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UPCOMING AT BRIGADE – KEN TAYLOR REYNAGA
We are happy to announce the upcoming solo exhibition ‘Where Blues Meet’ by Ken Taylor Reynaga (b. 1990, Lynwood, California) opening in April.
NOW OPEN - NIGHT EMAILS TO FRIENDS BY COLINE MAROTTA
Brigade is pleased to present the opening of ‘Night Emails to Friends’, a solo exhibition by French artist Coline Marotta (b. 1991, France)
UPCOMING AT BRIGADE - COLINE MAROTTA
Gallery artist Coline Marotta’s (b. 1991, France) second solo exhibition at the gallery ‘Night Emails to Friends’ opens Thursday 16 March.
Drawing from her interest in the ontological, Marotta's gentle expressionist paintings depict a mood of tranquillity, comfort and reconciliation. Her contemplative characters are long limbered, found in acts of embrace or reaching out, adding a sense of intimacy to the cramped spaces they inhabit.
Drawing from her interest in the ontological, Marotta's gentle expressionist paintings depict a mood of tranquillity, comfort and reconciliation. Her contemplative characters are long limbered, found in acts of embrace or reaching out, adding a sense of intimacy to the cramped spaces they inhabit.
MARKET ART FAIR
We are happy to announce that we will be participating in this year’s edition of Market Art Fair in Stockholm (12 – 14 May), with a solo presentation of new works by Kristian Touborg (b. 1987, Roskilde).
Touborg’s multidisciplinary practice centres on assemblage; both in his sourcing of various unconventional materials, and his wide-spanning use of historical, digital, and personal references. Epitomizing a contemporary dualism, Touborg balances on the axis of a traditional painterly practice and the role of a futurist, imagining archaeological structures from a forthcoming society.
Market Art Fair will take place at Liljevalchs Konsthall and Spritmuseum, Stockholm. To learn more, visit www.marketartfair.com
Touborg’s multidisciplinary practice centres on assemblage; both in his sourcing of various unconventional materials, and his wide-spanning use of historical, digital, and personal references. Epitomizing a contemporary dualism, Touborg balances on the axis of a traditional painterly practice and the role of a futurist, imagining archaeological structures from a forthcoming society.
Market Art Fair will take place at Liljevalchs Konsthall and Spritmuseum, Stockholm. To learn more, visit www.marketartfair.com
NOW OPEN - ‘LANDSCAPE IS A VERB’, AMANDA LYDÉRT & FREDERIK NYSTRUP-LARSEN, SERVANDO GALLERY, HAVANA, CUBA
Brigade is happy to present ‘Landscape is a verb’, a duo exhibition by Amanda Lydért and Frederik Nystrup-Larsen, now open at Servando Gallery in Havana, Cuba.
The exhibition centers around the use and consumption of naturalistic imagery and the exchange of beauty. Through Cuban post stamps, product labels, cast coconuts and multiple other artifacts, Lýdert and Nystrup-Larsen investigate the sublime as well as the faux.
The exhibition centers around the use and consumption of naturalistic imagery and the exchange of beauty. Through Cuban post stamps, product labels, cast coconuts and multiple other artifacts, Lýdert and Nystrup-Larsen investigate the sublime as well as the faux.
NOW OPEN - THE BIRDS BY GARRETT PRUTER
Brigade is pleased to present the opening of ‘The Birds’, a solo exhibition by American artist Garrett Pruter (b. 1987, Los Angeles).
UPCOMING AT BRIGADE - GARRETT PRUTER
Upcoming at Brigade: The gallery is thrilled to announce the opening of gallery artist Garrett Pruter’s (b. 1987, US) first solo exhibition at Brigade in January 2023.
NOW OPEN - HOGAR Y ESPERANZA
Brigade is proud to present Hogar y esperanza, Home & Hope, an exhibition featuring eight contemporary Cuban artist. The genesis of this exhibition begins more than four years ago when Brigade first visited Havana.
UPCOMING AT BRIGADE - HOGAR Y ESPERANZA
We are excited to announce the upcoming group exhibition Hogar y Esperanza (Home & Hope), featuring works from eight contemporary Cuban artists; Alejandro Gonzalez Méndez (b. 1974), Arles del Río (b. 1975), Ernesto Garciá Sánchez (b. 1989), Linet Sánchez (b. 1989), Mari Claudia García Ruiz (b. 1989), Osvaldo Gonzalez Aguiar (b. 1982), Susana Pilar (b. 1984) and Yaily Martínez Molina (b. 1990). Pictured still is from the video work ‘Resistencia (Resistance)’ by Susana Pilar, which will be included in the exhibition.
COLINE MAROTTA - NIGHT EMAILS TO FRIENDS
We sense our dreams before we can speak of them. So it is with the evocative color scheme
of Marotta’s paintings; partly composed of burnt orange, pine green, high blue, and blushy reds, it affects us pre-reflectively. Standing in front of Marotta’s paintings, we sense the amorphous figures first because they are red and because they are alive.
of Marotta’s paintings; partly composed of burnt orange, pine green, high blue, and blushy reds, it affects us pre-reflectively. Standing in front of Marotta’s paintings, we sense the amorphous figures first because they are red and because they are alive.
GARRETT PRUTER - THE BIRDS
Emerging from Garrett Pruter’s appropriation of Alfred Hitchcock's iconic thriller 'The Birds' (1963), the show centers around an ambitious, ongoing work in which Pruter laboriously re-edits the original film to remove all the birds. Employing frame-by-frame digital painting, rotoscoping, and sound editing, Pruter’s contemporary reimagining shifts the film’s context, distorting its narrative by erasing the perceived threat.
HOGAR Y ESPERANZA - GROUP SHOW
Brigade is proud to present Hogar y esperanza, Home & Hope, an exhibition featuring eight contemporary Cuban artist. The genesis of this exhibition begins more than four years ago when Brigade first visited in Havana.
ALBERT GRØNDAHL - THINGS FALL APART; THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD
Grøndahl’s work vibrates within multiple temporalities involving the past, its decay, and the encounter with its traces. It refers to ruination, to the materiality of being, to an order of ephemerality by which we are partially constituted. It deals with the gaps between things, the dirt trapped between floor tiles. The results of slow processes of life and death, chaos and construction.
BENDIX HARMS, IGOR MORITZ, KRISTIAN TOUBORG, XAVIER ROBLES DE MEDINA - TRUST IN MORTALS
The exhibition explores the complexities of the human experience through the eyes of four meticulous and uniquely different observers; from Harms’ steel-like relationships to his subjects and Moritz’s immersive empathy, to the technical constructs of Robles de Medina’s seemingly emblematic paintings and Touborg’s near-futuristic investigations into the relationship between humankind, nature and technology.
PETRA CORTRIGHT - DENALI F1 BATWING BABY BEAR BABY BOO
Brigade is proud to present ‘Denali F1 Batwing Baby Bear Baby Boo’, a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Petra Cortright (b.1986, USA) opening 12 August 5 - 8 pm.
Cortright’s core practice is the creation and distribution of digital and physical images using commercially available software, ranging from her early Youtube self-portrait videos to her Photoshop manipulations of images appropriated form the internet, printed onto two-dimensional archival surfaces, projected onto existing architecture, or mechanically carved from stone.
Cortright’s core practice is the creation and distribution of digital and physical images using commercially available software, ranging from her early Youtube self-portrait videos to her Photoshop manipulations of images appropriated form the internet, printed onto two-dimensional archival surfaces, projected onto existing architecture, or mechanically carved from stone.
BERENIKE CORCUERA - EARTH, WIND & FIRE
Brigade is pleased to present the opening of ‘Earth, Wind & Fire’, a solo exhibition by Peruvian-German artist Berenike Corcuera (b.1994, Lima, Peru).
Throughout history humankind has grappled with the fundamental questions of our existence; who are we; where did we come from, how should a life be lived; and where are we going? From animists to polytheists and monotheist, humans have always looked for answers within the context of our social groups, often referring to external spirits or divine entities to explain or validate our common principles and understandings.
Throughout history humankind has grappled with the fundamental questions of our existence; who are we; where did we come from, how should a life be lived; and where are we going? From animists to polytheists and monotheist, humans have always looked for answers within the context of our social groups, often referring to external spirits or divine entities to explain or validate our common principles and understandings.
SERGE ATTUKWEI CLOTTEY - ERASED PAST
Brigade is pleased to present Erased Past – an exhibition by Serge Attukwei Clottey (Accra, Ghana, 1985) that explores the sociopolitical, economic, environmental, and cultural legacies of the colonial projects in Africa.
IN CONVERSATION - GARRETT PRUTER
In the following interview associate director at Brigade, Emma Kollien Gjerde, sat down with gallery artist Garrett Pruter, to talk about the inspiration behind his show, the motivations for the ‘erasure’ employed in ‘The Birds (3)’, and his new series of photographic works.
IN CONVERSATION - ALBERT GRØNDAHL
On the occasion of Brigade’s current exhibition with Albert Grøndahl (b. 1985), ‘Things Fall Apart; The Centre Cannot Hold’, we asked Grøndahl a few questions about the exhibition’s title, his interest in Rome’s enclosed gardens, and his distinctive use of photographic techniques.
IN CONVERSATION - IGOR MORITZ
"I never start a painting with any given narrative in mind. However, It may become a great tool I use to resolve certain formal problems. For instance the direction of gaze of a figure. Here it might be useful for me to ask myself ‘what are they doing there and why?’. But I hope these questions are left internal, and don’t become the subjects of the paintings."
IN CONVERSATION - KRISTIAN TOUBORG
"My work definitely has an interest in both human life at the smallest scale (at its most intimate, everyday and most ordinary) as well as an interest in the immense complexity of human history and the way that our behaviour, culture and technologies have evolved over millennia."
IN CONVERSATION - XAVIER ROBLES DE MEDINA
"Narrative is to my work, what the front door is to a house. For visitors, it’s probably how they enter the space, and then might find that the interior space looks very different from the impression they had outside."
IN CONVERSATION - BENDIX HARMS
"I call myself for a long time a Contentist , because my painted subjects became the decisionsmakers - in relation how to treat them adaquate and how to treat them in relation to the art-history. When all fits, then the subject begins to talk and I become a kind of receiver for their extremely precise orders."
IN CONVERSATION - COLINE MAROTTA
IN CONVERSATION - ANDREA VILLALÓN