Parrots and swans

Do you live with plants? Do you have a special relationship with a houseplant? In this workshop, we will talk with and about your plant. Together we will approach it in an unusual way – with pencil and ink. The result will be simple, personal drawings.

Oliver Gather draws your favorite plant and invites you to do the same. No previous knowledge is required. Please bring your houseplant with you.
Special offer: Home visit For this workshop, home visits are also possible outside office hours, during which Oliver Gather will get to know your plant in its everyday home.

Please call 0176 2200 4726.
Thurs., 14.8., Thurs., 21.8., 28.8. 3.30 – 5.30 pm or 6 – 8 pm.

Information and registration: VHS Ratingen or mail@parrotsandswans.com

Parrots and swans
Oliver Gather, Tanja Kodlin

Get to know Tanja Kodlin and Oliver Gather and their approaches to their work during a preparatory walk. You will learn more about the places where their workshops will take place.

Monday, July 14, 2025 5.00-6.30 pm
Meeting point: Berliner Platz
Information and registration:
VHS Ratingen or mail@parrotsandswans.com

Caspar David Friedrich’s idea of tracing inner landscapes in the seclusion of a monk’s cell was taken up and at the same time counteracted by the sparse but anything but neutral sleeping quarters in the Loitz LPG barack from the 1960s. I offensively used their atmospheric dominance for an expanding spatial vision. Inside the bedroom, the “Chair billow” rises from the pillow. It is based on Friedrich’s landscape constructions (The Sea of Ice, 1824, The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818). Just as in Friedrich’s paintings small figures refer to the dimensions of his landscapes, in Chair billow small models of chairs from the barrack scale the chair structure into a gigantic, traumatic scenery. Staged theater lighting (Tombs of Old Heroes, 1812) highlights the small chair actors in the chair structure.

The installation is complemented by the film “The small bay, barely perceptible from the shore” and photographs of high seats, which were also taken in Loitz (2018) and also deal with the oscillation between inside and outside.

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BU´s: Installationsansichten Künstler Gut Loitz

Link zu NDR Film: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/k2dB8qxgEtYRGBBv57o

The labyrinth is the largest walk-in sculpture by Erwin Heerich. After more than three years of refurbishment, it has been presented since the end of June with new energy efficiency and beauty. The glass roof, specially developed for the building, creates a uniform, warm and unique lighting experience, and the labyrinth can be experienced in its pure sculptural form before the collection of European modern art, Far Eastern art and archaeological finds moves back in in the fall. It also serves as an inspiring place for short artistic contributions such as performances, music, sound installations or surprising presentations.
August 17, 2024, 1 to 4 pm
Frauke Berg, Oliver Gather and Anja Lautermann: sounds for a wounded landscape
Frauke Berg and Anja Lautermann play and listen into the large hole of the Garzweiler open-cast mine as a self-experiment. In the labyrinth, Berg and Lautermann continue the sound experiment live, accompanied by Gather on film.
https://www.inselhombroich.de

The labyrinth is the largest walk-in sculpture by Erwin Heerich. After more than three years of refurbishment, it has been presented since the end of June with new energy efficiency and beauty. The glass roof, specially developed for the building, creates a uniform, warm and unique lighting experience, and the labyrinth can be experienced in its pure sculptural form before the collection of European modern art, Far Eastern art and archaeological finds moves back in in the fall. It also serves as an inspiring place for short artistic contributions such as performances, music, sound installations or surprising presentations.
August 11, 2024, 1 to 4 p.m.
Oliver Gather: Tempus Fugit. The vinyl record “Tempus Fugit” invites you to lose time. It will be used for three hours of meditative listening in the labyrinth.

https://www.inselhombroich.de

Catalog for the exhibition at the Kunstverein Alte Schule Baruth. Water – scarcity or abundance?

Water as an artistic idea and material 20.08. – 10.09.2023 Opening 19.08.2023

With works by Joschi Baudach, Dietmar Brandt, Frauke Berg, Jana Debrodt, Astrid Drechsler, Nora Fuchs, Oliver Gather, Gisela Kleinlein, Renate Löbbecke, Kevin Lüdicke, Christian Andreas Müller, Silke Panknin, Sandro Porcu, Sandra Schindler, Dirk Skreber, Jan Trinkaus, Heinrich Weid, Andreas M. Wiese, Karsten Wittke, Jeongkyoung Woo, Francis Zeischegg
alte schule baruth.de

Saturday, 27.01.2024 at 16:00, Edelsteingarten Pulheim, meeting point at the Saphirallee parking lot.
Tanja Kodlin and Ramón Graefenstein have accepted the position of Schmuckeremit 2023 offered by Oliver Gather, listened into the settlement, captured wishes and desires and woven them into a dense associative image. As a summary of their work, they present a final performative intervention.
Course of the project: After extensive research in the Pulheim urban area (as part of the Stadtbild.Intervenion. projects for Pulheim), the artist Oliver Gather decided on an intervention in the Edelsteingarten. With the promising name of the settlement in his ear, he investigated the yearnings of the residents of the relatively new residential area. In the course of his research, he also came across a historical job advertisement in which an 18th century English nobleman was looking for a “hermit” for his landscape garden to enliven and decorate the artificial parkland.
As the historical landscape garden and today’s residential areas are often both stagings of an illusion of nature, Gather’s idea was born: For the gemstone garden, he would look for a jewelry designer based on the historical model. His job advertisement in the specialist magazine “Kunstforum” invited “professional artists and performers” to develop a proposal for an intervention that would address the longings and dreams of the residents.
Six performers applied for the role and presented themselves with short performances in a public casting in August 2022. The jury, which also included residents of the Edelsteingarten, ultimately chose Tanja Kodlin and Ramon Graefenstein with their project “Safari” as the future Schmuckeremites.
www.derschmuckeremit.de