Archive Utopia: Project Brasília

Brasília, the capital of Brazil, formally dedicated in 1960, seems more like an architectural myth, a fiction, than a real place. Between the years 2003 and 2009, the Brazilian-Korean artist Lina Kim and the German artist Michael Wesely embarked on a journey into the present-day reality and the archives of this city. One result of their artistic hunt for clues is the »Arquivo Brasília,« a collection of historical photo material on how Brasília came to be. While conducting their research, Kim and Wesely also photographed themselves in Brasília – choosing their backdrops in part as a result of their archival studies. The time-exposure photographs exaggerate the city’s utopian character even further with their diffuse light, providing some unusual per- spectives on this unique place. (source: KehrerVerlag)

Wolfgang Tillmans: Monochrome

Runa Islam: Emergence

"British artist Runa Islam (b. 1970, Dhaka, Bangladesh) primarily uses the medium of film in austere and minimal installations that combine a rigorous logic of conception with a highly poetic style. They often take the conventions, histories, materiality, and grammar of film—its language of framing, panning, zooming, editing, and projection—as the bases for structural investigation and narrative experiment. Astutely aware that perception of the world is mediated by cinematic and technological representation, Islam positions her images on the boundaries between visibility and invisibility, legibility and silence, stability and instability, syntactical simplicity and symbolic complexity. "

Selected artworks (Tillmans)

Wolfgang Tillmans, It's only love give it away, 2005.


Artist's webpage can be found here