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Michal Rovner: Current

Video installation at Mischanlage

  • © Achim Kukulies
    (c) Achim Kukulies
  • (c) Ruhrtriennale: Matthias Mohr / IKS, Düsseldorf
  • © Achim Kukulies
    (c) Achim Kukulies
  • © Achim Kukulies
    (c) Achim Kukulies

Israeli artist Michal Rovner inaugurates a new site specific work in a large exhibition at the UNESCO world heritage Zollverein in Essen. Each year the Ruhrtriennale 2012 - 2014 invites a contemporary video artist to engage with the space of the industrial monuments and present new works for the site. Beginning operation in the 1960s, this site once was an industrial plant used to mix different types of coal; the walls of its huge funnel-bear the traces of this production process. Current, Rovner's new work is inspired by Mischanlage, its monumental cement structure, its history and the visual power of the residue of coal coking that left its imprint on the wall. The title Current refers to two factors: time and vectors of energy. Current relates to the present time in its most immediate sense. Current also refers to a flow of any substance, in concrete and metaphorical or ideological contexts. Rovner's work Current depicts images of flowing substance and people in motion. Masses of people moving with the flow or against it. The work creates a chain of associations from the poetic to the political. The installation combines footage from different places in which Rovner filmed and, occasionally, documentary news coverage. In this way, it generates an almost archaeological view of our life as it is today, as if we were looking back at ourselves from the future David Grossman, the Israeli writer and peace activist, wrote about her work in the catalogue of Histoires (2011), Rovners exhibition the Musee du Louvre in Paris:  »Human figures are in perpetual motion. Their movements are sometimes focused and sometimes blundering, lacking direction, the movement of individuals and of a crowd. Most of all, it seems to me, they represent the movement of the human being - of humankind - within the passage of time...All of humanity feels to us like one great motion - and we are immersed within it. The sense of our being and the sense of our extinction are heightened as we watch the movement. Suddenly we grasp - in the most concrete way - that we are present, at this moment, inside our fate, inside our time, so brief, hasty, and changeable.«

Michal Rovner was born in 1957 in Israel. Rovner lives and works in New York City and a farm in Israel. The exhibition at the Ruhrtriennale it is her first large-scale exhibition in Germany. Museum Folkwang will also be presenting one additional work by Rovner, Datazone 1, cultures table # 2003. Rovner's work in video, sculpture, drawing, sound and installation has been exhibited worldwide in over fifty solo exhibitions including Michal Rovner: Against Order? Against Disorder? (2003) the Israeli Pavilion 50th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale; Fields (2005) at Jeu de Paume in collaboration with Festival d'Autume, Paris; Histoires (2011), solo exhibition in three parts at the Musee du Louvre in Paris. Cracks in Time (2012) at Castello di Rivoli, Turin.
As part of the series tumbletalks at the Museum Folkwang there will be a discussion between Michal Rovner and Michael Morris. Morris is the Artistic Director of Artangel, a London based agency which enables the pioneering work of important contemporary artists such as Francis Alÿs, Matthew Barney, Jeremy Deller, Douglas Gordon, Roni Horn, Steve McQueen, Michael Landy, Brian Eno, Gregor Schneider, Robert Wilson und Rachel Whiteread. Since Joséphine Markovits, Artistic Director of the Festival d'Automne in Paris, encouraged Heiner Goebbels and Michal Rovner to work together in 2005 the two artists developed a close artistic partnership. The result of this first collaboration was the panoramatic video and sound installation Fields of Fire which also gave name to Michal Rovner's retrospective at Jeu de Paume, Paris, in 2005. Since then, Fields of Fire has been presented in galleries and museums in New York, Rome, Madrid and Tel Aviv. Rovner is represented by The Pace Gallery, New York.

Video installation —
Michal Rovner

Shows

Location
— Mischanlage, Essen
Dates
— 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. August 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. September
Duration
— Daily, 10.00 – 18.00; Opening: 18. August, 12.00
Tickets
— 4 €

Tickets for 12 Rooms are valid for Current, too.

August
  • Sat18Aug
    12.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 18. August 2012 at 12.00 PM
  • Sun19Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 19. August 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Mon20Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 20. August 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Tue21Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 21. August 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Wed22Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 22. August 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Thu23Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 23. August 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Fri24Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 24. August 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Sat25Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 25. August 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Sun26Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 26. August 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Mon27Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 27. August 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Tue28Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 28. August 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Wed29Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 29. August 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Thu30Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 30. August 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Fri31Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 31. August 2012 at 10.00 AM
September
  • Sat 1Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 1. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Sun 2Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 2. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Mon 3Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 3. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Tue 4Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 4. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Wed 5Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 5. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Thu 6Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 6. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Fri 7Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 7. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Sat 8Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 8. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Sun 9Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 9. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Mon10Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 10. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Tue11Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 11. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Wed12Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 12. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Thu13Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 13. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Fri14Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 14. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Sat15Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 15. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Sun16Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 16. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Mon17Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 17. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Tue18Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 18. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Wed19Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 19. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Thu20Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 20. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Fri21Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 21. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Sat22Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 22. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Sun23Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 23. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Mon24Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 24. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Tue25Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 25. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Wed26Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 26. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Thu27Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 27. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Fri28Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 28. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Sat29Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 29. September 2012 at 10.00 AM
  • Sun30Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Michal Rovner: Current on 30. September 2012 at 10.00 AM

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Museum Folkwang, Essen
A production of Ruhrtriennale, held in cooperation with Stiftung Zollverein.

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