M.A.I.S. 4, Duke St LBK

Duke St LBK, 64-66 Duke Street
14th September – 13th October 2002
Thursday – Friday, 4pm-8pm
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M°A°I°S 4: The Good and The Bad

Curated By: Nina+Torsten Roemer and Julian Gillespie
Co-ordinated in Liverpool by: Julian Gillespie
Co-ordinated in Berlin by: Nina+Torsten Roemer
Supported by Basement

M°A°I°S is an ongoing arts project co-ordinated by Nina+Torsten Roemer. M°A°I°S stands for Malerei (German for Painting), Aktion (German for Performance), Installation (German for Installation), and Skulptur (German for Sculpture. So in England this project might be called P.P.I.S.!

M°A°I°S has its roots in Cologne a city that is twinned with Liverpool. As the projects title suggests, artists involved in M°A°I°S work in all the different mediums currently employed by contemporary artists. The style and nature of the work is diverse, the common link being that all artists are young, have met or know Nina+Torsten Roemer and are dealing with ideas in a contemporary context.

To date M°A°I°S has presented 3 major exhibitions; the first in Cologne in May 2000 and more recently in Berlin in 2001 and 2002 where Nina+Torsten are now based. Having them visited and exhibited in Liverpool as part of the ‘Eight Days A Week’ project in 2000 linking Liverpool and Cologne, Nina+Torsten suggested we bring M°A°I°S to Liverpool.

Since this visit they have been working together with Liverpool based M°A°I°S artist Julian Gillespie to bring the project to Liverpool. In the spirit of the project Julian Gillespie has invited 17 UK based artists to join the project for the first time and so the project grows each time.

‘M°A°I°S 4: The Good and The Bad’ will see approximately 50 artists from more than 15 different countries exhibit in an old warehouse in Liverpool’s Duke Street area. After the Biennial the two buildings used for the exhibition are to be redeveloped for residential and leisure use as part of the ongoing regeneration in the area.

Artists Represented at Mais:

Katja Aglert
Oskar Aglert
Chris Anderson
Robin van Arsdole
Jovan Balov
Lee Barnett
Nicole Bartos
Sabine Beyerle
Simon Blackmore
Annegret Bleisteiner
Sam Brooks
Sumer Erek
Isabel Ferrand
Scot Fletcher
Bernard Föll
Jungme Fritzenkötter
Julian Gillespie
Marcus Günther
Kerstin Heimlich
Jon Hogan
Filia den Hollander
Patrick Jambon
Zimeon Jones
Olga Jurgenson
Barbara Koch
Aleksandra Koneva
Elena Kovylina
Clemens Krauss
Jacob Kreutzfeld
Uwe Lauterkorn
Paul Lebon
Zhang Lei
Julia Lohmann
Vicki Lucas
Vera Lossau
Claudia-Maria Luenig
Marina Lyubaskina
Thomas Majevszky
Peter Metzler
Pavel Miguel
Chris Milo
Maia Naveriani
Maki Na Kamura
Victor Nikolaev
Wolfram Odin
Eliane Paulino
Georgy V.Pervov
Dirk Pleyer
Claire Richardson
Harry Richardson
David Riff
Nina Rogosina
Nina and Torsten Roemer
Merete Rostad
Kathy Sandys
Ekatherina Savtchenko
Marcus Schaefer
Christiane Schmidt
Barry Sykes
Katia Tangian
Jewgenija Tschuikowa
Visuman
Heidrun Waadt
Garrett Anderson Williams
Barbara Wolters
Seongwon Won

The LBK Building, The Artpit Club, 66-67 & 68-70 Duke Street. Many names. Many uses. Explore the archive of this strip of buildings first used for 2002’s Independents Biennial.