Opening at LoBe: Nika Radić & Annie Davey

LoBe is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition by Nika Radić & Annie Davey: Privat View: 30/08/2013, 6 – 11 pm Opening hours: Friday – Saturday, 2 – 6 pm Exhibition period: 31. August – 21. September 2013 LoBe - London Berlin Schererstraße 7 13347 Berlin-Wedding Tel +49 171-7724502 info@lo-be.net Annie and Nika have gone about their residency at LoBe in a very matter of fact way, with no pretence of collaboration. Instead they have decided to help each other in their own themes and projects that they have developed independently for the LoBe space. An artistic friendship and dialogue has developed that assisted the production of ideas and in the practicality of the work. Annie Davey makes videos that use empirical research to take irreverent, sideway views of situations of deemed cultural importance, for example the former site of Black Mountain College, USA (now a Christian summer camp for boys) or the coffee table book reality of Unite D’Habitation in Marseille (Too Cool for Corby, 2013). Both employ the train of thought, shifts of perspective and a lite, stripped back narrative to gently seduce the viewer whilst undermining established paradigms. At Lobe she has been interested in the historical and contemporary relationships between holidays and artist residencies, with their shared promise of reflection, immersion, escape and, sometimes, sex. Here she has fictionalised an amateur tourist video made in Berlin in 1989 by a group of American teenage boys to play out the conflicts between artist resident and tourist, cultural appreciation and bodily desire. Nika Radić questions, if art is really in the eye of the beholder or is it in the creative process? Can an artist really determine what the viewer will see when looking at a finished artwork? Nika Radić has made a geometric installation that resorts to her early work she has done after studying sculpture at the modernistic oriented art academy in Zagreb. Such an abstract work will necessarily have a different meaning in a different time and context, so Radić has invited Annie Davey to give her interpretation of the piece and has, afterwards, changed it according to the new interpretation. Annie Davey lives in London. She holds an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College. Selection of shows and projects: Misery Connosieur Live!,Von Horbourg, Zurich (2013) Space in Between, London (2013) I Do ,PG Gallery, Istanbul (2013), Akademie Block Meinblau Kunst, Berlin (2012) , The Woodmill, London (2012), This is Not a School , Five Years, London (2011) , Screening , Maria Stenfors Gallery, London (2011), Performance as Publishing , South London Gallery (2011), Here is There, There , St Lukas Gallerie, Brussels (2011) Nika Radić lives in Berlin. She has graduated in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and in art history from the University of Vienna. Selection of exhibtions and projects: Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad( 2012),Scenarios about Europe – Scenario 3, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig(2012),Passing By, MKC, Split(2011), We Need to Talk, Glyptotheque, Zagreb(2011), T-HT@MSU, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb(2011), Out of Place, Galerie Traversée, Munich(2010)