Aurel Dahlgrün

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.