Exhibitions

I'M KEEPING AN EYE ON YOU

ASU Art Museum Moving Target initiative

Arizona State University Art Museum
Sept. 19 - Dec. 12, 2009

Premiered in fall of 2008 as a single channel video project space 

Pia Greschner

Pia Greschner
Blue Hour 1-3, 1997
Courtesy of the artist

In the artists own words:
Blue Hour 1-3
My videos show images of moments between reality and fiction, dream or hallucination. I´m interested in creating a poetic visual language that makes things visible that we don’t normally see. My work researches different possibilities of narration, the creation of images as well as a poetic transformation of reality. Often my videos are minimal situations based on images rather than complex stories. As their story is never completely revealed the situations are always open for more than one scenario. Visible is just the moment that is extended to the point of time almost standing still. Context has no meaning anymore, there is only presence. The atmosphere of the moment is central to the piece.

I often use architecture, urban space and landscape in my images, all of which serve as a catalyst for the mood I want to create. A building or a location is fictionalized and filled with personal yet universal observations and sensations. The everyday is turned into the imaginary. I want to seduce the spectator, put him in a dreamlike state and transport him into a new reality. He is entering utopia, a timeless dimension. The protagonists in the videos are aware of the timelessness. They are driven by their knowledge of a greater context and the search for a space without limitations.

About the artist:
Pia Greschner currently lives and works in Berlin. She received degrees in fine arts at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg and film at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. Greschner’s work recently has been exhibited in solo exhibitions: Define Violence, Senko Art Space, Viborg, Denmark; I Dream About You All The Time, Senko Art Space, Viborg, Denmark; Georges Abstraction Surface Air, Restaurant Costes/Georges, Centre Pompidou, Paris, curated by bureau des videos, Stéphanie Moisdon; Oriental Gravity, Schipper & Krome, Berlin. Recent select group exhibitions include: Video Work Case, Willy Brandt Platz Nuremberg, curated by Klaus Haas for Allochton; Faust 2, video installation for the play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe at Landestheater Tübingen, directed by Gustav Rueb; Videovisionen, curated by Edith-Ruß-Site for Media Art on O1; Freedom of Expression, Espaço Cultural Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, curated by Thomas Thiel; Politics and Community, Goethe Institute La Paz, Bolivia; Die Ersten Internationalen Elvis Tage, Ideal Glass Gallery, New York; Video Program, The Bubble, Kopenhagen; Surreal, Projectsspace Kennington, London; Reflections on a Brave New World, Berlinale, Berlin; Andorra, Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg; KO Video Festival, Durban, South Africa; Whitechapel Open Screening, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; h:min:sec, Auckland Art Space, Auckland, New Zealand. In 2005 and 2002 the artist received the Project Grant, Berlin.

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