True to the motto "free space for all!" the Kunstverein is once again making its space and garden available to creative minds of all ages for the free development and implementation of one’s own ideas. Building material is available on site and can be brought from one’s own basement, garage or spontaneously from bulky waste. The Project is being accompanied by the artists Maje Mellin and Isabell Nuno de Buen.

When: Monday June 13. - Friday June 31.

Mo - Fri, from 12 am - 5 pm.

Admission is free!

Register: mail@kunstverein-langenhagen.de

The structure of the webpage resembles an archipelago with it's different islands, their specific characteristics and mutual influences - which is why we named the platform ‘Archipelago’. The various thematic islands of the archipelago consist of what is given little or no space within the exhibition medium.

Current Clusters deal, for example, with the subject of ‘Heimat’ (Homeland), with ‘experimental art education’ and with the artist Christopher Knowles, whose work was recently shown in a solo exhibition at the Kunstverein. Processes and sources of research will be made visible and available through texts, images, videos, sound pieces or even reading recommendations. Various clusters are to be added continuously, and they can also arise in cooperation with other institutions or artists...

visit the project at: www.archipelago.page

For the garden of the Kunstverein, McNamee creates a site-specific installation that explicitly includes time as a tool to shape material. In this work the relationship we want to develop with the landscape and with matter is a central issue. How do we evaluate ourselves within a landscape that is constantly changing? These changes often take place through our own targeted intervention - yet always under the conditions of the matter itself. Unlike a typical exhibition, the installation of the artist will not have a limited duration, which ends with the dismantling and removal of the works. McNamee’s work, created for the garden of the Kunstverein, remains on site after completion and will reshape over time due to weather, growth and our (nursing) interventions. The installation will continue making, rusting, crumbling, growing, producing, pushing pulling and warping. The project will be realized by the artist from July 21st until the end of August. You are cordially invited to visit the Kunstverein during the work process and the festive opening.

The opening takes place on August, 26 from 5 'till 9 p.m. - so there will be plenty time to explore the installation, have chats, drinks and a snack while keeping the required distance to one another.

At 6 p.m. there will be a short welcoming speech as well as some introductory words on the exhibition of Pilippe Van Snick inside the Kunstverein's building and Alex McNamee's installation in the garden of the Kunstverein.

Furthermore we would like to cordially invite you to a on-site conversation with Alex McNamee on August 20th at 7 p.m.!

Time, the passage of time and its duality are themes that Van Snick made visually perceptible in his work. Since the late 1970s, the artist has submitted his work to a clear system. He assigned a colour to each of the numbers 0-9. 0-7 represent the immaterial colours (primary and complementary colours, followed by black and white), 8-9 the material colours (gold and silver). A few years later he added an extra colour; light blue This colour symbolizes the day - in contrast to black, which represents the night. In this way Van Snick was able to explore not only the meaning of form and space in his work, but also time and its dualistic character. His systematic number and colour structure is undeniably an attempt to translate a complex universe into a concrete system. Van Snick's handling of this clear system with infinite possibilities is not dogmatic, but open and dynamic. His colour palette, along with the chosen abstract forms, does not embody "absolute abstraction", but is his way of connecting with concrete reality.

Abstract works have been combined with photographs that show Van Snick's interest in natural forms in his garden and elsewhere (such as the many botanical gardens he visited and photographed at home and abroad). Van Snick's cinematic journey through sensations, past works and new studies offer a concentrated insight into the proverbial travel landscape of the artist.

This exhibition has been realized in close collaboration with Marijke De Keukeleire. Many thanks to Philipp Van Cauteren, Heide Hinrichs, Laura Van Snick, Wim Waelput, Simon Delobel, Liene Aerts and the Kiosk team for their support.