The exhibition Sentients, curated by Debi Paul, looks at passage, the sentience of objects and textiles and how these personal possessions draw from the past and travel with us into the future, as remnants from previous lives and artefacts of displacement. The exhibition takes place in a ‘Apotheke’ – an old pharmacy – with a lived-in ambience which lies on a corner open to the meeting of two streets within Scwanthalerhöhe, a vibrant city neighbourhood in Munich. This Apotheke has been a place where people from the neighbourhood have met for over 120 years.
Artists Aleana Egan and Caoimhe Kilfeather have come together to make a new work on atmospheres relating to memory through the material of clothing, while Tanad Aaron’s art practice considers circularity and family repair. Sara Baume’s model container ships, with sails, appear both toylike and futuristic, but represent her attempt to comprehend the overwhelming quantity of goods in the world. Florian Weichsberger’s subtle artworks code messages and wishes of peace and hope.
Opening times:
Thursday 24th October – 6-9pm (opening reception)
Friday 25th October – Sunday 3rd November: 11am – 7pm (late opening Thursday until 9pm)
Special events:
Caoimhe Kilfeather + Aleana Egan in-conversation with curator Debi Paul.
7pm, Thursday 24th October
Tanad Aaron, artists talk with curator Debi Paul.
7pm, Thursday 31st October.
Exhibition walkthrough with artist Florian Weichsberger and curator Debi Paul, and finnissage.
5pm, Sunday 3rd November.
Tanad Aaron works with material production processes, linguistic theory and architectural form and co-founder of ‘Forerunner’ a collaborative visual art & architecture practice based in Dublin and has been an associate artist with Grisedale Arts UK since 2017 and is currently in mentorship with artist Celine Condorelli.
Working primarily with sculpture, and occasionally with painting and film, Aleana Egan engenders psychological states and memories through enigmatic arrangements of objects and forms. Her sculptural works appear restrained, but are laden with subtle references to the built environment.
Caoimhe Kilfeather’s practice is predominantly sculptural and often generated through a combination of experimental and intuitive processes in the studio alongside more directed research and reading around a subject matter. The histories of vernacular architecture, humankind’s ritualistic tendencies, as well as the impact and imprint of the experience of landscape are subject matters which inform her work .
Sara Baume is the author of three novels which have received multiple awards and been widely translated. She works also as a visual artist, her interest is in ritual and sacred and in miniatures, and the uniquely human tendency to create miniaturised utopias – both as a form of play and a means of exercising control over the reality of a world that is unfathomably huge and increasingly unpredictable.
Florian Weichsberger is a visual artist whose practice focuses on materiality, probing ideas around use and function. His thinking resonates within the work, he ponders how the ‘handmade’ is part of historical culture. How some parts carry on into a future culture while others fade away.
Debi Paul’s curatorial practice is rooted in place, materiality, and philosophy with a focus on the body, performative practice and how the body engages with artworks. She often works with/learns from sites of interest and local communities. Glandwr is a place – formally a place of care – a rehabilitation centre where she lives and curates’ site-responsive projects.