Sep 19, 2024
Exhibition Opening ‘DEPTH AND SURFACE. Scientific Tableaux in Dialogue with Olaf Holzapfel // 26 Sept 2024 // Oktogon. Art Gallery of the Dresden University of Fine Arts
Tiefe und Fläche
Dear friends of the Office for Academic Heritage, Science and Art Collections (Kustodie),
dear colleagues,
we cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition DEPTH AND SURFACE. Scientific Tableaux in Dialogue with Olaf Holzapfel on September 26 at 7 pm. The opening event will take place in the Lichthof of the Albertinum, Dresden State Art Collections (Georg-Treu-Platz, 01067 Dresden).
The exhibition – at the Oktogon. Art Gallery of the Dresden University of Fine Arts (HfBK), (also at Georg-Treu-Platz, 01067 Dresden - across from the Albertinum) - opens for you at 7 pm.
Welcome
Hilke Wagner, Director Albertinum, Dresden State Art Collections
Oliver Kossack, Rector, Dresden University of Fine Arts
Roswitha Böhm, Vice-Rector University Culture, TUD Dresden University of Technology
Greetings
Annekatrin Klepsch, Deputy for Culture, Science and Tourism of the City of Dresden
Patricia Werner, Managing Director Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung
Martina de Maizière, Chairwoman of the Stiftung Kunst und Musik für Dresden
Introduction
Kirsten Vincenz, Jörg Zaun and Gwendolin Kremer, Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections, TUD Dresden University of Technology
What treasures lie hidden in university collections? What do they tell us about the past, present and future of knowledge production in art, technology, and research? The exhibition DEPTH AND SURFACE shows for the first time ever over 100 scientific ‘object-tableaux’ togehter with artistic tableaux by the internationally known Dresden artist Olaf Holzapfel.
The starting point of the exhibition DEPTH AND SURFACE are the more than 40 academic teaching and research collections of the TUD Dresden University of Technology and the Dresden University of Fine Arts. These collections include models, teaching boards, display cases, and objects from other genres made or collected over the past two hundred years for specific didactic or scientific teaching and research purposes.
The show focuses on the previously little-studied genre of the tableau, that is, on display boards or cases with arrangements of exhibits. In combination with these historic ‘object-tableaux’, especially for this project arranged groups of works created by artist Olaf Holzapfel (born in 1967 in Dresden, situated in Berlin) will be presented: foldings, paintings, works made from natural materials (such as the hay pictures), and models from the past 20 years, as well as a new framework construction. He achieved international recognition with his framework constructions as well as hay and straw pictures, which make clear reference to craft techniques. Like no other artist of his generation, Holzapfel thus stands for the urgent examination of cultural practices and social spaces and their changing significance between yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
The complementary exhibition staging with the tableaus as a form of organisation and display and Holzapfel's artistic settings opens up new perspectives on contemporary living spaces and their history, on the ‘in-between’ (Olaf Holzapfel) in the relationship between man, nature, thing and time.
The opening of the exhibition DEPTH AND SURFACE takes place as part of the international conference ‘Shaping Transformation. University Collections in a Changing World’, which is being organised by the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections of TUD. From September 24 to 29, 2024, ICOM-UMAC (Committee for University Museums and Collections of the International Council of Museums) and UNIVERSEUM European Academic Heritage Network, two of the major international professional associations for university collections and academic heritage, will meet there for their first joint annual conference.
We look forward to seeing you on September 26 and send kind regards from the Kustodie
Kirsten Vincenz, Jörg Zaun and Gwendolin Kremer