A project realized in Poland and Germany basing on Tatjana Utz’s painting and texts.

An exhibition entitled Uber grenzen -  Crossing the borders

 Exhibition in Wrocław

Place: DOM EDYTY STEIN - Nowowiejska 38

Opening: 20.05.2009, 19.00

The exhibition is open every day until 25.06.2009 from 10.00 to 18.00

Entrance: free

 Exhibition in Gdańsk

Place: GALERIA NICK

Opening: 02.07.2009, 18:00

The exhibition is open every day until 29.07.2009 from 10.00 to 18.00

Entrance: free

“An album which you can walk trough” – a concept behind it:

An inspiration for the „Crossing the borders” project was drawn from the interviews with fifty people who, in different conditions, lived before the Second World War, after it and through the Cold War period. The residents of West Germany , the German Democratic Republic, the border areas, people of German origins living in Poland and of Polish origins living in Germany talk about their lives. All these stories make up the Album in a form of spacial installlation. “I do not wish to touch up on the matter of guilt in any way; what I am more interested in is to grasp what should be passed on” – the artist explains. During the interviews, Tatjana Utz also photographs the surroundings and the objects connected with the memories of her Polish and German interviewees. The recordings and photos are used to make paintings and canvas with a large format texts that make up one work just like a jigsaw puzzle. In that way we get “an album which we can walk trough” – pillows, wallpapers, but also old photographes and collector’s cups are the motifs of the paintings which represent people and tell their own stories.

“Crossing the borders” exhibition has been shown in different German cities including Berlin , Munich and Ludwigshafen . After stopping in Wrocław on 2-29 July it will be on display in the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre in Gdańsk

About the artist:

Tatjana Utz was born in 1975 in Starnberg, grew up in Germering. She studied in Munich art history and art education. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under the guidance of a painter Jean Scully. Tatjana Utz developed a genre of painting that includes historical as well as sociological elements and may be percived as an art of medium (Kunst der Vermittlung).

www.tatjana-utz.de

Co-organizers:

Edyta Stein’s Society

Goethe-Institute in Warszawa

Robert Bosch’s Foundation