ART CLUB BELLEVUE HALL
ADDRESS
Wilhelmstraße 32
65185 Wiesbaden
OPENING HOURS
Tue-Thu from 16–19 h
Fri-Sun from 11–17 h
ADMISSION
The Admisstion to the exhibition is free
WITH WORKS FROM
Boris Eldagsen Berlin
Dominik Gigler, Gräfelfing
Uschi Gross, Hohenahr
Dennis Henning, Hamburg
Pang Hai, Beijing
Tomasz Lazar, Warsaw
Bärbel Möllmann, Dusseldorf
The Bellevue Hall — former dining room of the Bellevue Spa Hotel — in Wilhelmstraße is a venue for contemporary art. Since 1993, the Association for the Promotion of Artistic Projects with Social Relevance has occupied the exhibition venue and organized the selection of guest artists.
What triggers fear? Boris Eldagsen and Tomasz Lazar ask with their work “Black Mirror,” aiming directly at the viewer’s subconscious. Fear is also a theme of Dominik Gigler’s series “not just one…”, which is dedicated to current crises and catastrophes, impassibilities and cruelties, including, for example, the nuclear disaster in Fukushima.
Uschi Groo’s competition entry “Mind The Gap” deals with continental drift, namely those 1.7 centimeters per year by which the American and Eurasian continental plates move away from each other. Even the ground on which we stand is not static and secure, says Groos, while Pang Hai reports on the uncertainties of life in China. His series is about a suicide, about loneliness in the city, about anonymity, alienation and disorder.
Dennis Henning makes surveillance, the dissolution of human existence in the digital transformation his theme, which also touches on Bärbel Möllmann’s work, which describes the coexistence of the digital and analog worlds. “The future is not an extension of the present” is the name of the exhibited group of works created with the camera obscura.