»In Transition« – an innovative show on movement and performance

An innovative exhibition project explores the experimental interplay of artistic media: painting, action painting, drawing, sculpture, video, dance, live performance, photography, and augmented reality form interfaces in the focus of artistic forms of expression. The exhibition In Transition – from Performance to Exhibition by the Verein Berliner Künstler deals with transitions, transformations, and changes of perspective in a novel way. The opening will take place on October 4 at 5 p.m., and the show will run until October 26. On October 3, there will be a preview with a film screening and a writing performance by Ulrike Damm to mark German Unity Day. The complete performance program can be found on the VBK website.

Among the 35 participating artists is photographer Elitza Nanova from the Art.Salon artist program. Her art photographs offer glimpses of reality that remain hidden from the human eye and go far beyond the documentary. It is above all the fleeting nature of the moment, the movement, and the transformation of form that are at the center of her images. Nanova finds her motifs in dance, but also in water.

In the exhibition In Transition – from Performance to Exhibition, Nanova presents the photo series Homage to the Triadic Ballet (2019), which uses long exposure photography to capture the before and after of a movement in a single image. Nanova enters into dialogue with classical modernism. »The traces of movement left by the dancing bodies in my series suggest a kind of immaterial costume, and the geometries, lines, and circular movements of classical ballet form parallels to Oskar Schlemmer's geometric figurines. In terms of expression, however, this work is far removed from Schlemmer's static figurines—it seeks dynamism, momentum, instability, and expression [...]«, the artist explains her work.

On October 10, Nanova's solo exhibition Wasserabstraktionen (Water Abstractions) opens in a PRIVATE VIEW, presented by Kunst-Zeit-Raum.