JUNGE AKADEMIE: Open Studios

Several times a year, the JUNGE AKADEMIE opens its artist studios at Haseatenweg for Open Studios with presentations by current fellows. The spacious two-storey studios with a view in the Tiergarten designed by Werner Düttmann are used as exhibition spaces by the artists to show existing works as well as works-in-progress and to give insight into the panorama of their ideas and projects.

Franziska Aigner works at the intersection of performance, music, and philosophy. Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi is a Milky Way-based artist whose practice mutates in and out of film, sculpture, installation, performance, and interdisciplinary research. In collaboration with Alex Zhang Hungtai, the artists explore the “supersound of the atonal,” counterpointed with a found footage film by Nguyen-Chi (including films by Ingmar Bergman, Maya Deren, Jonathan Glazer, Shūji Terayama). The performance will take place at 7 pm. Franziska Aigner and Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi are fellows of the Human Machine programme in cooperation with E-WERK Luckenwalde and the E.ON foundation.

Hana Yoo is interested in exploring collective anxiety and transcendental experiences stemming from extreme polarisation and Othering. In her multimedia installations and films, Yoo examines and subverts socio-political (dys)topia through a real-life, parodic form of storytelling. At the Open Studio, the artists will present her studio space as a mental landscape where past work, current projects, and future research intertwine. Hana Yoo is a fellow of the Visual Arts section.

Jug Đorđević’s work as a theatre director is mostly focused on contemporary Serbian plays, concerning themes such as Balkan heritage, identity, gender justice. For the Open Studios, he invites you to an after party. The artists have left. Now the room is empty. In the corners, echoes of the conversations from the party linger. Only leftovers remain—echoes of the greatest fun. Jug Đorđević is a fellow of the Performing Arts section.