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Aurel Dahlgrün

Summit

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Von unten sind Eisbrocken an der Wasseroberfläche zu sehen. Licht scheint hindurch. Darunter im Wasser ein Taucher in der Ferne. Die Farben nur weiß und graublau.
Floating World (Eismeer), Photogravur, © Aurel Dahlgrün 2022

Aurel Dahlgrün (*1989) is a border crosser. He grew up in the untouched nature of Sweden near a lake. Water is inscribed in his biography, so to speak, and plays a central role in his work. Dahlgrün literally dips in and out. He records his expeditions and dives with his camera and then transfers the resulting images into his artistic works in the form of videos and photographs.

The exhibition is sponsored by the Kunststiftung NRW as an epilogue to “Dem Wasser folgen” (2022).

 

Ein Mann steht nah an der Kamera und schaut uns an. Er trägt einen Taucheranzug, aber statt des Helms eine dunkelblaue Mütze. Hinter ihm eine Wasserfläche mit vielen kleinen Eisschollen. Am Horizont spitze Berge.
Aurel Dahlgrün. Foto: XY

With the exhibition “Summit”, Kunsthalle Bielefeld presents Dahlgrün’s latest works, which were created during a Greenland expedition in 2022 in the “eternal ice”. The exhibition title “Summit” refers to the eponymous peak of the Greenland Ice Sheet and the research station there. Rigidity and mobility, closeness and distance, brightness and darkness – such contrasts form the basic themes of the exhibition; the works address temporality and transience of a system existentially threatened by the climate crisis.

“Through diving I try to expand my imagination. This always gives me ideas for new work and new excursions, for which I then spend a long time preparing. While diving in the Arctic Ocean off Greenland last year, for example, I was particularly interested in how the air we breathe settles and locks under the ice, becoming a mirror in a way. I looked for places under the pack ice where I could keep the air in one place if possible.”
Aurel Dahlgrün

About Aurel Dahlgrün

Aurel Dahlgrün was born in Berlin in 1989. He grew up in Småland (Sweden) and has lived in Germany since 2011, where he studied photography at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Today he lives and works between Berlin and Düsseldorf. His work has received several awards, such as the Bremerhaven Fellowship in 2021 and the Ehrenhof Prize in 2018. His works have been presented at Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, K21 in Düsseldorf, Changchun Sculpture Museum, Paul Klemen Museum in Bonn and many other exhibitions.

Ein Taucher, der mit einer Unterwasserlampe auf einen Eisberg zu taucht. Das Wasser um ihn herum ist tiefblau und wird mit zunehmender Entfernung dunkler.
Floating world I, © Aurel Dahlgrün, 202
Von unten sind Eisbrocken an der Wasseroberfläche zu sehen. Licht scheint hindurch. Darunter im Wasser ein Taucher in der Ferne. Die Farben nur weiß und graublau.
Floating World (Eismeer), Photogravur, © Aurel Dahlgrün 2022
Ein Taucher, der von rechts mit einer Unterwasserlampe auf einen Eisberg zu taucht. Das Wasser um ihn herum ist tiefblau, auch über ihm ist die Unterseite eines Eisbergs zu sehen.
Floating world II, ©Aurel Dahlgrün, 2022
2 Fotos an der Wand: Eine dünne brüchige Eisfläche auf dunkelblauem Meer. In der Ferne sieht man einen graublauen Himmel. Zweites Foto: Eine schmelzende und brüchige Eisfläche von unten, das Licht bricht durch die Lücken zwischen den Eisbrocken hindurch.
Frozen Seascape, Photogravuren auf Büttenpapier, © Aurel Dahlgrün 2022
Die Fotoreihe verbildlicht den Prozess von schmelzendenm Eisflächen auf dem Ozean. Es sind verschieden große Eisschollen zu sehen. Insgesamt 9 Fotos.
9 Fragments from a Fragile Point of View, Photogravuren auf Büttenpapier, © Aurel Dahlgrün 2022
Ein Taucher, der im tiefblauen Wasser um einen Eisberg herum taucht. Das Tageslicht und das seiner Taschenlampe reflektieren im und am massiven Eisberg.
Floating world III, © Aurel Dahlgrün, 2022

Highlights

Electronic sounds in the middle of the exhibition with “Nummer zu Platz”. With the Sound Collection, Kunsthalle Bielefeld and Volksbank Bielefeld-Gütersloh invite you to an evening at the museum unlike any other. Listen to the electronic sounds of the “Utopia 615 Crew” of Nr. z. P., DJ AN:JA and DJ MARLA, stroll through the exhibitions and spend a relaxing time surrounded by art.

In cooperation with: Volksbank Bielefeld-Gütersloh eG, Volksbank Lobby, No. z. P.

Water is a force of nature: powerful, almost impossible to capture and almost infinite, it shows us humans the limits. Aurel Dahlgrün is dedicated to the element in his artistic work. In conversation with the artist, we learn about his fascination with water.

Conversation between the artist Aurel Dahlgrün and the exhibition curator of “Summit” Benedikt Fahrnschon.

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Electronic sounds in the middle of the exhibition with “Nummer zu Platz”. With the Sound Collection, Kunsthalle Bielefeld and Volksbank Bielefeld-Gütersloh invite you to an evening at the museum unlike any other. Listen to the electronic sounds of the “Utopia 615 Crew” of Nr. z. P., DJ AN:JA and DJ MARLA, stroll through the exhibitions and spend a relaxing time surrounded by art.

In cooperation with: Volksbank Bielefeld-Gütersloh eG, Volksbank Lobby, No. z. P.

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Tickets

Guided tour of our current exhibitions.
anmeldung@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
T 0521 329995018

Tickets

Guided tour of our current exhibitions.
anmeldung@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
T 0521 329995018

Tickets

Guided tour of our current exhibitions.
anmeldung@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
T 0521 329995018

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