Tag: Exhibition

Still time to see OUT OF PLACE in Berlin

The opening of Out of Place, featuring works by Boris Schaarschmidt, Gildas Coudrais, and Ksenia Hnylytska, at the Serpen Gallery in Berlin was a great success.

If you missed the opening, the exhibition remains on view until November 7 at Auguststraße 83, Berlin. There’s still time to visit, and it’s well worth a look.

  

 

Die Eröffnung der Gemeinschaftsausstellung Out of Place mit Arbeiten von Boris Schaarschmidt, Gildas Coudrais und Ksenia Hnylytska in der Serpen Gallery in Berlin war ein voller Erfolg.

Wer die Vernissage verpasst hat, kann die Ausstellung noch bis zum 7. November in der Auguststraße 83 in Berlin besuchen. Ein Besuch lohnt sich!

NOT A LIFESAVING DEVICE in Berlin

I’m very happy to share that work from my series NOT A LIFESAVING DEVICE will be shown in the group exhibition Out of Place at Serpen Gallery in Berlin.

The exhibition brings together three international artists working across different media and exploring different ideas of reality. I created my photographs during my residency in the Arctic Circle. Although some of the images can appear artificial or constructed, they are entirely real and unmanipulated.

Alongside my work, Out of Place features Gildas Coudrais, whose work often reverses that relationship between the real and the artificial, and Ksenia Hnylytska, whose Open Air series creates an almost psychedelic vision of nature and lost reality.

If you are in Berlin, I hope you’ll have a chance to see the exhibition and join the opening:

October 1, 2026, 6:30 PM
Serpen Gallery
Auguststraße 83
10117 Berlin

Out of Place
with Boris Schaarschmidt, Gildas Coudrais and Ksenia Hnylytska
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Ich freue mich sehr, dass Arbeiten aus meiner Serie NOT A LIFESAVING DEVICE im Rahmen der Gemeinschaftsausstellung Out of Place in der Serpen Gallery in Berlin gezeigt werden.

Die Ausstellung vereint drei internationale Künstler, die mit unterschiedlichen Medien arbeiten und sich auf verschiedene Weise mit der Wahrnehmung von Realität auseinandersetzen.

Meine Fotografien entstanden während meines Aufenthalts als Artist in Residence am Polarkreis. Obwohl einige der Bilder künstlich oder inszeniert wirken mögen, sind sie vollkommen real und nicht manipuliert.

Neben meinen Arbeiten zeigt Out of Place Werke von Gildas Coudrais, der das Verhältnis zwischen Realität und Künstlichkeit häufig ins Gegenteil verkehrt, sowie von Ksenia Hnylytska, deren Serie Open Air eine beinahe psychedelische Vision von Natur und verlorener Realität entstehen lässt.

Wer in Berlin ist, sollte sich die Gelegenheit nicht entgehen lassen, die Ausstellung zu besuchen und zur Vernissage vorbeizukommen!

Exhibition Opening Night at the Goethe-Institut

NOT A LIFESAVING DEVICE opened last week to a full house at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles.

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us, to the team at the Goethe-Institut for their generous support, and to AMI for sponsoring the water and wine.

In case you missed it, the exhibit remains on display through May 28 during office hours. I’d be happy to join you for a visit if you let me know in advance that you’re coming.

 

 

 

 

 

NOT A LIFESAVING DEVICE and 79° NORTH at the Goethe-Institut LA

I am excited to share that my photo exhibit NOT A LIFESAVING DEVICE, as well as my short drone film 79° NORTH, will be exhibited at the Goethe-Institut in Los Angeles from May 14–28. Opening night is on May 14 from 6:30–9:30 PM at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles. Please visit the Goethe-Institut’s webpage to RSVP and for more information.

NOT A LIFESAVING DEVICE is comprised of a series of photographs and video art I created in December 2023 during the Arctic Circle Expeditionary Residency aboard the sailing vessel Antigua.

As AI-generated images increasingly blur the boundaries between reality and fabrication, my work embraces that ambiguity: although these images may appear artificial, they are entirely real. In the context of global warming, non-native species are increasingly moving into fragile ecosystems, symbolized here by an inflatable flamingo, an object radically out of place in the Arctic.

At the same time, the inflatable pool float references the rapid growth of tourism in polar regions, where leisure increasingly overlaps with vulnerability. The phrase NOT A LIFESAVING DEVICE, printed by the manufacturer directly on the object itself, functions both as a literal safety warning and as a symbolic statement: in moments of real emergency, this device offers no protection.

Eldur Á Himni exhibition at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles

Eldur Á Himni [Fire In The Sky] was very well received during my solo exhibit at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles.

We had a full house on May 31 in the beautiful Pacific Palisades. Visitors had the chance to view some of my favorite images of the Northern Lights, followed by an outdoor screening of the film. Here are some impressions from the evening. Enjoy!

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This project was filmed during my three months filmmakers residency “The Weight Of Mountains” in Iceland 2012/2013. I had an amazing time at NES in Skagaströnd and I am longing to go back.

Villa Aurora is a historic artist residence in Los Angeles dedicated to preserving the legacy of exiled German-Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger and his wife Marta. As a cultural bridge between Europe and Southern California, Villa Aurora supports international artists and fosters intercultural dialogue through residencies, screenings, concerts, lectures, and public programs, continuing the influence that émigré artists and intellectuals of the 1930s and 40s had on the cultural landscape of Los Angeles.