Caroline Achaintre / Martin Herbert
Caroline Achaintre with Martin Herbert
31. 7. 18, 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Caroline Achaintre works across a diverse range of media including textiles, ceramics, prints and watercolours, using techniques typically associated with the applied arts. Her work is colourful and potent, evoking the subversive spirit of carnival and creating an atmosphere simultaneously playful and absurd. Citing German Expressionism, post-war British sculpture and Primitivism as influences, her work also makes reference to more contemporary sub-cultural strands of sci-fi, the Goth-metal scene, psychedelia and horror films.
Caroline Achaintre and Martin Herbert will discuss the following questions:
– The revolution of Achaintre’s work through both thematics/subject matter and practical considerations relating to materials
– The importance of the carnivalesque as a theme
– The notion of the works as entities, and how the viewer might interpret and complete them
– How and why the art world has increasingly accommodated craft techniques and textiles
– How Achaintre synthesises the diverse influences in her work, and why she chooses them
– Achaintre’s use of humour and absurdism.
Information
- Venue
- Galerie 5020
- Date
- 31. 7. 18, 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Caroline Achaintre
Caroline Achaintre, born in Toulouse (FR) in 1969 and brought up in Fürth (DE), lives and works in London. She works across a diverse range of media that includes textiles, ceramics, prints and watercolours, using techniques typically associated with the applied arts. Her work is colourful and potent, evoking the subversive spirit of carnival and creating an atmosphere that is simultaneously playful and absurd. Citing German Expressionism, post-war British sculpture and Primitivism as influences, her work also makes reference to more contemporary sub-cultural strands of sci-fi, the Goth-metal scene, psychedelia and horror films.
Website
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
2019 Permanente, MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, Montpellier (FR). Dauerwelle, Belvedere 21, Vienna. 2018 Fantômas, De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea (UK) and BE-PART, Waregem (BE). Duo Infernal, Art : Concept, Paris. Dissolver, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund (DE). Wimper, Touchstones Rochdale, Rochdale (UK). 2017 Escanér, Museo de Arte Precolombino Casa del Alabado, Quito. Caroline Achaintre, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims (FR). Caroline Achaintre, A.D.O. Farbvision, Berlin.
Group exhibitions (recent)
2018 Pissing in the River. Again!, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin. Childhood. Another Banana Day for the Dream-Fish, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. BALTIC Triennial, curated by Vincent Honor., Vilnius; Tallinn; Riga. A Forest, Arcade Gallery, London. Nomadic Murals: Contemporary Tapestries and Carpets, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Miami, FL (US). 2017 En Crue, Fondation Albert Gleizes, Moly-Sabata (FR). Morphogenesis, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon. Ungestalt, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (CH).
Publications
Stella Rollig, Charlotte Cosson, Emmanuelle Luciani, Oriane Durand: Permanent Wave / Dauerwelle, exh. cat., Belvedere 21, Vienna, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna 2019.
Emma Dean, Ann Dressen, Zoë Gray: Caroline Achaintre, exh. cat., BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead and FRAC – Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Champagne-Ardenne, Reims 2016.
Martin Herbert
Martin Herbert is a British writer and critic based in Berlin. His writing about contemporary art has been published for over 20 years in magazines including Artforum, Frieze, Parkett and many others, as well as in newspapers such as the UK’s Daily Telegraph. He has also written several books (see below) and a forthcoming book on the American artist Carol Bove, Unfold This Moment. In addition to this, for the past decade he has worked as an editor, primarily as associate editor for
the London-based ArtReview.
Herbert also regularly writes catalogue essays, which have been published by institutions including the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY (US)), the Serpentine Gallery (London), Tate Britain, the Hayward Gallery (London) and the Biennale di Venezia . He lectures regularly in international art schools, and was a juror for the 2017 Turner Prize.
Publications
Martin Herbert: Tell Them I Said No, Sternberg Press, New York 2016.
Martin Herbert: The Uncertainty Principle, Sternberg Press, New York 2014.
Martin Herbert: Mark Wallinger, Thames & Hudson, United Kingdom 2011.
