Exhibitions, Germany, Berlin, 13 January 2012
For Temitayo Ogunbiyi’s first German solo exhibition, the focus is on her new work
created between 2011 and 2012. The overwhelming focus of the artists research of recent years has been analysing and illustrating contemporary modes of communication and how it affects individuals, communities and the wider scope of society.
She exploits digital media in a manner that is self aware whilst utilising these mediums harmoniously and in concert with more traditional methods and materials such as pencil drawing and textiles which will take the form of three dimensional collages.
When we browse the web daily, we borrow and reinterpret ideas and imagery, share our own thoughts and experiences in forums and on social networks, download music, films and software and get inspired by people from all over the world. Do we steal from each other or do we collaborate? Where are the borders between the private and the public and is how cultural exchange and artistic development mediated by contemporary digital technologies of communication?
„Am I a Thief ?“ is an exhibition and site specific installation, which will become a temporary artists workshop in order to further develop the art works. The entire project will be digitally documented and released on the web in the form of a short film for virtual posterity.
Ogunbiyi could land a collaboration with Kate Williams and Ugoma Adegoke (Zebra) and herself. Williams and Adegoke are both famous Nigerian fashion designers, who would jointly create a piece of “haute couture” each, with the artist, for display in the exhibition.
Ogunbiyi studied at the prestigous universities of Princeton and Columbia in the U.S. Previously based in New York she is currently living and working in Lagos in her homeland, Nigeria.
TS art projects was founded by Tore Suessbier. Beginning with “Am I A Thief?” TS art projects will start an international exhibition program applying the „Flying Gallery“ concept to cities so far including Berlin, Munich and New York. Rather than presenting artists in a fixed gallery space, a new location will be sought out for every exhibition. In the future one can expect, in addition to a classic exhibition format,
visual and audio experiments that involve interdisciplinary collaborations, between musicians and artists.
Complimenting every exhibition there will be artist talks, dinner parties, concerts and fashion shows. This is a means to assimilate the show into the host cities art
scene whilst simultaneously enhancing it.
created between 2011 and 2012. The overwhelming focus of the artists research of recent years has been analysing and illustrating contemporary modes of communication and how it affects individuals, communities and the wider scope of society.
She exploits digital media in a manner that is self aware whilst utilising these mediums harmoniously and in concert with more traditional methods and materials such as pencil drawing and textiles which will take the form of three dimensional collages.
When we browse the web daily, we borrow and reinterpret ideas and imagery, share our own thoughts and experiences in forums and on social networks, download music, films and software and get inspired by people from all over the world. Do we steal from each other or do we collaborate? Where are the borders between the private and the public and is how cultural exchange and artistic development mediated by contemporary digital technologies of communication?
„Am I a Thief ?“ is an exhibition and site specific installation, which will become a temporary artists workshop in order to further develop the art works. The entire project will be digitally documented and released on the web in the form of a short film for virtual posterity.
Ogunbiyi could land a collaboration with Kate Williams and Ugoma Adegoke (Zebra) and herself. Williams and Adegoke are both famous Nigerian fashion designers, who would jointly create a piece of “haute couture” each, with the artist, for display in the exhibition.
Ogunbiyi studied at the prestigous universities of Princeton and Columbia in the U.S. Previously based in New York she is currently living and working in Lagos in her homeland, Nigeria.
TS art projects was founded by Tore Suessbier. Beginning with “Am I A Thief?” TS art projects will start an international exhibition program applying the „Flying Gallery“ concept to cities so far including Berlin, Munich and New York. Rather than presenting artists in a fixed gallery space, a new location will be sought out for every exhibition. In the future one can expect, in addition to a classic exhibition format,
visual and audio experiments that involve interdisciplinary collaborations, between musicians and artists.
Complimenting every exhibition there will be artist talks, dinner parties, concerts and fashion shows. This is a means to assimilate the show into the host cities art
scene whilst simultaneously enhancing it.
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