Aleana Egan at Künstlerhaus Bremen

Artist: Aleana Egan

Exhibition title: small field

Curated by: Melissa Canbaz

Venue: Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Date: May 8 – August 29, 2021

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and ©Künstlerhaus Bremen

In small field Aleana Egan (*1979, Dublin, Ireland) creates a setting of abstract sculptures that are assembled in multilayered constellations. Materials such as metal, wood, pigment, and fabric refer to their own properties, while also remaining indeterminate: In this ambiguity, the objects evoke immaterial moments—ideas, thoughts, feelings, moods, energies, and relationships both towards each other as well as interpersonal. Manifested in form, the internal is turned outwards. Translated into sculptural gestures, latent allusions are made visible, and the processual shifts into focus.

The exhibition situation is a field once opened, remains in motion. Throughout its entire duration small field is accompanied by contributions in the form of posters, thus initiating an additional field of dialogue. The Affiche series addresses the sculptures’ tentativeness and expands the physical exhibition space by extending it into public space. Affiche features poster contributions by Mihaela Chiriac, Sofia Duchovny, Hella Gerlach, Manuela Leinhoß, Vera Palme, Kirsten Pieroth, and Nora Schultz.

small field is Aleana Egan’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication published by Bierke.

Aleana Egan (*1979, lives and works in Dublin). A selection of solo exhibitions are New People, Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf (2020), Shadowy Forms, NICC, Brussels (2020), Spitze, Farbvision, Berlin (2019), A House and Its Head, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2017), There are all sorts of lives, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2014), At intervals, while turning, Drawing Room, London (2011), We sat down where we had sat before, Kunsthalle Basel (2008). Group exhibitions include from narrow provinces, Cample Line Dumfrieshire, Scotland (2019), Sculptors’ Drawings, Alma Zevi, Venice (2017).

Aleana Egan, slow music (2021), foam, card, plaster, papier maché, noille (raw silk), gesso, fabric, cellulose fiber, 100 x 70 x 10 cm © Konrad Fischer Gallery Dusseldorf/Berlin

Aleana Egan, small field, 2021, exhibition view, ©Künstlerhaus Bremen

Aleana Egan, slow music (2021), foam, card, plaster, papier maché, noille (raw silk), gesso, fabric, cellulose fiber, 100 x 70 x 10 cm © Konrad Fischer Gallery Dusseldorf/Berlin

Mihaela Chiriac, All the colors are present, Digital print on affiche paper, 59,4 x 84 cm

Aleana Egan, small field, 2021, exhibition view, ©Künstlerhaus Bremen

Aleana Egan, no noise, no glass, no upholstery boxed her up from the extraordinary (2012–2021), foam, fabric, Jasmonite 124 x 60 x 12 cm, © Konrad Fischer Gallery Dusseldorf/Berlin

Vera Palme, Staschnitt (2021), Digital print on affiche paper, 59,4 x 84 cm

Aleana Egan, small field, 2021, exhibition view, ©Künstlerhaus Bremen

Aleana Egan, sifting screens (2019), foam, fabric, papier marché, acrylic mesh, 32 x 70 x 100 cm, © Konrad Fischer Gallery Dusseldorf/Berlin

Aleana Egan, small field, 2021, exhibition view, ©Künstlerhaus Bremen

Aleana Egan, sifting screens (2019), foam, fabric, papier marché, acrylic mesh, 32 x 70 x 100 cm, © Konrad Fischer Gallery Dusseldorf/Berlin

Hella Gerlach, Digital print on affiche paper, 59,4 x 84 cm

Aleana Egan, wish her safe home (2016), birch ply, dyed muslin, card, tape, filler, Modrock, varnish, 86 x 56 x 23 cm, © Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Nora Schultz, Digital print on affiche paper, 59,4 x 84 cm

Aleana Egan, life group a (2013), Steel, paint, matting, power pigment in box, plaster, wire mesh, fabric, string, 60 x 200 x 70 cm © Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Sofia Duchovny, Digital print on affiche paper, 59,4 x 84 cm