Mondschwimmen

'Mondschwimmen' provides an overview of Teichmann's latest works, some of which were specially created for this solo show. Photographs, films, collages and sculptures are combined across 420 square metres into a multimedia installation experienced by the senses. This associative, unified work of art leads viewers into a realm of sensuality, intimacy, loss, eroticism and desire.

The core of Teichmann’s work is her exploration of fantasy and its sources, the experience of longing and loss playing a special role in this context. Teichmann uses photography with film, collage, sculpture and painting to present abstract themes in art. In the exhibition 'Mondschwimmen', she has combined her own photographs with found pictures. Sculptures are made of painted corals, and music specially composed for the presentation of the meditative video can be heard. The artist combines autobiographical and fictional material in this poetic conflation of media: visitors are transported into a dream world.

21 June 2015: Artist Talk - Esther Teichmann in conversation with Thomas Schirmböck.

11 July 2015: ERSTE TEICHMANNIADE - music commissioned by Teichmann specially for the 'Mondschimmen' show, composed by Deirdre Gribbin (London), performed by the Benyounes Quartet, and with a performative lecture by Carol Mavor, Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester.

12 July 2015: Midsummer Night's Fantasies - a workshop for young people enabling them to explore Teichmann's artistic techniques.

A limited edition artist book (available in three editions: without prints, with a set of two hand printed C-types in an edition of 100 or with a cyanotype in an edition of 25) is available online from the museum: http://zephyr-mannheim.com/shop/

Artist Biography:
Born in 1980 in Karlsruhe, Esther Teichmann studied photography and earned her doctorate at the Royal College of Art in London. In 2014, she won the Prix Photographique Ville de Levallois and the associated exhibition “Fractal Scars, Salt Water and Tears” was shown in Paris and London. She has taken part in exhibitions at relevant institutions for contemporary photography all over the world and also works as a curator in London. Teichmann was a senior lecturer at the University of Brighton from 2005 to 2011 and a Guest Professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco from 2012 and 2013. At present, she teaches in London at the London College of Communication/ University of the Arts London and at the Royal College of Art.

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