Ocean Between – Art Event in Berlin 2022

[Lars Schumacher]

International art exhibition in the Taxi Customer Center "THE OCEAN BETWEEN 5" with Mail Artist from Germany and Canada.

The exchange between artists from North America and Germany is in the exhibition format "THE OCEAN BETWEEN 5" on August 3rd, 2022, in the exhibition space provided by the Berliner Transiträume e.V. and Taxi Berlin, the former Taxi Customer Center in 10245 Berlin, Persiusstraße 7 near Ostkreuz, in the foreground. Two women, one from Chicago, the other from Berlin, have put together an exciting cross-genre international art symposium that will be open to all visitors on Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022 from 5 p.m.

The Ocean between - The sea connects us all.

“When we look beyond our limited horizons, sometimes questioning our points of view, by connecting personally with artists from other cultures and thereby supporting each other, wonderful opportunities for collaboration and inspiring artistic works of art arise.

It is up to us to develop the will to do everything for art. What keeps us alive in our work is daring the journey across the ocean, boldly and freely entrusting ourselves to the clouds, perhaps flying in an airplane, overlooking the sea, to another continent. The vastness of the sea broadens our gaze and expands our visions to see the world in a multitude of colors and shapes." Said Marianna Buchwald, an artist from Chicago with German roots.

The Berlin artist Anke Aust took up this thought: “We share the struggle with our fellow human beings, continuously develop our creative work further by looking for ways to work with artists from different cultures and using different art forms: drawing, painting , sculpture, mixed media, film, photography, dance, poetry, writing, theater and music to appeal to a wide audience and age group.

The two women are supported by 14 other artists from Chicago, Berlin, Hanover and Windsor in Canada. Together they are exhibiting new artistic positions for the first time in Berlin. With Anke Aust and Marianna Buchwald are Anastasia Alekseevna Mikhaylova, Helmut Gutbrod, Johann Leschinkohl, Juliana Hellmundt, Lars Schumacher, Lutz Anders, Rolff Zlatar, Shalaka Kulkarni, Susanne Schumacher, Ulrich Barth, Wolf Rüdiger Leister and the city gardeners from OneTenPark Windsor Canada Susan Gold , Kewy Janisse, Linda Renaud present.

Most of the artists met last year at the Tempelhofer Feld on the occasion of the Mail Art exhibition “Collage & Collaboration”. With this reunion, the artistic exchange will continue and perhaps continue in the coming year with visitors to the current exhibition.

The artists are pleased that over time, international art exhibitions and international art symposiums will build bridges through our art forms.

The exhibition "The Ocean Between" is supported by Transit-räume. The association connects the private real estate industry with art, culture and neighborhood for the temporary use of real estate. The exchange between artists from North America and Germany is in the exhibition format "THE OCEAN BETWEEN 5" on August 3rd, 2022, in the exhibition space provided by Transiträume e.V. and Taxi Berlin, the former Taxi Customer Center in 10245 Berlin, Persiusstraße 7 near Ostkreuz, in the foreground.

 

PARTICIPATING MAIL ARTISTS

 

Johann Leschinkohl

The colorful works of the painter, draftsman and Mailart artist Johann Leschinkohl are characterized by their very own, easily recognizable "fairytale style", which, in addition to the fantastic figures, bizarre arrangements and enigmatic motifs, is also composed by the artist himself, the motif with texts commenting on sometimes comic, sometimes tragic "stories". Leschinkohl's drawings and paintings “stand outside of normal artistic sensibilities.

 

Juliana Hellmundt

Juliana Hellmundt is an art historian and artist based in Berlin. After graduating in wood carving and painting at the art school in Tryavna, Bulgaria, she established her artistic focus by studying art and visual history and history at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In Berlin, she has already made a name for herself as an exhibition organizer with three successful international Mail Art exhibitions (Engelszungen 2016, Manege 2017 and That's my Milieu -Heinrich Zille- 2019).

 

Lars Schumacher

is a German photo, film and conceptual artist. He lives in the Hanover region and has been working internationally in the field of visual communication since studying at the Federal Academy for Cultural Education [2001-2004]. Films, photographs and sculptures are created as a means of artistic expression and are exhibited internationally.

Participation (participation, involvement, participation, participation) of people with regard to their needs play a central role in Lars Schumacher's art projects and social sculptures. Schumacher is active in media and network work as the initiator of a wide variety of Fluxus art projects.

 

Lutz Anders

Born and living in the Berlin district of Neukölln, the trained typesetter Lutz Anders began his artistic activity in 1976 as an autodidact with photomontages and collages. Since 2015 he has also been producing linocuts printed on the Boston-Tiegel press with both regional (Neuköllner) and e.g. motifs obtained on trips. The current works are characterized by their striking, almost expressionistic lines, composition and form of expression, which are exhibited internationally. Recently the artist has also devoted himself to colored linocuts.

 

City gardeners from OneTenPark Windsor, Canada - Susan Gold, Kewy Janisse, Linda Renaud

Urban gardeners at OneTenPark Windsor Canada work collaboratively on projects that connect them to nature and the community. “Our pennant banners add an urban scene to the exhibition with tree bark (Kewy Janisse), ground cover (Susan Gold) and thoughts on our garden flowers (Linda Renaud Fisher). The three put together the international exhibition “Pollinating for Peace” in spring 2022. The aim is to establish an ecological project as "Jardinieres Urbaines - CULTIVATING for PEACE and JUSTICE". OneTenPark is a street level exhibition and workspace at 110 Park Street West Windsor, Canada.

 

Susanne Schumacher

In her work, the photographer and Fluxus artist Susanne Schumacher deals with questions of identity in a changing world. Schumacher says: "In my work, I focus on our Western everyday culture. Individualization is the central cultural principle and is increasingly developing its power globally. I would like to address the smooth transition between art and life, or the unity of fine art and life". Photography since 1980, film since 1996 and new media since 2004. Studies at the Leibniz University, Hanover. Co-founder of the media house for art and culture in Burgdorf and member of the board (collaboration / production of the TV magazine OKOK Television). Susanne Schumacher presents her works at home and abroad. Works are in public and private ownership. Member of the artists' association GEDOK NiedersachsenHannover.

 

MORE PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Anastasia Alekseevna Mikhaylova

The artist, Anastasia Alekseevna Mikhaylova, exhibited her works in the atrium of the museumFLUXUS+ in 2012 as part of the student competition museumFLUXUS+studis. Since then she has completed her studies at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee and has successfully pursued her artistic career. She has presented her works in the form of exhibitions and performances in Paris, Berlin, Dessau, Hamburg, Helsinki and Ghent, among others. “My working attributes are crossovers between artistic media and interactions between disciplines. I work in fine art printmaking, analogue and digital photography, projection-based installations, stage and lighting design.”

 

Anke Aust

Anke Aust has been creative since she was eight years old. Her numerous personal trips and study visits took her to countries like Portugal and the Netherlands until 2018. She visited Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Philippines, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the USA. An influence of Asian culture can therefore not only be seen in many of her works, verve and minimalism are often essential components of my pictures. Constant self-taught training in various painting techniques such as (oil, watercolour, airbrush, acrylic). Anke Aust has been working as a freelance artist since 2003. 2019 participant at The Ocean Between and since 2021 organizational and curating active there.

 

Helmut Gutbrod

Born in Nuremberg in 1958, Helmut Gutbrod studied music and theater in Erlangen and Berlin. Since 1986 he has given concerts as a pianist and composer and participated in film and theater projects. As a visual artist, he has had solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the USA, had artist grants and stays abroad, such as at the Frans Masereel Center in Belgium or at the Printmaking Council of New Jersey in the USA. His works are represented in numerous public collections in Europe and the USA.

Artistically, Helmut Gutbrod combines printing techniques such as linocuts with monotypes and pencil drawings. Delicate, fragile sheets based on geometric structures are created by superimposing several image levels. Organic forms, developed from individual lined fields and cell structures, enliven the pictorial spaces and give them a lasting presence. Like 'thinking about nature', these sign fields stand for the recurring play of concentration and dissolution, of growth and decay.

 

Marianne Buchwald

is director of International Art Adventures. She has been a teacher at Art Encounter since 2018. Since 2012 she has been organizing international art symposiums with US artists in Germany and presenting exhibitions in Chicago, Hanover and Berlin. In September 2019 she led, with Joanna Pinsky, an art tour with 'Art Encounter', which she organized with Anke Aust and Cem Koc in Hanover and Berlin to create encounters with famous German artists such as Timm Ulrichs. She is a director, art teacher and tour guide and painter and she organizes seminars and theater performances with the hinge theater in Hanover. For more than twenty years she has been inspiring children and seniors through educational arts and theater programs and through drawing and painting, mask making, storytelling and drama.

Rolf Zlatar

After studying fine arts at the HFBK Berlin, Rolff Zlatar is not represented on the art market. He found his field of activity in the international cultural sector. He is involved in many training courses at various educational institutions and develops independent art, theater and performance projects. His motto "Art is assertion"

 

Shalaka Kulkarni

Dancer, choreographer & actor Shalaka Kulkarni is a performing artist based in Chicago. Her work revolves around empowering marginal voices and erased narratives in both Western and Indian cultures in order to strengthen female identity. She was born in India where her dance training started. She is trained in Bharatnatyam (originating from South India) and Kathak (originating from North India). When her family immigrated to the United States, she began exploring the intersections of classical Indian dance forms with other influences of movement, text and technology. In USA, she is currently Artist in Residence with Mandala South Asian Performing Arts with support from the Illinois Arts Council, Artist in Residence with High Concept Labs and See Chicago Dance resident for making dance film. She is thankful to be invited to be part of The Ocean Between 5.

 

Ulrich Barth

Ulrich Barth lives and works in Hanover as a freelance visual artist and experimental informal painter. In his pictures, he combines colour, handwriting and spontaneity into complex, light painting. His works are gestural virtuoso and arise as an experiment. In many painting processes, he sets in motion a partly graphic, partly bold drawing production and tries to build up his painting in an exciting format. As a means of correction, he puts the water-soluble primer on the damp oil paint and thus creates a spontaneous cross-linking in his painting. The corresponding titles reflect the painting of his pictures in short and unambiguous words. They only appear after the picture is finished. They are statements in which the colors act as subjects. They are emphasized verbally by anchoring an idea close to the image spectrum in the title. It can be activities, recognizable characteristics or emotional states. The behavior of the colors in the picture suggests new, undreamt-of content. Ulrich Barth attaches the titles to the respective work as a communication request, but they cannot explain the work.

 

Wolf Rudiger Leister

Wolf-Rüdiger Leister lives in Hanover and in North Friesland. He has been an editor at Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hanover since 2001. Before that, he worked as a film editor at NDR, among other things. His fascination with rhythms and sounds began as a teenager. From rock he quickly turned to jazz and improvised music. With his growing interest in world music, he has expanded both his musical spectrum and his range of instruments. For decades he has also developed and manufactured percussion instruments himself. As a musician, Wolf-Rüdiger Leister is largely self-taught, having acquired special knowledge from lecturers in Germany such as Martin Verdonk, Conny Sommer, Matthias Philipzen and in Senegal. Improvisation is his passion and he is fascinated by cross-over projects of different genres. He is also a member of a Rilke project band in Hanover. He supports the initiative and the exhibition "Qcean Between 5" on August 3rd, 2022 in the Berlin exhibition at Persiusstraße 7 with percussion sounds.