I'm super pleased to be a part of Ohne Kraft, keine Kekse, or Without Power, No Cookies, alongside the fabulous Vesna Jovanovic, Howard Fonda, and Matthew Girson - opens tomorrow night at Slow. Bonus: their special home-brewed beer, created to fit the show's theme (and I hear there will also be some actual cookies). If you're in Chicago, come join us! Slow is located at 2153 W. 21st Street in Chicago, and the show's on view from May 20 - June 17, 2017 by appointment. For more information: https://www.paul-is-slow.info/
Mirrorface at Cleve Carney Gallery
Using ink, polypropylene and transparent vinyl to activate the walls, floor, and full-length modernist windows of Cleve Carney Gallery in Glen Ellyn, IL this March, I look forward to creating a new site-specific installation for Mirrorface, a three-woman exhibition of autobiographical work featuring work by Keiler Roberts, Sarah McEneaney, and myself. The exhibition runs from March 9th - April 13th, 2017 with an all-ages opening reception on Saturday, March 11th from 1-3pm. You can get a sneak peak into our work for the show in the video below:
Our New System at Gallery 400, Chicago
Opening September 9th, 2016, this solo exhibition represents four years of exploration into the complexities of the human organism, investigating collectivities and spaces for new forms of human sociality. From Gallery 400:
Using paper as a tool to both investigate and imagine, Donner employs drawing, collage, printmaking, small-press publications, and large scale installation. Colorful image-scenes propose models of community that move beyond current anthropocentric and capitalist systems, while intricately cut paper structures are used to cast shadows of new constructions. These projected images expand into the physical space of the Gallery, incorporating tables stacked with research materials referencing science fiction, adventure playgrounds, activist projects, and the female-run social structures of wasps, ants, and bees as sources that might direct us toward ways of imaging our communities of the future. For the duration of the exhibition in a dedicated room of the gallery, somatic ‘tours’ will guide visitors through their own visualizations of the hidden architecture of the human body, linking structural and sensory worlds.
Our New System is accompanied by this interview-based publication (download pdf) and received a glowing review in the Chicago Tribune.
For more information and images on the show, plus a whole lot of intergenerational and childcare-supported events I had a hand in: http://gallery400.uic.edu/exhibitions/our-new-system
Seeing (between) Knowing at Aviatrix, Berlin
If you find yourself in Berlin, please join me on Saturday, November 28th for a pop-up exhibition of my latest work at the lovely Aviatrix Atelier. Combining ink and pigment in combination with light and shadow, Seeing (between) Knowing is a paper cabinet of curiosities is informed by my ongoing visual research as well as conversations with scholars at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, where I am working as Artist in Residence this Fall and into the new year.
There will be an informal opening event at on Saturday afternoon, November 28th between 14-17h. Or, you can stop by to see the work there anytime during the weekend (28-29 Nov) between 12 noon and 20h to see the show – just enter through the café and make a left. Aviatrix Atelier is located at Herrfurth Str. 13 in the vibrant Neuköln neighborhood, just down the road from Tempelhof Park.
Aviatrix is a very family-friendly space, organised by a collective of parents in the arts (another interest of mine). In the loft gallery above the café you will find a mini-exhibition of work by children who participated in Kunst- und Wunderkammern themed programs at Aviatrix, culminating in a hands-on Collective Curiosity workshop I led there last week. The results were pretty amazing.
Artist in Residence, Max Planck Institute, Berlin
This fall I have been invited to spend four months as Artist in Residence at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, where I am working on a new project called the ReDistribution of Curiosity, based on the research of MPI scholars and in my own explorations of contemporary Berlin.
The project will culminate in a trunkload of drawings, a set of disseminatable postcards, a collection and curiosity workshop, and a pop-up exhibition at the excellent artist-parent-run space Aviatrix Atelier in Neuköln. More information as the work develops!