Meteoarises, 2009

My painting Meteoarises was created for Katrin Vellrath / Arises. Katrin had written the music to Skarbek, Dekonditionierung, No School Today and other projects, and I was very happy when she invited me and other female friends to make art to her music. I felt I could give her back something in return. My picture shows her in the “table” yoga pose; lying on her body is a heavy, black stone.  She resists its weight but it is also on top of her; it remains suspended.

For the same exhibition, Juliane Solmsdorf made the installation A Rise is Rise is Rise is: a sandy ground with concentric circles, on top of which sits a golden tennis umpire’s chair and a director’s chair. She had photographed this ensemble exactly as she had found it in the city of Avignon, as “remarked sculpture”, and had appropriated and reconstructed it for the exhibition.   This installation merged with my painting entirely on its own. While the stone on my friend’s belly creates a heavy center, the center of the white sand area stands empty. Something could happen here, someone could play, but the carefully drawn circles in the sand would change with every game. When I prepared The World of Gimel in Kunsthaus Graz, I invited her to reinstall her work together with Meteoarises.

See also:
The Guardian of All Things that are the Case. The Eight Objects, 2009-2011
Antje Majewski. The World of Gimel. How to Make Objects Talk? Kunsthaus Graz 2011

Exhibitions:
Antje Majewski. The World of Gimel. How to Make Objects Talk? Kunsthaus Graz 2011
The Guardian of All Things that are the Case, 2011
Rave is Over, Exile, Berlin, D, 2009

Catalogue:
Adam Budak, Peter Pakesch (Ed.), Antje Majewski, The World of Gimel. How to make objects talk. Kunsthaus Graz / Sternberg Press, 2011