Korporal Labyrinth

Medianautik

Group exhibition in Gallery Verein Berliner Künstler
Schöneberger Ufer 57, 10785 Berlin

May 21 – June 6, 2021
Opening: Friday 21.05.2021, 19 h.
Artists Talk: Friday 28.05.2021, 19 h.

Visiting the exhibition is only possible with prior booking of an appointment and with a negative Corona test result. Therefore, we ask you to book your appointment either via e-mail: anmeldung-vbk-art@gmx.de, or by phone: +4915751142263 (from Wednesday).
In any case, there will be an online tour of the exhibition.

Participating artists:
Sandra Becker, Monika Funke Stern, Hartmut Jahn, Maria Korporal, Richard Stimmel, Sigi Torinus

Curator: Monika Funke Stern

Maria Korporal shows an installation with a special version of her projects Korporal Labyrinth and Railway Flower Labyrinth.

A catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition.

Online version of the catalogue

 

Pressetext:

Es gibt Künstler*innen, die verfolgen ihr ganzes Leben eine strenge Linie, formal und inhaltlich. Peinture pure, Sculpture pure.
Es gibt andere wie uns, die navigieren zwischen den Medien, kombinieren, intervenieren, sampeln, collagieren. Es entstehen Mischformen, Hybride. Das Navigieren erfolgt nie ohne Kompaß, nie ohne den Blick in den gesetzmäßigen Gang der Gestirne, der Berechnung der Meridiane, und so werden so neue Kontinente entdeckt, neue Formen erfunden.
Die Besucher gehen an Bord, werden interaktiv Teil der Reise.

Wir hoffen auf das persönliche Boarding am 21. Mai zur Vernissage um 19h, so die Inzidenzen es zulassen. Auf jeden Fall wird es einen Online-Rundgang im Netz geben. Ein Gespräch mit der Crew findet am 28. Mai um 19h statt (Artist Talk).

(Monika Funke Stern, Kuratorin der Ausstellung)

 

der fragile Mikrokosmos ist vor Scham aus den Fugen

VBK Winter Exhibition
Opening on Friday, November 30, 2018
Exhibition 1st- 30th December 2018

Gallery Verein Berliner Künstler
Schöneberger Ufer 57
10785 Berlin
www.vbk-art.de

Participating artists:
Michael Augustinski, Jutta Barth, Sandra Becker, Viola Bendzko, Gerda Berger, Birgit Borggrebe, Catherine Bourdon, BUCCO, Barbara Czarnojahn, Christoph Damm, Christian Ebel, Burghild Eichheim, Ute Faber, Monika Funke Stern, Gerhard Gabel, Marianne Gielen, Lupe Godoy, Marilyn Green, Margret Holz, Hella Horstmeier, Rosika Jankó-Glage, Jürgen Kellig, Karsten Kelsch, Susanne Kessler, Klaus Kossak, Karoline Koeppel, Matthias Koeppel, Simone Kornfeld, Maria Korporal, Joan Lazeanu, Dorothea Markner-Weiss, Volker Nikel, Larissa Nod, Helga Ntephe, Michael Otto, POGO, Jens Reulecke, Ute Richter, Astrid Roeken, Regina Roskoden, Schlangenbader, Robert Schmidt-Matt, Ursula Schwirzer, Evelyn Sommerhoff, SOOKI, Richard Stimmel, Andrea Streit, Jürgen Tenz, Helga Wagner, Barbara Zirpins

Maria Korporal shows her new work La Vitruviana.

Open Studios Atelieretage AR_29

Open Studio Weekend AR_29
Opening hours: Sat. 17-11-18, 14:00-20:00/ Sun. 18-11-18, 14:00-18:00
AtelierEtage AR_29 | Alt-Reinickendorf 28-29 | Industriehof 2. O.G. | 13407 Berlin

Maria Korporal presents her video project Korporal Labyrinth. The videos will be screened in loop during the whole weekend.
During the two days the artist will make a large wall drawing of a new labyrinth on site.

Press release:
The artists of the AtelierEtage AR_29 open their studies for the fifth time. Saturday, November 17 from 2:00 to 8:00 pm and Sunday, November 18 from 2:00 to 6:00 pm, 12 studios on a total surface of over 1,000 square meters will be open to an audience interested in art during an entire exhibition weekend. In addition, there are 33 invited guest artists presenting their works both in the studios and on the entire floor.

Participating AR_29 artists:
Sandra Becker 01 I David Berkel I Christian Buchloh I Ulrike Bultmann I Emanuel Geisser I Andrea Hartinger I Julia Ludwig I Mateo Cohen Monroy I Jochen Schneider I Zuzanna Skiba I Sarah Straßmann I Viktoria Volozhynska

Guest artists:
Erik Andersen I Nina Ansari I Nicolas Argenton I Sonja Arz I Oliver Barlen I Heike Franziska Bartsch I Olivia Berckemeyer I Marion Luise Buchmann I Joanna Bambi Buchowska I Heloisa Corrêa I Jürgen Grewe I Birgit Hoelmer I Wojtek Hoeft I Margret Holz I Claudia Michaela Kochsmeier I Maria Felix Korporal I Claire Laude I Verónica Losantos I Mareike Jacobi I Monika Jarecka I Beatrice Jugert I Miriam Lenk I Hugo Mayer I Christine Molis I Ekaterina Mitichkina I Max Renneisen I Katharina Renneisen I Cornelia Renz I Kerstin Serz I Semra Sevin I Daniel M. Thurau I Bettina Weiß I Alexandra Wolframm

AtelierEtage AR_29 | Alt-Reinickendorf 28-29 | Industriehof 2. O.G. | 13407 Berlin

Info:
www.ar29.twoday.net | facebook.com/ar29atelieretage

Transport:
S25 Alt-Reinickendorf / U8 Paracelsus-Bad (Ausgang Roedernallee) / vom Hbf Berlin Bus 120 (bis Paracelsus Bad)

Korporal Labyrinth

Korporal Labyrinth is a work in progress, an account of a visceral journey in different stadia, expressed in a series of short videos. The artist’s drawing of the labyrinth was the starting point for the project, together with a bunch of footage taken mainly from July to October 2013. In 2018 the artist started to work on the project again.
In her Korporal Labyrinth, the artist explores several ways of walking through the labyrinth – there is no absolute truth, every possibility is worth trying and leads to new experiences and points of view.

Presentations and exhibitions: Medianautik, Gallery VBK, Berlin 2021, In the Moving Labyrinth. Video art and other actions by Maria Korporal. LortzingART September 2020, Open Studios Weekend Reinickendorf, Directors Lounge Screening and Open Studio Weekend AR_29, 17th-18th of November 2018.

The video above is a trailer of the whole project. All videos in Korporal Labyrinth can be viewed upon request. Please contact me if you are interested.

Links to descriptions and photo galleries of the 4 videos:
In the Beginning was the Word …
… and the Word was Sun
Where the Waters Flow …
… the Rose will always Bloom

In the Beginning was the Word …

The first video in the project Korporal Labyrinth.

Korporal Labyrinth is a work in progress, an account of a visceral journey in different stadia, expressed in a series of short videos. The artist’s drawing of the labyrinth was the starting point for the project, together with a bunch of footage taken mainly from July to October 2013.
In her Korporal Labyrinth, the artist explores several ways of walking through the labyrinth – there is no absolute truth, every possibility is worth trying and leads to new experiences and points of view.

title: In the Beginning was the Word
technique: Experimental video and animation
length: 3’25”
year: 2013
© Maria Korporal

all about the project Korporal Labyrinth, incl. 4-minutes trailer

… and the Word was Sun

“… and the Word was Sun” is the second video of the project Korporal Labyrinth, and gives the answer to the first video “In the Beginning was the Word”.
On the day her mother Ariena died, the artist was waiting for a sign. In the Dutch hospital where her mother lied, she discovered the art work “Walters Huis” by Gerhard Lentink, a small chapel build with wooden letters, which compose a poem by Paul Eluard. The artist played a little game she had done two weeks before in a similar installation costructed with metal letters, the “Christian garden” in the Gärten der Welt (Berlin): which is the first word I notice? In Berlin it was the word “Sonne” (German for “Sun”), and now in the hospital she noticed the word “Soleil” (French for “Sun”). Then the artist realized that it must be the word “Sun”, the sign her mother left her while she was breathing her last breath.

Gauži raud saulīte
Ābeļu dārzā.
Ābelei nokrita Zeltābolītis.
Neraudi, saulīte,
Dievs dara citu.
No vara, no zelta
No sudrabiņa.

The Sun cries bitterly
In the apple orchard.
The apple-tree has lost
The golden apple.
Do not cry, Sun,
God makes another one
Of gold, of copper,
Of silver.

(text from the Latvian Apple-Tree Songs)

title: … and the Word was Sun
technique: Video sperimentale e animazione
length: 5’47”
year: 2014
starring: Astrid Astra Esther Indricane and Maria (Felix) Korporal
locations: the village of Sant’Oreste (Rome) and the “Christian garden” in the Gärten der Welt (Berlin)
music: Prologue of the Latvian rock opera “Lāčplēsis” (1988)
video, sound design and all other artwork: Maria Korporal

all about the project Korporal Labyrinth, incl. 4-minutes trailer

Where the Waters Flow …

In this third video of the project Korporal Labyrinth, the artist performs a ritual walk from the place where her mother died to the place where she was born, crossing the Merwede, the river from both their childhood. On the top of the bridge, the artist throws the nightgown in which her mother died down into the waters. It flows away with the stream, and it reappears on the banks of the river Spree in Berlin, where the artist actually lives. She takes it out of the waters and in her hands it transforms into a labyrinth, which is filled with water. “The water has memory” – the words whispered by the artist in the ear of her lover tell the essence of this video: the story of a life is memorized in the water and flows around the world.

title: Where the Waters Flow
technique: Video sperimentale e animazione
length: 4’26”
year: 2014
starring: Maria (Felix) Korporal, Astrid Astra Indricane
locations: the “Labyrinth” in the Gärten der Welt (Berlin), the railway and bridge on the Merwede (Dordrecht-Sliedrecht), the Spree (Berlin)
background sound recording: “City river ambience” (London) by Chris Reidy
camera: Maria (Felix) Korporal, Jurgen Korporaal
video, sound design and all other artwork: Maria (Felix) Korporal

all about the project Korporal Labyrinth, incl. 4-minutes trailer

… the Rose will always Bloom

In this fourth and last video of the project Korporal Labyrinth, the artist performs a ritual on the beach of Hoek van Holland, the place where the waters of the large river area, where she and her mother were born and grew up, flow into the sea. The artist tears the petals out of a big rose – a rose that will revive in the following scenes, out of a rosebud nipple via a labyrinth of light into a Rose of Jericho, which blooms again and transforms itself into a leaf. A leaf which has been found by the artist’s brother, two weeks after the death of their mother, with her initials R S (Rinie Slieker) incised by an insect. While the artist whispers the bible text about love from 1 Corinthians 13, a text her mother read to her when she was young, the lines on the leaf are filled with blood and the words popping up in her mind are written down.

title: … the Rose will always Bloom
technique: Experimental video and animation
length: 4’15”
year: 2014
starring: Astrid Astra Indricane, Maria (Felix) Korporal
locations: the beach of Hoek van Holland, the artist’s studio and the regions of her mind
beach sound recording: © www.eelkedekker.nl
video, sound design and all other artwork: Maria (Felix) Korporal

all about the project Korporal Labyrinth, incl. 4-minutes trailer