FINAL
PRESENTATIONS
Fellows 2024
Saturday, 21 September – 5 pm
Reading by Senka followed by a concert by Sara Cubarsi
in the Stadtgalerie Künstlerhaus Lauenburg (admission for a donation)
Welcome and introduction
Gitta Neemann-Güntner, Deputy District President of the Duchy of Lauenburg, Chairwoman of the Social, Education and Culture Committee
Marita Landgraf, Artistic Director
Sunday, 22 September – 3 pm
Exhibition opening Juan Blanco, Sara Cubarsi, Clara Lena Langenbach and Senka
in the Stadtgalerie Künstlerhaus Lauenburg
Welcome and introduction
Ingrid Bussmann, Board of Künstlerhaus Lauenburg e.V.,
Andrea Kühnast, Cultural Department of the State of Schleswig-Holstein
Marita Landgraf, Artistic Director
Presentation of the catalogue
The freshly printed publications of the 2023 scholarship holders will be presented
Sunday afternoon dance 16-19 hrs
SoNaTa with VARGO – MELODIC HOUSE & TECHNO
on the Künstlerhaus terrace as well as coffee and cake (admission for a donation)
The fellowships are financed by funds from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of the State of Schleswig-Holstein.
Juan Blanco, 11 m2 – Photo: Nathalia Azuero
Juan Blanco, Objects Ensamble, 2021
Juan Blanco
The visual artist Juan Blanco (Colombia) is currently working on an installation that includes woodcuts, photographs, drawings and paintings about and with nature. These are images of landscapes from Schleswig-Holstein, Bogotá and the surrounding area, where the artist grew up and lived. He captures landmarks, mountains, water and rivers on his own maps. Grids and wave-like structures are linked to the movement and observation of water or geographical structures.
In his works, Juan Blanco searches for ways to translate images, using different media and materials. It is his artistic exploration of the way in which landscape and nature are depicted, how we view nature. Where is the boundary between nature and human construction?
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
Man moulds nature, dominates and changes the landscape and, in doing so, distances himself more and more from a natural and direct exchange with it. The consequences are natural phenomena that are becoming ever more contrasting and brutal. The increasing use of technical devices, e.g. for the visualisation of digital maps, leads to an alienation of man from nature.
In his current project, Juan Blanco is searching for the points of contact between the human and the natural. What strategies have we developed to survive in hostile environments and how can we coexist and interact with nature on this basis?
To the website of Juan Blanco juanmblanco.com
Tropical depression, 2019, exhibition view, Brockmann Prize, Stadtgalerie, Kiel
Misencounters, 2021, installation view, Brockmann Prize, Stadtgalerie, Kiel
Juan Blanco – Photo: Maisa Covaleda
Sara Cubarsi, Harmonic Flow
Sara Cubarsi, Exvot III Excerpts
Sara Cubarsi
Residency Fellowship for Composition
The performer and composer Sara Cubarsi (Spain) will be working on two new works during her fellowship. She will be exploring intonation and tuning systems and ways of expanding them. She explores boundaries, shifts and materialities on various levels: in her compositions, in her playing on the electric violin or in visual works – e.g. wax paintings that melt during a concert. In wax, Sara Cubarsi finds an infinitely malleable material that is unpredictable and fragile. It allows objects to merge with each other and with other objects. She adopts this principle in her working method. ‘Exvot V’ is a new piece in her Exvot series in an extended pure voicing for electric violin, electric foot organ and bells. Cubarsi sees the new piece as an extension of the two previous works/forms. Not only are musical elements adopted, but her body, arm movements and symbolic references merge into an assemblage.
In the second half of the residency, Sara Cubarsi will complete the piece TERRA COCTA, a work for tromba marina (trumscheit), viola d’amore and Hardanger fiddle. The composer was inspired by a short experience in India in January 2023, by influences from a Norwegian melody on the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle, as well as the rich sound of the viola d’amore – hence the title: cooked earth or a cooking pot full of old traditions.
To the website of Sara Cubarsi www.saracubarsi.com
Sara Cubarsi, Ludwigs Ear, 2016-17
Senka
Residency Fellowship for Literature
In the novel project ‘Ein Beerenbecherchen, randvoll’, Senka deals with family, craftsmanship and queerness and explores in dialogue with protagonists the stories they grow up with, what they use their hands for and in which landscapes they are uprooted and uprooted. The first draft of this project is to be finalised at Künstlerhaus Lauenburg. Senka was born in Novosibirsk (Siberia) in 1993, began threading glass beads and writing at the age of six, and was most recently a fellow at the LCB’s writers’ workshop.
To the Senka website senkaschreibt.de
Work in process – Photos: Senka
Langenbach, If someone says jump(2023) – Photos: Marie-Theres Böhmker im Studio Peragine
Clara Lena Langenbach
Work grant with child, Visual Arts
Hamburg-based artist Clara Lena Langenbach creates sculptures and objects and examines normative conditions of corporeality in her artistic practice. Through moulding processes on human bodies, the artist aims to generate new forms as part of her scholarship that depict familiar but not clearly recognisable parts of the body. For her project ‘Fight or Flight’, these will be assembled into oversized sculptures. In this way, a public debate on body (pre)images and norms can be initiated.
Clara Lena Langenbach is currently looking for office chairs in order to measure them and analyse their body-straightening function. She is interested in the connection between ergonomics and furniture design, the measurement and standardisation of bodies for process optimisation and the question: to what extent does the workplace adapt to the non-standard body?
To the website of Clara Lena Langenbach claralenalangenbach.com
Langenbach, Made-To-Measrue (2017-2022) Stumme Diener valet stands, made-to-measure clothes – Photo: Marie-Theres Böhmker at Kunsthaus Hamburg
PRESS RELEASE
On the awarding of the 2024 fellowships as PDF file.
The fellowships are financed by funds from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of the State of Schleswig-Holstein.
FELLOWSHIP BY INVITATION
awarded in 2023 to the artists’ collective otc
The collective is invited to develop an artistic work on the theme of “Solidary Forms of Sustainable Cooperation” in the period July 2023 – July 2024. In this way, Künstlerhaus Lauenburg is following up on past cooperation projects on sustainable networking, support for artists and interdisciplinary knowledge exchange (NEWCOMER 1 & 2), as well as on the discourse on topics of current transformation in the arts regarding appreciation, resilience, energy and resource issues and the empowerment of the discriminated in the cultural sector (Dialogue & Action series).
otc, 2023 – Photo: Observant Thick Conversation
Short bio
otc – Observant Thick Conversation, formerly “Yours truly, LoL”, formerly “Law of Life (LoL)” is an artists’ collective that aims to create collective structures for young artists to support each other. Networking and building sustainable networks in exchange with artists, curators and institutions is an essential part of their common artistic and political practice.
The collective has realised various projects and exhibitions in Košice (SK), Hamburg, Berlin and Göttingen. Currently otc consists of the following members: Rahel grote Lambers, Alexander Klaubert, Francis Kussatz and Julia Lübbecke.
Artist Statement
otc – Observant Thick Conversation, formerly “Yours truly, LoL”, formerly “Law of Life (LoL)” is an artists’ collective currently active in Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig. Founded out of a shared frustration with a culture industry focused on individualism, we are dedicated to the process of finding and creating common structures for young artists to support each other. In addition to our artistic/curatorial exhibition practice, building sustainable networks by initiating a close dialogue between artists, curators and cultural workers is therefore an essential part of our cultural policy work. Thematically, we explored various forms of resistance, instability and scenarios of upheaval in the first exhibition series. This was shown in 2019 to 2020 in three consecutively conceived exhibitions at the Vunu Gallery in Košice (SK), the Frappant Gallery in Hamburg and the Centre for Contemporary Art in the Citadel Berlin.
Site-specific projects followed in 2021 and 2022. On the one hand, in collaboration with the curatorial collective CCCCCOMA within the framework of a two-month residency, during which workshops and an exhibition were realised in the gatekeeper’s house on Campus Esche, the former psychiatric site of the Charité in Berlin Westend. On the other hand, in the exhibition “I DON’T WORK ON WEEKENDS!” at the Kunstverein Göttingen, which addressed the precarious working conditions in the cultural sector. This led to further dialogues, including the invitation to the symposium “Schöpfen ohne Erschöpfung” (“Creating without Exhaustion”) at the Kommunale Galerien Berlin 2022 or in the context of the exhibition “no more lonely laundry” 2023 at MOM art space in Hamburg, which was initiated by the curatorial collective Cake&Cash.
The artists’ collective introduces itself.
The fellowship is supported by funds from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of the State of Schleswig-Holstein and Vast Forward.
