Tina Kohlmann: "Go make thyself like a nymph o’ th’ sea."
"Go make thyself like a nymph o’ th’ sea." (Shakespeare – Der Sturm)
Tina Kohlmann's installation invites its visitors to a transformation. Water creatures, oscillating in form and appearance between monstrosity and magical beauty, greet their audience. They perform a dance on a seemingly dissolving surface, while the boundary between inside and outside becomes completely blurred.
The artist's work takes us into another world. By playing with light reflections and color, the changing sunlight constantly creates new images and impressions. Shimmering colors and moving surfaces create an immersive experience. This is how the mermaids lure us into their spheres.
In line with the philosophy of the donumenta ART LAB on the Move, Tina Kohlmann encourages viewers to reflect on the visible and invisible aspects of a city. Through the mirroring, water-like reflections, the viewers themselves become part of the installation and can experience the changeability of their own identity. This creates a constant dialog between the artwork, the city and the audience.
The Curators:
- Antonie Angerer was born in Regensburg and is a curator and researcher. She is currently working on a BMBF-funded project entitled “Social Worlds: China's Cities as Spaces of Worldmaking” at the University of Würzburg. In 2014, she founded the independent art and research platform I: project space in Beijing for art-based research, international exchange and exhibitions and managed the institution until 2023. Angerer has curated exhibitions and given lectures internationally, including at documenta fifteen, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Artspace Sydney and the CAFAM (China Academy of Fine Arts Museum) Beijing. Today, Angerer works as a freelance curator in Germany and is doing her doctorate at the Free University of Berlin on the imagination of a city of the future.
Link to Antonie Angerer (Instagram)
- Anna-Viktoria Eschbach has worked as a curator and author on projects for documenta fifteen, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Artspace Sydney, CAFAM (China Academy of Fine Arts Museum) Beijing and the Ludwig Museum in Budapest. From 2014 to 2020, she established the curatorial office and residency program of I: project space in Beijing. Her thematic focus was on urbanization, gender concepts in the Asia-Pacific region, independent art spaces, new media and digital art. Until 2022, she worked on the multi-year curatorial research project “Beijing22”, which documented urban change in the greater Beijing area. As a member of the Swiss-Chinese publishing house tria, Anna-Maria Eschbach has published numerous books on art, theory, urban development and China. Eschbach is doing her doctorate on museums and soft power politics in China at the University of Art and Design Linz.
Installation - Day and Night
