danach draußen (thereafter outside)




danach draußen refers to a stage after the event already happened (danach), and to those who remained outside (draußen).

Two of Jan Stieding's four paintings show deserted stages, the other two show figures that were taken from Eastern German socialist propaganda posters, promoting the heroes of labor. Staged in the 1970s the heroes look considerably different from the enthusiastic and proud depictions we know from earlier years. They look forlorn as they engage in undefined activities. Translating the method of photographic collage to painting, Stieding took them out of their context and inserted them into his own world.

Jan Stieding was born in 1966 in Bad Langensalzen/Thüringen in Germany. He lives and works in Düsseldorf. He studied from 1991 – 94 at the HDK in Dresden and at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. In his paintings and works on paper Stieding engages with biographical recollections and universal, mostly ambivalent topics. Melancholy and ease, beauty and tragedy, loneliness and togetherness describe a tightrope walk between the pursuit of happiness and the collapse of utopias and ideals and their protagonists. He showed his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions.


In the past two years Jörg Wagner has been interested in the geographic and spatial manifestations of fences and their social implications. Surveying boundaries like the fence in Belfast that protects people on either side from projectiles and explosives, the anti-immigration fence between the US border and Mexico, the ubiquitous standard Euro fence and the chain link fences that are used around private properties, Wagner noticed an increasing demand for fences in our increasingly global culture. Wagner creates photosensitive cyanotype copies of fences in a scale of 1:1. He burns traces of the actual objects onto paper.

Born 1967 in Waiblingen, Germany, Jörg Wagner studiert sculpture at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. As an artist and a lecturer he lives in Cologne. Most of his work is developed at specific locations. He visited Japan, the USA, Australia and Ireland to produce his installations. He showed his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions.


With their curatorial project 'die Beton Bar', Jan Stieding and Jörg Wagner were the main inspiration for the inception of LAMOA. At the end of my search for a suitable location to host 'die Beton Bar' I decided to build a museum to be able to organize art projects. I'm proud to say that after three years the exhibition is finally happening. In collaboration with Jan Stieding and Jörg Wagner we built a concrete bar that will be activated during the opening.

http://betonbar.blogspot.com/

In conjunction with the exhibition we will also host an editions and publications fair.
The participating artists and publishers will be:

Commonwealth and Council
DTW>LAX. LAX>DTW
ERIC GERO / Editions
Paul Gellman
Holoholo books, Comment Section #2
LAMOA book store
Molly Larkey
The Pit
Prism of Reality
Statler Waldorf Gallery
Irene Tsatsos
and others

The fair will open at 3:30PM, the event will go until 10PM
Opening reception from 5-10PM
The exhibition will be on view until the 10th of May




Beton Bar (concrete bar)


Beton Bar (concrete bar)
Beton Bar is a project by Jan Steiding and Jörg Wagner
 Beton Bar, 2015, concrete, plaster, metal, and matte board  was made for the exhibition "danach draußen"  by Jan Stieding and Jörg Wagner in collaboration with Alice Könitz


Beton Bar (concrete bar)
Beton Bar is a project by Jan Steiding and Jörg Wagner
 Beton Bar, 2015, concrete, plaster, metal, and matte board  was made for the exhibition "danach draußen"  by Jan Stieding and Jörg Wagner in collaboration with Alice Könitz

Paintings by Jan Stieding
clockwise starting above left: " danach",  untitled (draußen), "nacht", untitled, (draußen2)
2015, oil on canvas 28 x 38 in


Fence installation by Jörg Wagner
untitled, 2015, blueprint on paper, size variable