The Center of Contemporary Art CCA, Tbilisi, presents a solo exhibition by Beat Streuli, Zones Neutres – Tbilisi to Vorontsovka.
Beat Streuli's mother was born in the Caucasus in 1920, the daughter of Swiss cheesemakers. Starting in the early 19th century, many Germans and later Swiss came to the Russian Empire to practice agriculture. It was an emigration in the opposite direction to what is most common today.
In July 2023 the artist went on a road trip from Tbilisi to his mother's birthplace Tashir, formerly Vorontsovka and today in Armenia. In Tbilisi and a number of small towns on the way he captured photo and video footage presented in the rooms of CCA as a large-scale installation of projections and wallpapered images. Texts by the artist and local researcher Nestan Tatarashvili provide context and historical background to the visuals created during his stay in Georgia and Armenia.
Zones Neutres follows the path of Beat Streuli's ancestors, and (re)searches stories and places of their existence, examining how time and historical shifts have left their traces in the area and on the local community. The past and its events are reimagined and linked to the present.
Beat Streuli's mother was born in the Caucasus in 1920, the daughter of Swiss cheesemakers. Starting in the early 19th century, many Germans and later Swiss came to the Russian Empire to practice agriculture. It was an emigration in the opposite direction to what is most common today.
In July 2023 the artist went on a road trip from Tbilisi to his mother's birthplace Tashir, formerly Vorontsovka and today in Armenia. In Tbilisi and a number of small towns on the way he captured photo and video footage presented in the rooms of CCA as a large-scale installation of projections and wallpapered images. Texts by the artist and local researcher Nestan Tatarashvili provide context and historical background to the visuals created during his stay in Georgia and Armenia.
Zones Neutres follows the path of Beat Streuli's ancestors, and (re)searches stories and places of their existence, examining how time and historical shifts have left their traces in the area and on the local community. The past and its events are reimagined and linked to the present.
November 3 – December 1, 2023
CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART CCA
10, Dodo Abashidze Street, 0108, Tbilisi, Georgia
10, Dodo Abashidze Street, 0108, Tbilisi, Georgia
More information: https://www.cca.ge/en/ and https://www.beatstreuli.com
The exhibition has been made possible through the support of the Swiss Arts Council of Switzerland Pro Helvetia.
Beat Streuli participates currently in the following exhibitions:
CHANNELING
Museum MMK, Frankfurt am Main
September 22 – February 11, 2024
https://www.mmk.art/fr
ZILLA LEUTENEGGER, KARIM NOURELDIN, SHIRANA SHAHBAZI, BEAT STREULI
Musée de Carouge, Carouge / Geneva
October 18 – January 14, 2024
http://www.carouge.ch
https://www.collection.pictet
CHANNELING
Museum MMK, Frankfurt am Main
September 22 – February 11, 2024
https://www.mmk.art/fr
ZILLA LEUTENEGGER, KARIM NOURELDIN, SHIRANA SHAHBAZI, BEAT STREULI
Musée de Carouge, Carouge / Geneva
October 18 – January 14, 2024
http://www.carouge.ch
https://www.collection.pictet
November 6, 2023