Exhibitions

Solo shows

IN YOUR EYES ONLY @ La Finestra, Venice 2023

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INSTANCES: In The Light Of.... @ Herman Krikhaar Foundation, Salernes, 2022

INSTANCES: IN THE LIGHT OF….

Tilman’s work, which can be associated with the term ’Reductive Art’, focuses on the perception of light (’Light paints the world’), perception per se as well as spatiality. His oeuvre can be understood as an investigation of before mentioned creative attributes and an exploration into the realm of light and space.
To submerge into his world, one should leave behind any formal aspects and approach given objects physically and mentally with an open mind.
These ’Painted Objects’- rather than actual paintings – can be seen as an exploration of architectural space and spatiality. The objects at hand invite to be read as visual instruments, as tools to offer an experiential understanding beyond the perimeters of mere cognitive perception.

In this visual play, the material WHITE, becomes an important factor: Colors and so-called non-colors are mere shades of light, attached to our ability to process spectral vision. They represent a material rather than mere color hues without proposing hierarchy or mental connotations. Besides these attributes, the ’material white’, signifies the idea of space or spatiality, the ether, the void…the void which wants to be filled by the spectator. The painted white space forms a refuge for reflection and interconnection – the ’interspace’- allowing the viewer to interact and participate in the movement of time/light and to find his place within the given dialogue and beyond.

The series Streamers introduce a play on floating forms. Loosely based on a rectangular shape, these forms challenge the boundaries of perception based on our traditional visual settings (rectangular, vertical or horizontal, square etc.), evoking movement, timelessness, flow and infinity.

Movements 1-10, on the other hand can be regarded as an exploration of architectural space, a play on constructed possibilities.
The objects allure to view and understand the act of seeing as an experiential experience – to view the finely calibrated movements and refined spatialities between the multi-layered
Planes in unison with elements of subtle hues as a ’body in motion’ and to interact in the process of perception with one`s own physique – in short to look awry.

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Tilman & Cora von Zezschwitz _ Re_Structuring

Universitat luav di Venezia Convent S Terese, Venice Conference & site-specific installation Organized by Prof Renato Bocchi 23/10/2017

RE-STRUCTURING (un_spaced / the passage)
The project UN_SPACED is a collaborative work and creative dialogue between artists TILMAN (D/US/FR) and CORA VON ZEZSCHWITZ (CN/FR).
In common linguistic use we mostly tend to refer to the term spaceas a mathematical or hollowspace rather then an experienced space.
We inhabit this mathematicalspace – we dwell in it, we work in it, we are dominated by this Euclidian structure and it forms the center of our lives, may it be a house or an apartment, an office or an industrial space.
This mathematical space, which is to a certain degree shaping our perception, is like a skin which can barely be permeated, which reflects on our behaviour and our relationships to ourselves, other persons and/or objects of any kind. We cannot escape the fact of enclosure and structure, not even via architectural features enhancing the idea of the peripheral vision.
The human being is always and also necessarily conditioned in his life by his behaviour in relation to a surrounding space.
Experienced space on the contrary is by nature unstructured, and in this way extends in all directions into infinity, even when first given as a closed finite space lacking any form of socially functional activity.
This experienced space is deeply manifested in human life.It is related to the human being by a vital relationship with subjective and objective life in it and with it, and forms an essential medium of human life and expression.
The temporary extra-muros installation, entitled RE-STRUCTURING (un_spaced/the passage), aims to investigate the subjective and objective perception of space – of concretely experienced space opposed to a measurable mathematical space.
The structure in its rather raw and barren appearance recalls vaguely the outlines of a simple mathematical space transforming its volume into a spatial drawing leading towards the idea of an experienced space.
In its form an ‘open’ structure, a conscious construction of space, this work is to be understood as a topos, a place of departure for this investigation – visually and mentally. By its nature, its proposed ‘mobility’ as well as its structural fragility, the structure aims to suggest the idea of a nomadic existence rather then that of of a fixed location, once the meaning of space and topos are subject to change according to various backgrounds and areas of life. The singularity of its qualities is a form of expression, a test and realization aiming to invite the visitor to explore, experience his relation to the given open structure and reacting to it.
The structure can be seen as a place of passage or as a resting place, a place of fulfillment or as a possibility of development of thought. It can be experienced as a place of resistance as well as toeing the borderlines of spatial experience. It wants to inspire a dialogue regarding our relationship to space in its intimate, social, mental and even political dimensions.
In the second edition of UN_SPACED (the first edition was recently installed at N.O.S / Non-Objectif sud in Tulette, France) the artists choose the form of a passage/corridor as architectural vehicle to further research the possibilities of space as a medium. Over the course of two days, the artists will closely work and discuss with Prof. Renato Bocchi of IUAV/Venice and his students the idea of restructuring a given structure, explore all its ramifications and possibilities, and create new volumes and spaces to be inhabited and experienced.

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UN-SPACED

a collaborative project by Tilman & Cora von Zezschwitz
Non-Objectif Sud (NOS)
La Barraliere, Tulette (FR)
09/09/2017 – 24/09/2017

Makespace/Raw @ Villa Arson, Nice (FR)

a collaborative work by Tilman & Colombe Marcasiano
in: RunRunRun _ 02/10/2016 – 30/12/2016 _ organized by La Station & Villa Arson Nice _ at: Villa Arson, Nice (FR)_http://www.villa-arson.org

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The Black & White Project

Organised by LOOK&LISTEN / Curated by Yifat Gat

TRANSMITTER GALLERY
1329 Willoughby Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11237
+1 917-653-8236
www.transmitter.nyc

August 12 – September 11, 2016

The Image Is In Your Mind (I Love The Way You Smile)

Raygun Projects, Toowoomba, Australia / 2016 / site - specific installation / images: Salt Studio, Toowoomba, Australia

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Reflex Wall

wall painting / 2016 / Raygun Projects, Toowoomba, Australia / images: Salt Studio

JULIAN DASHPER & FRIENDS

Steven Aalders, Ralf Brög, Matthew Deleget, Daniel Göttin, Michelle Grabner, Signe Guttormsen, Bjorn Houtman, Carla Klein, W.J.M. Kok, Elodie Lesourd, Rossana Martinez, Gerold Miller, Odette Muijsers, Victoria Munro, Machiel van Soest, DJ Simpson, Tilman, Jan Maarten Voskuil / PS projectspace / Madurastraat 72 / NL- 1094 GR Amsterdam / http://www.psprojectspace.nl / 29/02/2016 - 01/05/2016 2016 / Thursday? Friday & Saturday, 13.00 - 17.00

Résonance Biennale de Lyon 2015 / FOCUS

site-specific ArtiTecture with video / 2015 / lacquer on MDF & wood / @ Factatory, Lyon / in co-operation with Tator Gallery & Snap Projects / Sponsors: Sikkens solutions (Akzonobel) & Grolsch. / www. snap-projects.com / www.rogertator.com / images: Maxime Riatz

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Les Archives D’un Artiste Inconnu

solo exhibition / Snap, 4 rue de la Thibaudiere, 69007 Lyon (FR) / www.snap-projects.com

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ArtiTecture / 2015

created for: ARCHI-SCULPTURE Hommage à Tristan Fourtine / FONDATION VILLA DATRIS / 7, avenue des 4 Otages 84800 L’Isle-sur-la-Sorge (Vaucluse) / Tél. +33 (0)4 90 95 23 70 / info@villadatris.com / www.villadatris.com / 14/05/2015 – 01/11/2015 / featured artists (selection): Laurent Baude, Liam Gillick, Dan Graham, Tasdashi Kawamata, Le Corbusier, Dani Karavan, Francois Morellet, Jean Nouvel, Anne & Patrick Poirier, Vera Roehm, Sarah Sze, Bernard Tschumi, Xavier Veilhan, Amy Yoes, Sou Fujimoto, Tilman, Hap Tivey; Sol Lewitt ...

Cosi Come Stanno Le Cose

9 May – 23 May 2015 / d.a.c. dolceacqua arte contemporanea / hours Thursday/Friday/Saturday,
14.00 - 18.00 and by appointment /
dac.dolceacqua@gmail.com / https://dolceacquaartecontemporanea.wordpress.com

Tilman in Een Genuanceerd Beeld

Rob de Vries Projects @ 37PK Haarlem (NL) / 14.12.2014 - 25/01/2015

Moments: 4K/Vallon d’Auffes