l'art de Franziska Michaelis: Exhibitions

29 März 2011

Outside Gallery Part II - La Barceloneta

With this outside installation I want to establish and interaction between the viewer and the artpiece. In this case visitors are not actual entering a gallery by free choice, they just happen to be taken into my gallery in this very moment they discover the collages on the wall. Ultimately they make the choice of taking them with them if they like it and hence I have created another space for the collages (most likely in their livingrooms). I like the idea to have my artworks travelling into spaces which I do not have control of.

Collages - mixed material, foamboard, acrylic,
fineliner, marker, magazines, clue - 21x29 cm

Outside Gallery Part I - Galería Gótico

A specific district in Barcelona - Barrio Gotico - choosen to be my gallery space. In my first solo show at this very new opened gallery I am showing 10 monuments of 10 different cities in Germany. The guys who run that place just told me to bring a hammer and nails, also doublesided tape, as they weren´t sure if some of the walls are too hard. I had to hang it myself, but hey, it all adds up to my personal experience. The visitors had been a little shy, they gave me curious looks or looked at something else (what a shame!). Sorry you couldn´t make it to the inauguration, it was a bit short of notice. After all it felt really good to have my exhibition hanging, allowing this exchange with tourists visiting Barcelona, but all of the sudden finding themselves visiting a part of Germany. As my exhibition is time limited, visitors are very welcome to take a tiny bit of Germany with them... and they did, as I found out, because today I went back to my Gallery to check if everything is still in place, not a single art piece was left.......................................well, maybe the wind liked it too.