Elizabeth Delfs

Sunday, May 27, 2012

MEDIA RELEASE / For Immediate Release

Australian visual artist and designer Elizabeth Delfs will host an Open Studio event during the annual DMY Berlin International Design Festival as a part of the Satelite Program. The yearly DMY Festival exhibits the work of both renowned and young, experimental designers. The core exhibition is accompanied by a wide program of symposia, designer-talks and workshops, which reflect current topics of contemporary design and to reveal necessary future trends of design and its related disciplines.

Delfs will open her Berlin studio to the public to view recent works of her interdisciplinary practice. Located in the nexus where fashion and architecture collide, Delfs uses light industrial and dress materials with textile processes to create objects which vacillate between habitations and figurative sculpture. The enigmatic combination of material and process evokes movement, changing mass, and shifting surface.

“My work displays a delicate sense of equipoise, creating an unfamiliar sensuality by erupting from surfaces, recalling corporeal and architectonic topographies. Luminous prismatic shapes tend to hover in space, on the floor or attached to walls. Non-orientable surfaces orchestrate interplay of reconfigurable forms which imply continuous expansion and protracted stillness”

Delfs will also participate in Die Lange Nacht der Designstudios – the Long Night of the Design Studios, produced in collaboration with designer network Create Berlin and the DMY Festival where Berlin designers, studios and galleries are invited to open their rooms that evening and to present their new work and projects.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Originally from Fremantle in Western Australia, Delfs completed her Bachelor of Arts in Fashion and Textile Design at Curtin University in 2006. Delfs has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout Australia, the United States, Germany and Asia, and in 2011 relocated to Berlin. Her practice was recently included in a survey exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; Wonderland: New Contemporary Art from Australia (2012) curated by Antoanetta Ivanova. Public presentations include speaking as one of 40 key international creatives, identified as leading practionners in the field of design at the prestigious AGIdeas International Design Week, Melbourne (2011).

FESTIVAL DETAILS

DMY INTERNATIONAL DESIGN FESTIVAL BERLIN / 6 – 10 June

EVENT DETAILS
Open Studio Daily from 1pm to 7pm

Die Lange Nacht der Design Studios / 7 June, 7 to 11pm
Closing Finisage / 11 June, 6pm to 11pm

FACEBOOK EVENT

EVENT DETAILS AUF DEUTSCH

LOCATION DETAILS
Studio Elizabeth Delfs
Friedenstrasse 97
(Click here for map)
U5, U6, U8 to Platz Der Vereinten Nationen

MEDIA ENQUIRIES

Elizabeth Delfs / 0176 764 71510 / info@elizabethdelfs.com / www.elizabethdelfs.com

PRESS COVERAGE
Habitus Living (read HERE)
Create Berlin (read HERE)

Monday, May 21, 2012

Installation Photos - Sur la Montagne Exhibition with BERLIN ART LINK

Saturday night opened my exhibition at project space Sur la Montagne on Torstrasse. The exhibition was a snapshot of new work that I made during my residency last year and the show was produced by BERLIN ART LINK. Check out some install photos below as well as a few pics from the afterparty at KIM Bar, and read more about the project HERE! And check out some more photos on Artstars HERE!

Chloe, Monica and Anna from BERLIN ART LINK

All photos courtesy of BERLIN ART LINK

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

BERLIN ART LINK Day & Night Exhibition at Sur la Montagne, Berlin

On May 19, BERLIN ART LINK (BAL) launches the “Night & Day” Series, extending its international contemporary art platform into the Sur la Montagne project room on Torstrasse. The new series presents emerging artists from Berlin and abroad for a one-night opening and one-day exhibition, offers another dimension of engagement to the work of artists and curators that BAL has collaborated with or featured on its website. The inaugural show will present the work of Elizabeth Delfs.

Originally from Australia, Delfs will show a series of recent works, including a large-scale textile wall installation and hanging sculptures falling into the space of SlaM in a two-day exhibition. Her practice explores the nature of constructed space and how perceptions of the environment are built through utilizing architecture and garment construction to investigate their shared theoretical and production strategies.

BERLIN ART LINK’s “Night & Day” series will showcase cross-over artists that work within the fields of visual art, architecture, design and fashion.

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EXHIBITION INFO

Facebook Event Page

SUR LA MONTAGNE (SlaM)
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 19; 7 – 11pm
Exhibition: Sunday May 20, 12 – 6pm
Torstrasse 170, Berlin

BERLIN ART LINK is a Berlin-based online platform for contemporary art which highlights the best of the Berlin contemporary art scene with interviews, articles, documented studio visits, selected weekly event listings and blog. Updated daily by a distinguished international roster of photographers, artists, critics, curators, BERLIN ART LINK diligently extracts and presents the most exciting facets of the city’s dynamic art scene. With an expansive network throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East and extensive knowledge of these regional art markets, BERLIN ART LINK realizes art events, projects and media content through connecting individuals, corporations and non-profit organizations with a network of international art professionals and creative resources.

Sur la Montagne (SlaM) is a non-commercial exhibition and project space operating since 2009. Besides art exhibitions and their A.I.R. program, they host a variety of cultural events such as readings, debates and poetry slams. In addition, the space periodically transforms into other settings, such as a shop, a restaurant, a club, or even a hotel. SlaM’s internationally recognized hotel concept, Hotel Minimal by Herresthal und Kadel, a bed and breakfast in the SlaM storefront, a space that is both an installation and a living space, was a pre-stage and the origin of the upcoming A.I.R. program.

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Studio Photo Shoot! By Katherine York

I was lucky enough to have my wonderful friend Katherine York take a few shots of my studio recently for a few articles about the upcoming Open Studio event I am hosting during the DMY Berlin International Design Festival. She did such a gorgeous job! Check out more of her work on her website HERE.

"I get the feeling, that you, are laughing at my face?"

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Recently Seen / Deutsches Architektur Zentrum / Art Connect Berlin / Hamburger Bahnhof

I went the recent opening at DAZ – the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum for a show called Structural Studies, a collaboration between duo June 14, Toshihiko Mitsuya and Alex Schweder La. An interesting group of artists/architects with admirable practices individually, however the outcome of this project seems a little underwhelming. Using aluminum sheeting common to Toshihiko Mitsuya’s practice, the group created a large scale series of objects treating the materials with folding processes, weaving, etc exploring the possibilities of form, volume, space and egress. The combination of material and the treatment that the group employed lost some of the delicacy that Mitsuya achieves when working with the same material in a smaller scale, leaving some of the intentions for the objects unclear. However the contribution by artist/architect Schweder La is yet to come – Schweder La will intervene with the installation – using mold in some way I think. I am going to a round table discussion next week with the curator and contributing artists to hopefully get a better insight into the project. However each artist is worth checking out individually.

DAZ Installation

I also went to the Networking Breakfast organized by and hosted at the head quarters of ArtConnect Berlin in Neukölln. Fashion and lifestyle photographer Christoph Neumann presented a snap shot of his past and current projects. Artstars Nadja Sayej also gave a talk which can be heard online here – about her work with Artstars, some info and tips about Berlin and an insight into her program.

Christoph Neumann

The always informative and entertaining Nadja Sayej

And I also managed to get to the opening of the latest show at the Hamburger Bahnhof of New York artist Anthony McCall, called Five Minutes of Pure Sculpture. This is the first time the artist has presented a solo show in a German museum.

Hamburger Bahnhof - with permanent light installation by Dan Flavin

Entering into the exhibition space one is completely immersed in darkness – with only the light from the installation permeating the space. Throughout the large hall (which was formerly a train station) are a series of projections on both the floor and walls drawing linear forms in electric white light. Slowly billowing from various sources are gentle plumes of dry ice being haphazardly directed by invisible fans. As the dry ice passes through the shaft of light being projected it creates an ephemeral and constantly evolving architecture which the audience can view from the exterior and interior. McCall has been developing this series since the 70’s which intersect drawing, film, animation and sculpture.