19 May — 16 July 2017

Opening Thursday 18th May, 6:30pm Exhibition 19.05 — 16.07.17 Harpe 45, Lausanne Artist talk with Fatma Bucak, date to be confirmed. The notion of the borderline and the porous nature of borders has long preoccupied artist Fatma Bucak, from her earliest performance and video works on the Turkish-Syrian border, to the contentious southern border between the United States and Mexico, which she traversed gathering belongings left behind by those who traveled the perilous path of migration. It is not just the act of crossing as a transgression which animates Bucak’s work but also the crossing as a condition of life. Her works do not merely explore the permeable nature of borders but challenge us to ask how it is possible to erode the historical discontinuity that lies within the (post)modern political configuration of reality. In her new exhibition Detail of an aftermath – Damascus rose, on show at Harpe 45 in Lausanne, the artist grew a small indoor garden of Damask roses – a once iconic and ubiquitous species that has all but disappeared as the Syrian fields in which it grew have been abandoned as a consequence of the civil war (it is said that in the markets of Damascus no more than a few kilograms remain). The artist worked with a network of collaborators - including Humam Alsalim, a resident of Damascus - to transport young cuttings of the rose from fields close to Damascus in Syria to Turkey, via Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Italy – a passage that parallels the plight of millions of migrants traveling by land and sea, in perilous journeys to survival, safety and rebirth. Fittingly, the cuttings were repeatedly delayed and mishandled, and even destroyed. Those cuttings that survived the journey Bucak grafted onto 'host' rose hip plants and replanted to form a garden built of the detritus of memory accumulated and discarded throughout our current age of global migrations. Excerpt from text by Arie Amaya-Akkermans Full text on the website http://harpe45.ch/ About the artist: Born in Iskenderun, on the Turkish–Syrian border, Fatma Bucak studied Philosophy in Istanbul University and History of Art and Etching in Italy at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, before completing an MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art, London. Her works in performance, photography, sound, and video center on political identity, religious mythology, and landscape as a space of historical renegotiation. Bucak has had solo exhibitions at Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art (Turin), David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University (Providence), Pori Art Museum (Finland), ARTER (Istanbul), Artpace (San Antonio), Alberto Peola Contemporary Art Gallery (Turin), and The RYDER Projects (London). Her work has also been exhibited at the 54th Venice Biennale, The Jewish Museum (New York), International Festival of Non-fiction Film, MoMA (New York), SALT (Istanbul), ICA (London), Spike Island (Bristol), Contemporary Art Platform Gallery Space (Kuwait), Manifesta 9 Collateral exhibition (Genk), La Permanente Museum (Milan), Fondazione Fotografia (Modena), and Art in General (New York). In 2013 she was the winner of the 13th Illy Present Future Prize, and was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in the same year. She was artist-in-residence at Cité Internationale des Arts in 2017 and at Townhouse, Cairo in 2014 and went on to win the Academy Now London award. She received the ARTER – Koc Foundation Contemporary Art Grant and UniCredit Project Grant in 2011. She is a lecturer in Contemporary Image at the Fondazione Fotografia Modena. She is currently preparing her new work for the Göteborg International Biennial 2017.

Camille Lichtenstern — Why Does Mitch Wear Sunglasses Indoors?

C'est ce soir à Harpe 45, l'exposition de l'artiste Camille Lichtenstern!!

Camille Lichtenstern — Why Does Mitch Wear Sunglasses Indoors?

Vernissage 03.03.17, 18h Exposition 03.03 — 02.04.17 Camille Lichtenstern - artiste Suisse née en 1989, vit et travaille à Lausanne. Diplomée de l'ECAL en 2012 en arts visuels, elle obtient en 2016 un postgrade en céramique à la HEAD Genève. Pour sa quatrième exposition personnelle, Camille nous guide à l'intérieur de son univers psychédélique, à travers la vision d'un personnage imaginaire qui ne sait plus discerner le rêve de la réalité. Expositions personnelles récentes; Group Show, FORMA Art contemporain, Lausanne, 2016. Freeze, Ganioz Project Space, Le Manoir, Martigny, 2015. Super Clean, Atelier des Rats Collectif, Vevey, 2014. Avenue de la Harpe 45 1007 Lausanne harpe45.ch

Harpe 45's cover photo

Harpe 45's cover photo

Natacha Donzé — White Musk

!!!C'est demain soir!!!Vernissage de l'exposition de Natacha Donzé <3

Natacha Donzé — White Musk

Vernissage 13.01.17, 18h Exposition 13.01 — 12.02.17 Natacha Donzé - artiste Suisse née en 1991, a étudié à l'Ecal un bachelor en arts visuels. Elle vit et travaille en Suisse. En 2015 elle participe à l'exposition collective "Swan Song" à M J gallery et expose une série de drapeaux pour le château de Martigny. Avenue de la Harpe 45 1007 Lausanne harpe45.ch

Harpe 45 sera ouvert aujourd'hui jusqu'à 18h. Samedi le 7, 13–16h. Dimanche le 8, 13–16h. Plus d'info sur la site web: http://harpe45.ch

Lucas Uhlmann and Sebastian Stadler — Outremer

17 June — 16 July 2016

Harpe 45 sera ouvert aujourd'hui, samedi, 12–14h. Lundi le 19, 13–16h. Mercredi le 21, 13–16h.