Studio Party
Fr 07.12.,18:00 – 22:00 h
Interdisciplinary Artist, Matthew Kopp, will launch his month long Installation project, Cross Contamination, at Premarts Gallery. The work, Cross Contamination, is an exploration of personal and world histories through collage.
Later in the month Kopp will be joined by Belgium Artist Wannes Cooles to complete the installation and create a performance work, Erzählkollage, based on the installation.
1st -2nd December 2018,
Vernissage: Friday 1st December, 7pm-
Opening Hours: Saturday 2nd, 10am-7pm
In this biannual art exhibition, students of the international traveling university share the art they have created during the school semester. This is a hall of mirrors that shows how students reflect on their international experience, how those different cities shape them and how they, in turn, shape the cities they are in. The works deal with what concerns the students as travelers and as people learning to exist in the world: human contact and intimacy, creating a home in ever-changing landscapes, and being open to new experiences and ideas.
Minerva Schools at KGI is an innovative liberal arts university where students from all around the world study in 7 major international cities. The curriculum is experience-based, wheresmall seminar sessions and self-learning substitute the traditional lecture structure.
https://www.minerva.kgi.edu/
Artists:
Alya Luk Azman, Malaysia; Kate Gilbert, Texas, USA; Kristin Hudson, Nevada, USA; Liberty Pim, UK; Mariah Isabella Bouthiller, Maine, USA; Mayzie Allswede, Nevada, USA; Mika Lanir, Israel; Miko Borje, Hong Kong; Shpend Bekjiri, Macedonia; Tatiana Soskina, Russia.
This project is curated by Mika Lanir.
Matthew Kopp & Wannes Cools
Matthew Kopp creates totemistic portraits revealing s
plintered introjects, alter personalities, bizarre deities, and pensive expressive abstractions.Wannes Cools is a Belgian based artist born 1991.
His practice jumps through different sorts of mediums, ranging from drawing to installations. The main focus of his practice lays in narrative storytelling. Often seemingly meaningless his work takes shape and form mostly because of the quantitiy which he
conseders to be a help- full quality. His works are mostly derived from everyday or past pop culture images. He himselfdescribes his work as being very straightforward and at times superficial although there is alwaysmeaning that relays to his personal concerns. By jumping in between mediums and translating the same into different outputs Cools seaks out the value of an image. For this event Cools will be working aside of artist Chicago based artist Matthew Kopp.
Together the two will bring forth a crosspolution of both visual work and short performances.
2nd – 8th November 2018,
Vernissage: Friday 2nd November
Finissage: Thursday 8th November
Opening hours:
Friday 2nd, Saturday 3rd, Wednesday 7th, Thursday 8th November
From 7pm
Performances each evening at 8pm
Free entry.
In this special solo show at PremArts, Dafne Della Dafne presents a collection of her latest song compositions and sound works, with accompanying video material, tracking her artistic interpretation of socio-economic and cultural conditions. In a landscape inhabited by changed climates, precarious living and gentrification, late capitalism’s gloom and doom is analysed in Dafne Della Dafne’s creative lab, Salon Daflon, and transformed into contemplative ruminations on how to survive and thrive in modern times.
There will be a live half-hour performance by the artist every evening.
Free entry, donations welcome.
Biography
Dafne Della Dafne is a New-Zealand born, Berlin-based musician, performer and sound artist, and one half of the artistic and curatorial duo 
Late Nights In Squat Bars with Shanti Suki Osman. Together they have released 2 albums of indytronic feminist songs, and organised several festivals, event series and sound installations, including 2018’s Hearing Now sound exhibition at O.T. Projektraum.
Dafne Della Dafne has founded several post-punk, alternative and indie groups in the past, as well as having a background in devised theatre. As a solo artist,
Dafne has released 2 albums and recorded dozens of idiosyncratic political electro-pop songs, some of which are featured in this exhibition. She also produces a monthly radio show of female-voiced electro and dance music for Berlin’s Freies Radio. Late Nights In Squat Bars http://latenightsinsquatbars.org/ Dafne Della Dafne https://soundcloud.com/dafnedelladafne/ Salon Daflon Calling (radio show) https://www.mixcloud.com/salondaflon/
Photo credit: Ilaria Biotti
