Leeza Negelev & Katie Kearns - To close a small distance (exhibition)

Name: Leeza Negelev & Katie Kearns - To close a small distance (exhibition)
Start: 2025-09-07T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-12T22:00:00+02:00
Location: Hosek Contemporary

Schedule

Sun, 07 Sep, 2025 at 05:00 pm to Fri, 12 Sep, 2025 at 10:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Hosek Contemporary | Berlin, BE

Hošek Contemporary is pleased to host 'To close a small distance', an exhibition by Leeza Negelev & Katie Kearns.
Opening Reception: Sunday 7 September 2025 at 17:00
Performances:
Tuesday 9 September 2025 | 19:00 Departure Duo - Between Sound
Edward Kass (double bass) + Nina Guo (soprano). Admission: €10
As the exhibition explores nearness, materiality, and the visual representation of sound, the duo presents a program that probes the space just between sound and silence.
Thursday 11 September 2025 | 18:00 Cara Dawson - New works for pedal and lever harp.
Admission: €10
In response to the exhibition To close a small distance, harpist Cara Dawson presents a program of new works that explore resonance, proximity, and the tactile nature of sound.
Exhibition Period: September 7th-12th, Sunday-Friday 13:30-18:00, and 13:30-22:00 during gallery events.
To close a small distance presents new work by two artists who investigate what is both sensible and near. Addressing a world in which knowledge, experience, and sociality are increasingly oriented towards the virtual, this exhibition offers transdisciplinary perspectives on our entanglement with the material world. Leeza Negelev’s gestural marks mine the space between established aesthetic ideals and the responsiveness of her materials. To understand this threshold, her new work leans on the language of music. She explores the way our experience with a painting can be time-bound, relational, and singular through an installation that serves as a graphic score, up close and from a distance. Katie Kearns’ sculptures begin with an interest in domestic objects and spaces. They disrupt the quiet familiarity of an old chair or dresser through surrealist interventions–alluding to the symbiotic way objects appear to absorb memory, as well as the fluidity of queer experience. In doing so, their work invites the viewer to question their own relationship to material, memory, and selfhood.
Support provided by Studio 170 / Germany at Goethe-Institut Boston
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More Information about Performances:
Tuesday 9 September 2025 | 19:00 Departure Duo - Between Sound
Edward Kass (double bass) + Nina Guo (soprano). Admission: €10
In a space filled with rich visual stimulation, Departure Duo invites you to come close and listen loudly to soft sounds. As the exhibition explores nearness, materiality, and the visual representation of sound, the duo presents a program that probes the space just between sound and silence. Despite the vast distance between traditional soprano and double bass registers, this repertoire brings the two so close together they are at times indistinguishable. What does it mean to experience live acoustic sounds that you cannot identify, even at close proximity? How does your perception of space and time alter when confronted with the very slow and the very soft? Most often, we experience these intimate moments with just one or two other people, but what happens when you experience them as a group? Combining commissions, improvisation, and preexisting works, Departure Duo invites you to listen up close.
Thursday 11 September 2025 | 18:00 Cara Dawson - New works for pedal and lever harp.
Admission: €10
In response to the exhibition To close a small distance, harpist Cara Dawson presents a program of new works that explore resonance, proximity, and the tactile nature of sound. The concert features solo compositions for both pedal and lever harp, including premieres and works written for her in close collaboration with composers. Several works incorporate electronic tape or alternative tuning systems, blurring the boundaries between acoustic and digital sound worlds. Performed in an intimate setting, the program invites close listening—foregrounding gesture, materiality, and the body’s entanglement with sound. As the final event in the exhibition series, it offers a quiet yet charged sonic response to the artworks that surround it.
More information at leezanegelev.com

The gallery is located at
Motor Ship HEIMATLAND
Märkisches Ufer 1z
10 179 Berlin-Mitte
+49 1525 7486496
www.hosekcontemporary.com