META I

META I – Alsace, 2021
„We breathe, perceive, connect, create, transgress and act. It is simple. And it is not. This is us.“You might wonder what this merely poetic statement wants to tell you as an exhibition title. Did you ever ask yourself how it feels to be an artist? In a time, where the artistic process strongly needs to transgress society this is a highly relevant question. We need every human and specifically operative decision makers like ceos, investors, politicians and scientists all over the world to think and act like artists: To confront themselves with truth and reality. To be experimental and visionary. To embrace creativity and collaboration and to liberate themselves from old world dogmas. How else can we solve the problems of our time if we stay stuck in the past thinking patterns?

How to overcome overconsumption, climate change and progressive mass distinction of whole species (ours included)?

This exhibition wants to celebrate the importance to be an artist and it wants to invite you to get in touch with your own inner artist. Come visit this show and tell me: What does this mean for you?

The Maison des Temps artist residency, situated in an ancient farm house in the north of France, puts art in touch with nature as we believe this is the most powerful element to inspire true change. The vibrant big cities and digitalization distract us from ourselves. From reality. How can we solve problems if we are not able to see them?

I curated this exhibition following my intuitive sense of which positions would fit ideally to this unique exhibition space in nature. After more than 500 exhibitions in 20 years this was a very new way of curating for me: I deeply looked in myself where I stand in my life right now. I made 12 month of artist research, I put the aesthetical and conceptual dots together, I created a vision for this show, allowed myself to liberate myself from commercial patterns and started curating. Was simple. And it was not. This is us.

Johann Haehling von Lanzenauer

INSTALLATION SHOTS – META I

META SOUNDSCAPE I
BY JOHANN ALEXIS & MALCOLM GOMPF