KÖNIG GALERIE x VERSIO
SHIMMY GALLERY, BARCELONA, SPAIN
19 SEPTEMBER – 11 OCTOBER 2024
OPENING
19 SEPTEMBER 2024 | 3 PM
OPENING HOURS
THURSDAY – SATURDAY | 3 – 7 PM
KÖNIG GALERIE represented by the Director of the Mexican branch Dr. Corina Krawinkel and VERSIO by Pascal Schöning – who is a Curator and Founder of „DAS STUDIO“ - are pleased to present a Pop-up exhibition with 15 young artists in Barcelona during the Gallery Weekend. Some of these artists will show their works in Spain for the first time.
KÖNIG MEXICO CITY will show Zhivago Duncan, Erin Frost, Saul Josâf, Antony Valerian, Armin Boehm, Alexander Iskin, and Reine Paradis.
Zhivago Duncan, a US-American artist who lives and works in Mexico City and Los Angeles, with large-scale painting. He's using wax and dye- techniques to express his comic strip characters on canvas. Erin Frost is an American artist also living in Mexico City. She's a painter and performance artist known for her erotic flower paintings. Saul Josâf is Mexican and paints interiors with oil colours on wood. When Antony Valerian paints, it is as if they are behind a translucent curtain. All the usual elements of portraiture are there: the pose, the visage, the wardrobe. Yet none of them are fully spelled out. Much like in a dream, zooming in is not allowed because it would pull the background to the front and block our view. The German artist Armin Boehm who has an exhibition at the moment in the Nave of St. Agnes is featuring one painting in Barcelona, one of his mask / double portraits in vibrant colours. Alexander Iskin who is based in Mexiko City and Berlin contributed with 4 small wooden paintings. He playfully sets the accompanying processes of virtualization and dehumanization against a postmodern myth of his own: Interrealism. Reine Paradis is a Visual artist based in Los Angeles. Her work includes self-portrait photography, painting, sculpture, and installation.
VERSIO is presenting Xavi Ceerre, Anna Ehrenstein, Benjamin Jakob Enders, Claus Lam / Richard Laber, Max Mucha, Pascal M Schöning, and Nora Isabelle Zielinski.
Xavi Ceerre lives and works in Barcelona. His primary medium is painting, but he also uses other forms of expression such as programming, music, and installation. He completed a Master’s in Painting at the University of Bilbao after a long, eclectic, and self-directed education. Anna Ehrenstein is an Albanian-German artist with trans-ottoman ancestry exploring forms of knowledge and their construction. Her post-photographic sculptures, virtual installations, moving images, and textile works as well as her social interactions challenge networked ideas and epistemologies in a post-digital, neocolonial, interconnected, and hybridized world. Benjamin Jakob Enders is a multimedia artist and musician. His work operates at the intersection of sound, music, performance, and installation. Since 2019, he has been studying in the class of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His performances and installations have already been showcased at the Kunstverein Düsseldorf, the Megaworld Festival in Vienna, and the Langen Foundation in Neuss. Richard Laber is currently in education, studying with Susan Philipsz in Dresden, Germany. Claus Lam is an interdisciplinary artist born in Berlin. He is currently studying in the master class of Susan Philipsz (Academy of Fine Arts Dresden). Claus’s practice is dedicated to exploring human knowledge production in a post-representation and post-human landscape, emphasizing scientific collaborations and conceptual approaches. Max Mucha is based in Düsseldorf, born in Munich in 1995. From 2015 to 2021 he studied with Kirsi Mikkola at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From 2021 to 2024 he attended the class of Katharina Wulff at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He has exhibited at Robert Grunenberg Berlin, lkif Seoul, Plain Gallery Milan, and Tiroler Landesmuseum Innsbruck. Pascal M Schöning, lives and works in Berlin, the Rhineland, and Barcelona. Navigating the intersection of painting, urban space, and minimalism, his work carries conceptual depth by questioning the hidden grids of public order and the state of personal freedom, placing them in a context of imperfection and elements of liberation. Nora Isabelle Zielinski’s eclectic work consists of painting, text, media and spatial installations. She focuses in her paintings on abstract concepts emphasized through symbolism and surrealistic elements in aim to find a state that allows the recipient sufficient space for their own visions. She studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Rita McBride and Katharina Wulff.
19 SEPTEMBER – 11 OCTOBER 2024
OPENING
19 SEPTEMBER 2024 | 3 PM
OPENING HOURS
THURSDAY – SATURDAY | 3 – 7 PM
KÖNIG GALERIE represented by the Director of the Mexican branch Dr. Corina Krawinkel and VERSIO by Pascal Schöning – who is a Curator and Founder of „DAS STUDIO“ - are pleased to present a Pop-up exhibition with 15 young artists in Barcelona during the Gallery Weekend. Some of these artists will show their works in Spain for the first time.
KÖNIG MEXICO CITY will show Zhivago Duncan, Erin Frost, Saul Josâf, Antony Valerian, Armin Boehm, Alexander Iskin, and Reine Paradis.Zhivago Duncan, a US-American artist who lives and works in Mexico City and Los Angeles, with large-scale painting. He's using wax and dye- techniques to express his comic strip characters on canvas. Erin Frost is an American artist also living in Mexico City. She's a painter and performance artist known for her erotic flower paintings. Saul Josâf is Mexican and paints interiors with oil colours on wood. When Antony Valerian paints, it is as if they are behind a translucent curtain. All the usual elements of portraiture are there: the pose, the visage, the wardrobe. Yet none of them are fully spelled out. Much like in a dream, zooming in is not allowed because it would pull the background to the front and block our view. The German artist Armin Boehm who has an exhibition at the moment in the Nave of St. Agnes is featuring one painting in Barcelona, one of his mask / double portraits in vibrant colours. Alexander Iskin who is based in Mexiko City and Berlin contributed with 4 small wooden paintings. He playfully sets the accompanying processes of virtualization and dehumanization against a postmodern myth of his own: Interrealism. Reine Paradis is a Visual artist based in Los Angeles. Her work includes self-portrait photography, painting, sculpture, and installation.
VERSIO is presenting Xavi Ceerre, Anna Ehrenstein, Benjamin Jakob Enders, Claus Lam / Richard Laber, Max Mucha, Pascal M Schöning, and Nora Isabelle Zielinski.
Xavi Ceerre lives and works in Barcelona. His primary medium is painting, but he also uses other forms of expression such as programming, music, and installation. He completed a Master’s in Painting at the University of Bilbao after a long, eclectic, and self-directed education. Anna Ehrenstein is an Albanian-German artist with trans-ottoman ancestry exploring forms of knowledge and their construction. Her post-photographic sculptures, virtual installations, moving images, and textile works as well as her social interactions challenge networked ideas and epistemologies in a post-digital, neocolonial, interconnected, and hybridized world. Benjamin Jakob Enders is a multimedia artist and musician. His work operates at the intersection of sound, music, performance, and installation. Since 2019, he has been studying in the class of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His performances and installations have already been showcased at the Kunstverein Düsseldorf, the Megaworld Festival in Vienna, and the Langen Foundation in Neuss. Richard Laber is currently in education, studying with Susan Philipsz in Dresden, Germany. Claus Lam is an interdisciplinary artist born in Berlin. He is currently studying in the master class of Susan Philipsz (Academy of Fine Arts Dresden). Claus’s practice is dedicated to exploring human knowledge production in a post-representation and post-human landscape, emphasizing scientific collaborations and conceptual approaches. Max Mucha is based in Düsseldorf, born in Munich in 1995. From 2015 to 2021 he studied with Kirsi Mikkola at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From 2021 to 2024 he attended the class of Katharina Wulff at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He has exhibited at Robert Grunenberg Berlin, lkif Seoul, Plain Gallery Milan, and Tiroler Landesmuseum Innsbruck. Pascal M Schöning, lives and works in Berlin, the Rhineland, and Barcelona. Navigating the intersection of painting, urban space, and minimalism, his work carries conceptual depth by questioning the hidden grids of public order and the state of personal freedom, placing them in a context of imperfection and elements of liberation. Nora Isabelle Zielinski’s eclectic work consists of painting, text, media and spatial installations. She focuses in her paintings on abstract concepts emphasized through symbolism and surrealistic elements in aim to find a state that allows the recipient sufficient space for their own visions. She studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Rita McBride and Katharina Wulff.