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ENTROPY

shortfilm, D 2024, 3min., colour
The camera explores what eludes our perception. We look into the depths of time and space where the creation and passing of the universe crystallises out of salt and ink.
Shortfilmfestival Hamburg selected
2024 Yeosu International Art Festival, Republic of Korea

 

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Red Ger Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Opening: September 5th 2024 at 6 pm

Exhibition: September 6 to 27, 2024 

curated by Katja Brinkmann

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Anthroposzenische Landschaften

GaDeWe in Bremen
Galerie Perpetuel, Frankfurt
Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin

Eröffnung ist am Samstag den 12. Oktober

Die Ausstellung läuft bis zum 25. Oktober.

ARCHIVE

ENTROPY

Documentation of the exhibition

Wie alles begann

Von Galaxien, Quarks und Kollisionen

Eine Reise zum Ursprung des Universums

 
Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg
26. Oktober 2022 bis 07. Mai 2023


 

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Wie alles begann

Von Galaxien, Quarks und Kollisionen

Eine Reise zum Ursprung des Universums

 
Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg
26. Oktober 2022 bis 07. Mai 2023


 

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WAS IST FIKTION?

Kunst und Wissenschaft im Dialog

 

in Zusammenarbeit mit Prof. Dr. Christian Schwanenberger/ DESY
Elementarteilchenphysiker, Universität Hamburg
kuratiert von Maria Hobbing

Künstler*innen:
Elena Greta Falcini · Marcel Große · Kathrin Haaßengier · Tanja Hehmann  · Joachim Jacob · Jan Köchermann · Mayuko Kudo · Christoph Lammers · Julia Münstermann · Silke Silkeborg

Ausstellungsdauer: 27.08.-11.09.2022

Die Arbeiten von Julia Münstermann setzen sich mit Licht und den Grenzen des Sichtbaren auseinander. Sie untersucht, wie sich unsere Wahrnehmung durch das technische Bild verändert und wie sich unsere visuelle Welt durch den wissenschaftlichen Fortschritt erweitert. Die Malereien NACHBILD I und II gehen auch auf ein technisches Bild zurück, nämlich das letzte Bild der Voyager. Kurz vor der letzten Möglichkeit der Bildübertragung drehte sich die Sonde zurück und machte ein Foto unserer Erde. Der hellblaue Lichtpunkt Erde ist darauf so klein, dass ein Computer bei der Vergrößerung mehr dazu erfindet, als Information auf dem Foto vorhanden ist. So entsteht ein verschwommenes, undefiniertes Bild, das eine andere Sicht unserer Erde reflektiert. Die Doppelung hinterfragt Reproduktion und Originalität von Bildern und analysiert die Grenzen und Repräsentationsfähigkeit des (technischen) Bildes. So stellt sich auch die Frage - was ist Fiktion?

 

 

Symposion: Sonntag 28.8. ab 15 Uhr

Prof. Dr. Bazon Brock
Vortrag: Die Wahrheit ist eine ungeheuer schmutzige Menschenfalle – Zum Verhältnis von Poesie und Lebenspraxis

Christoph Störmer
Vortrag: Zum Wahrheitsanspruch der Religionen – Eine christliche Perspektive

Prof. Dr. Christian Schwanenberger
Vortrag: Ist Quark der Schlüssel zum Dunklen Universum? – Von Materie und Dunkler Materie

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ENTROPIC MATTER

Julia Münstermann

 



 

At the Deutsches Elektronensynchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, particles are accelerated and made to collide to learn more about the structure of matter in its smallest dimensions. Though the research is conducted at an extreme micro level, one of its ultimate aims is to explain phenomena at the furthest macro level, for example by finding dark matter to thus decipher how the universe evolved. An estimated 85% of all matter structuring our universe is dark matter – the epitome of the unvisualisable. Screens, at the institute, are nevertheless ubiquitous. They indicate the status of the collider and at times display images of particle collisions. These screens describe phenomena that we cannot grasp, are at once images and non-images.

In physical science, to visualise processes at an extreme macro and micro level is problematic, because they lie beyond the boundaries of the visible. Technical images, though strictly speaking not metaphysical, thus describe a reality outside our experience and expand our world.

Julia Münstermann’s paintings are deeply involved with problems of scientific visualisation.

In her recent series entitled ENTROPY, we see what appear to be black and white images of galaxies, interstellar nebulae, and black holes. The artist’s approach references not only familiar black and white photos made from the early 20th century onwards up to present pictures by the Hubble telescope, but also graphic visualisations of phenomena that cannot be registered with (radio)telescopes at all and therefore depend on mathematical projection and the imaginative capacities of graphic artists that specialise in this field. But there is a key difference. In Münstermann’s work the formative principle has shifted from the direct manipulation of material to physical processes that are only partly controllable. The dissolution energy of salt crystals is put to use, causing the water and ink to flow according to principles that make the result difficult to calculate in advance. In this way, disorder is introduced into the working process. This paradoxically results in the formation of structures, and entropy is counteracted.

Entropy is the physical measure of disorder. Our universe strives towards maximum entropy, that is, if no force acts against it, disarray increases. One of the forces acting against entropy is gravity. It manages to create formations that are structured, i.e. more orderly, like clusters, galaxies, solar systems, stars and planets. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, for instance, is a rotating spiral galaxy held together not only by regular matter, but also by dark matter and a black hole at its centre.

Münstermann of course also manipulates her materials with certain results in mind – so the force acting against entropy is present in that sense as well.  But the subtle gradations and surprising variations in the structures on the picture plane are also influenced by entropy and chance, and it is this quality that makes the work especially convincing.
 
In this exhibition, the ENTROPY series is juxtaposed with a number of paintings of screens made with the problems of visualising dark matter in mind. While in the former the hand of the maker has been increasingly expelled from the working process, the latter works depend more on the direct manipulation of the paint with brushes, and are built up in multiple layers. This layering results in a transient shimmer, a surface which on the one hand creates a sense of depth, on the other confronts the viewer with an impenetrable barrier; a hermetic refusal of customary reference. By failing to provide a central motif, the seamless transitions and endless depth of these paintings become disorienting and rather reinforce the sense that we are looking at absolute non-representation. And yet there we are, by ourselves, oddly affected, staring into their cool emptiness.

 



exhibition: 09.01 - 12.02.2022
opening hrs: Wed / Thu
13 - 16:30 
or by appointment:
+49 176 5782 6886




nationalmuseum
Urbanstrasse 100
10967 Berlin
U-Bhf Hermannplatz
www.thenationalmuseum.de


 

image: Julia Münstermann, studio view of Entropy, 2021 (photo by Gunter Lepkowski)

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