Duo-exhibition by Mario Asef and Kirstin Burckhardt
Artist talk moderated by Gabriele Brandstetter
Guest artists Dania Burger and Peder K. Bugge
Gabriele Brandstetter is Germany’s first female professor of dance studies. She gained an international reputation as a gender researcher. She successfully developed a new course of study. Dance studies was recognized as a university discipline in 2003 and was integrated into the regular curriculum of the Freie Universität Berlin (FU).
Elena Engelbrechter kam vom Kunstmuseum Wolfburg, um mit uns, dem Kunst–Duo und Paar Asef–Burckhardt, ein Artist Talk zu führen.
Die Ausstellung “SHELTER-BONE / Lieben in Krisenzeiten” wurde von Stephan Klee für den Kunstverein Göttingen kuratiert.
“MOTHER-BURN” is the second video of a trilogy by the artist-couple Asef-Burckhardt. It was filmed on-site in the burned remains of a Redwood tree grove in the ecologically avantgarde architecture project “The Sea Ranch” in Northern California. Based on extensive periods of research there, Asef-Burckhardt created videos, drawings, paintings, performance, sound, photographs and poems produced on site and in Berlin. Their multimedia project is continuously expanding and shown in changing settings at exhibition venues in different countries.
Artist Talk and Guided Tour with Mario Asef, Kirstin Burckhardt and Sven Spieker (UC Santa Barbara, California) June 14th at MOS Art Center, June 2025.
Curated by Bartosz Nowak
TEXTE ZUR KUNST
THE MATTER IS THE MESSAGE Sabeth Buchmann on Asef–Burckhardt at MOS Art Center, Gorzów Wielkopolski
If everything had gone according to plan for the Sea Ranch – a famed planned community and interdisciplinary group of creatives conceived of and first established in the early 1960s on the California coast – its decidedly inclusive community spirit would have remained at the project’s center. But as is so often the case in capitalist systems, economic interests got in the way. Focusing on the formative impulses that Anna and Lawrence Halprin contributed to the settlement, the artist duo Mario Asef and Kirstin Burckhardt are currently examining the Sea Ranch’s structural and ideological concepts in a series of exhibitions. Sabeth Buchmann visited the second iteration, in Gorzów Wielkopolski. Here she reviews a mimetic-critical engagement to which Asef and Burckhardt subject the Halprin legacy while they, at the same time, render it relevant again through an astute reversal of perspectives.
https://www.textezurkunst.de/en/articles/buchmann-matter-message/
Gegenwärtige Formalismen und der verlorene Bezug zur Welt
Textbeitrag: Dr. Alexander Leinemann
Mario Asef 