People viewing artwork and a large projected image in an art gallery with black and white images on the wall and red abstract paintings.

2010 Distance 4635

Interdisciplinary cooperation art project between Б’Art and Kunstverein Rosenheim is research through art practice into the similarities and differences of life, art and nature in mountain regions: Issyk-Kul (Kyrgyzstan) and Upper Bavaria (Germany). The project consisted of sending seven artists and a curator into the other land and vice versa, to allow the chance for creating personal contacts between artists. There was the possibility to throw a glance on the “other” with the eyes of an artist and in publishing the results in form of an exhibition in Rosenheim and Bishkek and a catalogue for each group. In April 2010 twenty kyrgyz artists exhibited their contemporary artworks in Rosenheim and seven of them were personally present in Germany. The exhibition of seven Rosenheim artists in Bishkek opened in August in the same year.

Participants:

Kyrgyzstan: Sagyn Aiylchiev, Janarbek Aman, Ernst Abdrazakov, Meder Ahmetov, Chingiz Aidarov, Muratbek uluu Aytegin, Evgeny Boikov, Ulan Djaparov, Alimzhan Jorobaev, Gulnara Kasmalieva, Muratbek Djumaliev, Dilyara Khalmurzina, Farkhad Tursunov, Baktybek Musaev, Almasbek Samidinov, Avas Momunkulov, Alexander Fedorov, Anatoly Kolesnikov, Nikolai Cherkasov, Dmitry Petrovsky
Germany: Dagmar Dieterle, Peter Pohl, Hannah und Toni Stegmayer, Peter Weigel, Hannes Stellner, Adidal Abou-Chamat, Otto Schindler
Curators: Iris Truebswetter, Shaarbek Amankul
Initiator: Angelika Walther

Artists in a procession, outdoors near a government building, under a clear blue sky.
People in a tent village with tents and signs, some wearing hats, outdoors with trees and buildings in the background.
A person standing in front of a large statue during daytime, with amusement park rides in the background.
Scenic landscape of green hills, forested areas, and distant mountains under a blue sky.
Group of people standing outside a traditional round yurt with green hills in the background.
Landscape with snowy mountains in the background, green hills in the midground, and a field in the foreground, with cloudy sky overhead.
A man performing a plank exercise on the beach with the ocean in the background.
A large sculpture of a man lying down, being lifted or positioned by a crane, with scaffolding nearby against a blue sky.
Dismantling a large tower with a crane, water jets spraying around the structure.
A man performing a dive into the water at the beach, with his body extended horizontally and arms outstretched behind him
A green train near a historic building with white walls and green roofs, and a stone bust sculpture in front of the building.
People viewing art and photographs displayed on gallery walls.