EXHIBITION

Der Fremde in Mir

Stedelijk Museum Assen Hedendaagse Kunst, Drenthe, Assen, 01/18/2015 - 02/15/2015

Venestraat 88

ABOUT

Five artists who live in a very different place than where they were born, do a colourful and powerful statement about their work as an artist in the 21st century, and how their past and identity plays a role.


The artists were born and raised in different cultures: India, Moldova, Iraq, Israel, New Guinea, and closer, London. Their migration was an important caesura in their lives. The question I pose to themis: Is your past in one or another way present in your work? How it is visible, and how does that relate to the contemporary idiom? Do you use your personal experiences, do you take the right road or passthem perhaps unconsciously?
The exhibition will show the personal views and positions of these artists in dialogue with each other.They can compete, but also widen each other. Tensions between the different positions make this exhibition particularly interesting.

The artists are presenting Joseph Semah, Ilya Rabinovich, Tanya Ury, Monali Meher and René deRooze.

Curator: René de Rooze

-Introduction by David Stroband,
Art historian and teacher at Minerva School of Arts.
-Performance by Tanya Ury and Kasander Nilist
Improvised poetry and improvised music on the exhibition theme “The Stranger in Mir”.
-Performance  “Being touched by an Angel just before Birth”
By Joseph Semah.

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