Exhibition // On The Edge
We are delighted to announce the first Satellite Salon exhibition!
During the summer of 2015, Satellite Salon presented its first exhibition project, ON THE EDGE, at the stunning eighteenth century Tieranatomisches Theater at the Humboldt University, Berlin. We invited seven artists – all participants of our salon evenings – to produce new work in dialogue with objects from the university’s scientific collections. Our artists, Annie Cattrell, Simon Faithfull, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Lucy Powell, Andrea Roe, Nicole Schuck and Wolf von Kries, created exciting films, sculptures, installations and drawings in response to a diverse range of collections from the departments of Biology, Anatomy, Geography, Mathematics, Physics and Media which included models, maps, specimens, plants and the collection spaces themselves.
Following a highly successful opening night, our collaborators and previous salon evening guests, Jochen Hennig (Hermann von Helmholz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik at the university) and Felix Sattler (curator at the Tieranatomishches Theater) were instrumental in organising the exhibition symposium held on 17 June 2015. We thank our esteemed speakers: Prof. Dr Horst Bredekamp; Prof. Dr. Gerhard Scholtz; Prof. Dr Reggine Hengge; artists Nicole Schuck and Beat Brogle; Dr Petra Lange-Berndt; Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schäffner; Prof. Dr Anke te Heesen, and Anna-Sophie Springer.
Annie Cattrell, Back to Life, life-size sculpture, resin, thread, installation view (2015). Courtesy the artist. Photo: Thomas Bruns
Annie Cattrell, installation view. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Thomas Bruns
Annie Cattrell, From Within I, photogram on archival paper, 2003. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Peter Cattrell
Simon Faithfull, #1124 Pinus Contorta, digital drawing, laser etched glass (2015). © Simon Faithfull
Simon Faithfull, #1126 Syringa Reticulata, digital drawing, laser etched glass (2015). © Simon Faithfull
Simon Faithfull, installation view (2015). Courtesy the artist. Photo: Clémentine ‘L’Heryenat
Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Among Trees, Clones and Cultivars, installation view (2015). © Agnes Meyer-Brandis, VG Bildkunst
Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Among Trees, Clones and Cultivars, installation view (2015). © Agnes Meyer-Brandis, VG Bildkunst
Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Measuring Amanita Mushroom Emissions, SMEAR forest research station, Hyytiälä, FI (2014) © Agnes Meyer-Brandis, VG Bildkunst 2015
Lucy Powell, We Shall Now Discuss Love, single channel video installation, installation view, (2015). Photo: Thomas Bruns
Lucy Powell, We Shall Now Discuss Love, single channel video installation, still (2015). Courtesy the artist
Lucy Powell, We Shall Now Discuss Love, single channel video installation, still (2015). Courtesy the artist.
Andrea Roe, Knowing from the Inside, sterling silver etched cuff, 2015. Photo: © Andrea Roe
Andrea Roe, Human Creatureliness, gloves, ink, cutting mat, silkscreen, 2015. Photo: © Andrea Roe
Andrea Roe, Worm Formations, mixed media, installation view, 2015. Photo: © Andrea Roe
Nicole Schuck, Scheusslich schöne Wissenschaft, installation view. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Thomas Bruns
Nicole Schuck, Von Thieren auff der erde und in wasseren ir wonung habend, video 13 min. loop, (still); animation: Beat Brogle, 2015. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Felix Sattler
Nicole Schuck, Superorganismus, pencil on paper, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2015. Photo: © Nicole Schuck
Wolf von Kries, Steine ohne besonderen Wert (detail). Photo: © Wolf von Kries
Wolf von Kries, Der Raum der Dinge, single channel video installation (still), 2015. © Wolf von Kries
Wolf von Kries, Der Raum der Dinge, single channel video installation (still), 2015. © Wolf von Kries
The exhibition and symposium were made possible by the generosity of the Schering Stiftung, the Rudolf Augstein Stiftung, British Council Germany, Edinburgh University, De Montfort University, and the Hermann von Helmholz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik and Excellence Cluster ‘Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory’ at the Humboldt University. We wholeheartedly thank them as well as the custodians of the university collections who gave us their time and expertise.
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