Around a year and a half after the first “Neocon After Effects”, the second edition of the exhibition series will take place in January 2025. For the new edition, the circle of participants is expanding to include new acquaintances and rediscovered connections with artistic and musical dual talents.
Image above: Andreas Becker – kids, installation view 2024.
Under the title “NEU KAPUTT, FIXED STILL BROKEN”, the participating artists examine the social and artistic mix and match for possibilities and necessities of renewal processes, innovations, restructuring and change, especially where the promises of modern life are most tempting.
Is the concept of the new still viable in the face of an increasingly selective perception? Are the attempts at overhauls, repairs and reforms merely actionisms of a cosmetic nature at best?
Who wants to take a yoga course in a museum? Speed dating with cake baking? Take the Cybertruck to Kinetta Beach?
The action agenda is buzzing, “’til her Daddy takes the T-Bird away”.
Andreas Becker
Andreas Becker is not only a painter, musician and DJ. Hailing from the Rhineland-Palatinate province, he is the initiator of Neocon After Effects and has put together the artists. He is also responsible for booking at the Kinett cultural center in Kusel.
Wolfgang Lugmair
Wolfgang Lugmair is and remains above all a painter – perhaps the only relevant one at the moment.
Christina Gay
Her works range from large-format semi-abstract material paintings and portraits to installations and sculptures that reach into the space. This usually takes place in a haze of dystopian, nebulous landscapes and mystical places. Her sculptures appear here like morbid relics and the portraits are often emotionally charged, snapshot-like images between ecstasy and debility. The aim is to humorously create a nightmarish atmosphere with elements of a hackneyed, worn-out ideal world.
Lea & Adrian
“We are two people, but one artist. Fluid identities, ambivalences and the concept of contingency are at the center of our practice. Our artistic research focuses on the visualization of traces and relationships – both in detail and in the larger context of the world. These traces and relations are contingent, because everything could be different. Things are not necessarily the way they are; concepts, practices and privileges are based on fundamentally changeable ideas and developments. This is why we usually combine several works in different media that comment on, relativize and question each other. As a whole, they open up an ambivalent space of possibilities for the viewer. At the same time, we are interested in the abstract qualities and materiality of things, traces in the world and epiphanies of the profane. We work with concept, video, sound, photography, installation and performance.”
Helena Walter
“The focus of my work lies in the examination of spaces and their emotional impact. Elements and aesthetics, borrowed or adopted from various subcultures such as black metal, punk or skate culture, merge into expansive installations. They often contain a threatening quality that is difficult to assess, because what is real and what is staged? The choice of materials and media used plays an important role in evoking this question in my works. They function as translators of the subcultural stylistic devices into my own formal language. Combined, they must create a tension that deceives the viewer’s perception. That’s why I work with multimedia, using drawings, screen prints, sculptural elements, videos and sound.”
Laura Gaiser
Laura Gaiser wurde 1985 in Weinheim geboren. Von 2010 bis 2015 studierte sie in der Klasse von Toon Verhoef und John Bock an der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe und schloss 2016 als Meisterschülerin von John Bock ab. Sie ist Trägerin des Preises der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe im Jahr 2016 und erhielt 2017 ein Stipendium für die Cité Internationale des Arts Paris. 2021 erhielt sie den Werner Stoberpreis. Ihre Arbeiten wurden international gezeigt, 2024 im Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen, 2023 in der Galerie Ebensperger, Berlin, in der Städtischen Galerie Karlsruhe (2021), in der Cargo Bar, Basel (2020), in der Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, und in der Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal (2019) sowie im Kunstverein Mannheim (2016).
Felix Toth
Felix Toth (born 1979 in Lugoj, Romania) is an artist and has been running the exhibition space and publishing house New Toni Press together with Antonia Breme and Thomas Hesse since 2019. He studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe under Andreas Slominski, Ernst Caramelle and Anselm Reyle. His installations consist primarily of sculptural objects that are combined in various configurations and can often be interpreted as stage sets and props. Felix Toth’s works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions, most recently at Art 4 Elkar II at Loods 6 in Amsterdam, Luis Leu in Karlsruhe and 2023 at Neurotitan, Berlin. Felix Toth lives and works in Berlin.
Grischka Kaczmarek
Grischa Hyazinth Kaczmarek’s fascination with the world of color, which opens up access to the inner pictorial world, is elementary. The interplay of form and color that creates spaces and living beings and abandons the recognizable in favor of a visual language. The feel and texture of the paint, how it is applied to the support, how it works. This creates spaces that we are not familiar with and at the same time gives us access to them. Forms appear that function as color spaces, that develop further, that are there. The color creates sharp divisions and delicate connections at the same time. The drawings serve him as a starting point for the inner understanding and outer development of new images. They are the collective stories that have been lived and are still being lived. When they appear together, they reconnect and spin a web of narratives.
Christian Schmuck
Christian Schmuck is a draughtsman, painter and printmaker. His works, often characterized by everyday observations and work/life routines, find beauty in wasteland, freedom in repetition and the subliminal in normality.
Julien Hübsch
Julien Hübsch’s work focuses primarily on urban space and its protagonists. The analysis of temporary structures and interventions such as building sites, vandalism and its removal lead to the conceptual framework for various series of works. Compositional, color and haptic characteristics of the found material play a major role, as do tools such as bad printers and scanners, which function like studio assistants and can therefore intervene unexpectedly in the works. The resulting works oscillate between painterly intervention, object, archive, installation and environment. The artistic aim is not to copy or replicate, but to quote in a fragmentary way. These fragments become contemporary witnesses of an abstract urban space.
Veronica Burnuthian
Veronica Burnuthian is an artist, musician and performer born in Armenia and raised in Belgium, who studied design, painting, sound and performance at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Her graduation work in Markus Oehlen’s class was honored with the renowned Franz Altmann Foundation Prize. Veronica Burnuthian’s work combines mania, repetition, controlled coincidence and automatism to create an intense expression of emotional extremes. Her art reflects a rollercoaster ride between creative energy and phases of depression. Burnuthian’s works combine spontaneous expression with hypnotic structure, revealing both inner turmoil and the search for balance. As a solo artist and multi-instrumentalist, she produces IDM glitchcore music under the name Soft Violet, and her debut album was released on Alien Transistor in 2024. Her artistic and musical work includes founding numerous music projects such as the synth-punk band Atatakakatta, the power-pop female duo Spinnen and ten years as guitarist of the band Friends Of Gas. With TAF Türkisch-Armenische-Freundschaft she creates post-everything avant-garde-wave-Orient-pop. In addition to her activities in various collectives, she works in interdisciplinary projects such as the duo Panty Paradise, which combines painting and electronic music.
Artists
Andreas Becker | Veronica Burnuthian | Laura Gaiser | Christina Gay | Julien Hübsch | Grischka Kaczmarek | Lea & Adrian | Wolfgang Lugmair | Christian Schmuck | Felix Toth | Helena Walter
WHEN?
Vernissage: Saturday, January 11, 2024, 7 pm.
Exhibition dates: January 11 – February 01, 2025.
Monday – Saturday, 12-20 pm.
WHERE?
Galerie neurotitan
Rosenthaler Straße 39
10178 Berlin
