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Fernweh

15.01.21 - 14.04.21

Since 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic has limited our ability to travel. "Stay home! Stay Safe!" became the new buzzword. To explore distant places has become an almost unreachable goal for most people. Staying at home can make you feel safe and warm. However, the desire to travel seems getting stronger than ever.

 

A German word, Fernweh, describes this urge poetically: the pain and longing for far-off places. 

 

Do you feel "Fernweh"?  

 

We intend to design a smaller scale exhibition compared to other online art markets, but extensive enough for art lovers to discover great works. For our first online exhibition in 2021, we present ten artists who share their views, feelings and artworks about Fernweh. 

 

Thank you for visiting us and I hope the pieces in this exhibition connect with you and your feeling of Fernweh. 

 

- Angela Hsu, curator (Berlin, 15.01.2021)

All artworks in this exhibition can be acquired.

Interested buyers can get in touch with us at curation.berlin@gmail.com

click on the artwork below to view the exhibition in fullscreen

(best viewed on a big screen)

scroll down to see the individual artist's works

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view the 'Fernweh' exhibition by individual artists:

Sara Chaar
Georg Jansen
Robert Rudigier
Chloe Grove
Beat Kuert
Sabine Schiffer-Nasserie
Katharina Hesse
Oscar Rey
Xecon Uddin
Almyra Weigel

Sara Chaar

Sara Chaar

"Reading into my works is like jumping head on into a rumbling stream of consciousness, inhabited by insect-like creatures created with instinctual marks transferring my impulses and feelings directly onto the piece. The process is a cycle of constructing, deconstructing and reconstructing, echoing the never-ending story of Beirut. 

 

With construction tools, i accumulate layers of paint and material that work as a foundation that i later on scratch through with screwdrivers, cutters and palette knives, instinctively forcing out transformations and translations of my encounters with sounds and sights.

I am interested in breaking or erasing the often sombre color range on the surface of my works revealing broken up references of soil and land, referencing a sense of being rooted or belonging."

Video of Sara Chaar about her work

(03:07)

Chloe Grove 

Chloe Grove

"i’ve never really been one for intense wanderlust for far away places

i have my reasons

i’m very easily amused by my immediate surroundings & find beauty & novelty in the most mundane things everywhere every day 

so my wanderlust is about exploring the principles of time & space

imagining being in the past & in the future 

often simultaneously 

these drawings are about slowness & about escapism

seeing & feeling & imagining things happening in the slow laying down of strata of colour

& rendering the images at large scale & over a long period of time

during this time they are a place for me to go

a decelerated alternative reality" 

Katharina Hesse

Katharina Hesse

"One thing I was missing while living in Beijing was nature and silence.  I usually looked forward to annual home visits near a forest  area in Germany."

Video of Katharina Hesse about "Fernweh"

(02:03)

Georg Jansen

Georg Jansen

"It is always more adventurous where we are NOT. This strange law of many human´s life makes us yearning to go away from our homes as far as possible, to places that are as different as possible. Until very recently this feeling was so wonderful, because you knew if your Fernweh was just strong enough, it would take you far away from home sooner or later. But today…"

Beat Kuert

Beat Kuert 

"Fernweh is a dream, a painful longing for everything that is missing, a longing for wholeness and infinity or simply for the lost love that waits for you behind the blue mountains. Wanderlust is the memory of everything that one has never experienced before."

Video of Beat Kuert about his work

(01:40)

Osca Rey

Oscar Rey 

"My inexplicable attraction to the unknown and my longing for distant places that I have never set foot on."

Video of Oscar Rey about "Fernweh"

(04:19)

Robert Rudigier

Robert Rudigier

"For me "Fernweh" is a feeling when I stay too long in the same place, something pulls me out into the distance, then I want to experience something new again."
 

Sabine Schiffer-Nasserie

Sabine Schiffe Nasserie

"Fernweh ist eine menschliche Sehnsucht in die Fremde, die auch künstlich durch Bilder und Darstellungen ferner Länder erzeugt werden kann."

Xecon Uddin

Xecon Uddin

"Memory that is layered, fragmented and evolving, is a constant dynamic in my work. At the core of my art practice is an exploration of my roots, nature and elements that trigger, layer and construct memory. Growing up in Bangladesh and now living in France, always remind me about my roots and associated memories from that time. "Monsoon Rain" is a series of my very recent works. Monsoon is a part of life in south east Asia. Rain has sounds that is created when it touches a surface during monsoon. It has smell as well and also creates a feelings when it’s touches on skin. It’s very special and different than other places. Since I moved to France I miss those elements of life. My images evolve from my acute observations of mother nature, visual memories, temporal and spatial associations, and the deep sense of connection with the earth. I use historical photo-based technique in the creation of my works, such as cyanotype and as well as contemporary photo-screen, digital scanning, printmaking, painting and mixed media. For me, making art allows for the study and representation of time and the ephemeral nature of memory. I include gold leafs as an inscription of sorts that references the passing of time, and as a symbolic line that connects the present to the past."

Video of Xecon Uddin about his work

(00:55)

Almyra Weigel

Almyra Weiel

"'Fernweh' - Wanderlust, the longing to look beyond the horizon."

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