Exhibition
Franz Erhard Walther and Dog Kennel Hill Project
19 Oct 2019 – 14 Dec 2019
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- Closed
Address
- 58-67 Grand Parade
- Brighton
United Kingdom - BN2 0JY
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- https://www.brighton.ac.uk/about-us/contact-us/maps/brighton-maps/grand-parade-campus.aspx
- NA
- Short walk from Brighton Station
Brighton CCA presents Franz Erhard Walther and Dog Kennel Hill Project, weaving together an intergenerational conversation about our physical and emotional connections with culture and the relationship between imagination and action.
About
In a career spanning more than 50 years Franz Erhard Walther has continually challenged conceptions of both sculpture and performance insisting on the importance of viewer to complete the work in the imagination. His work has been shown widely internationally and is included in many public collection including Centre Pompidou Paris and MoMA New York; this will be his first presentation in the UK for more than seven years and only his second ever in the UK.
The exhibition will be a closely studied survey of Walther’s practice including sculpture, drawing, typographic work and performance. It will be built around the activation of key sculptural works as performance, offering audiences a live perspective on Walther’s ground breaking approach to object and performance.
A contemporary of Gerhart Richter and Sigmar Polke, Walther taught at the University of FIne Arts in Hamburg from 1970 – 2005. He is a continuing point for reference for younger artists such as Tino Segal and Santiago Sierra as well as those who studied with him in Hamburg including John Bock, Martin Kippenberger and Rebecca Horn. Walther will host a rare participatory workshop and lecture at Brighton CCA as part of the public programme.
Dog Kennel Hill Project are a collective from South London working across dance, film sculpture and performance. They have shown across the UK and internationally and for the first time, this exhibition will bring together 15 years of their practice a single space including their seminal, on going work Etudes in Tension and Crisis. Part sculptural installation, part live studio the exhibition will feature both past and current work alongside opportunities for audiences to work with the group to develop a new work as part of the show. A public programme of free workshops, research talks with partners including Tim Ingold are interwoven into the project.