Our group exhibition HOSPITALITY took place in November 2019 in Haus1, Berlin. The project arose from the constant exchange of artistic practice between Rio Usui, Felix Deiters and Fabian Reetz. The title was created upon realizing the importance of frequent mutual studio visits featuring acts and rituals of hospitality between us. 
The project reflects what it means to exhibit as artists and friends at the same time, questions where the limits of the collective begin, where individual authorship ends and how important that may be to us after all. 
Although we deal with different media, materials and questions aswell as work in isolation for weeks, we always uncover conscious and unconscious similarities in our approaches and thinking. 
A cell questions its own identity and recreates its narrative before being reborn as a curator. 
Our works form organic connections and enter into a new relationship with each other. The physical proximity of them creates a deep synergy, which HOSPITALITY reveals.

All artists live in Weimar and are currently studying fine arts at Bauhaus University.

Felix Deiters's  (DE) work is characterized by associative, aesthetic contexts that approximate the facts found, as well as narrative elements that deal with questions of proportions down to the smallest possible particle.

Fabian Reetz's (DE) artistic thinking is strongly influenced by formal-linguistic models from which he develops aesthetic strategies.

Rio Usui's  (JPN) work moves in the area of ​​tension between philosophy and physical theories in relation to imagination and emotions.



HOSPITALITY

Ultra Immunity : Culture 

Acrylic Painting, color pencil , color spray on canvas .
180x200cm , 2020

Ultra Immunity :Culture was created in 2020.
This works is based on scientific material (Fungus, pathogen, culture...)
and their aesthetics.



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