Texts
July–Autumn 2024
Entangled Flashes
Madeleine Kelly
Medeleine Kelly: Entangled Flashes, 2024
Madeleine Kelly, Australian artist of German origin, joined the Leipzig International Art (LIA) Program in 2016, fostering cultural exchange between Germany and Australia, notably between Sydney College of the Arts and LIA. She returned in 2022 for further research.
Kelly began stove frottages on cotton, nylon, and wool, later integrated into large-scale paintings exploring nature–technology relations. Her work Existential needs (2016), comprising 18 frottages worn in performances, challenged traditional female roles and the male-dominated painting scene, linking to Bauhaus household design by overlooked female designers.
In her Leipzig birds (2016–2017), painted Tetra Pak containers depict local bird species in consumerist forms, highlighting the ignored. Kelly’s art harmonizes industrial contexts with environmental themes, deepening since her first LIA stay.
2024
Vlado Ondrej
Etchings –
traces in metal
Vlado Ondrej. Radierungen – Spuren in Metall
Vlado Ondrej’s work centers on printmaking, blending intuition and music to create abstract structures. His etchings are informed by over thirty years of experience, translating musical inspiration—especially Miles Davies—into visual compositions. The artistic process unfolds in a former cotton mill in Leipzig, characterized by experimentation, analog techniques, and a refusal to entertain or narrate. Instead, Ondrej’s lines suggest the pervasive structures of digital life, music, and art, always pushing from the inner world outward. His work aims for essence and minimalism, guided by intuition and the dynamic interplay between image and sound.