23 May - 21 June 2024
Vernissage | 23 May 2024 | 20:00 hrs
Performance | 21:34 hrs
Full Moon Gallery
Admission free!

Antje Dudek is an art educator and works as a lecturer for art practice (basics of visual design, performance art) and art didactics at the TU Dresden. Her artistic practice focuses on graphic art/painting and performance.

In her exhibition, Antje Dudek shows painterly works on canvas and paper that float in the moonlight. How can you describe "Pink Moon"? Luminous companion, night watchman, reflector. Luminous, cold, elusive, in the dance of shifting visibility.

In part, they tell of the play of night creatures cavorting in a full moon night or of human figures merging with mystical creatures. The protagonists of the paintings float over carpets of colour or are entwined with strange vegetation. They hide behind abstract areas of colour or wrap themselves in protective cocoons. In some works, the full moon appears explicitly as a motif and formal element.

In others, the nocturnal is only hinted at through blue colour tones. In one way or another, all of the works question what appears when night spreads over us. Does sleeplessness haunt us with its wild streams of thought and bizarre distortions of the familiar? Or do we find shelter in a refuge where we can look at things anew, reorganise them and draw strength?

www.antjedudek.de

Performance "Pink Moon" by Antje Dudek and Lisa-Marie Porst

"Pink Moon" is a duo performance with poetic surreal images in thematic dialogue with the exhibition as the sun sets and leaves the stage to the full moon.

Lisa-Marie Porst is studying art education and German as a teacher at TU Dresden. Her artistic exploration moves between the fields of installation, photography and performance.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisamarieporst

Music: Edflix & Chill

Edflix & Chill are the isolated, reverberating echo of Dub Willner. It's about loops in the line fader and to the aux and back. The image then sounds like the permanently rewiring version of the last version of an accompanied bass line.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdwBMmnFflM

Laudatio: Isabel Eisfeld

Isabel Eisfeld teaches art, English and UNESCO project teaching at Hainberg-Gymnasium in Göttingen. She is fascinated by light and shadow and the possibilities of finding a strong expression with them.