What's love got to do, got to do with it? What's love but a sweet old-fashioned notion?*
(English see below)
Inspiriert durch die schicksalhafte Beziehung der griechischen Göttin Athena und der Kriegerin Pallas, verwandelt Samantha Bohatsch den Projektraum flamingo für seine zweite Ausstellung in einen Raum bühnenhafter (Re-)Inszenierung. Ihre multimediale Installation lässt sie durch malerische, skulpturale, räumliche und performative Eingriffen entstehen. Hier treffen eigene und gefundene, subjektive und kollektive sowie zeitgenößische und historische Narrationen zusammen, deren Erzählstränge Bohatsch zwischen Verschmelzung und Eigenständigkeit oszillieren lässt. So wird nicht nur die Authentizität jener mythologischen Sage und ihre Überlieferung einer zeitgemäßen Überprüfung und Fortschreibung unterzogen, sondern insbesondere eine abstrakte Projektionsfläche geschaffen. Die Ausstellung “Pallas” kreiert damit einen offenen Kontext, in welchem diversen Identitäten ein Raum für Identifikation zugesprochen wird und in welchem nicht nur opposites attract*.
Samantha Bohatsch (*1984, Berlin) lebt und arbeitet in Berlin. Als Meisterschülerin absolvierte sie ihr Studium der freien Kunst in der Klasse von Prof. Silvia Bächlis an der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe. Außerdem studierte sie in Wien bei Prof. Heimo Zobernig und in Berlin bei Prof. Else Gabriel und Michaela Meise. Bohatsch’s Arbeiten wurden in Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen unter anderem im CAN, Neuchâtel (CH), in der Bob's Pogo Bar/ KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin (D), dem Forum Stadtpark, Graz (AT) und dem Kunstverein Reutlingen (D) gezeigt. Samantha Bohatsch wurde mit Künstlerstipendien des Landes Baden-Württemberg (D), der Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg (D) und der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes ausgezeichnet.
*Whats love got to do with it, Tina Turner, 1984.
What's love got to do, got to do with it? What's love but a sweet old-fashioned notion?*
Inspired by the fateful relationship between the Greek goddess Athena and the warrioress Pallas, Samantha Bohatsch transforms the flamingo project space–for its second solo exhibition–into a scene of stage-like (re-)enactment. Through painterly, sculptural, spatial, and performative interventions, she creates a multimedia installation, which balances different temporalities. Personal and found, subjective and collective as well as contemporary and historical narratives come together, whose threads oscillate between fusion and independence. Her installation not only reviews and questions the authenticity of the mythological saga and its heritage, but also arouses an abstract projection surface. The exhibition "Pallas" thus creates an open context in which diverse identities are assigned a space for identification and in which not only opposites attract*.
Samantha Bohatsch (*1984) lives and works in Berlin. As Meisterschülerin, she graduated from the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe in the class of Prof. Silvia Bächlis. Next to this, Bohatsch studied in Vienna with Prof. Heimo Zobernig and in Berlin with Prof. Else Gabriel and Michaela Meise. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at institutions including CAN, Neuchâtel (CH); Bob's Pogo Bar/ KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin; Forum Stadtpark, Graz (AT) and Kunstverein Reutlingen (D). Samantha Bohatsch has been honoured with artist fellowships by the Federal State Baden-Württemberg (D), the Arts Foundation Baden-Württemberg (D) and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (D).
*Whats love got to do with it, Tina Turner, 1984.
(Hendrike Nagel)
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