Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino - Seven Works
10. Juni - 09. Juli
Exhibition from 10. June 2025 - 9. July 2025 at Kunstraum
Opening on 10 June, 6pm
Kunstraum of the Leuphana University Lüneburg is pleased to announce Seven Works, a solo exhibition by Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino curated by Ana Druwe in collaboration with Halle für Kunst Lüneburg and Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) in Culture and Society. The exhibition brings a set of works by Celestino in dialogue with the specific context of Kunstraum Leuphana Lüneburg. It highlights the interplay between the institution's archive, the university campus, and its historical connection with Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, exploring potential porosity between the university and the city.
In Seven Works, Celestino explores agency and complicity within institutional systems. The selection of the seven score-based pieces taps into the surface of the space –architectural and organizational– with responsive, contingent negotiation to examine how familial ties, property regimes, and institutional procedures shape the terms of visibility, authorship, and access.
A public program is presented in collaboration with students of Leuphana Universität. As part of the seminar on Institutional Praxis, led by Susanne Leeb and Ana Druwe, the pedagogical program examines how communities and institutions negotiate shared spaces through notions of porosity. Along the semester, Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino has contributed to the seminar with practice-based exercises that speculate on futures, rethinking institutional gestures, and reimagining the organization of the university campus.
Their lecture From Language (23 Apr, 2025) introduces linguistics as an operational force that structures contracts, performances, institutions, and forms of refusal. In the Descriptions II workshop (24 Apr, 2025), the artist invites the students to consider the political aspect of grammatologically elucidating an object within a given context. During the exhibition period, the students and Leuphana community are invited to contribute with interventions and other speculations on institutionalities, having the campus as materiality for new forms of operation and transaction.
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Opening hours: From June 10 to July 9, Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 12 to 4pm.
Further information can be found on the Kunstraum website.