Sentients – an exhibition
Alte-Westend-Apotheke;Glandwr presents…
Sentients
Exhibition runs 24th October – 3rd November. Opening hours 11-7pm.
Tanad Aaron, Sara Baume, Caoimhe Kilfeather + Aleana Egan, Florian Weichsberger.
Curated by Debi Paul
Vernissage Oct 24 6-9pm. All Welcome!
24th October, 7pm artists Caoimhe Kilfeather + Aleana Egan will be ‚in-conversation‘ with Sentients curator Debi Paul
7pm 1 November: Tanad Aaron, artists talk with curator Debi Paul.
///Finnisage/// 5pm Sunday 3rd November Florian Weichsberger and curator Debi Paul, ‚Sentients‘ exhibition walkthrough.
later on 24th October + 1st November, to accomodate Vernissage + Talks.
Please note: on the 25th + 31st October the exhibition will close at 4pm.
This exhibition traces both linear and dreamlike spheres. Looking at passage, the sentience of objects and textiles, how these personal possessions travel with us, or are given to us. Sometimes forced by unsettlement or chosen as remnants from previous lives, which hold onto us enhancing or rooting into the future …
The exhibition takes place in a ‘Apotheke‘ an old pharmacy with a lived-in ambience which lies on a corner open to the meeting of two streets within Scwanthalerhöhe, a vibrant city neighbourhood in Munich. This Apotheke has been a place where people from the neighbourhood have met for over 120 years. In a world where humanity seems to have been thrown out the window, It continues to be a place of gathering, surrounded by various independent shops, some older some newer – a tiny seamstress with big glass jars of used buttons. A place where artists studio’s, street level architects and vintage clothing/furniture shops animate the locality speaking to the life of the local community. As both artworks and place meet atmosphere and sentience overlap.
Aleana Egan, Working primarily with sculpture, and occasionally with painting and film, Aleana engenders psychological states and memories through enigmatic arrangements of objects and forms. Her sculptural works appear restrained, but are laden with subtle references to the built environment.
Caoimhe Kilfeather’s practice is predominantly sculptural and often generated through a combination of experimental and intuitive processes in the studio alongside more directed research and reading around a subject matter. The histories of vernacular architecture, humankind’s ritualistic tendencies, as well as the impact and imprint of the experience of landscape are subject matters which inform her work .
Sara Baume is the author of three novels which have received multiple awards and been widely translated. She works also as a visual artist, her interest is in ritual and sacred and in miniatures, and the uniquely human tendency to create miniaturised utopias – both as a form of play and a means of exercising control over the reality of a world that is unfathomably huge and increasingly unpredictable.
Florian Weichsberger is a visual artist whose practice focuses on materiality, probing ideas around use and function. His thinking resonates within the work, he ponders how the ‘handmade’ is part of historical culture. How some parts carry on into a future culture while others fade away.
Debi Paul’s curatorial practice is rooted in place, materiality, and philosophy with a focus on the body, performative practice and how the body engages with artworks. She often works with/learns from sites of interest and local communities. Glandwr is a place formally a place of care, a rehabilitation centre where she lives and curates‘ site- responsive projects.
Photo credit: Florian Weichsberger, ‘PEACE’ body brush, with inlay of silver and resin, 2024. Photo, Mirei Takeuchi