Exhibition Text
The group exhibition Aperture, monitor, field, mouth, language, at the Kunstverein für Mecklenburg und Vorpommern in Schwerin (31 October 2026–10 January 2027) brings together video installations, sculptures, photographs, and photograms by Keta Gavasheli, Danae Io, Chantal Kaufmann, and Jonida Laçi. Working from the relationship between body, space, language, and object, the artists develop interdisciplinary practices that make visible and shift habitual modes of perception and the power relations inscribed within them. Their works explore technology as an extension of the body and perception—from cinematic camera movements and photographic imaging processes to optical apparatuses—while reflecting on how images are produced, framed, and read, both historically and in the present.The exhibition’s title, based on a quotation by the writer Quinn Latimer, points in this context to the role of personal records and media instruments—cameras, monitors, and projections—as means of translating and interpreting the built environment. The text from which the quotation is taken draws on the first historically documented photographic image, Nicéphore Niépce’s View from the Window at Le Gras (1826). Within interwoven processes, images emerge that enter into narrative structures, but also at times resist resolution altogether. They shift along structures of repetition and move in loops, much like memory itself, in which meaning is continually reconfigured.
Miriam Stoney will write an accompanying text for the exhibition.
Artistic & Managing Director
Leonore Spemann
Curator
Luisa Kleemann
Curator
Lisa Dohmstreich
Head of Installation
Miles Schuler
Biography
Keta Gavasheli is a Tbilisi-born, Düsseldorf-based multidisciplinary artist whose work moves across sound-based media, moving image, installation, and performance. A resident of Salon des Amateurs, she has performed and curated regularly over recent years, fostering collaboration and creative exchange through live interventions and collective encounters. Her practice moves fluidly between stage, club and exhibition spaces ~ grounded in care and long-term artistic collaboration.
Danae Io works in moving images, sculpture and writing. Her practice often takes as a focus the ways histories are narrativised and shaped by intangible means. Recent solo exhibitions include Akwa Ibom, Athens and State of Concept, Athens. She has participated in exhibitions and screenings at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf; SB34, Brussels; beau travail, Stockholm; EMST - National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; Kunstverein Braunschweig; e-flux Screening Room, New York; New Museum with DESTE Foundation, Athens; Doclisboa; the Institute of Contemporary Art London; and the International Film Festival Rotterdam, among others.
Chantal Kaufmann lives and works in Zurich and Vienna. Kaufmann holds a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from Zurich University of the Arts (2012–2015) and a Master’s degree in Critical Studies (MA) from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2017–2022). From 2023 to 2026, she taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.Kaufmann’s artistic practice explores the connections between image and language and their shared production of meaning between author and recipient. Her recent solo exhibitions include Hoescheller Room, Zurich (2026); Dock 20, Lustenau (2025); Kunstverein Gartenhaus, Vienna (2024); Kunstraum Memphis, Linz (2024); Milieu, Bern (2023); Galerie Kirchgasse, Steckborn (2023); Oxford, Berlin (2022); Longtang, Zurich (2019); among others.
Jonida Laçi lives and works in Vienna. She graduated in Object Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and received the Kunsthalle Wien Preis in 2025. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Can, Vienna; marais/moeras, Brussels and Bazement, Tirana; as well as in duo and group exhibitions at Forde, Geneva; Courtney Jaeger, Basel; Shellspace; OxfordBerlin/Linienstrasse, Düsseldorf; Fondation Tschuess, Karlsruhe; Künstlerhaus and Kunsthalle (both Vienna); among others.
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