about
residency program
past editions
locations
supporters
contact:
paxosbiennale@gmail.com
about
residency program
past editions
locations
supporters
contact:
paxosbiennale@gmail.com
dates:
June-August 2018
participating artists:
Ricky Lee Gordon
Michael Sebastian Haas
Leonid Keller
Linus Lohmann
Yiannis Pappas
Quintessenz
Jewgeni Roppel
Rene Wagner
curated by:
Leonid Keller
Michael Sebastian Haas
INTERFACE - FIELD OF BLUE, Avlaki Bay
225 sqm polyester textile, 100m steelcable
Michael Sebastian Haas (b. 1979 Germany) lives and works in Berlin. He is a conceptual artist who uses multiple technologies and techniques to create kinetic art. By combining painting, robotics, light, architecture, landscape, and textiles he creates the logic and life of his “evolving systems“.
“Interface” is a landart installation at the Avlaki bay on the greek island of Paxos. Interwined with the topography and daily windclimate it shows a sequence of views over the day. In the morning a blue square field is levitating over the bay. Wind rises around noon and lifts the textile to a horizontal position where it is floating until late afternoon. In the evening winds are calming and you face a dark moving square. The ‘Interface’ is placed where the elements of sea and land face and where humans feel the need to leave and to arrive. Interface was realized as part of the first edition of Paxos Biennale.
www.michaelsebastianhaas.com
Jewgeni Roppel
Photoprints on canvas
Jewgeni Roppel (b. 1983 Kasachstan) lives and works in Hamburg, Germany. He grew up with mystical stories and legends in Siberia. The power of nature is the main focus of his work. Jewgeni searches for places with mythological meanings, beliefs and ideologies, that attracts seekers and stimulate their imagination and subjective experience. He believes in a personal interconnection between the viewer and nature. He creates through symbols, colors and light visionary images, that respond to our longing for the transcendental.
www.jewro.de
Yiannis Pappas
Kenotopio. Old Greek Cisterne, Velianitatika
Yiannis Pappas (b. 1978 Greece), lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Throughout Pappas’ work runs a deep fascination for the relation between space and the human body in natural and urban environments. His visual language is rich and varied, encompassing multiple forms of expression, such as video work, photography, performance, installation and interventionist practices, all of which bear the signs of Pappas’ anthropological and phenomenological approach to his subjects. His artistic work and research explore how different places are sustained collectively and individually throughout history.
www.yiannispappas.com
Quintesenz
Mesh, spraypaint (120 colors)
Thomas Gransauer (1981, Germany) and Tomislav Topic (1985, Germany), live and work as the artist duo Quintessenz in Berlin and Hannover, Germany. Starting out as students at the University of applied Science and Arts in Hildesheim, they developed a unique and unmistakeable signature style. With roots in graffiti-culture, graphic design and chromatics, Quintessenz combine painting, the moving image, and installation.
www.quintessenz.art
Leonid Keller
First Person
school benches, paper, spraypaint, tension strap
Julia Ossko (1978, Germany) and Eugen Schulz (1984, Kasachstan), live and work since 2013 as the artist duo Leonid Keller in Berlin, Germany. Against the background of a specific topic - for the most part socio-cultural and political in nature - Leonid Keller develops subjective dramaturgies that "put into space" a new reality. Their work is about a new way of imaging the social constructions shaping their generation and our world.
Inspired by an archive of images, by a local, amateur photographer from the 1950s, as well as Venetian and Greek ruins, that have a strong relation to the political history and today's identity of the islanders, Leonid Keller developed a site specific installation in the courtyard of the old school building in Lakka, Paxos.
www.leonidkeller.com
Ricky Lee Gordon
Abandoned House
mural, tiles, wood
Ricky Lee Gordon (1984, Johannesburg, South Africa) lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. Having lived and worked in Cape Town he moved to Los Angeles in 2016 to study classical painting. He is a self-taught artist and well known for his large scale murals that can be seen in cities all over the world, from New York to Istanbul and Madagascar to Kathmandu.
Ricky has been inspired by his experiences in meditation and Buddhist Dharma (law of nature). His paintings explore the nature of non-duality and interconnectedness focusing on bringing to light relevant social issues and universal truths. His intention with his murals is to create artwork that has a connection to the people and place in which he is painting.
www.rickyleegordon.com
Linus Lohmann
Natural Amphitheatre
wood, bent
Linus Lohmann (1982, Germany) lives and works in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland. His work consists of graphics, sculpture or moving objects derived from simple forms and the layering of visual records. His recent projects are based on the concepts of addition and substraction of various materials that are either light or heavy. He transforms their purpoce and their nature by by dinimishing or dissolving them and then by agglomerating and reassembling them.
www.linuslohmann.com
Rene Wagner
490_82
thermopaint on metal plates/ limited edition zine
Rene Wagner is an artist based in Kassel, Germany. Primarily concerned with the notion of branding, the commercial frame and drawing inspiration from sports teams and sponsors, he employs a multimedia approach to his practice that critiques the "artist-as-brand". His use of ceramic specifically, renegotiates a medium with immense historical weight; vases being designed to carry narratives and emblems of mythic or social significance, but also serve a perfunctory, decorative application - garnishing mantelpieces and tabletops. Deriving his palette from car-mod culture, metallic fades and extravagant neon punctuate the grand shapes of the pottery. Wagner´s work constantly undermines form in favor of content, displacing the "high" tradition of porcelain and appropriating the imagery associated with "low" culture of the "street".
www.rene-wagner.tumblr.com