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Ellie Pritts: “I don’t believe an artistic output needs to meet any qualifications to be considered art.“
The latest exhibition "Calderúnicae" by US artist Ellie Pritts opens on 11 April at Kunstverein Ludwigsburg. Many people have probably already seen her work. Pritts has gained worldwide recognition in the fields of Web3 and AI art and has worked with global brands such as Microsoft and Adobe.
"Calderúnicae" is an artistic exploration of transcendence and depicts a volcanic planet inhabited by mythical beings. In Ellie Pritt's world, the surreal meets the esoteric and the artist questions the boundaries between the real and the surreal and between the physical and the metaphysical. In doing so, she interweaves striking colour palettes, glitch aesthetics and self-portraits in an extremely harmonious way. It's no wonder, then, that well-known brands or international museums draw on her artistic skills. Pritts not only uses AI in her artistic practice, but combines it with outdated technology, such as bent video hardware from the 90s.
AI art is nevertheless controversial. An article published by the Smithsonian in 2022 was entitled "Is this art?" and also mentioned Pritt's work. The artist, however, does not believe that an artistic work has to fulfil any requirements to be considered art. Despite AI, the work process would still be very complex and time-consuming, according to the artist.
4. April 2024
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Mischa Kuball, missing link_, Düsseldorf, 2023 (c) VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2022 Foto: Achim Kukulies
Mischa Kuball: „Meine Arbeit steht für Toleranz, Aufklärung und ein interreligiöses Zusammenleben.“
Im November 1938 wurde die Große Synagoge in der Kasernenstraße in Düsseldorf in Brand gesetzt. Nach dem Krieg kehrten nur 57 jüdische Bürger nach Düsseldorf zurück und gründeten die Jüdische Gemeinde Düsseldorf. Im Jahr 2023 überschlugen sich die Ereignisse. Der 7. Oktober führte zu Demonstrationen gegen Israel in der Stadt und zu zahlreichen Unterstützungserklärungen für das Bündnis mit Israel von Seiten der Stadt.
Das bedeutendste Projekt und wohl auch das wichtigste Kunstprojekt der Stadt in diesem Jahr dürfte das Werk „missing link_“ des Düsseldorfer Künstlers Mischa Kuball sein. Der bisherige graue Gedenkstein für die Synagoge war schon lange als unzureichend empfunden worden. „missing link_“ wurde am 9. November um 22.30 Uhr an der Ecke Kasernenstraße und Siegfried-Klein-Straße eingeschaltet. Die 12 Meter hohe Lichtprojektion, die einen Teil der Großen Synagoge abbildet, wird mit reinem weißen Licht angestrahlt. Ein heller Streifen auf der Fahrbahn führt von der gegenüberliegenden Seite zur Leinwand.
15 April 2024
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The Neighbours: "Neighbours can be both those who suffered in camps and prisons and those who carried out the violence."
The 60th international art exhibition La Biennale di Venezia is being held under the motto "Foreigners Everywhere - Stranieri Ovunque". This edition aims to explore themes such as migration, exile, "outsiders" and foreignness. The expression "Stranieri Ovunque" - explains Adriano Pedrosa, curator of the Biennale - has several meanings. Firstly, that no matter where you go and where you are, you will always meet foreigners - they/we are everywhere. Secondly, that no matter where you are, you are always truly and deeply a foreigner. A topical subject and also explosive in a time that is increasingly black and white and in which good is strictly separated from evil. People are beginning to eye their neighbours... The Bulgarian pavilion explores precisely this. The silenced memories of survivors of state violence in Bulgaria between 1945 and 1989 in a multimedia installation entitled The Neighbours. The Neighbours collective sums it up for us in an exclusive interview: "Everybody has a neighbour, everybody is a neighbour, everybody can be a neighbour."
16. March 2024
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