PURSUIT: GEOLOGIC INTIMACY

Is an exploration of themes and strands expressed within the two Berlin solo exhibitions STEINE and HANDHELD LAVA by artist Ilana Halperin. For the duration of the exhibitions a number of talks, tours and other events are being developed by Several Pursuits and invited others in collaboration with the artist. One thing leading to another.

An extensive survey of work by Scotland-based artist Ilana Halperin (b. 1973, New York) is currently being shown in two solo exhibitions in Berlin: HAND HELD LAVA at the Ernst Schering Foundation’s Project Space and STEINE at the Berlin Museum of Medical History of the Charité. Ilana Halperin’s work engages with geological phenomena and the generation of new landmass. In HAND HELD LAVA, the artist embraces our fascination with volcanoes, their generation and the relationship between geological phenomena and daily life. Parallel to this exhibition, the Berlin Museum of Medical History of the Charité presents the exhibition STEINE. Here the artist focuses on the geology of humans and animals through stones, new landmass being produced by the body itself.

HAND HELD LAVA
Schering Stiftung, Unter den Linden 32-34, 10117 Berlin
03 Feb – 05 May 2012, Mon–Sat 11–18h

STEINE
Berlin Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin
27 Jan– 23 Sept 2012, Tue–Sun 10–17h, Wed & Sat 10–19h