Exhibition "Ground Truth" by Lena von Goedeke, Schaufler@TU Dresden 2024
September 30th, 2024 till January 24th, 2025
Gallery of the Office for Academic Heritage at Görges-Bau, Helmholtzstraße 9, 01069 Dresden
Opening:
September 27th, 2024. 7:30 pm
Curatorial Team:
Gwendolin Kremer, Pauline Hohn and Andreas Kempe
The installation and conceptual artist Lena von Goedeke is a fellow in the residency program of Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden from May to October 2024. At TU Dresden, she is conducting artistic research on the key topic "Data↔Worlds. Socio-technical and cultural syntheses of new realities" and deals with current Arctic research. Her artistic research project focuses on the potentials and challenges of various remote sensing technologies. For several years now, von Goedeke has been collecting information and thoughts on the ethical and technological aspects of generating images of the world using satellites.
The exhibition for the Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden 2024 provides an insight into Lena von Goedeke's process-based artistic research at TU Dresden, incorporating existing works by the artist on the subject of the Arctic. With reference to exemplary objects from the university's teaching and research collections, the results of the artistic-scientific collaboration are made visible.
In her aesthetic, minimalist-reduced works, von Goedeke deals intensively with the complex relationship between man and nature and his position in the cosmos. The artist works closely with scientists from various disciplines. The results of this collaborative research find expression in works that are both critically reflective and sensually articulated. In her detailed, fragile silhouettes, which refer to geographical land surveys and mapping methods, or in photographic and installation-based explorations of satellite images, she transforms complex, abstract data and research results into poetic and at the same time profound works.
About the artist
Lena von Goedeke was born in Duisburg in 1983 and now lives and works in Berlin and Spitsbergen. Her installations and objects have been shown at the Museum Marta Herford, the Museum August Macke Haus in Bonn, the Kunsthalle Münster and in numerous gallery exhibitions. Von Goedeke has already been awarded various prizes such as the Kallmann Prize of the Kallmann Museum Ismaning and the DEW21 Art Prize Dortmund as well as the annual scholarship of the Stiftung Kunstfonds.
More information about SchauflerLab @ TU Dresden and its residency program here.