Visual live performance on the occasion of the Long Night of Museums in Oldenburg
Presentation on the exterior façade of the building
The light artist Philipp Geist is showing site-specific light art projects at two locations in Oldenburg on the occasion of the Long Night of Museums. Geist will be developing picturesque light art projections on the façades of the Edith-Russ-Haus and the Horst Janssen Museum that incorporate the respective location as well as the visitors. In the interplay between the fabric of the building and the abstract, geometric video works, Philipp Geist develops a dialog on site that connects the architecture with his artistic work.
Lighting up Times is a series that the artist has realized in various locations. Philipp Geist creates painterly, abstract pictorial worlds on the computer that refer to organic, microscopic structures. Through its depth and three-dimensionality, the work symbolizes the constantly expanding space of time and represents the complex networks through its complexity and density. Geometric, spatial forms such as squares, cubes, openwork surfaces, lines and rays overlap in a continuous process and build up an overall picture, only to dissolve it again in the next moment. The result is a complex pictorial architecture that is constantly in flux, and pictorial compositions that are sometimes minimalist and purist, sometimes intensely colorful, dreamlike and shadowy and fragile.
Philipp Geist (1976) works worldwide as an artist with the media of video/light installation, photography and painting. In 2014, on the occasion of the German-Brazilian Year in Rio de Janeiro, he developed a coherent video installation at the world-famous Cristo Redentor statue and projected it onto a large area of the Santa Marta favela. On September 30/October 1, 2014, he will create a light art installation at the German Embassy in Prague to mark the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall and at the Bauhaus Museum in Dessau at the beginning of September 2014. On May 16, 2013, Geist received the German Lighting Design Award in the Light Art category for his installation Time Drifts at the Luminale 2012. In July/August 2013, Geist developed an installation on the New Town Hall in Bayreuth over 40 days to mark the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner. His work inBetween can currently be seen in the group exhibition Scheinwerfer II at the Kunstmuseum Celle until October.