Genoveva Filipovic in conversation with Josef Strau on site at the Kölnischer Kunstverein on the occasion of the current exhibition Bridge of Sigh.
This is a return invitation after the joint conversation at the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Düsseldorf on the exhibition Spirits and Objects by Josef Strau last fall.
Genoveva Filipovic (*1986 in Frankfurt am Main) lives in New York and currently in Cologne. She studied at the HfG in Offenbach am Main and at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main (until 2013). Her works have recently been shown at Galleria Federico Vavassori in Milan (2019), Kunsthalle Zurich (2019), Goton in Paris (2018), Dead Ends in New York (2016), Vilma Gold in London (2016), and Neue Alte Brücke in Frankfurt am Main (2014).
Under the title The Mephisto Hours, Josef Strau (*1957 in Vienna, lives in New York and currently in Cologne) presented an exhibition at Galerie Buchholz in Berlin in 2021. In 2020, he had a solo exhibition at the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, and was included in the Busan Biennale 2020, curated by Jacob Fabricius. In recent years, Josef Strau’s work has been shown in a number of institutional solo exhibitions, including A Turtle Dreaming (… Echoes from an Encapsulated Space Exiled Sounds of Letters Requiring Symphonic Treatment) at Secession, Vienna (2015), The New World, Application for Turtle Island, The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2014), and A Dissidence Coincidence But WHCTLJS at the Malmö Konsthall (2008).
The talk will be held in German. Admission: € 5,- / € 2,50 (reduced). Admission is free for members.
Since the number of participants for the event is limited due to the corona restrictions, please register under the link below. Please note the current regulations and minimum distance. Presentation of a negative rapid test is not required.
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