Here We by Dorothee Kreutzfeldt | Exhibition Catalogue

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DOROTHEE KREUTZFELDT

HERE WE

13.02 - 02.04. 2016

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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION HERE WE* opened on 13 March with the video and sound projection of ‘At the End of August’**, a collaboration with pianist Jill Richards and video-artist Jurgen Meekel. The video is based on footage filmed with artist Simon Gush at August House in 2014, and on-site recordings by Richards.

The exhibition includes an ongoing re-configuration of the gallery spaces in the form of paintings, installations, walks and incidental events.

In the process ROOM will become partly inhabited as a studio, with the aim of inviting collaborations and interruptions.

HERE WE is approached as a series of propositions or situations, a way to try and figure how to view, think, and engage with a particular situation or context, with temporality, and the idea of collectivity. Visual recordings of the area surrounding Ellis House, paintings, and other objects will enter and exit as part of the set up within the exhibition space.

Installation View, At the End of August, Video and sound projection (11min), Ellis House courtyard.

Collaboration with Jill Richards and Jurgen Meekel. Footage by Simon Gush. Mechanical rig by Trent Wiggle.

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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION (cont.)

At Ellis House two security guards are stationed during the day, one at night. The entrances of the building next door are bricked up.

J.D. Ellis was a city councillor who ‘made available 13 acres of land for Ellis Park stadium’ in 1928. The stadium is now named Emirates Airline Park and hosts the Golden Lions Rugby Union. Trees planted in the area in 2010 include ‘fever trees, river bushwillows, yellow woods and monkey thorns’ – you will find a few palms. There are weekly prayer meetings at the Eglise Trone de la Grace, one of the churches on Voorhout St. In the courtyard of Mitre Veneering up the road, a table lies on its side. Uncertain how many people live here. The spaces we inhabit may feel less complicated on a Sunday. 'seeking a tree that I can settle on' ('On Distances', W.M. Serote) * The title ‘HERE WE’ is quoted off the back of a jacket bought at a clothing store in China Mall, Crown Mines (R 250) ** ‘At the End of August’ was an event staged with artists at August House on End Street in Doornfontein, 2014, sometime after the building had been sold and tenants were asked to move. The building was planned to be turned into residential housing units but this was never realized. Artists and tenants moved again into the building in the same year, forming new collectives. Video and sound material of the vacant studios collected in between these moves trace a brief moment or imagined pause in the life of the building. It includes footage of the Millenium Bar, a collaborative project by Bettina Malcomess.

With thanks to Jill Richards, Jurgen Meekel, Simon Gush, Winston Buthelezi, Gontse More, Marie Fricout, Eugene Botha, Nontobeko Ntombela, Francis Burger, Kadiatou Diallo, Joanne Bloch, Tshepang Ramoba, Joao Orrecchia, Trent Wiggle, Andrew Wessels, Mingwei Huang, WITS School of Arts, and the Millennium Bar. PROGRAMME OF EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE EXHIBITION: Sunday, 28 February 2016: Artist Walkabout Sunday, 20 March 2016: Walk in Ellis Park and New Doornfontein Saturday, 2 April, 6pm: Closing Event

Image: Installation View (Detail), Ellis House Courtyard Roof, Drawing on Gallery window. Photo Courtesy of D.Kreutzfeldt

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Left: Exterior Installation View of HERE WE by Dorothee Kreutzfeldt at ROOM Right: Exterior Installation View of HERE WE by Dorothee Kreutzfeldt. Untitled (incomplete), Acrylic and mixed media on supawood, 2016 Photos Courtesy of the Artist & Gontse More

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Exterior Installation View Ellis House Courtyard Roof, Drawing on Gallery window, Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, 2016 Exterior Installation View “On the Other Side of the Street” intervention by Nyakallo Maleke, 2016 part of HERE WE by Dorothee Kreutzfeldt Photos Courtesy of Mpho Mokgadi

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Interior Installation View of HERE WE by Dorothee Kreutzfeldt at ROOM Photo by Andrew Wessels

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Interior Installation Views (Detail) of HERE WE by Dorothee Kreutzfeldt at ROOM Photos Courtesy of the Artist and Gontse More

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Dorothee Kreutzfeldt Palm Leaves 2016 Acrylic and mixed media on canvas

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Dorothee Kreutzfeldt Table 2016 Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 60 x 50 cm

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Interior Installation Views (Detail) of HERE WE by Dorothee Kreutzfeldt at ROOM Photos Courtesy of Gontse More

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Dorothee Kreutzfeldt Untitled 2016 Acrylic and mixed media on canvas

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Dorothee Kreutzfeldt Untitled 2016 Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 80 x 120 cm

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Interior Installation Views (Detail) of HERE WE by Dorothee Kreutzfeldt at ROOM Photo by M[pho Mokgadi

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Dorothee Kreutzfeldt Tree 2016 Silkscreen on cartridge paper Edition of 22

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Exterior Installation Views of HERE WE by Dorothee Kreutzfeldt at ROOM Photo by M[pho Mokgadi & Andrew Wessels

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Dorothee Kreutzfeldt At the end of August 2016 Video and sound projection 11min Collaboration with Jill Richards and Jurgen Meekel.

Footage by Simon Gush Edition of 5

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ABOUT THE ARTIST & HER COLLABORATORS Dorothee Kreutzfeldt (b1970, Windhoek) lives and works in Johannesburg where she lectures at the Wits School of Arts. Her practice involves painting and collaborations. Her last solo shows include ‘At Present,’ (2015) and ‘The imminent Inauguration of the 5th Corner’ (2010) at Blank Projects in Cape Town. In 2013, Kreutzfeldt published ‘Not No Place. Johannesburg – Fragments of Spaces and Times’ in collaboration with Bettina Malcomess, a five-year book project that extended into workshops, conferences, presentations and exhibitions at La Maison Rouge, Paris, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden, and Goethe on Main, Johannesburg. She has participated in group exhibitions and residences, both nationally and internationally since 1996. Her work is represented in private and public collections, including the South African National Gallery and Johannesburg Art Gallery.

Jill Richards is a South African pianist specialising in new music. Versatile and dynamic, her interests range from Bach to free improvisation. Her career includes collaborations with numerous composers from around the world. She has a longstanding working relationship with Kevin Volans who has written many solo works as well as piano duos for her. These she has performed with the composer as partner. Jill has worked with Jörg Schäffer, François Sarhan, Rudiger Meyer, Clare Loveday, and many others. She has also toured with live music performances to William Kentridge's films. Jill has performed and been broadcast in the UK, Europe, North America and Australasia. Among these were the BBC broadcasts of the premières of solo and duo works of Kevin Volans. She has released six CD's, including "Cicada" of Volans. Her recent CD, together with violinist Waldo Alexander, of chamber works by Kevin Volans, was released in Dublin in late 2015.

Jill has performed with renowned Spanish composer and sound artist Francisco Lopez. She also collaborates as improviser with composer-drummer Christophe Fellay, sound artist João Orecchia, artist and composer Charlotte Hug, Joke Lanz of Sudden Infant and visual artist Marcus Neustetter.

Jurgen Meekel (b1963, Amsterdam) living in Johannesburg, 2005 - present.

Cum laude graduate from the Rietveld Academy of Fine-Arts in audio-visual-art and sculpture in Amsterdam (1989). After his study he worked nationally and internationally on contemporary art installation pieces, sculpture and video work in various autonome and applied arts field. From 1996 till present date he focused on motion-graphic design, camera and sound work, compositing, visual effects, editing and scoring for video productions. He took the position of Head of Department Special/Visual Effects at the AFDA film school in Johannesburg from 2005-2009. Currently lecturing Post Production at Wits Film &TV and continues producing, collaborating and exhibiting work in the field of the arts. Some of Jurgen’s accomplishments include: Sound-recording and Graphics for documentary "Starkiss" in Hyderabad, India for Wilderell film which received a nomination (2002) at the Gouden Kalf Filmfestival (Dutch Oscars) for best long documentary.

Sound engineering and Graphics for documentary Dabbah Wallah's (Bombay) for VPRO which received publics choice at the IDFA (1999). Sound-engineering for 'Punt NL' (short observations in Holland), VPRO National TV broadcast won best short film at the Venice film festival (2000). Video workflow engineer, graphics and visual effects in worlds first cell-phone feature film ‘SMS Sugarman (2005).

ROOM GALLERY & PROJECTS Ellis House, 23 Voorhout Street (cnr 4th Street) New Doornfontein Johannesburg 2094

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ABOUT THE ARTIST & HER COLLABORATORS (cont.)

Simon Gush (born 1981) lives and works in Johannesburg. He was a 2011 Fellow at the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts, University of Cape Town, and completed postgraduate studies at the Hoger Instituut van Schone Kunsten in Ghent, Belgium, in 2008. Solo shows include 9 o'clock, at the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown (curated by Lerato Bereng), and Red Assembly, at the African Critical Inquiry Programme Workshop 2015, East London; After Work at Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin (2015); Red at the Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg (2014); 1st and 3rd at Galerie West, The Hague, and 4 for Four at S.M.A.K., Ghent (both 2010), in addition to five previous exhibitions at Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg. Group shows include Artists Engaged? Maybe at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (2014); the 2nd Montevideo Biennial, Uruguay (2014); My Joburg at La Maison Rouge, Paris, and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden (2013); Halakasha at the Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg (2010); 1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2010) and the 2009 Luleå Summer Biennial, Sweden.

ROOM GALLERY & PROJECTS Ellis House, 23 Voorhout Street (cnr 4th Street) New Doornfontein Johannesburg 2094

South Africa

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CONTACT +27 (0)79 543 1573 Thato Mogotsi +27 (0)82 373 6127 Maria Fidel Regueros +27 (0)11 074 4944 (tel)

TUE - FRI 11h00 - 16h00 SATURDAY 10h00 - 15h00

roomforinfo@roomgallery.co.za www.roomgallery.co.za