Talk&Walk @ Greylight Projects
Talk & Walk is a series of meetings with the artists working at Greylight Projects in Heerlen. During the Talk & Walk sessions, the artists talk about work and their project in Heerlen.
Where
Greylight Projects Schaesbergerweg 58, Heerlen (nl)
Greylight Projects is the platform for art and culture in Heerlen. Several times a year, the organisation invites artists from the region and beyond to live and work in Heerlen for a time. With its programme, Greylight Projects explores and responds to Heerlen and its surroundings. Greylight Projects does this through the online tool #mappingheerlen, which artists use to record special and or intriguing places and which shows the locations of the art projects in the city and region.
Three guest artists are currently at work in the studios in the former school building on Schaesbergerweg. These are Darcy Neven from Valkenburg, Luca Soudant from Maastricht and Claude Horstmann from Stuttgart (DE).
Keith Haring
The Talk & Walk sessions connect to the current exhibition at SCHUNCK - Keith Haring: Grace House Mural. Haring's method of working in the public space or, on the contrary, responding to the environment is in line with the principles of Greylight Projects and #mappingheerlen. By extension, it also examines the current view of the city and region.
Claude Horstmann
Horstmann lives and works in Stuttgart and Marseille. She studied art history at the University of Osnabrueck (M.A.) and fine arts at the Stuttgart State Art Academy. Claude Horstmann received several grants and residencies in Germany and abroad, including from the Ministry of Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg, Ville de Marseille and Ville de Strasbourg. Her most recent solo exhibitions took place at Laura Mars Gallery (Berlin), Goethe-Institut Lyon, Centre International de Poésie (Marseille). She participated in group exhibitions in Stuttgart, Berlin, Saint-Étienne and Marseille, among others.
Horstmann's work in drawing, sculpture, text, performance and photography is often based on a variety of materials, particularly inspired by urban contexts. The artist also addresses these themes through performative lectures and workshops. She writes: ¨Sign, layer, gesture, imprint, notation, superposition: we leave traces. In a way, one can say that 'everything is drawn'. [...] We cannot avoid leaving traces. Everything is drawn - and this transformation of reality is profound and lasting."
For more information about her work, visit www.claudehorstmann.de
Location: Schaesbergerweg 58, 6415 AJ Heerlen