DATES

Michelle Phelan

A S T R A Y

August 20 - September 5, 2010

final show with new works
sculpture, drawing, video, text

invitation ASTRAY

opening reception: Thursday, August 19 at 7pm
opening hours: THU-FRI 4-8pm, SAT-SUN 2-6pm
Kunstverein Leipzig, Kolonnadenstr. 6, Leipzig

B R O A D C A S T I N G   S I L E N C E   W H I L E   P O L I S H I N G   C O A L

artist talk and conversation with Michelle Phelan, Caoimhe Kilfeather (Ireland) and Katy Howkins (UK)

Saturday, August 28 at 6pm
Künstlerresidenz *blumen*, Kolonnadenstr. 20, Leipzig


The Kunstverein Leipzig and the Artist Residence *blumen* cordially invite you to the festival “Platte, Schraube, Fuge. Experimente zwischen Stadt, Körper und Raum” focussing on Leipzig's Kolonnaden Quarter and its specific architecture.

June 24 - July 4, 2010

festival programme

 

Michelle Phelan

C O N V E R S A T I O N   P I E C E S  (video/installation/performance)

June 24 - July 4, 2010

In the course of the festival "Platte, Schraube, Fuge" Michelle Phelan is presenting the Performance Conversation Pieces.

A video work animates and adapts imagery of 18th century architectural features.  A contemporary garden feature is reconstructed in the gallery becoming both a sculptural element and a stage for play. A conversation takes place, live and in the past, around these and other memories.

opening: Thursday, June 24 at 8pm, live performance at 9pm
further performance: Sunday, July 4 at 6pm

 

Michelle Phelan

W H I T E   B E A M  (video/installation/drawing)

May 14 - 23, 2010

We are pleased to welcome the Irish artist Michelle Phelan. In her introductory show the artist is presenting a selection of recent works. With that show she is exhibiting for the first time in Germany.

opening reception: Thursday, April 13, 8pm at Künstlerresidenz *blumen*
opening hours: THU-FRI 4-8pm, SAT-SUN 2-6pm 
Studio visits by appointment.

invitation WHITE BEAM

installation views

 
 
 
 
 

Michelle Phelan Conversation Pieces
installation views and performance during the festivals "Platte, Schraube, Fuge"
of Kunstverein Leipzig, photography/copyright: Michelle Phelan
With special thanks to all performers: Tair Lewin-Shalem, Sophie Kutzer, Dario Stuber
and Miriam Steinborn

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Michelle Phelan ASTRAY
exhibition views Kunstverein Leipzig, photography/copyright: Michelle Phelan
With special thanks to the performers Tair Lewin-Shalem (film) and Miriam Steinborn (photographs)
as well as to the author Martin Becker for his text "Über Wölfe - About Wolves"

 

 

MAI - AUGUST 2010

Michelle Phelan (Dublin, Irland)

 

The Irish artist Michelle Phelan is dealing with the notion and movement of space while searching for significant structures evoking fictional stories and options of action. Artefacts of urban and natural environment are used as fixed points and paths leading to possible scenographies. While doing so the artist is sensibilising to an observation and active experience of apparent gaps in the everyday interrelation of things. So what do we assume intuitively and which tracks are we following first of all? What happens to us, while figuring out how to mark our position? Michelle Phelan's artistic practice follows those questions involving various medias like installation, drawing, photography and moving image.

Michelle Phelan was born in Dublin in 1979 and studied fine arts painting and history of art at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin (1998-2002) as well as scenography at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London (2004/05) and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw/Poland. Her work was presented in various shows, performance festivals and theatres, e.g. the solo show at the Festival of Contemporary Performance at Camden People’s Theatre in London. Besides her artist career she works as curator. Today Michelle Phelan is based in Dublin.

 

selection of recent works


from the series: <strong>Encountering the Object</strong>, digital photograph, dimensions variable, 2009.

from the series: Encountering the Object, digital photograph, dimensions variable, 2009.

<strong>Holes in the City 2</strong>, drawing (chalk on blackboard, paint on plywood), <br />0,9m x 3,66m, 2007.

Holes in the City 2, drawing (chalk on blackboard, paint on plywood),
0,9m x 3,66m, 2007.

<strong>Bonnington Quartet</strong>, film stills, digital video, <br />3 min, 2009.

Bonnington Quartet, film stills, digital video,
3 min, 2009.

<strong>Something Greener Than You,</strong> Performance Stills, Camden People's Theatre, London, 2006.

Something Greener Than You, Performance Stills, Camden People's Theatre, London, 2006.

 

Special thanks for the generous support of Michelle Phelan's residency are going to: