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Daniel Satanovski
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Cick in Dunt are the artists Anna Cherepanova and Vitalii Cherepanov. In their artistic work, they explore the interplay between art, science and philosophy, using a various of media and disciplines. Their focus is on developing projects as test models for critical interactions with the environment and exploring applicative possibilities of artistic gesture.

Their new project Iteration is about the “two” as a repetition, as secondariness, as imitation, as relation, as a symbol, and it deals with the artistic work in a duo.

Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson present the video VLADA (2023), 11 hours 22 minutes.

They started working together in 1994 and since 2007 have worked solely as a collaborative practice focussed on moving-image and sculptural projects.

They live and work in Manchester, UK and Niederer-Fläming, Germany. Solo exhibitions include Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, 2018; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 2017; MEWO, Kunsthalle Memmingen, 2016; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, 2015; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 2013; Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon, 2012; SALT, Istanbul, 2012.

Fides Becker is 2024 Fellow in Schloss Wiepersdorf with a Scholarhip by Stiftung Rheinland-Pfalz. Born in 1962 in Worms, Germany, Fides Becker studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main (1981-85), the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam (1985-88) and the Akademie der Künste in Berlin (1986-89). She lived in Rotterdam from 1985 to 1996 and since then in Berlin.

Her works were exhibited in solo exhibitions such as "Der feine Unterschied" at Kunstverein Worms (2023) and "Patina der Zeit" at Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt am Main (2017) and in group exhibitions such as "Touch of playfulness" at Stiftung Rheinbeckhallen, Berlin (2023), "FLUX4ART", Casa Tony M., Wittlich (2021), "Bringen Scherben Glück?", curated by Susanne Ahner and Anja Teske at the Projektraum Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen 1867, Berlin (2023).

Zora Janković was born in 1978 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has been living and working in Berlin since 2008.

She works mainly with the media of sculpture and photography, whose complex working processes form the initial starting point. The three-dimensional geometric moulding, the architectural fragment and its spatial structure are at the forefront of her artistic exploration.

Matthias Klos was Schloss Wiepersdorf Fellow in 2023. He works mainly in photography.

He lives and works in Vienna and Lower Austria. Trained as a chef and brewer and maltster. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Nürnberg. One of his current projects is entitled Ländchen Bärwalde.

Igor Tereshkov is a Montenegro based artist and photographer that studied documentary photography and photojournalism at the School of Modern Photography Docdocdoc in Saint-Petersburg. In his work he experiments with different photographic processes and researches themes of environment, ecology and the Anthopocene. His works have been published widely and among many other nominations he is the winner of the Direct look (FotoDoc) and ‘Young photographers of Russia’ festival awards (both in 2019). He was nominated to Prix HSBC pour la Photographie (France) in 2020 and named as a FOAM Talent 2021. His current work “Red Heat” was exhibited in Schwab Museum (Biel/Bienne, Switzerland) in case of Bieler Fototage photo festival in 2022. His last group exhibition (2023) was Burning Down the House,  AFF Galerie, Berlin, Germany.

Reading and talk in German language: Das Ende (The End).

Attila Bartis is a Hungarian writer and photographer. His books have been translated into over twenty languages. The German translations Der Spaziergang (1999), Die Ruhe (2005) and Das Ende (2017) have all been published by Suhrkamp. The novel Die Ruhe was adapted into a film by Róbert Alföldi in 2008.

The text Das Ende (The End) deals with the passion for the camera and the question of where the violence and vulnerability that András feels inside himself come from.It was translated by Terézia Mora, who was a fellow (literature) in Wiepersdorf.

Ernest Wichner is a writer, translator and former director of the Literaturhaus Berlin.

A lecture by the art historian Rocco Thiede:

Caspar David Friedrich: The Painter and his Life's Work

"The Monk by the Sea", "Chalk Cliffs on Rügen", "The Abbey in the Oakwood", "The Sea of Ice", "The Stages of Life", "The Lonely Tree" (1822), "Cairn in Snow" or "Two Men Contemplating the Moon" - these are all popular masterpieces by Caspar David Friedrich (Greifswald 1774 - 1840 Dresden).

Anyone who has seen the exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Hamburg or the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin can look forward to a reunion with these paintings, as well as drawings and tracings, at this lecture by publicist and art historian Rocco Thiede.

It is an introduction to the life and work of Germany's most famous Romantic painter, whose 250th birthday is being celebrated this year with many new publications and special exhibitions.

Anna Cherepanova & Vitalii Cherepanov: Iteration (2024)
Alexander Povzner: Ladder Man (2023)
Carsten Schneider: The hazards of one year (2017)

Open air music from the Momofitz Swing band.

The museum illustrates over five rooms how the von Arnimsʼ manor house evolved into a residence for artists and scholars. The focus lies on the spirit of Romanticism as well as on the period from 1945 to 1989, when Schloss Wiepersdorf primarily hosted writers.

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Opening of the special exhibition: Summoning the peacock

The artist Małgorzata Sztremer, former fellow in fine arts, in conversation with the cultural scientist Barbara Schnalzger, current fellow in Schloss Wiepersdorf.

The exhibition features watercolours by the artist. As if in a montage, various influences taken from fairy tales, myths and science are fused on her canvas with personal memories and visual elements from other artistic epochs.

At first glance, Małgorzata Sztremer's paintings appear narrative and yet enigmatic. Influences from fairy tales, myths and science, fragments of memory and pictorial elements from other art eras merge. The figures that emerge from this have no linear narrative and stand out from stereotypical depictions.

This applies in particular to the figure of the peacock. His depiction plays a central role in the exhibition and symbolises the artist's working method. At the beginning of every process is the need for images. A well-known symbol from art history is picked out in order to free it from stereotypical representations and reinterpret it. The peacock stands for diversity. In alchemy, the colourful feathers from its tail are associated with the various alchemical stages. Colours play a central role in the artist's watercolours, both as hues and as material. Working with watercolour emphasises the transitions from the seen to the sphere of emotion.

Małgorzats Sztremer's work also focuses on the figure of the woman. The artist explores the figure of Sekhmet from ancient Egyptian times. Sekhmet, the mighty one, is usually depicted with a lion's head and is known for her destructive fury. The myth is thematised in the painting Incense: The goddess incenses the room to bring about a better future. On the other hand, she is the goddess of illness and healing.

The empowerment of the female figure and the recognition of women-specific knowledge (of and about women), which Małgorzata Sztremer thematises through her paintings, are historically contextualised by cultural scientist Barbara Schnalzger from a feminist-scientific perspective. Referring to the figure of the witch in Małgorzata Sztremer's paintings, she thematises the persecution of witches as a historical event:  Why were women persecuted as witches? The persecution was about controlling women, their knowledge and their bodies. Through violent persecution, the (physical) knowledge of women who had developed expertise in various areas was made invisible or controllable. These issues are still relevant today. How does this control function manifest itself today? Barbara Schnalzger's comment is to be understood as a political or activist contribution.