Dateagle Art

Exploring the German off-space - Interview
September 15, 2017

Fiona Grady spoke to Dateagle Art about her solo exhibition The Movements at Adhoc Gallery in Bochum, Germany:

 

In Autumn 2016, I received a message from a stranger that every artist is always hoping that will magically appear in their inbox. He'd discovered my work via social media and would to like offer me a solo show at his gallery space in Germany next year. Not only this, but the exhibition would be funded with an artist's fee and a materials budget, plus free accommodation for my trip. The only catch, if you'd call it that, was that the exhibition had to be site-specific work only.

 

A year later I found myself in a former garage converted to a white wall gallery with my hosts, Directors of 'Adhoc' Christian Gode and Max Rentrop. The gallery is an artist-led project space set up five years ago by a couple of artists who, after graduating art school, wanted to create a balance between their day jobs as teachers and their studio practices, by offering a forum for their peers. For them the reward is in 'the dialogues with the artist: how they think and organise their work is very interesting and we learn a lot from them. It is very enriching to meet so many different artists. To recognise the difference or similarities in working and thinking with our own practices'.