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Magdalena Los

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Magdalena Los (*1987) was born in Poland and grew up in Bremen. She completed her Master of Fine Arts at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg.

Los’ digitally collaged visual worlds emerge from a painting and conceptual practice. In them, everyday views collide with private screenshots or references to popular film scenes, works of art and current news from various departments. The alternately surreal, comic-like or naturalistic motifs repeatedly revolve around the relationship between work, time and value, with humour and seriousness always in balance. The often female figures in Los’ imaginary spaces oscillate between desire and powerlessness, illuminating the specific area between the two questions: What do I want? and What can I do?

She is currently preparing the exhibition Lucid Dreams at the artothek in Cologne (2022) and last exhibited at Bonner Kunstverein (2021). Her work has been exhibited at PiK, Cologne; Klosterruine, Berlin; Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg (all 2020) and Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (2019), among others. She has been awarded the Friedrich Vordemberge Scholarship of the City of Cologne (2021) and the Peter Mertes Scholarship (2020). Magdalena Los lives and works in Cologne.

Hamminkeln

The Grand Snail Tour will be accompanied by literary, photographic and illustrative artists, who will collect impressions and reflections from the same city at the same time as the Trailer is there and put them into visual or literary form. The result is a paratext on the three-year tour, a travel chronicle in the form of a kaleidoscope of stories, connections and snapshots in the 53 cities of the region, revealing the simultaneities and non-simultaneities of the Grand Snail Tour.

Hamminkeln by Erdem Teper

so müssen wohl die bäume über die menschen denken, 
der mensch ist ewig damit beschäftigt 
versteht, dass alles und jeder irgendwo
eins ist 
versteht, dass alles –  liebt und lacht und lebt in frieden existiert; stoa
versteht, dass es ist – ebenbild 
wenn mensch findet sich selbst 
vor uralten baumrinden 
ein wesen schaut das andere an, 
am ende haben beide einander
und somit sich selbst erkannt 
beide aus gerüst, beide aus haut 
nur dass der baum im wald sich zutraut
zurecht, dass er den menschen überlebt; 
während die zeit bereits 
das leichentuch des menschen webt 
und der baum schaut den menschen an, 
beide aus haut, rinde und knochen 
nur hat der neue mensch 
seine beziehung zur natur unterbrochen

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Erdem Teper

Erdem Teper writes about everything that makes Erdem feel. Themes in his poetry are often taken from philosophical and religious contexts.

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