Participating artists:Jules Andrieux, Apostolos Chatziroumpis, Mona Chevalier, Zora Decherf, Lug Dessalles, Esteban Devignaud, Marion Dunoyer, Laetitia Isaac, Eugénie Luyton, Nick Oberthaler, Jana Panajotovic, Changqian Wu
Venue:HGB ceremony hall
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig
As part of an exchange project sponsored by the Franco-German Youth Office (OFAJ/DFJW), eleven students from ENSBA Lyon are travelling to the HGB Leipzig together with their professor Nick Oberthaler to work artistically and exchange ideas with students from Professor Michael Riedel's and Paul Nägele's painting and graphics class.
Can we carry art across Europe like we would bring wine for a dinner to a friend's house?
United by the cardboard box as a utilitarian material and restrained by the dimensions for luggage in travel and transport, twelve young artists and students from the ENSBA Lyon, use these constraints as a base to conceive the works and objects presented in this small exhibition.
The starting point was the discussion on the topic of the (sustainable) transport of artworks - and how could the different, heterogeneous artistic practices of all individual artists be realised and brought together for the exhibition in Leipzig under economically and budget-limited parameters? What is logistically possible and are the often restrictive conditions at the beginning perhaps not even the base for artistic exploration and realisation in the end? The mail-art practices of the 1960s or the copy-art project "IMPRINT 93" launched in the 1990s by British curator and artist Matthew Higgs (to name just two examples) already questioned the economic framework conditions of the art field at the time and attempted to break new ground in the distribution and reception of art through their conceptual simplicity. The standard dimensions for a piece of hand luggage (which entails a logistical restriction in the carriage of baggage in passenger transport) and the object in the form of a conventional shipping cardboard-box (as an easily obtainable and everyday object that can be transformed into a painting, a design object, a projection surface or a plinth for example) seemed to be the ideal conceptual framework for this presentation. It takes into account the individual, different artistic approaches and unites the momentum of a (partial) train-journey from Lyon to Leipzig. Intermezzo. Um-zug.
