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Gregor Podnar curated by Simone Menegoi
„Urchin Compass“

9.9 - 4.10.2025 Press release Arrow
Gregor Podnar, Volksgartenstrasse 3, 1010 Vienna
www.gregorpodnar.com

Curator(s):

Simone Menegoi More Arrow
Simone Menegoi (1970) is an Italian critic and curator. Between 2019 and last February he was Artistic Director of Arte Fiera, the Bologna art fair. He has curated a number of exhibitions and has a long record of essays with a recurring focus on sculptural practices and their dialogue with other media.
Photo Courtesy: V. D'Accardi

Artist(s):

  • Jochen Lempert More Arrow
    Moers (DE) 1958, lives in Hamburg (DE)
  • Nobuko Tsuchiya More Arrow
    Yokohama (JP) 1972, lives in Japan
  • Moe Yoshida More Arrow
    Kakogawa (JP) 1975, lives in a Bologna (IT)

Exhibition text

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„Urchin Compass“ brings together Jochen Lempert, Nobuko Tsuchiya and Moe Yoshida: a photographer, a sculptor and an artist working with sculpture, drawing and performance, respectively. Their dialogue in the context of the exhibition is intuitive and visual rather than conceptual, but the question of the relationship between human and non-human life forms is a common ground for all three, as is their approach to it, that challenges our anthropocentric assumptions.

 

The black and white photographs that Lempert has been taking for more than thirty years, informed by his training as a biologist, explore the sphere of non-human life in unexpected, surprising, deeply poetic ways; but they also reflect on the nature of photography itself (especially analog photography) as an image and a physical object, a document and a formal composition. Nobuko Tsuchiya’s fragile assemblages of found objects and spare parts evoke hybrids – sometimes disturbing, sometimes fairy-tale-like – between organic and technological, animal and vegetal, human and non-human, shedding light on what is already the nature of the world we inhabit and of our own bodies. Moe Yoshida’s sculptures of papier-mâché, branches, wire, and fabric, slender like Giacometti figures, are poised between animal, vegetal, humanoid. Equipped with functioning joints and wands to hold, they can be animated and even made to walk, sparking actions in which sculpture turns into an extension, and even a full-fledged doppelgänger, of the body of the performer.

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exhibition view Urchin Compass curated by Simone Menegoi at Gregor Podnar
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
exhibition view Urchin Compass curated by Simone Menegoi at Gregor Podnar
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
exhibition view Urchin Compass curated by Simone Menegoi at Gregor Podnar
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
exhibition view Urchin Compass curated by Simone Menegoi at Gregor Podnar
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Moe Yoshida, Frog Dog, 2021, papier mache, bamboo, wire, steel, Japanese sumi ink, cloth, paper, wood, aluminium, polystyrene, acrylic, gesso, coffee grounds, 110 x 38 x 38 cm
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Moe Yoshida, Frog Dog, 2021, papier mache, bamboo, wire, steel, Japanese sumi ink, cloth, paper, wood, aluminium, polystyrene, acrylic, gesso, coffee grounds, 110 x 38 x 38 cm
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Moe Yoshida, Frog Dog, 2021, papier mache, bamboo, wire, steel, Japanese sumi ink, cloth, paper, wood, aluminium, polystyrene, acrylic, gesso, coffee grounds, 110 x 38 x 38 cm
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Moe Yoshida, Frog Dog, 2021, papier mache, bamboo, wire, steel, Japanese sumi ink, cloth, paper, wood, aluminium, polystyrene, acrylic, gesso, coffee grounds, 110 x 38 x 38 cm
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Moe Yoshida, Frog Dog, 2021, papier mache, bamboo, wire, steel, Japanese sumi ink, cloth, paper, wood, aluminium, polystyrene, acrylic, gesso, coffee grounds, 110 x 38 x 38 cm
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Moe Yoshida, Frog Dog, 2021, papier mache, bamboo, wire, steel, Japanese sumi ink, cloth, paper, wood, aluminium, polystyrene, acrylic, gesso, coffee grounds, 110 x 38 x 38 cm
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Nobuko Tsuchiya, Lake Sphinx, 2019 mixed media 23 x 180 x 116 cm
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Moe Yoshida, Frog Dog (silkscreen print I), 2021, silkscreen print on paper, 69 x 49 cm & Moe Yoshida, Frog Dog (Drawing IV), 2021, charcoal and silkscreen print on paper, 70 x 50 cm
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
exhibition view Urchin Compass curated by Simone Menegoi at Gregor Podnar
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Jochen Lempert, Noctiluca, 2002 set of 7 photographs, silver gelatin print, 23,8 x 29,8 cm, each Ed. 1/5
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Nobuko Tsuchiyat, Juke Box Blanket, 2005, mixed media, variable dimensions
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Nobuko Tsuchiyat, Juke Box Blanket, 2005, mixed media, variable dimensions
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Nobuko Tsuchiyat, Juke Box Blanket, 2005, mixed media, variable dimensions
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Nobuko Tsuchiyat, Juke Box Blanket, 2005, mixed media, variable dimensions
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Nobuko Tsuchiyat, Juke Box Blanket, 2005, mixed media, variable dimensions
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Nobuko Tsuchiyat, Juke Box Blanket, 2005, mixed media, variable dimensions
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Nobuko Tsuchiyat, Juke Box Blanket, 2005, mixed media, variable dimensions
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Nobuko Tsuchiyat, Juke Box Blanket, 2005, mixed media, variable dimensions
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Nobuko Tsuchiyat, Juke Box Blanket, 2005, mixed media, variable dimensions
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Nobuko Tsuchiyat, Juke Box Blanket, 2005, mixed media, variable dimensions
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Nobuko Tsuchiyat, Juke Box Blanket, 2005, mixed media, variable dimensions
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Moe Yoshida, Bue, 2024, papier mache, bamboo, wire, steel, Japanese sumi ink, cloth, feather, paper, wood, aluminium, polystyrene, acrylic, gesso, coffee grounds, found materials, 143 x 45 x 240 cm
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Moe Yoshida, Bue, 2024, papier mache, bamboo, wire, steel, Japanese sumi ink, cloth, feather, paper, wood, aluminium, polystyrene, acrylic, gesso, coffee grounds, found materials, 143 x 45 x 240 cm
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Moe Yoshida, Bue, 2024, papier mache, bamboo, wire, steel, Japanese sumi ink, cloth, feather, paper, wood, aluminium, polystyrene, acrylic, gesso, coffee grounds, found materials, 143 x 45 x 240 cm
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Moe Yoshida, Bue, 2024, papier mache, bamboo, wire, steel, Japanese sumi ink, cloth, feather, paper, wood, aluminium, polystyrene, acrylic, gesso, coffee grounds, found materials, 143 x 45 x 240 cm
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Moe Yoshida, Bue, 2024, papier mache, bamboo, wire, steel, Japanese sumi ink, cloth, feather, paper, wood, aluminium, polystyrene, acrylic, gesso, coffee grounds, found materials, 143 x 45 x 240 cm
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Jochen Lempert, Sleep (Feathers), 2025, photograph, silver gelatin print, 37,5 x 29 cm Ed. 5/5
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Jochen Lempert, Untitled (Kelp Forest), 2017-2019, set of 2 photographs, silver gelatin print, 46 x 32 cm each Ed. 5/5
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez
Jochen Lempert, Honigfotogramm, 2024, photograph, silver gelatin print, 32,5 x 25,5 cm, unique
Photo Courtesy Manuel Carreon Lopez