Zoya Cherkassky often develops her picture motifs on the computer, prints them onto canvas, and finally adapts the result using acrylics and oil paints - a process that consciously emphasises the serial aspect and expresses Cherkassky's interest in themes such as identity and individuality in the context of contemporary mass culture. For her project "disobedience", Zoya Cherkassky employed the label "The New Discourse Group" and worked together with the exiled Russian Avdey Ter-Oganian, who is known primarily for his performances criticising the censorship of free speech in post-Soviet Russia. The project is presented as a full-room installation, assembled from various components. Cherkassky and Ter-Oganian investigate the artist's role in current society and formulate their criticism of the institutionalisation of art by attacking art's operating system and its protagonists in an ironic way. In addition to a series of painted-over collages created from components of famous and generally recognised works of contemporary art, the installation includes images of agitation that adopt different techniques and perspectives to criticise the conditions existing in contemporary art, and reveal the crisis of critical discourse within an institutionalised system. Zoya Cherkassky holds a fellowship from IcExcellence - the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation.

Zoya Cherkassky
and Avdey Ter-OGANIAN
The New Discourse Group
"disobedience"

2nd - 18th November 2007

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Ur¨ula Berlot concerns herself with elementary organic processes in the natural world, metamorphous conditions of light and matter, and their analogy to mental processes of perception. Her kinetic light installations investigate relations between the material and the immaterial, feeling and understanding, the transient and the permanent. Falling through striated Perspex glass, reflected light creates monochrome, shadow-like images projected onto a white screen, the floor or the wall, thus generating an impression of three-dimensionality and the material. The artist achieves this effect by employing the interplay of transparent surfaces, reflections, shadow and light, so permitting the viewer to discern abstract outlines, landscapes or organic, microcosmic structures. The light-space-installation "pulsation / Cross-sections" consists of a group of works; their individual forms and content are transposed onto each other, reproduced or reflected by various media, coming together to form a bizarre, artificial, yet seemingly organic mental landscape. The outcome is an ephemeral space that oscillates between the dimensions, challenging the viewer to extend his perceptual experience. In the context of the International Studio Program, Ur¨ula Berlot holds a fellowship from the Schering Foundation Berlin.

Ur¨ula Berlot
pulsation / Cross-sections

2nd - 18th November 2007