— too bold, too big, to far: Unrealized artworks become visible. Artists from all over connect.
While mobility is restricted, borders and distances are clearly perceptible and existential uncertainties
are omnipresent, more artistic works than ever remain in the state of planning. Whether it fails due to
lack of time, space or money or accompanies your artistic work for years as bold dream — we are looking
for your projects, which have not (yet) made it beyond their state as an idea, concept, draft or prototype.
With this exhibition we want to open up a space and visibility in terms of concepts, sketches, drafts, plans
and photographs. These papers will be presented at the art space BLECH. in Halle, Germany.
At the same time, despite current challenges and immobility, this format allows to present
and bring international artists together. Since many things cannot take place on location and in person,
there will be an online programm additional to the exhibtion. For an exchange and encounters, the
participating artists and their work will be presented and discussed on a digital platform.
— too bold, too big, to far: Unrealized artworks become visible. Artists from all over connect.
While mobility is restricted, borders and distances are clearly perceptible and existential uncertainties
are omnipresent, more artistic works than ever remain in the state of planning. Whether it fails due to
lack of time, space or money or accompanies your artistic work for years as bold dream — we are looking
for your projects, which have not (yet) made it beyond their state as an idea, concept, draft or prototype.
With this exhibition we want to open up a space and visibility in terms of concepts, sketches, drafts, plans
and photographs. These papers will be presented at the art space BLECH. in Halle, Germany.
At the same time, despite current challenges and immobility, this format allows to present
and bring international artists together. Since many things cannot take place on location and in person,
there will be an online programm additional to the exhibtion. For an exchange and encounters, the
participating artists and their work will be presented and discussed on a digital platform.
christina hartwich
ABOUT
Christina Hartwich (*1991, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. She studied painting at Kunsthochschule Mainz and was in the class of Prof.Winfried Virnich. During this time she was a scholarship holder of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. Then she moved to Berlin and continued her studies at Kunsthochschule Weißensee, where she took part in the class of Prof. Friederike Feldmann. In recent years she has participated in various group exhibitions - Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Dzialdov Berlin, Kunsthalle Darmstadt.
STATEMENT
Working with the ambivalence between visibility and invisibility is the main part of my own interest in painting. A painting could be everywhere, but where and how do we show it? The painting process is complex and can take on many different narrative levels in terms of abstraction. I work classically with walls, paper, canvas and other textiles. I paint on it with aerosol cans or brushes, for this I make cutouts like templates. From one shape a new one grows and overlays create new outlines. The search for color shapes drives the work progress anew. In the end they are connected to each other and I try to find my own formal language in it. In addition, a spatial structure is created, a mutual dependency between space and a new work. This can be in relation to space or place and its given limits. I really like to play with the invisible and let the imagination grow.
We asked ...
What role do unrealized projects play in your artistic practice?
In my artistic practice there are many unrealized projects. Often ideas come up which I capture in drawings and short texts, but which I can never realize because there have to be special conditions (spatial and material). So I rather create models that think again and again about the connection between color material, ground and spatial composition. These are interlinked with each other, which allows me to generate from this fund, depending on the exhibition project.
What does failure mean for your artistic work?
Failure is always a good moment for personal development. After a crisis-like inactivity follows new drive, movement and usually a positive development - an eternal cycle. I feel this is an essential part of the artistic process, which should also be part of the picture. The search for color forms and narrative strands is a concern that I want to show and it can also fail. The goal of a "finished" work and the pictorially beautiful is not the focus.
What do the terms 'possible' and 'impossible' mean in the context of your artistic practice?
Only by doing you notice limits and experience what is impossible. On paper as well as in the sketch stage, many things seem possible and you can think utopian. When working on the question of where painting is created and how it is shown, the answer seems to wander fluidly between the poles of "possible" and "impossible". The own view, decisiveness and courage play a role, because sometimes it becomes possible and one forgets that something was impossible.
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