Tere Recarens
si@tere.cat
My work is like a long journey,
enriching every project with the encounters I make along the way.
Tere Recarens is an interdisciplinary artist from Arbúcies and lives in Berlin. As an artist she works everywhere and especially with people outside the art scene. She is curious about her surroundings and the society. Her work is like a long journey from one place to another, enriching every project with the encounters she makes along the way. She is walking hand in hand along the roads of Bamako, Bar- celona, Paris, Berlin and Tehran. Tere is traveling through time and geographies, disproving cultural boundaries and erasing the ones that have been raised between life and art.
Foto: Sajjad Avarand
Teram garden, 2018
Depot old stones and wood
Once upon a time there was a little girl, called Teram* She lived in a town and felt unhappy because in her opinion everything looked overdesigned. Too many urbanists, too many architects and trendy restau- rants. She spent her days feeling angry and sick because of this environment. Until one day she discovered how some workers with a crane left all kinds of construction mate- rials in the corner of the garden in front of her house. She went to discover this site and felt really happy between all these stones and pieces of wood.
Teram started jumping joyfully from stone to stone and spent more and more time there. She converted the place in her privat playground.
*Eram garden, a Persian historical garden that was constructed in the 11th century. It means ‘heaven’ and the idea behind it was to create an earthly paradise.
Farsi, 2018
Tere in Tehran is very surprised that in Farsi there are five words to say merci: Dastet dard nakoneh, Merci, Mamnoon, Moteshakke- ram and Sepas. These are written in Farsi on a dusty mirror.
Kooshk open studio and Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris
D’ici à Ici, Hans & Fritz contemporary, Barcelona, 2017 Baharestan Farsh, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris, 2018
Paradeiolie, Salon international du dessin contemporain, Marseille, 2018
Baharestan carpet,
Cardboard, Arabic gum, pigments, Invisible ink and garlands, 440 x 720 cm
The cardboard carpet is inspired by The Winter Carpet, also known as The Spring of Khosrow, which disappeared, and it is only known through descriptions. This carpet was in the palace Taghe Kasra in Ctesiphon, the capital of Persia under the Sassa- nian Empire. During the invasion of the Arabs, in 637, they took it and brought it to Umar’s Caliphate. The carpet was too big and heavy to be carried, so the Arabs cut it into several pieces and distributed it as a loot. The cardboard carpet is divides into four main areas, as in the traditional Chaharbarg design. The four themes represen- ted are the legend of Simourgh, the story of Shirin and Farhad at the time of the King Khosrow, Mohammad Mossadegh as a democratic politician and the current situa- tion of women.
Tere in Tehran, 2018
I landed in Tehran with my ‘Baharestan Carpet’ and suddenly l were at *Kooshk. l felt like a Greek scholar, a mathematician who discovered specific weight or density. There is a story behind his discovery. The kingdom of Siracuse had a jeweller who made a crown of pure gold. Later, when the king received his crown, he doubted the jeweller had used the pure gold. Perhaps it was mixed with gold. He asked Archime- des to solve the problem of whether the crown was made of pure gold or not. One day, when Archimedes went into the pool to take a bath, he found that some of the water poured out of the pool. He found there was a direct relationship between the volume of the displaced water and the weight of his body. He shouted I find it, l find it. This way he had discovered the rule of density.
Taarof, 1397
Tere Zelzeleh had found the most astonishing thing in every day lra- nian’s life: Taarof. I stamped 100 bills with my name and wishing a good year ahead: sale no mobarak! I walked and play it.
Kooshk residency, Open Studio, Tehran
*Kooshk, palace at the garden and also the name of the artist residency
Boteh Jegheh,
Sérigraphie, lithographie, warm stamp
This is a very old form. It can be defined as the zoroastrian fire, or a cur- ved cypress, the humility, a leaf and a water drop. In the Sasanian Empi- re
From Mashad to Mashad, 2015
20 Drawings (20,8x29,5 cm), several techniques
A transformation of the negative effects of an event
D’ici à Ici, Hans & Fritz contemporary, Barcelona, 2017
Paradeiolie, Salon international du dessin contemporain, Marseille, 2018
Baharestan carpet, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris 2018
Tere Optimiste, 2016
Exhibition view, Art3, Valence, Fr, 2016
ECOUTER MALÍ, 2016
Nine banners with sentences of intellectuels and inhabitants of Malí, painted with the bogolan tecknique: earth on top of cottonfabric.
Agenc y of living organisms, TABAKALERA, Centro Internacional de Cultura Contemporánea, San Sebastian, 2016
19 MARÇ 2014
19 Març 2014, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, 2004
19 Març 2014, Black box. White cube, CA2M – Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles, Madrid, 2014
Imagination, 2012
Photograph 30 x 40 cm
The river follows its course,
Video 12’30 m, fotos, texts and two banners of 270 x 435 cm and 550 x 340 cm
Accompanied by a horse called ‘Amigo’ and a wagon with a cover that served as a banner, Özay Sahin, filmmaker, and I organised two trekking trips with visual artists, photographers, musicians, writers and hunters from the area, from Turkey, and from all over Europe.
Together, we travelled along the Pülümur and Munzur rivers, and protested against the hydroelectric power stations that Turkey is threatening to build in this Kurdish region that is home to the Alevis.
Exhibitions:
A Dilemma: Contemporary Art and Investment in Uncertainty, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona,
2013
PROTEST, Kunstverein Tiergarten/Galerie Nord, Berlin, 2017
El riu segueix el seu curs _ Maa tere manalen,
Je suis toi, 2009
Kultur Karma, sound instalation, 2008
Exhibition view Arte e investigación, Montehermoso Kulturunea, Victoria, ES
Bamanas minority are born with a tere, the official language of Mali. I decide to go there to see the country for myself. I was corresponding with Salia Male, ethnologist of the Musée national du Mali.
Maa tere manalen, video 12’23’’, 2008
Exhibition Karma Allumé, Galerie Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, ES
During this time, I became fascinated by local textile designs and their manifold uses as transmitters of messages: political, healthcare or social messages. In my second project I designed a pattern, whose motifs were related to the concept of tere, and produced a fabric in collaboration with Malian weavers.
We cut the fabric up into
Maa tere manalen, West African fabrics, 2009
Exhibition view Maa tere manalen, Frac Bourgogne, Dijon, FR
I swap new pieces of fabric for old ones.
Whether a virtue, a flaw or simply involuntary, the idea of tere illustrates the fact that, amongst the Bamanan, the individual lives in an environment of cons- tant insecurity. And knowing that an individual’s destiny and, indirectly, his community’s, is dependent on his tere, and that all of the tere, the good and the bad ones, are invisible, we appeal to certain sages, especially to the elders, but we also seek psychics (flèlikèla), miracle workers (soma) or witchdoctors (mori) to identify each tere through divination. These people are also endowed with a gift: they can influence the tere’s impact on the acts that individuals perform on a daily basis.
Exhibition view VERNACULARITY, Alternativa, Gdanz, PL, 2015
Artisima, Galeria Anne Barrault, Torino, 2014
Maa tere manalen, 20 Cushions 86 x 106 cm, 32 of 50 x 74 cm, 2009
Hier wäre das Leben leicht, Art Laboratory Berlin, Berlin, 2008 Project Room, Galerie Toni Tàpies, Arco, Madrid, 2009
Maa tere Manalen/El riu segueix el seu curs,
Faire l’aventure,
Three fabric sails 2,80 x 4,30 m, 1,90 x 4,70 m, 3,70 x 3,20 m, Video 3’05’’
We made some sails with a group of people living in Mali. The video describe five aspects of migration.
Printemps de Septembre, LA09 – Espace Saint Cyprien, Toulouse, 2009 SOS, Signale, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Neukölln Arcaden, Berlin, 2015 Hors les murs, FIAC, Jardin des Tuileries, 2018
Faire l’aventure, Hors les murs, FIAC 2018, Paris
Ij_Board,
Je suis allée dans 3000 logements de Ij_Burg, un nouveau quartier d’Amsterdam, avec des tableaux blancs. Les habitants ont été invités à écrire, dessiner ou gribouiller leurs pensées, leurs souhaits ou leurs rêves que j’ai relevé et effacé au fur et à mesure Une sélection de 800 dessins a été réunis pour faire un im- mense poster pour tous les participants. 3000 exemplaires de 841 cm x 1189 cm.
Shooting star, 2006
Photograph 213x186 cm
BESENREIN (Immaculate Clean), 2003
Video 1’35”
Video taken from the sky, I am sweeping the clouds.
Exhibitions:
Fresc, Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, 2011 Video(S)torias, Sala Norte, ARTIUM,
Cosas que solo un artista puede hacer, MARCO, Musée d’art contemporain, Vigo, 2010 CIGE 2009, Casa Asia and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Pékin, 2009
El viaje dislocado, MARCO, Musée d’art contemporain, Vigo, 2007
16 Artistas en transito, Cercanias RENFE , Madrid, Barcelone, Bilbao, Valencia, 2006 VideoViaje, III Encuentro Bienal. Arte Lanzarote 2005, El Almacén, Arrecife,2005 Parker’s Box, Loop’04, Barcelone , 2004
Summer Shorts (Fear of Flying), Parker’s Box, New York, 2004 Videoshop, La Pinta, Saragosse, 2004
Looking Further, Thinking Through, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavík, 2004 Finger Flip, Parkers Box, New York, 2003
Ethereal, 1999
I built a room which rocked when you went in because it was not touching the ground. Inside were a monitor hanging and moved differently. The video shows three monkeys playing with three flags on which you could read “HAL”, the name of the exhibition space.
Watere, 56’12”, 1999
Video projection
IWAS READY TO JUMP, 1999
Poster, 58.5 x 83 cm
In October 1997, PS1 printed an advertising poster. I aimed to appropriate this poster and I began a new piece: I would jump from the roof of the building, just in front of the wall where PS1 is written in huge letters. A picture would be taken at this very moment with the same framing as the 97 poster. I worked on the production of this action (sponsors, stuntmen, insurance, photographers, and support). Everything was eventually cancelled for security purposes. This work was too dangerous to be accepted by the art centre.
WET PAINT/TERE SPAIN,
On the New York subway they put signs saying “WET PAINT” on everything that has just been painted. I changed the phrase on those signs for another one: “TERE SPAIN”. As on the original sign, I wrote down a reference number next to the warning, I put my phone number.
About 13 people called me, including the police. Although my English was awful I made one good friend, Harly. I abandoned the project when the last guest came with a gun and ripped a painting in the Museum.
Things that should have been written down, 1998
Calendar, 46 x 59 cm (x 12)
Terremoto,
I built an unstable floor with wooden planks. On it I placed shelves and various pieces of furniture, on top of which I arranged a large number of fragile objects. When visitors walked on it everything shook. Some of them were afraid of breaking the objects, whilst others enjoyed the authorised freedom.
Exhibition view Terremoto, Capella de l’Antic Hospital, Barcelone, 1996
Franchement, Galerie de l’École et Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, 1994
Magma, Goldraush Program, Berlin 2006
Charles Kaisin. Design in motion.
PUNK. Sus rastros en el arte contemporáneo, MACBA, Barcelona, 2016
J’ai reussi, 1996
Photograph 30 x 40 cm
I managed to run down the stairs in 15 seconds, the time set on my automatic camera
Exhibitions:
Diaporama 04, Primavera fotogràfica, Barcelona, 2004
Narracions, Galeria dels Àngels, Barcelone, 1996
Rencontres nº 8, La Vigie Art Contemporain, Nîmes, 1996
Blind man’s buff, 1992
A framed
TERE RECARENS
1967, 19th of October, Arbúcies, Spain Saarbrücker Str.13
10405 Berlin si@tere.cat
SOLO SHOWS (Sel.)
2018 – Baharestan carpet, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris
2017 - D’ICI À ICI, Hans & Fritz Contemporary, Barcelona 2016
2014 - Holy days, Art at Work, Torino, IT
2013 - We are insane because we are poor, Halfhouse, Barcelona - Le ha dao un aire, La Fragua, Belalcazar
2011 - El riu segueix el seu curs _ Maa tere manalen,
-Le fleuve suit son cours, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris 2009 - Myhhr, Fondation Joan Miró, Barcelona
-Maa tere manalen, Project Room, Galeria Toni Tàpies, Arco, Madrid
-Maa tere manalen,
2008 - Karma Allumé, Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona
- Love Kamikaze, Instituto Cervantes, Peking (Cat.)
2006 - Tere Recarens, Espacio 5, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga (Cat.) 2005 - T’Team, Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona (Cat.)
2004 - 19 Març 2014, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona (Cat.)
-Shooting Star, Galleria Maze, Turin
-Blind Man’s Bluff, Invaliden 1, Berlin 2003 - Finger Flip, Parker´s Box, New York City 2002 - ETC., Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona
2001 - The 8 Mistakes, Galleria Maze, Turin (Cat.)
2000 - I Was Ready to Jump 1999, Festival A/D Werf, Utrecht
-In Love, Galeria Javier López, Madrid
1999 - Ethereal, Hal, Antwerpen
1997 - Prise de Terre, art3 – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Valence (Cat.) 1996 - Terremoto, Capella de l’Antic Hospital, Barcelona (Cat.)
- Recareinstein, Sala municipal de Girona (Cat.)
1994 - Et cauran les dents, Espai 13, Fundació Miró, Barcelona (Cat.) 1992 - La gallinita ciega, L’Artesà, Barcelona
GROUP SHOWS (Sel.)
2018 - FIAC Hors les murs, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris
-ACCIDENTS NEVER HAPPEN, Hans & Fritz Contemporary/No mad Lab, Cluj, RO
-Pareidole, J1, avec Hans and Fritz Contemporary, Marseille
-PLAY, Stadsparcours voor Actuele Kunst, Kortrijk, BE
-Open Studio, Kooshk Art Residenci, Teheran, Iran
2017 - The little Match, Hans and Fritz contemporary, Barcelona
-Matèria Primera, Centre d’Art Contemporani Fabra i Coats, Barcelona
-ENTUSIASME, Col.lecció del MACBA. Espai d’Art i Creació Contemporanis, Catalunya
-Belle saison, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris
-PROTEST, Kunstverein Tiergarten/Galerie Nord, Berlin
2016 - PUNK. Sus rastros en el arte contemporáneo, MACBA, Barcelona y Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mejico
-Crosswords 3, Galerie Jordan/Seydoux, Berlín
-Agency of living organisms, TABAKALERA, Centro Internacional de Cultura Contemporánea, San Sebastian
-My friends and other animals, Galeria Travesia Cuatro, Madrid
-SATT, 48 Stunden NeuKölln, Kirschsaal der ev. Brüdergemeine, Berlin 2015 - SOS, Signale, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Neukölln Arcaden, Berlin
-VERNACULARITY, Alternativa, Gdanz, PL
2014 - 19 Març 2014, Black box. White cube, CA2M – Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles, Madrid
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-The Oracle, Interview Room 11, Edinburgh
2013 - Die Kunst des urbanen Handelns, Rotor – Center for Contemporary Art, Graz - A Dilemma: Contemporary Art and Investment in Uncertainty, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona
2012 - LABEDOUZE, Institut Superieur des
-Positioning Osmotic Impulses, Former Prison Neukölln, Berlin
-Au Boulot!?, Maison des métallos, Paris
-Teatro de Anatomía, Entre gabinete de las maravillas y
-The Secret Cabinet, KREUZBERG, Berlin
2011 - Pseudoparadigmatika, WUK – Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
-DESTINO: BERLIN / ZIELORT: BERLIN, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
-The art urban intervention, Galerie Emila Filly, Ústí nad Labem
2010 - WNTRSLN, Parker’s Box, New York City
-Antes que todo, CA2M – Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles, Madrid
-Coup de Ville, WARP – Contemporary Art Platform,
-Too far east is west!, Nadine – Laboratory for Contemporary Arts, Brusells 2009 - steirischer herbst festival, Annenviertel! Die Kunst des urbanen Handelns,
Rotor, Graz
-Printemps de Septembre, LA09 – Espace Saint Cyprien, Toulouse
-Temps com a matèria. Collecció MACBA, MACBA – Muséu d’Art Contemporani Barcelona
-Un No por respuesta. Laboratorio 987, MUSAC – Muséo de Arte Contemporán de Castilla y León
-‘Totale Partizipation_Radikale Entspannung’, Galerie IG Bildende Kunst, Vien 2008 - ‘Hier wäre das Leben leicht.’, Art Laboratory, Berlin
-Arte e investigación, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria
2007 - No, future, Bloomberg Space, London
-Attitude, Galerie Iconoscope, Montpellier
-Societe Anonyme, Le Plateau, FRAC
-4th Berlin Biennale Happiness, Gagosian Gallery, Berlin
2005 - ‘I’m travellin’ light’… ‘No, no you don’t travel light’, Gallery Spacement, Mel- bourne, AU
-The Gravity in Art, De Appel, Amsterdam
-Standards of Reality, Ben Maltz Gallery, Los Angeles
-Throb, Parker’s Box, New York City
-La insurrección invisible de un millón de mentes, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao 2004 -
-Sur la bonne pente, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris
-Parker’s Box, at Loop’04, Barcelona
-Plain Sight, Bloomberg Space, London
2003 - Old Habits Die Hard, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
-Sol – Mur – Plafond. Eine Projektgalerie aus Marseille/F, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
-Art 34 Basel, Galeria Toni Tàpies, Basel
-Stand by, Centro de Arte Laboratorio Alameda, México (Cat.)
-Monocanal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
2002 - Projectes 7.2, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona
- Open House, Casino Luxembourg
2001 - BOOM!, Playmakers, Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence
-Vostestaquí, Trienale de Barcelone, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona
-Ironia, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, SP and Koldo Mitxelena, Donosti 2000 - El espacio como proyecto, el espacio como realidad, XXVI Bienal de arte de
Pontevedra
-Desperate Optimiste, Festival A/D Werf, Utrecht
-Global Trotters, Can Felipa, Barcelona
1999 - Studio Program, P.S.1 & Clock Tower, New York City
-Subway outside, Artists Space, Swiss Institute, New York City 1996 - El sueño de un alquimista, Galeria Alejandro Sales, Barcelona
-Rencontres nº 8, La Vigie Art Contemporain, Nîmes
-Muestra de Arte Joven, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid 1994 - Corpus Delicti, Espai 13, Fondation Joan Miró, Barcelona
-Franchement, Galerie Ecole supérieure d’Art & Friche Belle de Mai, Marseilles
RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS (Sel.)
2019 Arias Residence, Tehran, IR
2018 Kooshk Art Residenci, Tehran, IR
2016 CAMM, Bamako, ML
2014
AC/E, Acción Cultural Española, Ministerio España
2013 Izara IV, La Fragua, Belalcazar, SP
2010 KREAS, Ajuntament de Girona, SP
2008 FAAP – Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, Sao Paulo, BR Projektstipendium Bildende Kunst of Berliner Senat, GER Project Grant, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria, SP
2007 Le Plateau, FRAC
BIAP – Platform China International Artist Residency, Peking, CN Jodquellenhof, Bad Tölz, GER
2006 Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, Berlin, GER
CAM – Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo, Alicante, SP Het Blauwe Huis, IJburg, Amsterdam, NL
2004 Fundación Botín, Santander, SP
2003 Grant for foreign artists, Generalitat de Catalunya, SP
2002 Helps to the Visual Creation, Fundación Arte y Derecho, Madrid
Studio Program, Triangle Arts Association, World Trade Center, New York City
2000 Studio Residency, Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, NL
1996 Clowns Without Borders,
Fellowship of École d’Art de Grenoble, Generalitat de Catalunya
WORKSHOPS at universities and with art students
2016
2015 El Dia D: Àfrica com mai l’havies vista, Intervention at the Càtedra de Perio- disme i comunicación de la Universitat de Lleida
Apareci en casa de mis padres / I appear in my parents house
Rebel Poetry, Escola Massana – Centre d’Art i Disseny, Barcelona, with stu- dents
2012 Derniere Importation, GlogauAIR, Berlin, with ESAAA students
2011 ETRANGERS, École régionale des
2008 ARTISTAS DESPORTISTAS, Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciencias da Arte, Belém, Brasilien
TO CLEAN THE VIEW, FAAP – Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, Sao Paulo, with students
2007 DES CHOSES APPAREMMENT IMPOSSIBLES OU LA RECONCILIATION IMPERTI NENTE, Le Plateau, FRAC
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2010 Visiting artist at HISK – Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Ghent, lecture and studio visits with students
EDUCATION