Interview with Simone Haack
In the ZEIT / Kunst und Auktionen from January 14th, 2022 there is a conversation with the Berlin artist Simone Haack about her current work: Interview Simone Haack – PDF
NÄHE #3 – First View
Video on our exhibition: NÄHE #3 – verführen. Opening in the gallery and on INSTAGRAM LIVE Friday, 18 June 2021, 7 p.m. NÄHE (Closeness) exhibition seriesArtists: Marcela Böhm, Andrea Božić & Julia Willms, John Coplans, EVA & ADELE, FLATZ, (e.)Twin Gabriel, Simone Haack, Franziska Nast, Annegret Soltau Schedule: March until August, 2021 03/19/ – 05/02/2021 …
NÄHE #3 – verführen
Closeness can quickly become too much, but it is never enough. We want more and more. We seduce and allow ourselves to be seduced to get closer and closer. The closeness should be anytime, anywhere and permanently. The border to the other should be overcome, it should fall, in favor of absolute closeness. Whether in …
Book Release NÄHE 18 June, 2021
http://relaunch.galerie-obrist.de/art2buy/naehe-beruehren-spueren-verfuehren/ The book of the exhibition series NÄHE will be published at the opening reception of NÄHE #3 – verführen on the 18th of June, 2021. You can order your book online here for gallery’s special price of 25 EUR! (offer valid until the end of the exhibition, 28th of August, delivery of the books …
NÄHE #2 – First View
Video on our exhibition: NÄHE #2 – spüren. Opening on INSTAGRAM LIVE Friday, 7 May 2021, 7 p.m. NÄHE (Closeness) exhibition seriesArtists: Marcela Böhm, Andrea Božić & Julia Willms, John Coplans, EVA & ADELE, FLATZ, (e.)Twin Gabriel, Simone Haack, Franziska Nast, Annegret Soltau Schedule: March until August, 2021 03/19/ – 05/02/2021 NÄHE #1 – berühren …
NÄHE #2 – spüren
How can you get close to yourself? Searching and longing to feel oneself frequently lead to trying to get under the skin. In the figurative and in the real sense. Tattoos and (self) harm pursue this goal, as do close-up photographs that come close to the surface of the body and show wrinkles, pimples and …
NÄHE #1 – First View
Video on our exhibition: NÄHE #1 – berühren. Opening Friday, 19 March, 2021, 7 p.m. NÄHE (Closeness) exhibition seriesArtists: Marcela Böhm, Andrea Božić & Julia Willms, John Coplans, EVA & ADELE, FLATZ, (e.)Twin Gabriel, Simone Haack, Franziska Nast, Annegret Soltau Schedule: March until August, 2021 03/19/ – 05/02/2021 NÄHE #1 – berühren (touch) 05/07/ – …
CLOSENESS #1 – touch
The desire for closeness goes hand in hand with the need for touch. Touching means overcoming the spatial separation between the self and the other. The distance shrinks to a minimum and a positive feeling of familiarity is beginning. But the touch can also be uncomfortable, scary or overwhelming, dangerous or painful. The abandonment of …
CLOSENESS – exhibition project
The current omnipresent demands for social distance lead to a lack of contact and physical closeness in our everyday life. As a result, works of art come into focus that seem to deal directly with one’s own body and that of the other. The (naked) body and its surface, the skin, are the preferred subject …