DETROIT - In the third
installment of its Changing Cities exhibit exchange, Detroit's
Museum of New Art (MONA) hosts selected artists from Galerie Eva
Bracke in Berlin, Germany. Changing Cities is a project initiated by
Jef Bourgeau, director of MONA, in order to swap artists from the
Detroit region with their counterparts in other cities around the
world. “The outside world isn't aware of the exciting work being
created in Detroit's art community,” says Bourgeau. “This project
will export this art to those who are always looking for something
fresh and new.”
Previous exchanges brought a show curated by Chicago art consultant
Paul Klein to MONA in April, 2007. That exhibit was followed in
February 2008 with a show of Detroiter’s works at ThreeWalls Gallery
in Chicago.
The exchange continues with the arrival in Detroit of an exhibit by
the Berlin group chosen from Galerie Eva Bracke and titled Moving
Walls: with Olivia Berckemeyer, Christoph Dettmeier, Andrew Gilbert,
Franziska Hufnagel, Florin Kompatscher, Alexej Koschkarow, Joe Neave,
Max Schulze and Astrid Sourkova.
Works include drawings, paintings, video and photographs. In
conjunction with the Berlin show, MONA will also mount an exhibit in
her other galleries featuring Metro Detroit artists whose work will
travel to Galerie Eva Bracke in November 2008. These two exhibitions
will afford an opportunity to see the works of the German artists
alongside those of their American counterparts.
Participating Detroit area artists include: Dietmar Krumrey, Rachel
Hunt, Cyrus Karimipour, Alison Wong, Hartmut Austen, Stig Eklund,
Mary Fortuna, Marla Karimipour, Dick Goody, Kelly Frank, Jacque Liu,
Vagner Whitehead and Kyohei Abe.
Works will include drawings, paintings, video and mixed media works
on paper, photographs and small sculptures. |
