Exhibition
Zora Mann & Heike Kabisch
Exhibition
Grisebach x ChertLüdde
26 January to 7 March 2024
Grisebach, Fasanenstrase 27, 10719 Berlin
Opening times
Mon 10am to 4pm
Tue- Fr 10am to 6pm
Sat 11am to 4pm
Opening
Thursday, 25 January 2024, 6pm to 8pm
Grisebach, Fasanenstrase 27, 10719 Berlin
About the exhibition
In “I dreamt of tearing the storm into fragments”, a cooperation between Grisebach and ChertLüdde, Zora Mann and Heike Kabisch present a dual exhibition that visualizes the chaos of life through the eye of the storm. Here, the two artists share existing works in a world spinning of change and tidal waves of motion. Traversing mediums of sculpture, painting and collage, they navigate doubts and fears as thresholds of our inner and outermost defenses. Pulling us through the vulnerable states of being, this polyvocal exhibition is a tropical storm, buzzing with colours and flashing like a matchstick burn.
About the artists
Zora Mann (b. 1979) attended art school at Villa Arson in Nice, France, where she developed her distinct, hypersaturated artistic voice. Mann’s identifiable aesthetic ventures into the realms of disparate experiences and scores of interests. Her vibrating, psychedelic expression finds influence in folklore, geometry, dreamlike shifts, vibrant, affective colour palettes, and surreal repetition that moves in relation to so many other competing movements. Leaning into psychic change, memory, and visceral registers of emotion, Mann explodes in colour onto canvases, sculptures, etchings, murals, ceramics, and shields. Shields and talisman for Mann, is an incantation of therapeutic mitigation, porous membranes exploring the tender machinations of healing. Theoretical musings on fragmentation and the philosophical ticks of psychology, science fiction, literature, and natural structures, show up in bold, inquisitive creative displacement. Fractures and aesthetic bursts allude to states of mind that invite the cooperation of the involute unconscious, and she enters this risky zone with equal trepidation and innovative confidence. Mann’s hallucinogenic manifestations pulsate and throb, challenging us to drift in and out of the incorporeal in kaleidoscopic mutation.
Zora Mann’s work has been exhibited at: Berlinische Galerie; Villa Arson, Nice; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden Baden; Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin; Palais De Tokyo, Paris; BKV-Brandeburgischen Kunstverein, Potsdam.
Collections: Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin; Frac Poitou-Charentes, France; MAMAC, Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Nice.
Heike Kabisch (b. 1978, Münster) lives and works in Düsseldorf and Berlin. She obtained her Master’s degree at the Glasgow School of Art. In 2009 she won the Bergischer Kunstpreis.
Heike Kabisch is interested in the potency of poetic images and their potential. Her work suggests wondrous spaces that lead into the depths of inwardness, employing artistic manifestations as formal parables for the intimate search of experience. She reveals an ongoing conflict in the preservation of the momentary and existential processes that take place in her studio, where personal events that span everyday life are translated back into conscious and unconscious artistic actions. By using urban space for porous interventions, Kabisch constructs liminal spaces and structures that are not utopian, but rather temporary, unstable and constantly in flux, vulnerable to destruction and unpredictable variables. The use of raw materials such as tree branches, unfired clay or familiar items like used clothing further add to the unfinished, continual quality of her sculptures, which invite revisitation in their refusal to be completed.
Her works have been exhibited in venues such as: Kunstverein Kirschenpflücker, Köln; Künstlerhaus Dortmund; Nomas Foundation, Rome; Städtische Galerie Markdorf, Kunstverein Markdorf e.V.; Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem; Frieze, London and Drei Raum für Gegenwartskunst, Cologne.
Collections: Nomas Foundation, Rome; Vergez Collection, Buenos Aires; Kunst aus Nordrhein-Westfalen, Aachen, Germany
Courtesy of The Artists and ChertLüdde, Berlin