TEASE IV

-4/25 - 4/30/2022-

Docu-Film about TEASE IV

TEASE IV–Transatlantic Exhibition of Art in the Southeast 2022

After several Covid-induced postponements, the eagerly-expected vernissages of TEASE – Transatlantic Exhibition of Art in the Southeast staged by The N.C. Zeitgeist Foundation and organized and executed by Curator Johanna Steinz finally took place in Charlotte and Charleston.

The idea of strengthening transatlantic relations by staging a format where young artists from Germany work together with local artists, visit students to experiment with them to create artworks, culminated in two elegant art shows.

Charlotte: the vernissage a highlight in the art scene, an all-inclusive: all ethnic origins and age groups (2 – 85 years) were represented; 20 diverse nationalities visited the art exhibition.

Its theme “Heimat / Homeland” was originally coined in 2019 to remember the people who 200 years ago left their mother country Mecklenburg-Pomerania to find a new home on this side of the Atlantic and to prepare the ground that many generations later considered the Carolinas their “Heimat / Homeland”.

In today’s times of the Ukraine crisis, this topic has gained a completely different meaning and it fervently reminds of the more than 10 mil Ukrainian refugees who have lost their homeland, whose homeland is being senseless destroyed.
More fitting into times, an art show cannot be.

Some Impressions:

Curator Johanna Steinz and Local artist Esther Moorehead

County Manager Dena Diorio

Irish Honorary Consul Dr. John Young and Johanna Steinz

Curator and Chair

Tim Chappell and Klaus Becker, both former presidents of the Charlotte World Trade Organization

Andreas Scharschuch who returned a day earlier from India to attend the vernissage, Bernd Losskarn and Klaus Becker

The vernissage was background for happy get-togethers

Bettina Gruber, President of The N.C. Zeitgeist Foundation, Esther Moorehead and Terry Thirion, the local artists

Regine Bechtler, an established artist in the community and Gunda Knese, the former President of the Foundation

200 guests attended the vernissage

Zaire McPhearson and her partner

Michel Vanesse from Belgium and his wife from Lithuania

Principessa Grazia Walker, Caren Wingate of 811 Gallery and Regine Bechtler

Ruben Gutierez and Joe Woerner, Member on the Advisory Board of The N.C. Zeitgeist Foundation

The presentation fascinated the visitors; it almost cast a spell over them

Chairman Klaus Becker puts the vernissage in perspective, in context, with the actual war where so many Ukrainians lost their homes, their loved ones, their Heimat.

The artists: Paetrick Schmidt, Antje Ingber, our Curator, Irisol Gonzalez, Zaire McPhearson, Esther Moorehead and Terry Thirion

Curator Johanna Steinz is asked to introduce the group of artists

Curator Johanna Steinz

Irisol Gonzalez

Zaire McPhearson

Paetrick Schmidt and Antje Huber

Antje Ingber, originally from Thuringia with its deep Grimms’-Tales-forests explains that for her being in and smelling and sensing forests give her the feeling of Heimat.

…with a captive audience….

Terry’s amusing and teasing teaching about art and its impact

Fascination Pure!

A Thank-you for the grand Curator

A successful Biennale!

And some impressions from Charleston:
This wonderful city in the deep South was the location of our second vernissage. The venue was the most venerable Charleston Library Society,

A building in the middle of downtown, standing there unscathed for more than hundred years

The Charleston Library Society

Our artist team

Zaire and Monika enjoying a quiet moment before the fulminant start of the exhibition

Painting of Irisol

Also in Charleston: the people are fascinated by the art.

Antje Ingber

The two local artists in Charleson: Morgan Kinne and Andrea Hazel

Fascinating conversation about genealogy and race…

And admiring Antje Ingber’s impressions of “Heimat”

And Johanna presenting the artists

A heartfelt thank-you to Dörte McManus, our genial co-organizing partner…

and to Curator Johanna Steinz

to end a most successful TEASE artists’ tour

TEASE IV–Transatlantic Exhibition of Art in the Southeast 2022

TEASE 2022 will revolve around the theme “Heimat” or “Home/Homeland.” Artists from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany) and from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (United States) will create and present “sense-of-place” themed works of art reflecting a transatlantic exchange of ideas about the meaning of “Homeland - Parting & Return”.
The weeklong tour will include exhibitions at the following venues:

Charlotte / Vernissage 4/27 - The Collector‘s Room
Charleston/ Vernissage 4/29 - The Library Society

These events are free and open to the public.

Ancillary events will be organized at each locality. Meetings with university students, campus tours, art gallery visits, and time for joint creative work will facilitate a profound cultural exchange, as well as development of deep and permanent friendships between the German and American artists.

TEASE – Transatlantic Exhibition of Art in the Southeast

Johanna B. Steinz
Curator
TEASE– Transatlantic Exhibition of Art in the Southeast
Board Member