Interview with Alison Reilly Light Over Light

Thank you friends and colleagues for including Luftwerk in this years NewCity Art 50

Responses to the Climate Crisis, July 14 – October 30, 2023

At the Precipice considers the role of physical and emotional reactions in the era of climate disaster. Given the proliferation of dire headlines and a public response that vacillates between denial and fatalism, the exhibition explores the use of color, tactility, material, and data not to avoid or disguise the issues but to instead offer accessible entry points. 
Included are works by Selva Aparicio, Morel Doucet, Zaria Forman, Luftwerk, Crochet Coral Reef, Nathalie Miebach, Chris Pappan, Redemptive Plastics, The Tempestry Project, Migwa Nthiga, and Jean Shin. 

Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg June 6th – 11th 2023 presents Scenography of Space, a two-channel video installation, as part of the festival’s Open Space exhibition program.

Exact Dutch Yellow at the Chicago Cultural Center reviewed in April issue of ARTFORUM 

ZUVA & Dzimbanhete Arts Interactions efforts in the Nharira Hills profiled in Zimbabwe national Sunday reader The Standard News Day: US artist illuminate sacred Nharira Hills

Chicago art critic Kerry Cardoza reviews Exact Dutch Yellow exhibition for The Chicago Reader

Anything but consistent, far from exact | Book Launch

This event is a discussion between artists Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero of Luftwerk, alongside designers Renata Graw and Lucas Reif of Normal. The two studios will discuss how to capture the spirit of an exhibition in a book, the challenges of adapting immersive experience into a compressed form, and the possibilities opened up by these translations.

Performance

Cellists and interdisciplinary artists Lia Kohl and Katinka Kleijn will create a live, sound-based response to Luftwerk’s Exhibition, Exact Dutch Yellow. Longtime collaborators, their shared practice explores vulnerability and resilience through the cello as an object, a body, and a sound-making tool.

Dr. John Kyndt (Associate Professor of Microbiology, Nutrition, and Sustainability and Program Director of Sustainability Management) and Professor David Joel Thomas (Assistant Professor and Program Director of Creative Arts) invited us for an Artist Residency, as part of an ongoing Art + Science collaboration that began in July 2021 at Bellevue University with our studio.

October 22, 2022—January 29, 2023
Chicago Cultural Center, Exhibition Hall, 4th Floor North

A series of sculptural light installations using botanical pigments and dynamic, changing light conditions that transform Exhibit Hall into abstracted, atmospheric chromatic experiences.