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Strays on Leashes:

Wessling & Kalicki Duo Exhibition

被拴上牵狗绳的流浪狗：

苏珊娜·韦思林与娜塔莉娅·卡利茨基双人展

开幕式时间：2019年8月24日下午3:30

展览时间：2019年8月24日 — 28日

主办方：北京上苑艺术馆
展览地址：北京市怀柔区桥梓镇沙峪口村上苑艺术馆

Opening: 15:30, August 24^th, 2019
Exhibition Period: August 24^th to 28^th, 2019

Sponsor: Shangyuan Art Museum, Beijing

Venue: Exhibition Hall, Shangyuan Art Museum, Shayukou Village, Qiaozi County, Huairou District, Beijing

前言 Introduction

Susana Wessling is currently developing a six-part project based on the “Six memos for the Next Millennium” by Italo Calvino. In the Shangyuan Residency she has been working on the second memo: Quickness. Under this brief she has been exploring how different ways of expressing time in writing can be applied to her painting and the interactions they establish in the viewer. This project reflects on different approaches to storytelling and the different degrees to which a narrative is known or unknown. A little bit like seeing only a part of a bigger whole that does not allow itself for be known fully, a little bit like a stray on a leash.

Natalia Kalicki is fixated on two stone lions. Such statues are placed on either side of front doors to ward off ghosts. Their dignified mouths are frozen agape. This series investigates the ways in which symbolism morphs when the context of a specific mythology combines with unexpected visitors. How do guardian lions, as vestiges of the past, behave in the 21st century? Could they themselves be embodied ghosts? Are they perplexed? Or could they be, just a little bit, like a stray on a leash?

娜塔莉娅·卡利茨基作品：

苏珊娜·韦思林作品：

艺术家简介 About the artists：

Susana Wessling 苏珊娜·韦思林（葡萄牙/德国）

个人网站：www.susanawessling.com

电子邮箱：svtwessling@gmail.com

Susana Wessling is a half Portuguese half German visual artist currently living in Lithuania. Over the last seven years she has lived in five different countries and done residencies in four more. She draws from the experience of living in different places and moving often and her practice is based on collecting misfits, mishaps and mismatches that come to be in the liminal spaces created by this mobility.

Selected projects

2019 EM EM Festival, Traku Vokės Manor, Vilnius, Lithuania

2019 Vagabond Club Residency, Singapore

2018 Ateljé Stundars Residency, Vaasa, Finland

2018 The reason why I don’t sit on roofs anymore, Ideas Block , Vilnius, Lithuania

2017 Bonkers Contemporary, Biscuit Factory, Edinburgh, UK

2017 SeMA Nanji 11, residency, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Republic of Korea

2017 Sculpture, The Spectrum of Dream, International Sculpture Festa, KOSA Gallery, Seoul, Republic of Korea

2016 Custom Made, Leith Custom House, Edinburgh, UK

2016 Best of Degree show, Sixfoot Gallery, Glasgow, UK

2015 Interim - Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh. UK

Natalia Kalicki 娜塔莉娅·卡利茨基（加拿大/波兰）

个人网站：www.nataliakalicki.com

电子邮箱：natmsk@hotmail.com

Natalia Kalicki is a Canadian-Polish painter and anthropologist based in Leipzig, Germany. She has exhibited work in 5 countries, has attended 3 residencies, and was the coordinator of Pilotenkueche Art Residency in Leipzig Germany for 18 months. Her work includes participating in monthly MODS talks, curation, organising festivals, and facilitating partner outreach between institutions and collectives. She is currently studying the intersections of cultural production, mobility, urban development and art residency models at the University of Leipzig in the Anthropology Institute. This summer she is based at Shangyuan Museum AIR in Beijing. Next autumn she looks forward to an internship at the Artist Residency program at U-Jazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland.

Selected projects

2019, Museum On The Couch: Creative and Reflexive Explorations of the Ethnographic Collections. Grassi Museum. Leipzig, Germany

2019 Located - Dislocated. Krudebude. Leipzig, Germany

2019 …but these sunsets are better. Ars Avanti Gallery. Leipzig, Germany

2018 Access Granted: A Global €on$pirac￥. LindeNOW Festival. Leipzig, Germany

2017 Tour De Franz. Open Studios, FF15. Leipzig, Germany

2017 Diversity Collection. LindeNOW Festival. Leipzig, Germany

2017 EAT THIS. Salon Similde. Leipzig, Germany

2016 Goodbye Horses. Pilotenkueche, Spinnerei. Leipzig, Germany

2016 Listhus A-I-R. ólafsfjöreur, Iceland.

2016 PILOTENKUECHE Leipzig, Germany.