Los Angeles, Günsterode

11/10/2024

In August Los Angeles hosted for two events with readings by Charlotte Krafft, Frieder Haller, Angharad Williams, Mark von Schlegell.

The readings are now online!

-> Links in bio!

Thank you Texte zum Nachdenken! Thank you LA resident Nuri Koerfer for the surreal bench sculpture and for documenting the readings!






                   

The Programm is supported by:
Los Angeles: Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Kulturförderung Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Magistrat der Stadt Melsungen, Ortsbeirat Günsterode, VR PartnerBank, Kreissparkasse Schwalm-Eder
Texte zum Nachdenken: Kanton Zürich, Stadt Zürich, Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler, Stiftung Termperatio, Kemmler Foundation, ProLitteris, Foundation Jan Michalski

13/09/2024

"Pferde"

with
a screening of Yalda Afsah's "Curro",
a sound performance by Bikki Buzzi,
an installation by the RHO Kollektiv,
and photographs by Nicolas Wefers,

took place on Saturday, August 10th.

The screening of Yalda Afsah's “Curro” gathered more people in the LA barn than ever before in its 70-year history. Yalda's finely tuned depiction of a Galician ritual of horse taming raises questions about power and masculinity.

Horses also grazed in Los Angeles, just a few years before the place became known by that name.
Nicolas Wefers has brought them back - at least in part. The Kassel-based photographer, who has accompanied LA almost from the beginning, has taken portraits of some of the village's horses. Close-ups of nostrils, manes and tails could be seen on stands in the meadow down by the stream.

Looking up again, the sculptural intervention of the RHO collective became visible. As if part of the hill had been cut out and folded down, a wedge of rammed earth - together with its negative counterpart behind it - formes a strip, one of the few straight surfaces in the valley.

Swiss musician and composer Nikki Buzzi played a synthesizer to activate a special loudspeaker, a terraformer. In their performance “8-8”, they used the body of the barn as a reflector.

Many thanks to the artists for their fantastic work and to all the visitors who came on foot from Günsterode, by car or train from cities near and far or by the Kassel-Los Angeles shuttle bus.

Photos: Nicolas Wefers



The program in LA is supported by:
Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Kulturförderung Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Magistrat der Stadt Melsungen, Ortsbeirat Günsterode, VR PartnerBank, Kreissparkasse Schwalm-Eder

13/09/2024

"Pferde"

with
a screening of Yalda Afsah's "Curro",
a sound performance by Bikki Buzzi,
an installation by the RHO Kollektiv,
and photographs by Nicolas Wefers,

took place on Saturday, August 10th.

The screening of Yalda Afsah's “Curro” gathered more people in the LA barn than ever before in its 70-year history. Yalda's finely tuned depiction of a Galician ritual of horse taming raises questions about power and masculinity.

Horses also grazed in Los Angeles, just a few years before the place became known by that name.
Nicolas Wefers has brought them back - at least in part. The Kassel-based photographer, who has accompanied LA almost from the beginning, has taken portraits of some of the village's horses. Close-ups of nostrils, manes and tails could be seen on stands in the meadow down by the stream.

Looking up again, the sculptural intervention of the RHO collective became visible. As if part of the hill had been cut out and folded down, a wedge of rammed earth - together with its negative counterpart behind it - formes a strip, one of the few straight surfaces in the valley.

Swiss musician and composer Nikki Buzzi played a synthesizer to activate a special loudspeaker, a terraformer. In their performance “∞-∞”, they used the body of the barn as a reflector.

Many thanks to the artists for their fantastic work and to all the visitors who came on foot from Günsterode, by car or train from cities near and far or by the Kassel-Los Angeles shuttle bus.

Photos: Nicolas Wefers



The program in LA is supported by:
Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Kulturförderung Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Magistrat der Stadt Melsungen, Ortsbeirat Günsterode, VR PartnerBank, Kreissparkasse Schwalm-Eder

06/09/2024

Nuri Koerfer was LA's second artist in residence this year. She told us that she went hiking with her kid in the mornings to spend the afternoons working:
Nuri was building a sculpture that would serve as a set for a series of readings later in the year. In August, the bench with lama, crocodile and ostrichs seated artists and writers Charlotte Krafft, Frieder Haller, Marc von Schlegell and Angharad Williams. Invited by Texte zum Nachdenken they read from texts loosely revolving around the theme of science fiction.

Photos: Nicolas Wefers



The program in LA 2024 is supported by:
Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Kulturförderung Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Magistrat der Stadt Melsungen, Ortsbeirat Günsterode, VR PartnerBank, Kreissparkasse Schwalm-Eder

06/09/2024

31/08/2024

Lush vegetation in Los Angeles
with RHO Kollektiv's “Time is the illusion of solidity”, 2024, Zuzanna Czebatul's oven sculpture “Die Schmelze (molten mass)”, 2021, Jonas von Ostrowski's "House with clear Shapes and a complex Entrance", 2020 and the barn from the 1950s, which is currently being converted into a studio and exhibition space.

30/08/2024

LA's first residents this summer, the RHO Kollektiv, spent their weeks in LA shovelling. The work they built is a sculptural intervention in the true sense of the word – several cubic meters of LA’s soil were removed from the upper part of the slope and then used to form a ramp underneath. The result is a horizontal strip – one of the few straight surfaces in the valley.
The sharply delineated forms contrast with the surroundings, whereby nature is already in the process of rounding them off again.
The work is reminiscent of the so-called Land Art of the 70s in the USA, but transfers it in an almost front garden-suitable dimension to the edge of our village in northern Hesse, Germany.

Photos: Nicolas Wefers



The program in LA 2024 is supported by:
Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Kulturförderung Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Magistrat der Stadt Melsungen, Ortsbeirat Günsterode, VR PartnerBank, Kreissparkasse Schwalm-Eder

29/05/2024

04/01/2024

Fellow Californians,
 
Los Angeles wishes you a happy new year!

This past one was the fourth since the opening of Los Angeles and the busiest yet.

The beginning of summer saw the long-awaited premiere of "Bienen. Eine Meditation", by director and LA resident 2021 Felix Rothenhäusler, together with Jo Flüeler, Moritz Wiedrig and Laura von Ostrowski.

First artists in residence 2023 Johannes Büttner and Annegret von Feiertag spent their time shooting a science fiction film with actors from Günsterode. "Retroverse" depicts a near future in which people take refuge in simulations. One of them: "Günsterode 2023". 

Maria VMier built the „Portal With Right Of Way" during her time in LA. Part of the work is the official permission for all people of Günsterode to cross LA in order to reach the other side of the valley without a detour.

Philipp Nitsche, the third artist in residence, together with his Studio Nitsche, designed and built the first part of the "Rudihaus".

On August 26, the „ La II Barnale" offered visitors the opportunity to see all the works created over the course of the year."Retroverse" was performed in an impressive installation of twelve connected vintage flatscreens in LA's barn. The „Rudihaus“ became the compounds monkey rock, with people sitting on the deck and children climbing around on the stove. The "Portal mit Wegerecht" was passed through by the visitors when taking a walk into the woods to see "Polyxylon" by Fabian Heller. This work was a cooperation with the Kassel art space Warte für Kunst, which also organized a shuttle bus that arrived in Los Angeles well filled and on time at 3 pm.

Deva Schubert's performance "Echo from LA" took place as a combination of voice and movement.
A photo essay by architect Alexander Fthenakis could be seen both in the barn and in a publication which also contained texts by Maurin Dietrich and Konstantin Lannert.

We would like to thank all participating artists, all guests, the neighbors from Günsterode and the sponsors for their support, helpfulness, commitment and interest and look forward to 2024!

10/10/2023

Architect Philipp Nitsche was the third Artist in Residence in LA in summer 2023.
His has been involved in the Los Angeles project almost from the beginning, as they are the architects responsible for the realization of Jonas von Ostrowski's design of the House With Clear Shapes And A Complex Entrance.

Having received carte blanche for their own design, Philipp Nitsche rounded up almost his entire studio during the last period of his stay, to build the first part of the "Rudihouse".

Photo: Nicolas Wefers

# woodstove

The program in LA is supported by:
Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst
Kulturförderung Schwalm-Eder-Kreis.
Magistrat der Stadt Melsungen
Ortsbeirat Günsterode
VR PartnerBank

04/10/2023

La II Barnale

A BACK DOOR                                         

August 26th 2023

Johannes Büttner 
Annegret von Feiertag
Maria VMier
Studio Nitsche
Deva Schubert

with a photo essay by Alexander Fthenakis, 
a text by Maurin Dietrich, 
and in cooperation with Warte für Kunst, Kassel with a work in the woods by Fabian Heller

and works by last year‘s residents Amedeo Polazzo and Alexandra Koumantaki

curated by Konstantin Lannert and Jonas von Ostrowski

The program in LA is supported by:
Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst
Kulturförderung Schwalm-Eder-Kreis.
Magistrat der Stadt Melsungen
Ortsbeirat Günsterode
VR PartnerBank

Photos: Nicolas Wefers