Artists
Switzerland
Elianna Renner
The Organization
04.05.15 22.05.15
Swiss artist Elianna Renner works with the intersections among biography, fiction and history. Her multimedia approach circles around performance and audio-visual installation, which are sometimes combined with film and photography. The core theme of her work revolved around memory, the archive and the recovery of histories. Elianna Renner likes telling stories that are linked to everyday life and contain biographical elements. This technique creates moments that are shifting between objectivity and subjectivity – humorous and thought provoking at the same time.
In her recent projects, she questioned historical narratives and their inherent areas of omission – always striving to uncover the power structures behind these “untold” or “incommunicable” histories. Following Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s concept of “unthinkable history”, Renner believes that we all need stories to fill in the gaps books will never teach us.
Taking a subjective stance on history, she reinvents moments that seem to be taken out of reality, only to slightly bend them into fiction. She approaches this central idea through multimedia installations where photography, performance, video and audio-tracks intertwine, whilst enmeshing the audience in an intimate dialogue with the artist.
Read more about the project in the ARTISHOCK magazine article
BIO
Elianna Renner
1977 | Switzerland.
Lives and works in Bremen, Germany.
STUDIES
2005 | Graduated Summa Cum Laude in Fine Arts, University of Arts. Bremen, Germany.
EXHIBITIONS
2014| Mind the gap, alpha nova-kulturwerkstatt & galerie future. Berlin, Germany.
2014| 15th International Short Film Festival. Izmir, Turkey.
2013| Bobe Mayses, Städtische Galerie. Bremen, Germany.
2012| Solomon & Co, Performance festival, Gedok, 7. Kunstfrühling. Bremen, Germany.
2010| Correspondence, Goethe Institut Riga. Latvia.
2008| EMAF – European Media Art Festival, Media-Campus. Osnabrück, Germany.
AWARDS
2012 | Dr. Theobald Simon Award, GEDOK, German Women’s Artist Association.
2010 | 33. Award for Fine Arts, Municipal Gallery. Bremen, Germany.
GRANTS
2015 | Artist in Residence, Fundación ’ace for Contemporary Art. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2014 | Production of Works Grant, Filmbüro. Bremen, Germany.
2013 | Lecture tour, DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service. Bonn, Germany.
2012 | Postgraduate Artist Grant, DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service, Bonn, Germany.
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The organization
Elianna Renner
20.05.15 20.06.15
Swiss artist Elianna Renner was able to return to ´ace for the second time in order to pre-produce in an exploration residence, her new project called The organization.
The project, like an unwinding thread, is related to two of her previous works: Cheerleading and Tracking the Traffic. As in her previous projects, the main goal still remains the same, which is to carry out a research and unveil certain aspects of history by using the media among other resources in order to bring the information to public notice. This was carried out by means of reenactments at locations that have historical links with female migration, the trade of women and girls, and the struggle to stamp it out whether the interventions and performances happen in the old market square in Bremen or in an old cemetery in Buenos Aires.
During Memories, the ´aceNITE that took place on May the 20th, the artist was able to meet the Buenos Aires audience to explain the project and discuss the multiples layers that her work brings into focus with the public.
In her work, Elianna Renner involves people who come from different fields and organizations, such as a technician handling a drone, or an important writer, even a gardener.
The artist returned to Buenos Aires in August in order to complete this project.
