Recent Exhibitions
Mind the Gap
Berlin, Germany
22.11. — 08.12.2019
The Silence Project`s exhibition Mind the Gap explores the cleft between polarities. It sets out to draw our attention to space between binary pairs – a space that is too often infused with tension, taboo and silence.
Mind the Gap – represents a pertinent and timely opportunity to ask ourselves how we want to navigate across a landscape of gaps. Through engaging in a visual dialogue about difference and indifference, visibility and invisibility and between the version´s of contemporary masculinity, the exhibition invites us to reflect on our own attitudes as well as to foster an attitude of keen curiosity when contemplating the other side.
The exhibition Mind the Gap sets into relation works of artists Sigurður Guðmundsson, Johan Zetterqwist, René Holm, Topi Ruotsalainen, Nina Backman, Lise Bjørne Linnert Jalal Sepher together with limited edition prints by Marina Abramovic, Chiharu Shiota, Meret Oppenheim, John Cage and John Baldessari.The limited edition prints are provided by Berlin and Los Angeles-based artflash.
The exhibition includes an essay from Mika Hannula. Curated by Nina Backman
The Silence Project likes to thank all supporters: The Norwegian Embassy in Berlin, Office for Contemporary Art Norway – OCA, Gallery i8 Reykjavik, The Icelandic Embassy in Berlin, Silkroad Art Gallery, The Finnish Embassy in Berlin.
PARTICIPATING SILENCE PROJECT ARTISTS
Nina Backman
The AINO series features photographs and films juxtaposing traditional symbols, anarchic attitudes, and nature. The female character Aino is from Finland’s national epic, the Kalevala.
Sigurður Guðmundsson
These self-portraits explore identity, isolation, and the self’s relationship to its environment. Blending self-representation through photography, video, and performance.
Lise Bjørne Linnert
Inspired by Man Ray’s famous technique, this series of ‘Breath Rayographs’ are created directly in the darkroom without a camera. The artist breathes and shoutsonto ash placed on light-sensitive paper, capturing the resultant traces through light. The 1:1 photographs also reveal physical traces of her body—hands, knees, and mouth—as dark contours where the ash’s movement was blocked.
René Holm
This Danish painter's Dark Series evokes Nordic noir with a moody palette, exploring the tension between structure and fluidity in dynamic compositions that challenge space and perception.
Jalal Sepher
Blending traditional Persian art with modern influences, this Iranian artist uses intricate patterns, bold colors, and symbolic imagery to create thought-provoking abstract and conceptual works.
Johan Zetterquist
Zetterquist’s ‘Study for a Monument’ depicts boundaries and limitations through a wall topped with sharply broken glass bottles.
Topi Ruotsalainen
With artworks that explore the structures and hierarchies shaping human relationships.
ARTFLASH: LIMITED EDITION PRINTS
Marina Abramović
Self-Portraits exploring of identity and vulnerability.
John Baldessari
The ’Pool Images’ series blends photography and conceptual art, prompting viewers to reconsider the relationships between image, context, and interpretation.
John Cage
Text works combine language, chance, and philosophy, challenging traditional notions of meaning and communication while exploring the spaces between words and their interpretation.
Meret Oppenheim
Das Ohr von Giacometti (1936) is a surrealist sculpture featuring a distorted ear. Named after sculptor Alberto Giacometti, it challenges traditional views of anatomy, reflecting Oppenheim's exploration of the human body and perception in a surrealist context.
Chiharu Shiota
Intricate, interconnected lines, explore space, breath, and human connections.
