A SEQUEL SEEPING NEARBY / ENTRE NOUS

FRONTROOM «a sequel seeping nearby» by Leolie Greet In an installation combining videos, sculptures, and repurposed office elements, Leolie Greet interrogates a world in constant transformation — a world that seeps through its pores, mutates, and overflows. The artist proposes narratives for the living and the inanimate, revealing a fluid, animist reality where emotions and matter become one. Through her objects and installations, Leolie Greet (*1995, lives and works in Biel/Bienne) constructs poetic narratives based on visual and linguistic associations. These stories are not limited to the individual elements of the exhibition. On the contrary, Leolie Greet connects them through a spatial arrangement that is both subtle and surprising. The jury awards the 2024 Anderfuhren Prize to Leolie Greet for her thoughtful and masterfully executed work. «(...) I search my memory for what lies behind the blinds. We pass this house nearly every day. I’ve forgotten, but I listen to the dull humming, unfamiliar, unplaceable, unidentifiable. I think of the hose’s hum, breathing, gently cooling a floor lamp. But this hum is deeper, duller, and dissolves in all audible directions. It dissipates, like my longing for a clear shape I could cling to. Small droplets form on my nose. The humming tightens. A drop rolls to the tip. I wonder if it’s gotten warmer. It smells sour, dried. My hands are damp, yet cold. I’m nervous. Or is it fear? I don’t know. Maybe the room is breathing. Maybe it’s exhaling. Maybe it’s cooling itself down. Because it’s too much. Because it’s overheated. (...)» - martian mächler (excerpt of exhibition text) The Anderfuhren Prize is the main award dedicated to supporting and promoting the contemporary art scene in Biel/Bienne. Every two years, the Anderfuhren Foundation awards emerging artists under 40 from the Biel region. The prize is endowed with CHF 15,000 and is followed the next year by an exhibition, supported by the foundation with an additional CHF 15,000. In 2024, the prize was awarded to Leolie Greet, accompanied by an exhibition at KRONE COURONNE. FOYER «entre nous» by Laura Veenemans In «entre nous», the artist Laura Veenemans enters into dialogue with the City of Biel collection. While delving into the collection, Laura Veenemans came across the work of Ise Schwartz – born in Germany in 1942 and based in Biel for several decades, inviting it into a conversation with her own practice. What particularly caught her attention were the formal and abstract qualities of Schwartz’s work – an aesthetic marked by the use of fragments, organic motifs (flowers, plants, animals), and geometric forms that, through repetition or symmetry, verge on a structuralist study of the motif. This encounter between two artistic practices, separated by a generation, brings together a shared sensibility for image fragments, recurring patterns and notions of in-betweenness. It is within the exhibition space, this indeed social and relational site, that these connections come to life. A place where not only people meet and gather, but where artworks greet one another, observe, and respond. «entre nous» thus does not stage separation, but rather reveals the quiet rituals of connection. Veenemans addresses these gestures like fragments seeking the other — an invitation to enter into dialogue.