6.30–8.30pm
Performance at 7.30pm
An evening event in collaboration with Studio Voltaire at the Serpentine Gallery. The evening will include a performance by artists Thea Djordjadze and Andreas Reihse in the Gallery, a concert related to their work Suedstadtvirus at La Chambre de Voltaire/Studio Voltaire in 2005. This will also be an opportunity to view the Nairy Baghramian and Phyllida Barlow exhibition, as well as Tim Davies’ project in the Sackler Centre for Arts Education.
London-based artist Tim Davies has been in residence at the Serpentine’s Sackler Centre for Arts Education, where he has been developing new projects and programming a series of events, discussions and displays.
Tim Davies' project, Artist’s Studio, addresses the history and uses of Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens and the surrounding area. Focussing on the statues and monuments that adorn the Royal Parks, it is using these objects as a vehicle to explore changes in the meaning and function of public art and public space. Tim is working from various London-based archives, using texts and images from these to draw out histories of censorship, celebrity, public disavowal, gender politics, broken sculptures and fallen-down monuments.
BIOGRAPHIES
Thea Djordjadze lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Academy of Arts, Tbilisi, at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with professors Dieter Krieg and Rosemarie Trockel, whose master student she became. Her works have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions, including recently Endless Enclosure at Kunsthalle Basel (2009), Thea Djordjadze at West London Projects (2009-10), and Capital Letter at Foksal, Warsaw (2010). In addition, she has participated in important group exhibitions such as the BB5 – 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2008), the 9th Biennale de Lyon (2007, together with Rosemarie Trockel), as well as, at Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, the exhibition for the ‘Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse’ which was awarded to her in the spring of 2009. In her work, Djordjadze engages in collaborations with other artists; she was a member of the artists’ troupe ‘hobbypopMUSEUM’ and works regularly with Rosemarie Trockel on joint exhibition projects. Alongside installations and sculptural works, her oeuvre also includes the media of drawing, painting and photography as well as video works, musical recordings and performances.
Andreas Reihse lives and works in Berlin. He studied Audio-Visual Communication in Düsseldorf.
He is a founding member of the highly-acclaimed Electronic-pop group Kreidler. He has also worked with Klaus Dinger (NEU!, Kraftwerk) and techno musician Thomas Brinkmann, among others. He collaborated with artists like Rosemarie Trockel – at the Venice Biennale (2003), on Verflüssigung (2003) and in the theatre-play I Will (2005); Giles Round – at the Whitechapel Gallery (2006), South London Gallery (2007); and Thea Djordjadze – in the performance Haareschneiden (2001), the film Vodka Makes Us Very Very Happy (2003), or at Studio Voltaire (2005). He composed the soundtracks for Yoko Ono’s exhibition at Galerie Vostell (2001), Hamish Morrow's Fashion In Zero Gravity (2004), or most recently for Long Shot Close Up, a documentary about Andreas Gursky (2009).
Tim Davies lives and works in London. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art between 2004 and 2008 and at the Staedelschule, Frankfurt in 2006—07. His work has been presented in several group exhibitions including Home is the Place You Left at Trondheim Kunstmuseum (2008), Warm Summer Days, Indoors, Sandy Brown, Berlin (2009) and Being is what it is, 38 Elderfield Rd, London (2010). In 2008 he went on residency to Organhaus Artists Space in Chongqing, China through the Triangle Arts Trust and Gasworks. He currently has a solo show, Gif, at Sandy Brown, Berlin.
