Agnes Domke BERLIN

Agnes Domke participated with Luna Nera in
Interconnection, Kronstadt 2004 and Urban Clearance, Belfast 2005

born 1973 in Angermuende, GDR
lives in Berlin

since 2001 independent artist
1999-2000 Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, free media, prof. Lauri Anttila, FIN
1998 Ècole des Beaux Arts de Paris, painiting, prof. Bernard Pifaretti, F
1995-2001 Academy of Fine Arts Dresden, painting, prof. Ralph Kerbach, prof. Ulrike , Grossarth, D

Exhibitions

2004 Broadcast, former house of broadcast, GDR, Berlin, D
2003 Obituary In Colours, Protestant Center, Cottbus, D
2002 Berlin Chamber, studio Simon-Dach Strasse, Berlin, D
1999 Slavonic Sounds, studio Linienstrasse, Berlin, D
1998 Inversion, studio Wilhelminenhofstrasse, Berlin, D
1998 Couleurs Éclairant, Gallery of the École des Beaux Arts de Paris, F

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2004 And Not At Least, p.s.: ESP, Kaunas Picture Gallery, LT
2003 Dialogues, Biennale of Contemporary Art, Manege, Saint Petersburg, RU
2003 Ateik, Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts ViInius, LT
2003 The Secret Balcony, Elniu Slenio Pleneras, Joniskis, LT
2003 Shadows In The Wallpaper, Vana Koolimaja, Umbusi, EST
2002 Beautiful Past, Elniu Slenio Pleneras, Joniskis, LT
2001 Painting As A Home, Gallery Aroma, Berlin, D
2000 After Summer, Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, FIN
1999 Fruehlingssalon, Academy of Fine Arts Dresden, D
1999 Berlin- Prague- Paris, studio Linienstrasse, Berlin, D
1998 Accrochage/ Décrochage, Gallery of the École des Beaux Arts de Paris, F
1997 Fruehlingssalon, Academy of Fine Arts Dresden, D

Projects

2004 Senmerge, artpolitperformance with Elena Sakalauskaite, Vilnius, LT
2004 Adventure of Interpretation, World View Folk Art, Lecture, Vilnius, LT
2003 Matrioskai, performance with Elena Sakalauskaite, Berlin, D
2003 Vana Koolimaja, curation of art symposium, Umbusi, EST
2002 Berlin Buddy Bear, Berlin, D
2000 Look into the Light, Video, FIN
1999 Costumes for performance group Vuokkoset, FIN

Installationstitel Übersetzung/ Translation Titles of Works

Berliner Raum/ Berlin (D) 2002
Berlin Space/ Berlin (Ger) 2002
Schöne Vergangenheit/ Elniu Slenis (LT) 2002
Beautiful Past/ ELniu Slenis (Lit) 2002
Schatten in der Tapete/ Umbusi (EST) 2003
Shadows in the Wallpaper/ Umbusi (Est) 2003

Das Geheimnis des Balkons/ Elniu Slenis (LT) 2003

The Secret of the Balcony/ Elniu Slenis (Lit) 2003

In der Höhle der russischen Seele/ St. Petersburg (RU) 2003

In the Cave of Russian Soul/ St. Petersbourg (Rus) 2003

Sprödes Zimmer/ Berlin (D) 2004

Brittle Room/ Berlin (Ger) 2004

Rundfunk/ Berlin (D) 2004

Broadcast/ Berlin (Ger) 2004

For my installations I fist try to find out the subject of a certain space. Then I work with my installing process so, that the special athmosphere of the room is intensified and certain mental qualities get obvious for the visitor.

Project description for Kronstadt

I want to make a work about the tension between military attitude, soviet ethics and contemporary decline, that noticed watching people and environment in Kronstadt one year ago. The atheist cosmos, sport, discipline, ideals, visions of conquest of the world in relation to the everyday reality there now is a subject I would like to deal with in form of an installation in an indoor space.

In the Cave of Russian Soul/ St. Petersbourg (Rus) 2003

This installation in a big contemporary art show in St Petersburg was ment to confrontate my own prejudices about russian mentality with the picture, that russians have of themselfes. I made a chamberlike room with soviet wallpaper and drawings of “moods” on the wall that were to be lightened by a mine lamp. Books with collages oput off newspaper fotos were illustrating my view about Russia and one empty book was ment to take the comments of the guests.

The Secret of the Balcony/ Elniu Slenis (Lit) 2003

In a former soviet rest home for melioration workers is to be found in the dining hall abalcony, that is impossible to enter. I did a work about a given and not fullfilled promise there. I installeded a landscape from straw, coal, chalk and glass and equipped the balcony reminding to a cosy chamber. It was possible to climb up there on a latter and to get surprized or disappointed.

Brittle Chamber/ Berlin (Ger) 2004

The Brittle Chamber is a mental landscape made from paper telling about the sleeping of the nature, the dying inside and outside, about bleaching and vanishing.
It is an inner landscape visualized. It needs a visitor, cause it is ment as a surrounding.

Broadcast/ Berlin (Ger) 2004

In the building of the former broadcast of GDR I made an installation about the people that once worked there, their passions and moods. The room, a former office, was very dark and in the shadows and corners were hidden “moods”, that could be seen only with the help of a pocket lamp. In the wallboards were glowing cellophan light sculptures, to make it more spooky.