapid growth of the worlds’ economy, a shift in paradigms and in traditional roles in modern Russia, marriage is still to be considered the most important event for female „self-realisation“. A modern Russian woman is expected to be well-educated, develop a successful career, have a perfect appearance, and take care of the household and the family. This exhibition that symbolically takes place in Europe symbolises the farewell to the shackled old ideas, praises Russian traditional heritage and announces a new chapter for a woman in the eastern society. The new role that a woman has achieved in Russia by 2021 is stated in the artistic statements by Russian female authors.

Basel - Secret Member CoffeeBest Coffee in Town with the Best People in TownSept 22nd - 9:30 

Email us if you are in town and we disclose the location :) [email protected] 

Member Love - Basel VOLTA Basel Art Fair - ARTPOWHER ContemporaryPresenting British-Nigerian artist: Sola Olulode 

Sept 20 - 26contact: [email protected]

Private Preview & Press: Monday, September 20,10 am – 2 pm, by invitation only

Public Hours: Monday, September 20,Public Vernissage: 2 – 8 pm

Tuesday, September 21 - Saturday, September 25,10 am – 6 pm

Sunday, September 26,10 am – 5 pm

ARTPOWHER Contemporary is thrilled to announce its participation at VOLTA Basel 2021, staging the solo show ‘I LOVE SHARING THE BED WITH YOU’ by British-Nigerian artist Sola Olulode. This is the artists’s first exhibition in Switzerland and her first solo presentation outside of the UK. ARTPOWHER Contemporary is a collaborative art project initiative, that places focus on female-identifying and non-binary creatives in the arts. Anna Maurrasse, the Founder of ARTPOWHER Contemporary, is proud to announce the participation at VOLTA Art Fair 2021 in Basel, with the solo presentation ‘I Love Sharing The Bed With You’ by British-Nigerian artist, Sola Olulode.

Olulode is a London based artist who works across the medium of paint and textile influenced by Yoruba Adire textiles, an indigo-dyed fabric made in Nigeria by Yoruba women, using a variety of resist-dyeing techniques. The artist reinterprets images of majoritively Black Womxn expressed through diverse reflections of feminine energies, and inspired by her own identity as a queer Black woman.

For her first show in Switzerland and her first solo show outside of the UK, Olulode conceived over the last few months smaller works on paper and larger paintings on canvas, experimenting with new forms of presentation.

House of MilanMember Love Alert Eva Leibe Gallery Milan in collaboration BeAdvisors Milan Last Days of Summerat Via Fatebenefratelli, 5, 20121 MilanOpening Reception September 14 6pm - 10pm RSVP email: [email protected]

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