A group exhibition of artists working in Ireland and Germany
Curated by Anya von Gosseln and Jurgen Grölle
24th June - 16th August 2019
We kindly invite you to our three venue exhibition at Wexford County Council, Wexford Arts Centre and Kamera 8! And I am especially glad that my film STEADY SMILE MOVE is going to be screened at Kamera 8 in Wexford.
Opening reception and performance by Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence at 5 pm on Friday 21st June at Wexford County Council, Carricklawn, Wexford
Guest Speaker: Olivia Hausen,Head of PR, German-Irish Chamber of Industry
All welcome, food and refreshments served. Followed by wine receptions in Wexford Arts Centre and Kamera 8 at 7pm.
The Arts Department of Wexford County Council in partnership with Wexford Arts Centre and Kamera 8 are delighted to host an exhibition of artists working in Ireland and Germany. HERE/there features the works of Pablo de Lillo, Bert Didillon, Fergus Doyle, Chris Dreier, Gary Farrelly, Wolfgang Flad, Isabel Kerkermeier, Anthony Lyttle, Stephen Nolan, Helen O’Leary, Patrick Redmond, Friederike Ruff, Klaus-Martin Treder, Mary Ruth Walsh, and Julia Zinnbauer. Running between the three venues, the exhibition links with Galerie GROELLE Pass Projects, Wuppertal and showcases work exploring the historical significance of the two regions.
HERE/there explores and reinforces the cultural exchange that has existed between the Rhineland and South East Ireland throughout our shared history. Germanic influences are recognizable in the abstracted animal forms that proliferate in Insular art, notably in the Irish metalwork, illustrated Gospel books and manuscripts of the Early Christian period. It is thought that scribes from Carlow created the famous Echternach Gospel as its insular style suggests connections. The influence, however, very quickly spread in reverse as Irish Benedictine monks established schottenklosters in Wurzburg and Regensburg and other towns in southern Germany. And the Germans returned the compliment; Benedictines from Regensburg came fundraising to Cashel. By the 12th Century invasions and colonisation gave the Irish other things to think about and those close connections gradually filtered out.
HERE/there explores and reinforces the cultural exchange that has existed between the Rhineland and South East Ireland throughout our shared history. Germanic influences are recognizable in the abstracted animal forms that proliferate in Insular art, notably in the Irish metalwork, illustrated Gospel books and manuscripts of the Early Christian period. It is thought that scribes from Carlow created the famous Echternach Gospel as its insular style suggests connections. The influence, however, very quickly spread in reverse as Irish Benedictine monks established schottenklosters in Wurzburg and Regensburg and other towns in southern Germany. And the Germans returned the compliment; Benedictines from Regensburg came fundraising to Cashel. By the 12th Century invasions and colonisation gave the Irish other things to think about and those close connections gradually filtered out.