Klara Hobza
17 Nov 2012 - 10 Feb 2013
KLARA HOBZA
Erste Anzeichen der Schwerelosigkeit
17 November 2012 – 10 February 2013
“My name is Klara Hobza, I’m diving through Europe” – the first film about Klara Hobza’s long-term project Diving Through Europe opens with these words. The undertaking is scheduled to last 25–30 years and envisages a crossing of the European continent, in stages, by water. That the project seems megalomaniacal is also part of its attraction: the radical idea and the unconditionality of the action both encountering an absolute openness in the progress of the project. There is something magnetically attractive about Klara Hobza’s undertakings. Like someone possessed, she enters repeatedly into new contexts. Be it diving through Europe, returning the European starling or communicating with people in New York through Morse code – it is always a hopeless situation which demands a resolution or alternative solutions. As a result, new discoveries and surprises are just as inherent in her work as the preoccupation with a motif over a longer period of time. This gives the artist the opportunity to engage meticulously with the topic, and the recipient of the works the chance to become submerged in their cosmos and drift through a network of major and minor tributaries.
Erste Anzeichen der Schwerelosigkeit
17 November 2012 – 10 February 2013
“My name is Klara Hobza, I’m diving through Europe” – the first film about Klara Hobza’s long-term project Diving Through Europe opens with these words. The undertaking is scheduled to last 25–30 years and envisages a crossing of the European continent, in stages, by water. That the project seems megalomaniacal is also part of its attraction: the radical idea and the unconditionality of the action both encountering an absolute openness in the progress of the project. There is something magnetically attractive about Klara Hobza’s undertakings. Like someone possessed, she enters repeatedly into new contexts. Be it diving through Europe, returning the European starling or communicating with people in New York through Morse code – it is always a hopeless situation which demands a resolution or alternative solutions. As a result, new discoveries and surprises are just as inherent in her work as the preoccupation with a motif over a longer period of time. This gives the artist the opportunity to engage meticulously with the topic, and the recipient of the works the chance to become submerged in their cosmos and drift through a network of major and minor tributaries.