Villa Aurora Events Archive
September 2021
MEET THE ARTISTS
Los Angeles (Villa Aurora 520 Paseo Miramar Pacific Palisades, CA 90272)
Participants
Nadine Fecht, born 1976, Mannheim, studied Art and Archaeological Drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, Humboldt University Berlin, California College of the Arts San Francisco and at the University of the Arts Berlin. Nadine Fecht works primarily as a draftswoman, but also creates videos and space-related installations. Her works often oscillate between drawing and language and are conceptual and gestural expressions of an interest in alternative oppositional movements that question current political rhetoric, content, and status. From 2015-2017 as well as 2018-2019 she was guest lecturer at HBK Braunschweig.
Nadine Fecht is a 2021 Villa Aurora Fellow of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
Marc Fromm, born in 1971 in Langen/Hessen, trained as a carpenter and wood sculptor. He then went to the Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy in Halle to devote himself to the study of the human figure. He also studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux. To this day, the human figure in its rapidly changing social fabric is the starting point of his motifs. The examination of basic themes and the contradictions of our time, the madness of everyday life, finds expression in large wooden sculptures and limewood reliefs.
Marc Fromm is the 2021 Villa Aurora Fellow of the Art Foundation Saxony-Anhalt.
Robin Stretz, born 1996 in Pirmasens, lives and works in Frankfurt am Main.
Robin Stretz studied fine arts at the Kunsthochschule Mainz and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Stretz works mainly with films and installations. His work negotiates films as objects and their potential to document, collage, and rearrange things without claiming to be truthful or universal in order to find poetic connections and develop a life of their own. Most of his works have their starting point on the edge of film, art or (popular) culture; smaller, seemingly unimportant stories and rumors.
Robin Stretz is Villa Aurora Fellow of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.
MARX. A film by Olaf Nicolai – 24-Hour-Screening
Berlin
Information
"With this project, we are hosting a different understanding of time." Andrea Lissoni
The film Marx was shot during the autumnal equinox from September 21 to 22, 2020. It shows the Karl Marx monument in Chemnitz (formerly Karl-Marx-Stadt) in a 24-hour close up, while changing light conditions transformed the political icon into a landscape. The resulting images will travel the world during the 2021 autumnal equinox and will be seen in different time zones.
Screening locations according to time zones: TIMES MUSEUM, Guangzhou / MAUDI, Tblissi / AL MA’MAL FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Jerusalem / CINÉMATHÈQUE DE TANGER, Tanger / GARAGE. MUSEUM FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Moskwa / GOETHE INSTITUT SOFIA, Sofia / LOCUS ATHEN, Athina / HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT, Berlin / HAUS DER KUNST, München / KUNSTSAMMLUNGEN CHEMNITZ, Chemnitz / MACRO. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Roma / MGML. MUSEUM AND GALLERIES OF LJUBLJANA, Ljubljana / ICA. INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS, London / FOGO ISLAND ARTS, Fogo Island / SUBTE. CENTRO DE EXPOSICIONES, Montevideo / ARTE CONTINUA LA HABANNA, Habanna / VILLA AURORA, Los Angeles
#24hMarx www.hausderkunst.de
Please join us at the Villa Aurora on September 21st starting at noon-10pm and September 22nd 10am-noon for a special film screening of Marx by Olaf Nicolai.
RSVP and Masks required. Please bring one of the following documents required for admittance: Proof of Vaccination OR Proof of Immunity OR Proof of a Negative COVID Test performed no earlier than 48 hours prior to event.
Location
Villa Aurora, 520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272
Admission is free
RSVP & Mask mandatory. If you are interested in attending, please call (310)-454-4231 or e-mail at infola@vatmh.org. Seating is limited and time slots vary. Please request a time slot of up to 2 hours with your RSVP
Partners
Produced as part of the project “Gegenwarten I Presences 2020”, organized by the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. The worldwide 24-hour-premiere is made possible by the support of Haus der Kunst, Munich; Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin; Knust Kunz Gallery Editions; Stiftung Federkiel & Christian Jacobs; Kulturstiftung des Bundes and Stadt Chemnitz.