PROZESS No 1
PROZESS No 1
10. Oktober 2009 bis 30. Oktober 2009
Romen Banerjee / Peter Grosz, Frank Diersch, Hannes Heiner, Jan Gottschalk, Susanne Husemann, Rainer Kurka, Michael Ley, Albert Markert, Truong Ngu, Frank Paul, Heike Ruschmeyer, Henry Stöcker, Andreas Stöhrer, Frank Tangermann, Andrzej Urbanski, Klaus-Peter Vellguth, Gregor Wiest
Romen Banerjee zur Eröffnung der PROZESSGALERIE am 10. Oktober 2009 in Berlin
Dear friends,
It is simply wonderful that so many of you were able to attend today.
Most of you have been accompanying me for quite some time now and some of you I have had the pleasure of meeting in the past months. There are even a few unfamiliar faces amongst us today who I would like to warmly welcome.
I would like to say a few words as to why this gallery is here.
I come from a family of artists and conducted my university studies in the areas of physics and the arts. My father was an Indian Communist and my parents both raised me with the Motto: “to be a good communist, one must be a good worker.”
So to keep it short, work has always been fun for me and even after I decided to lead my life as an artist, I quickly became successful in the arts – especially due to the fact that during the 80s and 90s I initaited and organized many large projects in the area of fine arts.
During this time two things became clear to me:
Success has little relation to effort. And: even when in a state where one finds himself impelled, one often doesn’t find their way to happiness.
These two views always bring me back to the question as to whether there is truly an object which we can call motivation. “Why do we do the things we do?” “Are there ever dealings without motivation?” ect.
In these days – I like to call them the time of spiritual therapeutic development – wherein different artistically related friendships happened, through creating common works together with other artists.
Through all of the community work done on particular pieces of art it became clear to me, that motivation and identity are closely related to one another.
That is, beyond the question as to “why we do what we do?” there is a hidden question, which actually goes: “Who is that there, who is doing what he is doing?” In short: “who am I?”
My experience has been, that in search of ones own identity, is the onlyone existing motivation. And the closer I get to my own identity, the more I experience taking such steps, the more truthful they become.
Genuineness can be seen as ones own compass, which an artist (or anyone for that matter) has.
An example:
This genuineness – in so far as I have guessed the meaning of the words uttered by Heike Rushmeyer – when spoken of in art, is related to the inner necessity of the picture being painted.
The freedom of art comes only from the societal perspective that an artist is free to do as he pleases.
If an artist makes it his duty to be genuine, he then has no other choice. Therefore he feels emotionally free, as paradox as such may seem.
Of course this relation between such elements as freedom and guidelines when regarding human behaviour goes for us all.
And so now I shall come to the end of my speech: I never wanted to become a gallery manager, however as soon as it became known to me that a production gallery would be opened on STETTINER ECK in order to promote new artists, it became clear to me that the phase of my asylum as an eremitical artist has finally come to an end.
My personal growth needs the sense of a genuine development, which places me in exposure and makes me accessible for my works. Not in anyway possible, but rather the things in which are exactly important to me.
On the one hand there is art, and on the other spirituality. In that which is genuine, both of these things belong together.
The name “Process gallery” relates neither to the development of a specific gallery program and nor to the floor of this room. Moreso the name relates to the process becoming more genius of the people involved in our gallery activities. That goes for musicians, contacts, critics artists and all our visitors.
There will be different activities besides the area of classical gallery operations. Maybe even there will be one or the other participant who is able to steer towards their genuine and personal form of process radicalization.
I am very excited, who will contribut to and join this experiment.
At this time there is a small team of very active fellow campaigners, not forgetting several good artists who have already contributed a tremendous amount.
I would also like to mention
Birgid Lorbeer (for Internet presence)
Michael Ley (for documentation)
Thomas Fanger (for film and interviews / DVD production)
And what I am definitely not allowed to forget, is our friend and saxophonist Christian Weidner (for the area of music)
Now we will listen to a piece from Christian himself.
Shall we?
Die virtuelle Galerie:
In dieser Ausstellung wird ein Spannungsbogen erzeugt, welcher von so künstlerisch unterschiedlichen Positionen, wie Fotoarbeiten eines Andrzej Urbanski aus der subkulturellen Sprayerszene bis hin zu den Skulpturen eines Henry Stöcker mit ihrer dominant archaischen Formensprache, reicht. Junge, bisher weitgehend unbekannte Künstler wie der Berliner Jan Gottschalk finden hier ebenso ihren Platz wie längst arrivierte Positionen.
Die Eröffnung der PROZESSGALERIE am 10. Oktober 2009 in Bildern:
Einladung:
Liebe Freunde,
wir möchten Euch zur
Eröffnung
unserer PROZESSGALERIE herzlich einladen.
Mit einer Vorstellung der an der Galerie beteiligten
Künstler beginnen wir unsere Ausstellungsreihe
am Samstag, den
10. Oktober von 12.00 bis 16.00 Uhr in der
Fidicinstrasse 40.
Der Saxophonist Christian Weidner spielt für uns
und anschließend könnt Ihr Euch in den
Galerieräumen entspannt mit den Künstlern unterhalten.
Wir freuen uns auf Euch und wer zur Eröffnung
nicht kommen kann, hat natürlich die Möglichkeit,
während der regulären Öffnungszeiten Mittwoch
bis Freitag von 16.00 bis 19.00 Uhr vorbeizuschauen.
Natürlich sind stets Ausstellungsbesichtigungen
nach Vereinbarung möglich. Am besten erreicht
Ihr uns unter der Nummer 0176 640 104 95 oder
info@prozessgalerie.de. Die Ausstellung ist bis
zum 1. November zu sehen.
Bis bald,
Romen Banerjee
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