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Indepth Arts News:
"Moving Cities: Australian Artists in Berlin 2000"
2000-09-15 until 2000-09-29
Australian Embassy, Berlin
Berlin, ,
DE Germany
The Australian Embassy, Berlin, Germany in conjunction with the Australia Centre, University of Potsdam, is proud to host an important exhibition of contemporary Australian artists. Moving Cities: Australian Artists in Berlin 2000, curated by Dr Brigitta Olubas and Alison Kubler, features the work of four contemporary Australian artists, Ian Howard, Jay Younger, Donna Marcus and Milan Milojevic, and will be on display in the foyer of the Philip Johnson Building, which houses the Australian Embassy in Berlin, Germany from September 15 - 29, 2000.
The exhibition brings together the work of four significant Australian artists working in diverse media - video, sculptural installation, lithographs and multi media, to raise questions of the specific exchanges and displacements of modern urban and global realities.
Jay Younger's video work explores individual paranoia through the eyes of two women, one in Germany and one in Australia, while Milan Milojevic's prints construct a dialogue about migration and the construction of identity. Donna Marcus's sculptural works infuse the ordinary with the aesthetics of high modernism, in contrast to Ian Howard's computer prints, which develop his work on public and military sites and installations.
The staging of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney provides a starting point for imagining possible relationships between different cultures in the modern world, in terms of media connections, cultural and commodity exchanges, political
relationships and travel. In this context, Moving Cities offers a new dialogue about cultural difference through the work of four contemporary artists.
Moving Cities will be officially opened on September 15 to coincide with the official opening ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney Australia. The exhibition will then travel to Singapore where it will be seen in January 2001 at 'The Art Gallery', Division of Visual and Performing Arts, National Institute of Technology, Nanyang Technological University.
The exhibition Moving Cities: Australian Artists in Berlin 2000 was developed as a project of the Australia Centre, University of Potsdam, with generous assistance from the following institutions: The Australian Embassy, Berlin; The College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales; The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales; Griffith University, and Liveworm Studios, Brisbane.
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