Aufbruch

Reisa is an ancient German word that means journey, departure, and, at the same time, the path one travels. And travel, dreams and nostalgia are the themes of the first exhibition curated by the 39NULL collective at the Casa Atelier of Museion.
The past as a possibility for learning the present is the thread that unites the works of Lucie Marsman and the Grawböckler collective (Ursula Böckler and Georg Graw).
If Lucie Marsmann’s photographs are inspired by a trip to Merano in which she projects memories of her grandparents, Brazil is the backdrop for the images and video installation “Magical Misery Tour” by Grawböckler. The works in fact retrace a journey that Ursula Böcker experienced as assistant to the artist Martin Kippenberger. In From Above so Below by Kirsten Luce, the situation in the Rio Grande valley in Mexico is reported, the largest corridor for drug and human trafficking in the USA. Her work is an open project, which captures the difficulties and risks of this political drama.

Also part of the exhibition is the intervention of pop singer Molly Nilsson, who will perform for the first time in South Tyrol for the inauguration. Her suspended music evokes journeys of the soul, between dream and reflection.

Artists on display: Lucie Marsmann, Grawböckler, Kirsten Luce

Lucie Marsmann was born in Wuppertal, Germany in 1982, lives in Bielefeld. In 2010 she graduated from FH Bielefeld and then continued her master’s degree in Photography and Media until 2015. Her works have been exhibited at the BredaPhoto Festival (Holland, 2016), HANSEartWORKS (Norway, 2016), Artists Unlimited (Bielefeld, 2015) and at the Galeriefest in Kassel (2014). In 2016 she was nominated among the finalists of the Photobook Festival DUMMY AWARD (Kassel / Beijing). Her works have been published by Missy Magazine, Die ZEIT, Temp Magazin, emotion.

Ursula Böckler (1965) and Georg Graw (1966) form an artistic collective called Graw Böckler in Berlin. In their production they deal with cinema, video production and photography with numerous participations in exhibitions and festivals in the country and abroad. With their video projects Graw Böckler reinterpret popular media formats such as those used in advertising, video clips and interviews. Graw Böckler as curators directed the art space „Raum für Projektion“ in Berlin for many years. In 2012/13 they created the festival „After the Crisis“.

Kirsten Luce is an American photojournalist based in Brooklyn, New York. She spends a lot of time in Texas and Mexico documenting events along the border. Her works have been published by GEO France, Der Spiegel and The Washington Post, New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic. Her works have been exhibited at the Umbria World Fest in 2015, at the Abovegroup Ogilvy Gallery (Trinidad), and at the Weslaco Museum in Welasco. Kirsten is a professor of photojournalism at Columbia University.

39NULL
Born as a trilingual magazine, 39NULL defines itself as a platform to talk about cultural life in South Tyrol and beyond its borders. In 2017 the collective will curate a further exhibition event entitled “Aufbruch – Reaching blurred boundaries” at the atelier house (opening 24/08, 19h).