Visions of Exchange
Mercedes-Benz Art Scope Award 2009–2017
02 Jun - 04 Nov 2018
Taro Izumi, exhibition view at Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, 2018. Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Benedikt Partenheimer, Eva Berendes, Jan Scharrelmann, Menja Stevenson, exhibition view at Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, 2018. Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Menja Stevenson, Rita Hensen, Eva Berendes, exhibition view at Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, 2018. Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Eva Berendes, Jan Scharrelmann, Menja Stevenson, exhibition view at Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, 2018. Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Hiroe Saeki, exhibition view at Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, 2018. Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Hiroe Saeki, Eva Berendes, Menja Stevenson, exhibition view at Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, 2018. Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Hiroe Saeki, Rita Hensen, exhibition view at Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, 2018. Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Eva Berendes, Rita Hensen, Hiroe Saeki, exhibition view at Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, 2018. Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Satoshi Ono, Jan Scharrelmann, Hiroe Saeki, Tokihiro Satō, exhibition view at Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, 2018. Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Tokihiro Satō, Eva Berendes, Ryosuke Imamura, exhibition view at Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, 2018. Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Visions of Exchange
Mercedes-Benz Art Scope Award 2009–2017
Daimler Contemporary Berlin
The exhibition “Visions of Exchange” presents the last eleven scholarship recipients of the “Mercedes-Benz Art Scope” artist-in-residence program. This art and culture program established in 1991 by Mercedes-Benz Japan began as support for Japanese artists with a stay in Monflanquin, in southwest France, near the Pyrenees. Thanks to a cooperative agreement with the Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart / Berlin, the program has reoriented itself since 2004 and established itself as a Japanese-German cultural exchange. A three-month stay in the cities of Tokyo and Berlin allows the artists selected by the jury to deepen their knowledge of the host country’s culture, to make new contacts, and to develop artistic projects and ideas from the impressions they have gained. Exhibitions in the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo and the Daimler Contemporary in Berlin present the scholarship recipients and thus a selection of the contemporary art scene in each host country.
The focus is on works that have emerged from the program, complemented by works that permit insight into the origins of the work. Very different in their media, forms, and aesthetics, these works reflect the individual perception of the initially foreign and the impulses and insights that arise from the impressions gained: in approaching the new by gazing through the camera; in the artistic appropriation and transformation of found materials and phenomena; intrinsic to the works, in relying on the traditions of abstract imagery.
Eva Berendes (D), Rita Hensen (D), Ryosuke Imamura (J), Taro Izumi (J), Meiro Koizumi (J), Satoshi Ono (J), Benedikt Partenheimer (D), Hiroe Saeki (J), Tokihiro Satō (J), Jan Scharrelmann (D), Menja Stevenson (D)
Curators: Renate Wiehager and Wiebke Hahn
Mercedes-Benz Art Scope Award 2009–2017
Daimler Contemporary Berlin
The exhibition “Visions of Exchange” presents the last eleven scholarship recipients of the “Mercedes-Benz Art Scope” artist-in-residence program. This art and culture program established in 1991 by Mercedes-Benz Japan began as support for Japanese artists with a stay in Monflanquin, in southwest France, near the Pyrenees. Thanks to a cooperative agreement with the Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart / Berlin, the program has reoriented itself since 2004 and established itself as a Japanese-German cultural exchange. A three-month stay in the cities of Tokyo and Berlin allows the artists selected by the jury to deepen their knowledge of the host country’s culture, to make new contacts, and to develop artistic projects and ideas from the impressions they have gained. Exhibitions in the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo and the Daimler Contemporary in Berlin present the scholarship recipients and thus a selection of the contemporary art scene in each host country.
The focus is on works that have emerged from the program, complemented by works that permit insight into the origins of the work. Very different in their media, forms, and aesthetics, these works reflect the individual perception of the initially foreign and the impulses and insights that arise from the impressions gained: in approaching the new by gazing through the camera; in the artistic appropriation and transformation of found materials and phenomena; intrinsic to the works, in relying on the traditions of abstract imagery.
Eva Berendes (D), Rita Hensen (D), Ryosuke Imamura (J), Taro Izumi (J), Meiro Koizumi (J), Satoshi Ono (J), Benedikt Partenheimer (D), Hiroe Saeki (J), Tokihiro Satō (J), Jan Scharrelmann (D), Menja Stevenson (D)
Curators: Renate Wiehager and Wiebke Hahn