Eun-Joo Shin ›Lebensverläufe‹

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»What is actually foreign about the foreign, what is familiar despite strangeness, and where do the differences between cultures blur?« These questions of Christian Kaufmann (Evangelische Stadtakademie Frankfurt) hit the core of the work of the artist Eun-Joo Shin. Combining Korean painting with German design elements, she plays with the cultures and the expectations placed upon them.

Eun-Joo Shin was born in South Korea in 1968. After studying art in Seoul, she graduated in 2004 with a degree in free graphic art at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. She was awarded a scholarship from the Verein für internationale Kulturaustausch - Künstlerwege e. V. in Stuttgart and the 'Artist-in-Residence-Stipendium' of the city of Frankfurt for Salzburg.

Opening hours:
22 January until 24 April 2015
Mon-Thu 9am - 4pm 
| Fri 9am - 1pm 
Admission free

The exhibition is organized in cooperation with the Essenheimer Kunstverein e. V. Link to the artist's website.

Picture: Eun-Joo (self-portrait), three-coloured linocut, 2011.

 

Maarten Schaubroeck: ›GORILLAS‹

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From 20 February to 30 June 2015, some of the works of the Belgian artist Maarten Schaubroeck will be on display in the garden and foyer of the Academy. The metal gorilla family is part of Schaubroeck's exhibition IRON HUMAN UNFOLD, which was shown last year in Antwerp.

Maarten Schaubroeck uses metal as a language and means of expression in his works, preferring to play with contrasts offered by the urban environment and nature. His impressive works, most of which are larger-than-life in appearance, often appear powerful and gentle at the same time, moving between artistic sophistication and the heaviness of metal. 

Schaubroeck (*1980) comes from Roeselare in Belgium. He is represented by ZINNT in Antwerp.

Opening hours:
since 20 February 2015
Mon-Thu 9am - 4pm 
| Fri 9am -1pm

Admission free

 

Mila Burghardt: ›Weitermachen.‹

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From 6 May to 26 June 2015, the exhibition ›Weitermachen.‹ by media artist Mila Burghardt can be seen at the Akademie. In the exhibition ›Weitermachen.‹ video works and ›Stills‹ are on display, as well as collages of sound, animation, text and live action.  

In her works Burghardt deals with themes of power, society and the individual. Despite her seriousness, she does not stop at irony, which makes her works particularly exciting.

Burghardt (*1985) studied media art at the Bauhaus University Weimar. There she graduated in 2012 with the performance 'Failure is not an option. In 2014 she was awarded a graduate scholarship from the Bauhaus University. Mila Burghardt is represented in the Goethe Institute's edition ›New Video Art from Germany‹, her work enjoys international recognition. This year, the performances ›Tödliche Frauen‹ and ›Je je je was passiert, passiert was.‹ will be premiered in Dresden/Leipzig and Frankfurt/Berlin.

For further information about the artist, please visit her website: www.milaburghardt.de

Opening hours:
6 May until 26 June 2015
Mon-Thu 9am - 4pm 
| Fri 9am - 1pm
Admission free

 

Ausstellung zur Geschichte des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom

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Together with the German Historical Institute in Rome and the Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz e.V., the Academy is presenting an exhibition on the history of the Institute in Rome. The time since the foundation of the Institute as a ›Royal Prussian Historical Station‹ until the year 2013 is presented, in which the Institute celebrated its 125th birthday with this exhibition.

Recently, the DHI in Rome carried out an extensive edition project with the Academy of Sciences and Literature. In 2010, Dr. Eberhard J. Nikitsch was granted leave from the 'Die Deutsche Inschriften' office to work on and edit the inscriptions of the German National Church of Santa Maria dell'Anima on site for almost three years. The corpus now available offers the first insight into the formerly large collection of funerary monuments, including the famous funerary monument for Pope Hadrian VI, who died in 1523. With the support of the Digital Academy, the first part of the edition (well over 120 inscriptions) is available online and has now also been printed.

Flyer for the exhibition.

Opening hours:
7 July until 13 November 2015
Mon-Thu 9am - 4pm 
| Fri 9am - 1pm
Admission free

Picture: Claudio Cassaro. The present site of the Institute in Rome, Via Aurelia Antica.

 

›Bilder der Solidarität‹

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On the occasion of the 25th annual conference of the Anna Seghers Society Berlin and Mainz e.V. ›Spain in the Heart‹, which is dedicated to the connection between Anna Seghers and the Spanish Civil War, the exhibition ›Images of Solidarity‹ shows about 50 photos taken by fellow combatants of the writer Alfred Kantorowicz in the 13th International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. There are also a few photographs taken by the exile photographer Gerda Taro during the Civil War in 1936/37 and at the International Writers' Congress in Madrid. The exhibition is open until 22 January 2016.

Opening hours:

21 November 2015 until 22 January 2016

Mon-Thu 9am - 4pm | Fri 9am - 1pm

Admission free