Aykan Safoğlu, exhibition view UN·BE·SON·NEN, Kulturhaus Obere Stube, Stein am Rhein, 2024, front: Diogenes_high_res_low_res.jpg (2024), back: Alphabet (Peninsula) (2024), photo: Roberta Fele
MARCH 2 – SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
LOCATION: Kulturhaus Obere Stube, Oberstadt 7, 8260 Stein am Rhein
FRIDAY, 3/1, 7 P.M.
OPENING
Welcome and opening by Helga Sandl, Cultural Director of the Jakob and Emma Windler Foundation and Dr. Julia Wolf, curator of the exhibition.
LOCATION: Kulturhaus Obere Stube, Saal Fortuna
Aykan Safoğlu’s exhibition deals with narratives of what is divergent, arcane and even monstrous. The artist thus continues his longtime endeavor of setting fixed (hi)stories in motion. Historical objects of representation such as monuments or also other urban traces in Istanbul, Berlin and Stein am Rhein become points of departure for his artistic search for moments of fragile contemporary testimony. His works often start with photography, but then undergo different changes in media. They are ultimately presented as fragmenting, reflecting or shimmering rainbow-colored forms and thus harbor the (continuing) radiance of history.