Thomas Liu Le Lann | Jaime Welsh

Thomas Liu Le Lann | Jaime Welsh

Exhibition | Fri 13.9.2024 - Sun 10.11.2024

Vernissage | Thu 12.9.2024 | 7 pm

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Opening hours // opening hours

Thu | Fri 5-8 pm

Sat 14-20 h

Sun 14-18 o'clock

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Thomas Liu Le Lann | Entertain | Solo Presentation

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In his playful and disturbing solo presentation of sculptures, videos, sound, photographs and texts, Geneva-based artist Thomas Liu Le Lann explores powerlessness, failure and vulnerability through a mixture of intimate experience and collective history. In doing so, he questions the individual's relationship to childhood, family, work, capitalist production systems and leisure society.

Thomas Liu Le Lann is a French artist, born in 1994, who lives and works in Geneva. In 2018 he won the HEAD - Gallery prize. In the same year, he won the New Heads - Fondation BNP Art Awards, thanks to which he was invited to present a solo exhibition at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Le Locle and at the BNP Foundation stand at artgenève.

His solo exhibitions include Best Western at LUBOV (New York, USA), Show Down at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Le Locle (Le Locle, Switzerland), I'm not okay at Galerie Vin Vin (Vienna, Austria) and 07.19 at Maladie d'Amour (Grenoble, France). He participated in group exhibitions such as Studies on Empathy at the Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard (Paris, France), Henry Darger Summer Camp designed by Extramentale (Arles, France) and Platform # 19 at the Center d'Art Contemporain - Yverdon les Bains (Yverdon les Bains, Switzerland).

Thomas Liu Le Lann is also co-founder and co-administrator of <i>Cherish</i>, an artist-run space in Geneva, in collaboration with Serpas, Mohamed Almussibli and James Bantone.

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In his playful and disturbing solo presentation with sculptures, videos, sound, photos and texts, Geneva-based artist Thomas Liu Le Lann explores powerlessness, failure and vulnerability through a mixture of intimate experience and collective history. He questions the individual's relationship to childhood, family, work, capitalist production systems and leisure society.

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Jaime Welsh | The Inheritors | Solo presentation

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Jaime Welsh works with highly constructed photographs. In the often clinical interiors of official buildings, figures are shown as allegories for anxious or tense psychological states. Welsh's research focuses on the formal relationship between people and architectural space and the evocation of psychological interiority through photography. For his solo presentation in Freiburg, a new series of photographs will be staged in the headquarters of a former Portuguese bank, which functioned as the central bank for the entire Portuguese empire from 1864 to 2001.

Jaime Welsh was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1994 and lives and works in London, where he graduated on a scholarship from the <i>Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation</i> and Goldsmiths University (2018-2021). Recent projects have been exhibited at South London Gallery, Galeria Madragoa, Firstsite Museum; White Cube (online); Castor Gallery; Saatchi Gallery; Piccadilly Lights; Galeria Graça Brandão; Gallery 46 Whitechapel. Recent awards include <i>Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021</i>, Tomorrow by White Cube 2021 and Circa Art Class of 2020. Welsh was Artist in Residence at Rua das gaivotas 6 and Tate Exchange at Tate Modern. Public collections include the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum and the MACE Collection (Antonio Cachola). Jaime Welsh's work has been published in Frieze Magazine, Contemporânea, Elephant Magazine, Jornal Expresso, Umbigo Magazine and Urbana, among others.

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The artist Jaime Welsh, born in Portugal, who lives and works in London, works with strongly constructed photographs. In the often clinical interiors of official buildings, figures are shown as allegories for anxious or tense psychological states. Welsh's research focuses on the formal relationship between people and architectural space and the evocation of psychological interiority through photography. A new photographic series is being created for his solo presentation in Freiburg, staged in the headquarters of a former Portuguese bank that operated between 1864 and 2001 as the issuing bank for the whole of the Portuguese empire.

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Artists // Artists

Thomas Liu Le Lann, Jaime Welsh

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Events // Events

Vernissage

Thu 12.9.2024 | 7-10 pm

19.30 Welcome, E-Werk event rooms Foyer

Nocturne | A tour through Freiburg's art spaces

Fri 13.9. | Exhibitions open until 10 pm // Galleries open until 10 pm

8 pm | Champagne & Cider Reception

Further information // more information

https://www.kunst-in-freiburg.de/

Poetic Salon (Engagement of the Friends)

Fri 27.9. | 18.30-20.30 hrs

Meeting point: Gallery 2

Short presentations with roundtable discussion // Short presentations with roundtable discussion

Thu 24.10. | 7 pm

Post-heroic masculinities // Post-heroic masculinities

with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bröckling, MA Rebecca Heinrich and Dr. Andreas Plackinger,

Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Collaborative Research Center Heroes - Heroizations - Heroism

Meeting point: Chamber Theater, E-Werk event rooms

Halloween Screening (Engagement of the Friends)

Thu 31.10 | 9 pm

Meeting point: Gallery 1

Exhibition Tours // Exhibition Tours

Sun 29.9.2024 | 4 pm

Thu 17.10. | 6.30 pm

Sun 10.11. | 4 pm

Meeting point: Gallery 1

Yoga in the exhibition // Yoga in the Exhibition

Sat 12.10. and Sun 3.11. | 1 pm

Meeting point: Gallery 1

more information coming soon // more information soon

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SPONSORSHIPS // FUNDINGS

Exhibition Thomas Liu Le Lann with the support of the City of Geneva // With the support of the City of Geneva // Avec le soutien de la Ville Genève

and with the support of Pro Helvetia // and with support of Pro Helvetia

Exhibition Jaime Welsh with the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation // with support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

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Photos: Thomas Liu Le Lann (c) courtesy of the artist.

Jaime Welsh, Saint Vicent Tied to a Column, Nuno Gonçalves (detail) (c) courtesy of the artist.