Gradiences of Visibility
The exhibition “Out of Focus” engages with gradiences of visibility. It sheds light on our perception’s blind spots, the socially unrepresented, repressed meanings, discursive imprecisions, visual blurs and the sensually intangible. While established reference points become unclear, a lack of clarity is transformed into potential.
In everyday life, we are usually guided by concrete facts and logical connections. Sometimes something unknown presents itself to us - new thoughts, new information, a new chain of associations. But what about all the things that remain unrecognizable or blurred, the things that do not reveal themselves from the outset or at all?
“Out of Focus” translates the theme of blurring into a visual, metaphorical and conceptual scenography. The participating artists explore in their works the limits and possibilities of what we perceive - and what remains hidden from us.
Artists: Nicholas-Elisha Bär, Lua Elmila, Märie C Fricke, Dylan Lygo, Marviento, Ulla Möckel, Qianmei Ni, Delphine Oellers, Lara Pigorsch, Lena Preuß, Mel Reckert, Malika Tasnim Salama, Flora Lou Matilde Saß, Katharina Schiwertz, Ella Stöckigt, Josefine Strehle, Runa Jean Tietze, Xiaoran Yang
An exhibition by students of “An Empty Space – The Artist as Curator” at the Kassel Arts Academy, under the guidance of Tomke Braun and José B. Segebre.
This project is part of “An Empty Space,“ a program by the Kassel Arts Academy inviting graduates of the M.A. in Curatorial Studies – Theory – History – Criticism (founded in 2010) at Goethe University and arts academy Städelschule, both in Frankfurt am Main.
Opening
29.01.2025, 6-9 pm
Performances by Lua Elmila, Qianmei Ni & Xiaroan Yang, Marviento
Duration
30.01.-16.02.2025
Opening hours
Wednesday, Thursday, 3 to 7 p.m.
Saturday, Sunday, 12 to 5 p.m.
Location
Exhibition hall, Kunsthochschule Kassel
Menzelstr. 13, 34121 Kassel