Rhine on the Dnipro: Julia Stoschek Collection/Andreas Gursky. September 28 - December 14, 2008 PinchukArtCentre

PinchukArtCentre presents the exhibition Rhine on the Dnipro: Julia Stoschek Collection/Andreas Gursky from September 28 to December 14, 2008, devoted to the Weeks of German Culture in Ukraine.

The exhibition, which inaugurates the third year of PinchukArtCentre's activities is unprecedented in its scale, selection of names and media collision to see - moving screen image and photo statics compressing tightly space and time. The exhibits will be hosted by three floors of PinchukArtCentre. The first large-scale exhibition in Ukraine of renowned German photographer Andreas Gursky will demonstrate 24 mega-photos created from 1987 to 2008. The exhibition will also display 18 video installations of selected works of Julia Stoschek Collection. The third component of the unique international cultural project comprises the concert of the legendary Kraftwerk, pathfinders in electronic music, at the exhibition opening on September 27.

Gursky deserves fully his nickname "God's Eye". He is peculiar in his meta-visualizing actualized in digital era. Reality heading with its powerful stream of visual images generates need for panoramic visual perception as it does not differentiate between primary and secondary importance, parts and integrity. The emerging integrity has no clear-cut hierarchy and concealed image manipulation. Fragments of reality are sewed together so skillfully that one can not discern but only guess about the stitches. Gursky's photo collages depicting fronts of anonymous skyscrapers, vast office spaces, gatherings of stock brokers, huge landscapes, circuits and race cars of Formula 1, interiors of galleries or clubs, strike the audience with their dualism: notwithstanding their hyperrealism one can not believe his eyes that this is reality but not fiction, phantom...

The first time Julia Stoschek has presented her private collection of contemporary art works focusing on the cutting-edge media - video, photography and installation only recently, in 2007, in Dusseldorf at the exhibition Number One: Destroy, She Said. PinchukArtCentre will host works of both artists of classical videoart period of end 60s, namely, Bruce Nauman, and contemporary video art adepts, such as Christian Jankowski and Robert Boyd, which discover diverse approaches to destruction/creation of the internal/external.

Exhibition Rhine on the Dnipro: Julia Stoschek Collection/Andreas Gursky is open to visitors in PinchukArtCentre  from September 28 to December 14, 2008. Open hours: 12.00 - 21.00 on Tuesday-Sunday. Admission is free..

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Julia Stoschek was born in Koburg (Germany) in 1975. She lives and works in Dusseldorf. Main activities: collecting, support of cultural projects, arts patronage. In 2003-2006 she financed a number of exhibitions in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOMA) and Centre of Contemporary Art PS1 in New York, in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Berlin; founded non-profitable scholarship program "Kunstlerstipendium Just e.V." in Dusseldorf for local young artists. Year 2007 was the first for her to present her collection of contemporary art works focusing on the cutting-edge media - video, photography and installation. Currently Julia Stoschek Collection claims for 374 works.

Official site: www.julia-stoschek-collection.net

Andreas Gursky was born in Leipzig (Germany). He lives and works in Dusseldorf. In 1981-87 he studied at the State Academy of Art (Kunstakademie) in Dusseldorf. He was lectured by Bernd and Hilla Becher, married couple, world-wide renowned photographers and lecturers, who were awarded with Hasselblad Award, the most reputable photography award, in 2004. Starting from 1985 he was stakeholder of a vast array of group and personal exhibitions held in the top-notch world centers and museums of contemporary art, as PS1 (New York), Tate Gallery (Liverpool), MOMA (New York), Jorge Pompidou Center (Paris), Venice Biennale etc.

PinchukArtCentre was opened in September of 2006 to become one of the largest centers of contemporary art in Eastern Europe. The main activities of the center are organization of exhibitions of international and Ukrainian artists, support of cultural projects and others. Since the beginning of its functioning PinchukArtCentre has conducted 7 large-scale exhibitions visited by nearly 400 thousand people. In spring of 2008 PinchukArtCentre opened Project Room to host exhibitions of young Ukrainian and foreign artists.  In June- November of 2007 PinchukArtCentre represented Ukraine at 52nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale with exposition A Poem about an Inland Sea.

Victor Pinchuk Foundation is one of the largest charity organizations of Ukraine founded by Mr. Victor Pinchuk, businessman and art patron, in 2006. The Foundation develops and implements social projects aimed at Ukraine's development and production of the new generation of Ukrainian leaders. The priorities of the Foundation comprise health care, education, culture, human rights, global integration of Ukraine and local community developmen. The largest projects of the Foundation include: Ukraine-wide network of centers for newborn care Cradles of Hope, scholarship program Zavtra.ua, center of contemporary art PinchukArtCenter The Victor Pinchuk Foundation is a member of the European Foundation Centre and of the Ukrainian Grantmakers Forum; it is the partner of Yalta European Strategy (YES) and cooperates with Global Clinton Initiative and other NGOs.

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