Exhibition

Römer + Römer. Burning Man – Electric Sky

18 Jan 2019 – 10 Mar 2019

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Friday
11:00 – 18:00
Saturday
11:00 – 18:00
Sunday
11:00 – 18:00
Tuesday
11:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 18:00
Thursday
11:00 – 18:00

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Haus am Lützowplatz

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The Berlin-based artist couple Romans + Romans shows the Haus am Lützowplatz, entitled "Burning Man - Electric Sky" a new series that the art festival Man Burning has as its object.

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With “Burning Man – Electric Sky“, the Berlin-based artist couple Römer + Römer presents a new series of works at the Haus am Lützowplatz that is concerned with the Burning Man festival. The exhibition mainly consists of nocturnal images, in which the Black Rock Desert in the State of Nevada is turned into a make-believe world lit by thousands of artificial light sources. The in some cases very large pictures painted on canvas were created on the basis of a research trip made in 2017.

Living and working together since 1998, the artists Nina and Torsten Römer (*1978 in Moscow and *1968 in Aachen) met at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf where they became master students of A.R. Penck. Their artistic work is based on the transmission of their photographs to large-format panels, offering viewers a juxtaposition that is both essentially sensual and media-reflexive. In the works by Römer + Römer, the indexical principle of photography – the testimony of a past event inscribed in the photographic act – is entangled with the artistic aura of painterly origination. In the highly complex multistep process of image production, Römer+Römer relentlessly examine moments of our present that concern ecstasy and the dissolution of boundaries. Creating, for example, major work cycles about the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro and about the Fusion Festival in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. This is the point of vantage for the current series focused on Burning Man, which has evolved into a cultural phenomenon since its inception in 1986, with up to 70,000 people traveling to a place where they become actors of a creative community aimed at immersion.

Römer + Römer were involved in a wide variety of exhibitions at home and abroad. Solo exhibitions we want to highlight are: Kunsthalle Rostock (2010), Today Art Museum in Beijing (2009), Heidelberger Kunstverein (2009), Gwangju Art Museum in Korea (2010), Kunstverein Münsterland (2017), Kunstverein Hameln (2016), Zhan Zhou International Center of Contemporary Art in Beijing (2013), Richard-Haizmann-Museum in Niebüll (2014) as well as Freight+Volume Galerie in New York (2014). Furthermore their works were shown in numerous institutional group exhibitions including at the Bröhan Museum in Berlin („Kuss – Von Rodin bis Bob Dylan“, 2017), at the Wuhan Art Museum in China („Gemeinsam in Bewegung – Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Deutschland und China“, 2009), at Palais de Tokyo in Paris („Emergency Biennale in Chechenya – a suitcase from Paris to Grosny“, 2005), at Künstlerhaus Wien („Megacool 4.0 – Jugend und Kunst“, 2012), at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen („Punkt-Systeme – Vom Pointillismus zum Pixel“, 2012), at the Museum Wilhelm Morgner in Soest („Wilhelm-Morgner-Preis Ausstellung“, 2017), at Kunsthalle Baden-Baden („HA KYPOPT! Russische Kunst heute“, 2004), at St. Petersburg’s Center of Visual Arts („International Festival of new technologies in contemporary art“, 2003), at the Cranach-Stiftung in Wittenberg („Menschenbilder – Der internationale Lucas-Cranach-Preis“, 2012), at the Kunsthalle Hense in Gescher („Eröffnung Kunsthalle Hense“, 2018), at the International Forum of Art Initiatives at the New Manege in Moscow (Paradise – International Forum of Art Initiatives, 2004), at Schafhof – Europäischen Künstlerhaus Oberbayern in Freising („Sturmhöhen“, 2018), at Hartware MedienKunstVerein in Dortmund („Inter-cool 3.0 – Jugend Bild Medien““, 2010), Neuen Manege at the Central Exhibition Hall in Perm („Russisches Berlin“, im Rahmen des Festivals „Wihte Nights“, 2013) or at the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt („Hamster, Hipster, Handy – Im Bann des Mobiltelefons“, 2015). Several Bienniale participations also lead Römer + Römer to Venice (56. Biennale, Nationaler Pavillon von Mauritius, 2015), to Istanbul, Vancouver, San Francisco and various other cities (Emergency Biennale, 2005-2008), to Bosnien-Herzegowina (Biennale of Contemporary Art, D-O ARK Underground in the old Tito bunker, 2011), to Liverpool (Liverpool Biennale, 2002) and Turin (Big Torino, 2002).

A catalogue with texts by Ludwig Seyfarth and Rachel Bowditch, designed by Matthieu de Scheper, will be published for the exhibition by Verlag Kettler.

Römer + Römer created an edition with the motif that gave the title to the exhibition to support the financing of the catalogue:

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