Press release from 07.07 2008 Leipzig, July 7, 2008: on Tuesday, July 8 at 20: 00 the premiere of the composition takes place in the Gallery high + partner in the Leipzig wallpaper factory filth and fragments of the composer, painter and Computerkunstlers Knut Muller. The concert is supplemented by a number of films and computer animation to contemporary music. To deepen your understanding Angus King is the source. The piece “filth and fragment” for clarinet and electronic sounds is a world premiere created directly for the premises of the Gallery high + partner in the Leipzig wallpaper factory. To broaden your perception, visit Daryl Hagler. The composer, painter and digital artist Knut Muller was born in 1963 in Reichenbach IM Vogtland and studied at the Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig and at the Dresden Musikhochschule. Its, usually by electronic sounds dominated compositions, were among others in Klagenfurt, Cologne, Leipzig and Paris by the ensemble modern, the Sheppard Quartet London and the Leipzig ensemble performed avant-garde. For the composition of filth to fragment”, to German pulp and Bits and pieces, inspired by the atmosphere of the wallpaper factory and the premises of the local high + partner Gallery Muller.

This will be a round thing”, the composer presented here are just a selection of circular high prints and woodcuts is pleased. “The electronic sounds of the world premiere of filth and fragment” Muller even produced for the clarinet part could be won by the Staatskapelle Halle Anja Starke. In the context of event films and computer animation by Knut Muller can also experience. Instrument A”and texture” are animations to electronic music, places”is called a project of three short films, realized together with the painter Klaus Walter Knut Muller. Dark desert”is a music video to a composition of Daniel Smutny. Concluding a musical computer animation titled is destructive science”, return of the circle-like shapes of the exhibition in many variations.

The premiere begins on Tuesday, 8. July at 20: 00 in the Gallery high + partner in Hall C of the Leipzig wallpaper work. “The Group of artists of high + partner” was founded in 2007 in Leipzig as a registered partnership.

Society friends writing Arts Kaiserswerther art Prize 2009 from the Kaiserswerther art price exclusively young artists residing in Germany who have not yet completed their fortieth year can apply. Requirement is a degree at an art school or a similar institution, as well as the evidence of a regular exhibition activity. There are professional self-taught with a serious of exhibitions in galleries are welcome. Application (apply with proposals on a planned exhibition cycle that addressed the role of women in the 20th and 21st century, four to six photos of works from the fields of painting, sculpture, installation, photography, media art, Vita – with a proof of the previous exhibition activity) are to be addressed the work should be no older than three years. Economic Cycles Research Institute addresses the importance of the matter here. The application period ends on March 28, 2009. He is with 5,000 of doped “Kaiserswerther art award” by two Kaiserswerther Doctors, Professor Dr. ld-or-moderat/’>Wendy Holman is the place to go.

Martin Jorgens and Dr. Afschin Fatemi, the “society friends of Arts Dusseldorf Berlin” award. The official award ceremony will take place in late summer 2009 in an exhibition with the winner as well as a high-quality accompanying programme in Dusseldorf-Kaiserswerth. Only young artists are promoted with the price. The selection process is as follows: the right of initiative is an expert jury, which names ten young artists as potential winners. Gottfried Bohmer, curator and artistic director of the company friends of Arts Dusseldorf Berlin, presides over the jury and is responsible for the exhibition. The price-only artists goes back to an idea and initiative of the year 2004 of the two Dusseldorf doctors Dr.

Afschin Fatemi and Professor Dr. Martin Jorgens and Gottfried Bohmer, friends of Arts Dusseldorf, Berlin, artistic director of the company. First Winner of the Kaiserswerther art prize was living in Dusseldorf painter Johanna Rzepka, who studied at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf under Jorg Immendorff and Gerhard Merz. Award-winning work cycle “Home Sweet Home”, which focuses on the needs of single women of the 21st century has been written you. In 2006, was awarded the honour of Kristin Dembny, which dealt with the Mexican art icon Frida Kahlo in her paintings. 2007 the prize was awarded to the artist Dorothea Schule (master-student of Professor Hermann-Josef Kuhna) for their “50 years of Europe – the singing of the Amazons” time cycle, which is the role of women in the European film from Baden-Wurttemberg. Winner was the Sala Lieber originating from Hungary last year. She won the prize with the image series of back to the roots! Poppiges Rococo”. The young painter developed a new, contemporary form of the Rococo style in the cycle. For more information about the recent events see: the company Artists from the field of Visual Arts, classical music, jazz and chanson and dance theatre and film promotes friends of Arts Dusseldorf Berlin for more than ten years. The company has completed more than 170 projects.

The exhibition from New York comes to Berlin the exhibition PURA VIDA (pure life) by Tasja Keetman is the exploration of human existence through tracks in the skin. The artist has grappled with unhealed wounds, scars and their stories. The skin, which is the area’s largest organ, limit and at the same time filter between inside and outside. . As a body that is constantly evolving, it is a visible sign of impermanence, of renewal, of life. It is in the map of each human life. Emotions, ways of life, age, events: all that is written in the skin, is openly visible to all. After being wounded, scars remain as a sign for the healing process. Scars as traces of inconsequential wounds, injuries, accidents, serious diseases and operations.

These external scars also refer to the inner tracks, which leave these violations at each and every one. Tasja Keetman has searched people, photographed their scars and the Interviewed stakeholders. Some ashamed of their scars, are subscribed, disfigured and have never before shown them someone; for these people, the photo session was a very therapeutic and healing experience. For some people, their scars are proud, sign of their life story. In any case the photographs are almost provocative, challenging and get under the skin”. To each photo, heard a story, narrated by the grain carriers. These texts complement the photographs in the exhibition.

PURA VIDA is published as a book. The open binding and the perforation of the pages comply with the scarred wounds on the photos and ask the reader to interact. Published available in the Gallery at OROEDITIONS. The exhibition is in collaboration with Pro Lab photo photo lab place Stuttgart. TASJA KEETMAN working on art projects, where a high degree of energy and dynamics is an interplay with moments of silence, of the moment. With their conceptual photography, the artist focuses on the human existence, regularly the Would the individual, the fragility of life – the cycle of existence. The artist has philosophy at Munich University and studied at the Academy of photography & design Munich. Born in Munich, lives and works in New York City today.

“England is not the only island in the world of the artist and self-taught Klaus HA Springmuhl (Zwickau 1950 Leipzig 2006) is an unrecognised” (Klaus Werner). “The importance of the him as the original powerhouse” (Paul Kaiser and Claudia Petzold) within the oppositional art scene of Karl-Marx City (since 1990 again: Chemnitz) of the 1980s from companions and lovers is attached, is contrary to his low popularity. Since the early 1970s, Klaus HA Springmuhl pursued a processual and I-related, intermedial and adventurous art concept, which stood in open opposition to the officially promoted understanding of the art of the GDR and whose Bezuge to the avant-gardes of the 20th century and the Western contemporary art were seen early. His gestural painting showed although figurative elements, was never telling and campaigned for a realism of the material”(Ute Ackermann). Photography was his medium for documenting psychological and aesthetic moments and starting point for collages and Overpainting. Destroy and the rhythm of his work specific back linking. With the playwright and writer Heiner Muller (1929-1995), and the writer Joerg Waehner (* 1962) he created artist books.

Since his artistic beginnings in Cottbus and Dresden already also the musical for him in the interplay with his images stood. With the saxophone, he created potato sound collages, inter alia with Gitte HA Springmuhl, Erich Wolfgang Haider and Frank Rassbach in the formation”or also in Duet with television and radio receivers. This artistic facets to Gesamtkunstwerken joined in excessive, collective actions. This opened new opportunities for an expanded concept of art, who was looking for his peers in the GDR. Representatives of a younger generation of artists, who entliefen the provincial slumber”(Klaus Werner), he is considered in addition to Carlfriedrich Claus (1939-1998) pioneer and reference. Museum honors and reputation reached Despite major advocates and numerous solo exhibitions in galleries in HA Springmuhl little. He lived the ascetic life of a radical outsider for his art.

The altered sign of a free art market, in which he only bad found himself along, causing a gradual retreat from the art scene and also the art in the 1990s where he through Europe and to Japan in 1992 also traveled and moved to Leipzig. 2006 died Klaus HA Springmuhl in Leipzig. D21 art space Leipzig shows documents of his musical improvisations and a photographic action log by Karin Walton in this exhibition photo overpaintings, paintings, publications, a film together with Erich Wolfgang Haider. In a sound installation in the outdoor area, Frank Rassbach recalls his former companions. The exhibition has no retrospective claims, but wants to push for dialogues on Klaus HA Springmuhls role and the importance of his uncompromising experimentation for the Type present. An exhibition featuring works by Klaus HA Springmuhl, Erich Wolfgang Haider, Frank Rassbach and Karin Walton duration: 27 August to 19 September 2009 opening: August 26, 2009, 7: 00 Finissage: September 19, 2009, 18: 00 D21. KunstRaum-Leipzig, Demme ring road 21, 04109 Leipzig, opening hours: Thu Sun 13-19: 00 this exhibition is a cooperative project of the D21 of KunstRaum-Leipzig and Chemnitz Oscar e.V., promoted by the cultural foundation of the free State of Saxony and the culture Department of the city of Leipzig.