Nadja Verena Marcin Presents PIRATA on View at Jaeckel Gallery, 2/4-3/4

By: Feb. 02, 2017
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Multi-disciplinary artist Nadja Verena Marcin's photographic work Cinema Pirata, will be on view at Jaeckel Gallery in New York, February 4 - March 4, 2017-presented in the exhibition Winter Salon. An opening reception will be held Saturday, February 4, 4-6pm, at which the artist will be present.

Marcin's arresting image first appeared in her recent solo exhibition Cinema Pirata - How To Undress in Front of Your Husband, alongside the artist's film How to Undress In Front Of Your Husband. The exhibition-covered by VICE Magazine in A Sexist 1960s Film Remake Rewrites Cinema History-considered the permitted roles and power dynamics in the production of mass media and film. Designed in collaboration with the architectural designer Terrence Schroeder, and housed within the confines of an historic feminist art space, the show also comprised Distribution Vehicle, in which Marcin's video works were screened inside the backseat of a station wagon-popping up around the neighborhood during Bushwick Open Studios-as a nod to Kunstraum's bootleg video store (of which Marcin is also a founder). The jerry-rigged nature of the screening room was Marcin's humorously dark reference to the challenges that female filmmakers often face regarding the distribution of their work. As a gesture releasing the works from their potential patriarchal and capitalist constraints, nothing was exploited, sold, or purchased. Passers-by could only be spectators of the pieces.

Often deflating the gendered hierarchies embedded within the film industry, much of Marcin's work reflects on the roots of our cultural behaviors, in an attempt to shift the roles and voices of the media that we currently consume. "At the core, I aim to express that the full world of gender and the breadth of its expression has the potential to exist within one person, and that person is also the almighty oppressor or oppressed-depending on how we want to see it. Just as authentic cinema comes from within a culture and not from outside, a genuine challenge to the patriarchal system needs to emerge also from the margins." Winter Salon also contains works across media-including painting, photographs, mixed media, and video-by Gustavo Acosta, Bernard Ammerer, Paul Behnke, Bergman & White, Marcy Brafman, Kathy Bruce, Marie Dolma, Reynier Ferrer, John A. Parks, Ian Hughes, Ilyan Ivanov, Julie Langsam, Darrell Nettles, Alastair Noble, Eva O'Leary, and Tanja Selzer.


DATES
February 4 - March 4, 2017
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 4, 4-6pm

LOCATION
Jaeckel Gallery
532 W. 25th Street
New York, NY 10001

German-born artist Nadja Verena Marcin lives and works in New York. In her performance-based work, Marcin examines the constructed persona, looking at the way the artist is an implicit figure. By creating a "theater of cinema" in which the audience can be immersed, Marcin brings awareness through a hyperbolic interpretation of relatable scenarios, enacting symbolic actions, catalyzing the visibility of hidden codes. Her work appropriates familiar imagery, and mirrors the ambiguities of human behavior and psychological mechanism. Marcin graduated from the Visual Art Department of New Genre, School of the Arts at Columbia University, New York in 2010, after obtaining a Diploma of Fine Arts from the Department of New Media at Academy of Fine Arts Münster. She has taught and lectured at P.I. Arts Center, New York, City College of New York and Brooklyn College. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Abrons Art Center, New York; Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow; Human Resources, Los Angeles; ZKM- Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe; Middle Gate Geel'13, Belgium; Dortmunder Kunstverein; VOLTA 9, Basel; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York; amongst many others. She has received grants, residencies, and prizes such as the Fulbright Award; DAAD Grant; Int. Artist Career Development Grant, Artworks Int; Film Production Grant, NRW Film-und Medienstiftung; Prize for 'Art and Language,' Kunststiftung Sparkasse UnnaKamen; ISCP Residency; Foundation for Contemporary Arts EmergenCy Grant; Arbeitsstipendium, Kunststiftung Bonn; and Franklin Furnace Grant.



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