Aurel Dahlgrün
Summit
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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.
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.
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