hyvinkää art museum, finland
contemporary art from berlin
all of the artists shown in the hyvinkää exhibition are in one way or another associated with the kolonie wedding, six of them are themselves organisers of one of the project spaces.
the exhibition in hyvinkää art museum aims at showing a broad variety of berlin contemporary art. the kolonie wedding can be seen as a kind of paradigm – as an example of berlin’s art scene with its exceptionally fertile atmosphere and probably unique culture of networks and discourses.
working in object, installation and video, matysik deals in manifold ways with concepts for future landscapes and organisms, like post-evolutionary life forms. he creates an area of conflict between promise and failure in a potential future. both the visual implementation and their linguistic form can be recognised here as the essential artistic strategies which he uses as his own interface between the worlds of scientific research and pseudo-scientific fiction.
matysik has created more than a hundred organisms as models of plasticine, pvc, epoxy resin, rubber, and silicone, and categorised them by weight, size, gender, form of extremities, orientation, location, mode of life, etc. essential parts of matysik’s artistic process include producing prototype models followed by conceptualisation and textual interpretation.
the clouds originally were developed for a work complex called river becomes cloud. matysik, who grew up in the indurstrial west of germany, was invited to build an artwork as part of the conversion and renaturation project of one of the rivers, the emscher, in this structurally challenged area. the artist designed a machine to transform the water of the emscher at the point where it flows into the rhine – which is a wastewater-free section of the river – into cloud-forming steam. the power needed for the process was regeneratively derived from the river itself. in addition to the ‘cloud machine’, reiner maria matysik installed an accessible, spherical station, where the clouds were displayed.
due to matysik’s artwork, the river doesn’t simply cease to exist at this point, but parts of it are transformed into sky. the project raises questions on the extent to which renaturation or a conversion back to nature is at all possible.
artists
jovan balov, tom früchtl, pablo hermann, jörg hommer, henrik jacob, karen koltermann, reiner maria matysik, matthias mayer, karen scheper, prof. ira schneider, gabriele stellbaum, artist-duo stoll&wachall, kata unger, veronika witte, andreas wolf
curated by andreas wolf, dr. anna e. wilkens and dr. mika karhu