Red Fish Factory

we are proud to find Christoph Broich again in russian quality magazines:

DOMUS - one of Russia's leading magazines for architecture

 In September the Kobe Design University will present work of their students in the Red Fish Factory in Antwerp.

Skin to feel, mode to express

is the title of this exhibition held by 4 students of the 4 th year of textile and fashion design at the KOBE Design University. After the presentation in Antwerp, they will continue the show in Venice.

The four students feel similarities in the atmosphere and history of these two European cities towards their home Kobe, one of Japans most important seaports.

Maika TAKAHASHI, born in Hyogo, 1987 - Title : Suffered skin

Miki KISHIDA, born in Osaka, 1987 - Title : Geometrical body
Award : Creative prize of “Kids dream wear” fashion contest 2008

Miki SARUWATARI, born in Osaka, 1987 - Title : melt in
Awards : prize of YKK Fastening award 2007
Prize of DAS (DESIGNERS ASSOCIATION JAPAN) section : fashion, 2009

Yuji MASAKI, born in Ehime, 1987 - Title : Beats of Paper
Award : prize of Kobe Fashion Contest 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

During their studies the students learn the basics of producing fabric and clothes, dying and yarning with traditional manners and sophisticated technolgies. The excelent equipped ultra-modern university on the one hand and the cosmopolitan city on the other hand form an innovative source of inspiration and creativity.

Kobe Design University

Professor NOGUCHI guides the group

SKIN TO FEEL, MODE TO EXPRESS

only on September 14, 15 and 16 2009, 10am - 6pm (wednesday 09/16 till 1pm)

RED FISH FACTORY
Helmstraat 139, Antwerpen

t +32-3-235.58.56

kunstenaarsgroepen brengen hommage aan G58

meer dan 100 kunstenaars in verschillende formaties

29 november  > 24 mei ‘09

KEMZEKE, zat. 29 nov., vanaf 18:00 u. –  Verbeke Foundation

U bent van harte uitgenodigd op de opening van de wintertentoonstellingen in de Verbeke Foundation in Kemzeke op zaterdag 29 november vanaf 18 u. Dan wordt de monografie over het werk van Paul Van Hoeydonck voorgesteld. Vanaf 19 u. opent ‘G58-G59 Mass-akker’.

De jonge kunstenaar Geoffrey de Beer wil doctoreren in de kunsten rond het thema kunstenaarsnetwerken; hoe die 50 jaar geleden ontstonden en hoe deze te vertalen zijn naar vandaag. Hij krijgt nu van Geert en Carla Verbeke met de expo ‘G58-G59 Mass-akker’, de nieuwe winterpresentatie in de Verbeke Foundation, de mogelijkheid een eerste visueel experiment uit te voeren.  Verschillende kleine exposities met meer dan 100 kunstenaars en kunstenaars(collectieven) spelen in op de avant-garde van 50 jaar geleden met als historische referentiefiguur Paul Van Hoeydonck.

Verbeke Foundation Westakkers, 9190 KEMZEKE (Stekene) – wegbeschrijving op www.verbekefoundation.com

open van donderdag tot en met zondag, telkens van 11:00 tot 18:00 u. - groepsbezoeken mogelijk buiten de openingsuren.

inkom: 8 euro (volwassenen); 7 euro (60+-ers); 6 euro (studenten, leraren, mindervaliden, groepen vanaf 20 personen); gratis (jonger dan 16). Jaarabonnement vanaf 20 euro.

overnachtingsmogelijkheden: CasAnus Atelier Van Lieshout e.a..

rondleidingen minimum 10 dagen vooraf aanvragen via info@verbekefoundation.com

cafetaria & gratis parking.

Impressions from Futurotextiel 08

exhibition 9/10/08 till 07/12/08
hall NMBS Magdalenastraat, Kortrijk (Courtrai), Belgium

Christoph Broich talks about Futurotextiel with Kirsten Lemaire on Studio Brussels: http://www.stubru.be/node/69106

Max Streicher "Silenus"

in the background: Devorah Sperber "After van Eyck"

left Christoph Broich "Dt", right Berlinde De Bruyckere "C.Reybrouck"

work of Christoph Broich in the background

Christoph Broich, Berlinde De Bruyckere in the middle, installation of Arne Quinze in the back

artist lost in space (in "La Parole" by Pablo Reinoso)

dress (left) and men's outfit (middle) by Pierre Cardin, "Dress No.1" by Christoph Broich in the background

photograph of "Livelihood Rainbow an installation by Sisley Xhafa in front the famous Broeltowers in Kortrijk

walls made from bales of fibres, in the middle: Alain Germain "Moteur Vulcain d'Ariane 5"

selfknitting lamp

the Verbeke Foundation opend this summer on a huge domain. You can visit the first exhibition 'Vitarti' until October.
www.verbekefoundation.com

you can enlarge the pictures on Christophs own blog http://broichblog.redfishfactory.com/

 

5 July thru 4 August 2007 Tue thru Sat 11-6

Over the past two years, Christoph Broich has received international attention with sculptural installations that have come to stand for a willful sensitivity to the body and mortality. His work is a manifestation of the complex and unquiet correlation between life and work, material and concept.

In his Kopf (Head) series, the artist successfully expands his visual vocabulary by creating a cohesive environment around a single element, the head. Cut up iconic items of clothing and fabric are collaged onto busts and then painted with several coats of latex. Upon completion, as with all of Broich’s meticulously made sculptures, the bust is destroyed and the shell (skin) is all that remains. Broich’s skinned sculptures focus on deterioration and present the reversal of the natural process: skin and flesh decomposing first and the skeleton remaining. Suspended from the ceiling, the heads create an eerie field of beheaded individuals.

Inspired by Weimar bacchanalia, his most recent work, Voluptuous Panic (the title is taken from Mel Gordon's book on Weimar Berlin), invites the viewer to become part of the action. Understanding the importance of absence as well as presence in the deployment of his sculpted elements within a real space, Broich proves to be a master at orchestration and placement.

Spatially isolated through perspectival techniques, curious manipulated, cast characters populate the weirdly decadent environment. The choice of mannequins, empty, non-threatening 'everyone' figures is deliberate, its effect one of alienation.

Choreographed single and multiple groups of characters, seated or lying on the counter of a bar or nightclub, are enmeshed in an emotional confrontation with an unspecified narrative. At one end of the counter, a protagonist’s Siamese body curves back in spontaneous recoil. Each posture and gesture suggesting urgency and concern, tension and empathy. At the other end, a figure leans forward, as if wanting to move out of the drama, but its inability to move seems to frustrate the desire to act. All of the characters in Voluptuous Panic sustain a bland look. They stare into emptiness as they lean on enigmatic moments frozen in space and time, a singular, inexplicable silent moment.

Christoph Broich was born in Stadt Blankenberg, Germany. He graduated from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium in 1994. The artist had his first exhibition at envoy with “Never Mind The Bollocks: Here’s Amanda Lear,” in April 2006. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York. (text: Enoy)

Lara, wo bist du, a video and performance project that started in 1993 will be featured at Unisex Salon at the Delancey on July 5th. Check http://envoy.typepad.com/ for details.

envoy . 131 Chrystie Street . New York . NY 10002 . 212.226.4555 . www.envoygallery.com

unfortunately this exhibition was only last weekend.

installation by Roeland Huys

paintings by Yasmine Willems

A must for everybody who has the chance to come to Antwerp during the next 2 weeks

the exhibition of the students in sculptures is impressing and even the building is worth a visit:

Zonstraat till 4 July 

de Mega Herd van Karolien Hamers

sculptures by Birger Luyckx

Installation by Tine Oorst

 

For other academy exhibitions and opening hours visit http://www.ibknet.be/page.php?la=en&id=1071

 

ENVOY lower east side

East Village / Lower East Side