'ohrenhoch - the Noise Shop' presents
on Sunday 15 and 22 January 2012, 2pm - 9pm
Heimatklänge I/II
Installation (2012)by Christiane Prehn and Wolfgang Meyer (KG Augenstern)
A work conceived and composed specially for 'ohrenhoch' - by two artists living on a boat, and dealing with sound and sculpture.
"When we boarded the boat of Christiane Prehn and Wolfgang Meyer on a wet, hazy day, i soon realised that the way of perception, for example the distant view and the difference between water and land, offer a different perspective and point of view. In other words: later in the dusk i noticed that diagonally opposite, quasi in visibility, the Allianz building as a navigation mark shows off like a lighthouse. Oddly enough, an observation that would never have catched my eye on shore or on a road so massively, and not with favour either..."
Knut Remond - ohrenhoch
Heimatklänge I - in the ohrenhoch shopwindow space
(Installation, 130x130x230cm, wood, plexiglass, glass, loudspeakers, 4 mp3 players)
In the east of Berlin, on the waterfront of the Spree, there is the tower building of the Allianz insurance. In the course of the day the appearance of the facade is changing permanently through the opening and closing of the blinds or the turning on an off of the illumination in the different rooms.The work takes on the aforementioned changes on 09/12/2011, and translates them into colours and sounds. It shows a mosaic of coloured glass stones on each of the four sides.Each of these mosaic surfaces is divided in 24 fields referring to the condition of the building on the 24 full hours of the day.A tower-like, partially closed sculpture was produced, and can be entered by the visitors.The coulour patterns of the mosaic, like a score, are converted into electronically generated sounds. The 24 hours are condensed to 240 seconds in the composition. The viewer hears the sounds when entering the installation.
Heimatklänge II - in the ohrenhoch basement
(Installation, 4 wooden plates, wax, 4 vibrators)
From the boat: at night in the water of the Spree the lettering of the Allianz tower building is reflected.
Die Künstlergruppe Augenstern wohnt und arbeitet auf einem Schiff.
Christiane Prehn (Dipl. Art)
Bildende Künstlerin, Bildhauerin, Filmregie
Zahlreiche Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen und Preise im In- und Ausland z.B.:Thessaloniki Biennale 2008, New York Fruit and Flower Galerie 2008, Museum of ModernArt Den Haag 2009, Glasmuseum Amsterdam 2009, Akademiepreise der staatlichenAkademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart 2005, 2006 und 2008
Wolfgang Meyer
Experimenteller Musiker, Klangkünstler, Videos
z.B.: sound performance „the boat sounds“ aufgeführt u.A. in Berlin, Amsterdam,Thessaloniki und bei der Art Biennale Istanbul (2009/2010)
KG Augenstern
„Unbehaust“ Film und Klangperformance, Aufführungen in Berlin, Donaueschingen,Villingen usw. (2011)„Vermächtnis“ Installation, Bambutopia, Nähe Freiburg (2011)„Paradise Lost“, Installation, Pushkinskaya 10, St. Petersburg, Russland (2011)„das Lied der Brücken“, Installation, staatliches Museum für Skulptur, St. Petersburg,Russland (2011)