June 7th until July 31st 2024
The Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden presents ‘Drown in Dreams’, a comprehensive solo exhibition by Neven Allgeier (*1986 in Wiesbaden, lives and works in Vienna). On display are photographs from the work series ‘Fading Temples’, which was published in book form by Distanz Verlag in 2022. Numerous new works will also be on display.
In recent years, Neven Allgeier has developed an impressive photographic oeuvre that explores the attitudes to life and self-images of Generation Z. Allgeier combines portraits of young people with environments - images of nature and landscapes, urban spaces, still lifes and interiors. This comparison and the playful alternation between different photographic genres creates an open panorama of young people who have grown up with the climate crisis, pandemic, war and social media.
Allgeier's photographs are characterised by special lighting moods. It often remains unclear whether the photographs were taken by day or night. Through the targeted use of light and colour, Allgeier succeeds in capturing the fluid, ambiguous and changeable, which is so symptomatic of our time, in a personal and visually convincing way. The orange light behind the trees could be a forest fire and the roaring surf a sign of a natural disaster, while lettering on facades suggests promising possibilities. Allgeier's photographic imagery moves between reality and fiction, between utopia and dystopia. The people photographed and their surroundings tell of inner conflict, longing and self-assertion. Allgeier's images throw many questions back at us: how do we want to live and what do we dream of?
The Nassauischer Kunstverein is exploring these and other questions together with the public and partners from art and society in a programme of events accompanying the exhibition.
Friday, 20 September 2024, 7 pm
Inspirational Happening with the philosopher Manuel Scheidegger (Argumented Reality, Göttingen)
Thursday, 17 October 2024, 6 pm
Discussion with Neven Allgeier, Christin Müller (freelance curator and author, Leipzig) and Heinz Drügh (Professor of Modern German Literature and Aesthetics, University of Frankfurt). Moderated by Lotte Dinse (Director, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden)
