HOUSE 2013: Art and Domestic Space
Exhibition dates: Sat 4 – Sun 26 May 2013
Various locations across Brighton & Hove
Opening times: Thu – Sun, 12 noon – 6pm
HOUSE 2013 presents a newly commissioned work by internationally respected Lead Artist Mariele Neudecker, exploring the theme of Artand Domestic Space.
Born in Germany, Neudecker now lives and works in Bristol. Her
practice is concerned with the formation and historical dissemination
of cultural constructs around the natural world. Her work uses a broad
range of media including sculpture, installation, film and photography.
HOUSE 2013 also features an exhibition of Neudecker’s related works
and four satellite commissions from emerging regional artists to be
presented across Brighton and Hove during the May festival period.
Neudecker’s new work, co-commissioned with Brighton Festival,
Images l-r: Hunting Trip, photo Mariele Neudecker; View of iceberg from boat;
Film still Deep-Sea Alex Rogers team University of Oxford; Iceberg, Michael Habes.
Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes will be situated at
Hove’s Regency Town House – a grade 1 listed terraced House
undergoing major restoration.
Mariele Neudecker’s visionary installation transforms The RegencyTown House into a container of landscapes. This major newcommission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapesbecomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vastpanoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight.As the installation progresses through The Regency Town House, wetravel with it from the dark emptiness of deep sea space in thebasement to sun-filled images on the first floor. And in the process,the outside is brought inside, both physically and metaphorically.
Further details of all four satellite artist commissions will be
announced on 28 February 2013.
Supported by Arts Council England and Brighton & Hove City Council.
Festival Partners for HOUSE 2013 are Brighton Festival, Photoworks,
The Regency Town House, University of Brighton, and Lighthouse.
HOUSE 2013 sponsors include Allied Irish, pdt solicitors, Visit
Brighton, Moshi Moshi, The Old Market, Cogapp, Victor Boorman & Co.
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Notes to Editors:
HOUSE
HOUSE was conceived in 2008, by Festival Directors Judy Stevens and
Chris Lord to introduce a curated, contemporary and dynamic visual
arts strand to complement the annual Brighton Festival season.
Originating as a partner event to the Artists Open Houses, HOUSE
provides a unique annual showcase and commissioning opportunity
for the work of critically engaged regional artists, curators and an
internationally regarded Lead Artist.
HOUSE is a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity.
HOUSE receives grants for the arts funding from Arts Council England
and is supported by Brighton & Hove City Council and Brighton Festival
is visual arts commissioning partner since 2012.
Contact Info:
Lead Artist 2013: Mariele Neudecker
1965 born Düsseldorf, Germany
2001- lives and works in Bristol (UK)
Born in 1965 in Düsseldorf, Germany, Mariele Neudecker
( lives and works in Bristol, UK.
Neudecker’s practice encompasses a broad range of media including
sculpture, installation, film and photography. Her practice investigates
the formation and historical dissemination of cultural constructs
around the natural world, focusing particularly on landscape
representations within the Northern European Romantic tradition and
today’s notions of the Sublime. Central to the work is the human
interest and relationship to landscape and its images used
metaphorically for human psychology.
Mariele Neudecker has shown widely internationally, notably in
Biennales in Japan, Australia and Singapore, also solo shows in Ikon
Gallery, Tate St Ives and Tate Britain and most recently at the
Kunstmuseum Trongheim, Norway.
She is represented by gallery Barbara Thumm, Berlin.
For HOUSE 2013 and in association with Invisible Dust, Neudecker
undertook a sled expedition to Northern Greenland documenting her
experience with lens based equipment from throughout the ages.
More details can be found here:
Celia Davies
House 2013 Guest Curator
Celia Davies is a curator, editor and producer. She is currently head of
Programme at Photoworks where she oversees the devising and
delivery of the artistic programme. She was previously Head of
Exhibitions at the De La Warr Pavilion from 2002-2009. She has
devised numerous contemporary solo and group exhibitions and
major commissions of new work, profiling both international and UK
based artists. More recent projects include co-curating the Brighton
Photo Biennial 2012, Brighton Palermo Remix by David Batchelor for
Brighton Festival & HOUSE (2012), This Storm is What We Call Progress
by Ori Gersht (2012), Imperial War Museum, London and recently
curated projects include Myth, Manners and Memory: Photographs of
the American South including Walker Evans, William Eggleston, William
Christenberry, Carrie Mae Weems, Susan Lipper and Alec Soth (2010),
Beuys Is Here co-curated with Anthony d’ Offay (2009), Kenneth and
Mary Martin, Constructed Works(2008), Jeremy Deller (2006).
She has been editor and contributing writer for numerous visual art
publications including the influential Photoworks Monographs series,
co-published with Steidl; Dan Holdsowrth, Gareth McConnell, Sophy
Rickett and Nigel Shafran. She is co-editor of Photoworks journal,
visual art advisor for HOUSE festival and a trustee of Blast Theory.