Galerie Kornfeld is pleased to present the works of Tammam Azzam and Jonas Englert in the duo exhibition “Fragments”. Both artists dwell on the rebuild or the re-contextualisation of political moments through history.

The exhibition challenges the way political decisions are made and the outcome of them. How these settlements, arrangements, threats, treaties and agreements take place and how they are definitive in the change of history, how they impact not only the current population but generations to come, and to question the authenticity of the diplomatic gestures that lead to defining moments in our times.

Through both artists exhibited we can sense how society deals with political agreements, disagreements and decisions being done. In Englert’s work we see this through fragments of video compositions showcasing the diplomacy of political gestures whereas in Azzam’s work we see this through large-scale paper collages that depict the broken end result of a conflict or dispute.

Tammam Azzam's (b. 1980) work communicates the awareness and importance of topics such as migration, war, violence, focusing on destruction and re-construction through images that dive into our emotions and linger in our memory. Being on the edge to abstraction, his works emphasise an emotional access to the depicted rather than a descriptive one.  

Jonas Englert's (b. 1989) works reflect social-philosophical phenomena and both political and historical narratives and materials through the formats of video, diagram, text, and sound. His work explores the in-between fiction and documentation, focusing on the human being as both an individual and in a societal context. Drawing attention to specific gestures in historical, cultural and/or political moments unmasking their authenticity and exposing the curated, clinical and artificiality of these moments. Captured in harmonic compositions in the form of moving images that reference biblical, historical or artistic fragments in time.