Exgirlfriend warmly invites you to join us for the opening reception of our first exhibition of 2020

Spacial Drift

Andrea Acosta & Katherina Heil

Curated by Exgirlfriend

January 17th - February 7th

Opening Reception

January 17th @ 19.00

The human eye, engaging its precise and intricate components, focuses light travelling and reflecting at 299 792 458 meters per second into a single point on the surface of our ocular membranes. It is at this point where science and fiction meet, our optic nerves then serving as a courier for transformation, whereby information morphs into consciousness and our environment becomes malleable. It is in this expanded conceptual space between pure objectivity and subjectivity that we find the intersections of real, manufactured, and imagined natures and their representations– the conceptual basis for Exgirlfriend’s fifth exhibition of the 2019/2020 season, Spacial Drift with works by Andrea Acosta and Katherina Heil. 

Both artists present works which are a re-imagining of the universe and all its phenomena, both physical and metaphysical. Acosta and Heil’s distinct approaches regarding organic and inorganic materials, constructed environments, installations and digital spaces, and the representation of produced and reproduced natural forms constructs a new imagined space with its own axiomatic system within the confining walls of Exgirlfriend. 

Andrea Acosta (1981, CO) received her BA in Fine Arts in her hometown of Bogotá, Columbia in 2005 at the Universidad de los Andes and her MFA in 2008 from the Bauhaus Universität in Weimar, Germany. Her work has recently been presented in solo exhibitions at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA lab)  in Paris in 2019 and LA Galería in Bogotá in 2018 as well as recent group exhibitions at REITER in Berlin and the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Masstricht.

Katherina Heil (1982, DE) received her BA in 2009 from the Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule Berlin and her MFA from AKV St. Joost in Den Bosch/ Breda, Netherlands in 2015. Her work has recently been presented in solo exhibitions at The Orchid and The Wasp in Amsterdam, A-DASH project space in Athens, and Nida Art Colony in Nida, as well as group exhibitions at spaces such as Willem Twee Kunstruimte, Stichting Kaus Australis Rotterdam, VITRINE Basel, and The Hague.

Please join us for drinks and conversation on January 17th, 2020 at 19.00 at Exgirlfriend for the opening reception of Spacial Drift.

Text by Exgirlfriend

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