18.09-04.10.2024
Dion Zeqiri / Nina Kuttler
Trying to expand the boundaries of communication between artists and different creators, Galeria 17 is transformed depending on the needs of the artists and the community. In this case, Dion Zeqiri and Nina Kuttler are invited to use the gallery space as a work space. The gallery transforms into a space that is as intimate as it is open, as personal as it is public, as experimental as it is creative, as researching as it is exhibiting. Participating artists will contribute to various environmental and social issues, through an open working, educational and awareness raising process. In addition to sharing their professional and personal experiences with each other, they will also cultivate empathy for the environment and social justice with the community. Theorists, artists, ecologists, environmental and cultural activists will join this initiative to contribute to different perspectives on environment, which pave the way to examine issues of social, cultural and environmental importance from a queer perspective. The gallery, open to the public, will serve as a lecture class, a working studio, a space for communication and reflection, a host for guest lectures, an experimentation laboratory, where as a result the participating artists will jointly build an exhibition, which also will mark the next exhibition under the theme of Queer Ecology.
Dion Zeqiri
Dion Zeqiri was born in Pristine, Republic of Kosovo in 1996. From 2015 to 2018 he studied Interior Design at the University of Arts-Pristine. He worked as Graphic Designer from the age 18 as a compiler of creative projects. Zeqiri started to paint at primary school in different styles. After college, he developed his interest in different mediums, such as: installations, sculpture, video recording and found objects (ready made) as a form of communication. His practices are based on emergency effects in relation to human body and metaphysics. Developing this practice, he emerges subjective aspects with objects that he found. Zeqiris artistic practices are rooted in exploring the intersection of the tangible and intangible, with a focus on the immediate impact of un-seen world on the human body and metaphysical aspects. In the process, he incorporates subjective elements by incorporating found objects. The relationship between objects and memory plays a significant role at his work, guiding the development of his art across various media.
Nina Kutller
Nina Kuttler (she/her) is a visual artist and writer based in Hamburg.Working in a variety of media such as video, radio play, sound installation, text and ceramic, she uses speculative fiction and research-based narration as tools to explore how natural science and history shape anthropocentric perceptions of the world. Her artistic approach shifts between macro and microcosm, ventures into Deep time as well as fictive futures and explores various means of knowledge production, probing fossils, surface tension, cleaning rags, horoscopes, hydrocarbon, extraterrestrial life-forms, celestial bodies, labour, female pilots, astronomy, submarines, shrimp and subaqueous soundscapes for alternative, queer ecofeminist perspectives on the collapsing ecological present.
Her work has been shown internationally at spaces such as CAC Vilnius; Sanatorium, Istanbul; Harburger Kunstverein, Hamburg; Thkio Ppalies, Nikosia; Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin; Goldsmiths University, London; Kunsthaus Wiesbaden. She was recently artist in residence at IKSV, Goethe Institut, Hessische Kulturstiftung in Istanbul and Cité des Arts Paris, and was an artistic research fellow of the German Federal Environmental Agency.
She is current guest editor of Montez Press publication Pfeil Magazine, co-founder of the Upstream concert series for new music and performance in Hamburg, and one half of experimental music duo CILIA.
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The exhibition “In the Making III” is part of the project Art Space Unlimited, which is co-funded by the European Union. This activity is supported by Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, Goethe Institute and SMART Balkans.
