A question that plays a role in contemporary art practice is what to do with the material of a (temporary) installation when the exhibition is over. Or the material left over from experiments in the artist's studio. This is one of the questions Christian Landspersky asks with the project What Remains Gallery.

For Greylight Projects, it is a recurring topic as a workshop and exhibition space for contemporary art. What remains after an artist has been a guest in our studios in Heerlen. Is this a material intervention or are it lasting ideas that resonate in the minds of visitors and participants?

To draw attention to the original material, which the contemporary art system, once used - as replaceable, temporary and reproducible - discards. In a field of both mental and physical tension, What Remains Gallery approaches the forgotten and excluded and, at the same time, the present and existing. What Remains Gallery is not so much the idea of an art gallery as a mental space for transformations to be explored.

What Remains Gallery:
What remains / What Remains? Since its inception in 2009, the What Remains Gallery has revolved around this question. Instead of producing something new, the focus of the artistic practice is on exploring what already exists. What remains of an artist's work, an artistic work and its idea after it has been exhibited? What Remains Gallery starts from this end, to discover a new beginning in artistic potential.

Featuring works curated with materials from previous works by Laure Prouvost, Lawrence Weiner and Tony Cragg.

The flag has a long tradition of different uses and meanings. Flags are commonly used to transmit signals, to identify countries, regions or cities, or to visually demarcate a territory. Flags are also frequently used to represent political ideas and beliefs. The artists are asked to respond from their own work and vision of the medium “flag” within the context of the location in which they are shown. The different flags will be shown to the public at various locations in and around the inner city of Heerlen. There is also an exchange of artists flags between art organizations and museums in the Euregion, a collaboration within the Very Contemporary network.

Participating artists:
Anna Neukamp, Athanasia Vidali, Ben Weir, Christian Landspersky, Éloïse Alliguié, Famke Storms, Isolde Venrooy, Jean Boumans, Jody Korbach, Kaya Erdinç, Kenneth Moreno Kiernand, Mikail Korcek, Rose Nordin, Stefania Crisan, Tom Bogaert, Vera Drebusch, among others.

In the context of the European Design Festival, which will take place in Luxembourg in 2023, Cercle Cité in collaboration with Greylight Projects (Heerlen, NL) proposes an off-site exhibition What the Flag?! in Luxembourg.

The flags, works by invited Luxembourgish artists and designers, will be mixed with existing artists’ flags, which are part of the archive of the What the Flag?! project which has taken place in the city of Heerlen and art organizations in the Euregion (DE, BE, NL) since 2021. The artists and designers are invited to respond from their own work and vision of the medium “flag” within the context of the location in which they are shown. They are asked to question the flag not only formally but also conceptually, transposing and reevaluating their practice onto this specified medium and the public space.

The opening of the exhibition will take place on May 15 at 5:30 p.m., in the main entrance of the Cercle Cité (Place d’Armes).

Greylight Projectsis a member of Very Contemporary,
the network of contemporary art venues in the Meuse-Rhine Euregion.

Greylight Projects is part of the cross border residencie

program Borderland Residencies

Greylight Projects is supported by the Mondriaan Fonds for the general program
for the years 2021 & 2022 with a 'Podium Start' grant .

Greylight Projects is supported by the gemeente Heerlen

Greylight Projects is part of #TOKTOK,
platform for cultural initatives in Heerlen.

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