Artists Feature – Mareike Dobewall & Artemis Sartzetakis

Opening - 13.11.2024, 20:00-22:00
Period – 13.11 – 24.11.2024

The exhibition showcases two distinct art explorations, each at a different stage of development. Mareike Dobewall (’84, SE/DE) presents her completed works, which delve into the interplay between aural and visual imagination, inviting viewers into multisensory experiences through mixed media. Meanwhile, Artemis Sartzetakis (’99, GR) shares a work in progress that will reach completion at the Overkill Festival and Tetem. In this project, Artemis blends surrealist graphics and responsive sound within a game format that reimagines climate activism, challenging conventional discourse by making political action both engaging and accessible.

Mareike Dobewall
What if We Spent More Time Together invites repeated encounters with a single image. Its significance evolves through an extending music that allows for fresh and deepening perceptions with each engagement. In the video work Voice Sea, a human voice becomes an unsteady sea. In Blätterbetten we walk on leaves to find their beds unmade.

Mareike is a director, scenographer, musician, and composer. In 2021 she completed her PhD at Stockholm University of the Arts within the programme Performative and Media based practices. She experiments with different art forms in relation. Mareike has a particular fascination with the interplay between voice and space, exploring how one can shape the experience of the other.

During her residency at ARE, Mareike was given the generous opportunity to collaborate with Maria Kerk as her “space as voice teacher”.

Artemis Sartzetakis
Hypercasual Push to Send is a climate activist correspondence sender disguised as a runner game.Using a gamepad joystick combo, surrealist graphics, and responsive sound design the player can curate and send a signed email petitioning members of the European Parliament to support green legislation. Unenamored by post-apocalyptic representations of the future and the defeatist nature of dominant climate discourse in the Arts, Artemis challenges themselves to create work tangibly tethered to real-world political action. This piece strives to gamify the tedious process of contacting representatives about climate change, injecting levity and joy into climate action.

Artemis Sartzetakis is an Athens based interdisciplinary Artist working predominantly with game development. Their work often stems from a deep appreciation of the complexity, beauty and constant flux of the natural world. In Eschede they focused on how an artwork can simultaneously be a vehicle for climate activism.

Artemis wil show the final work Hypercasual Push to Send at The Overkill Festival (20.11 – 24.11.2024) and Tetem (28.11 – 01.12.2024).

After the opening, the exhibition will be open to visit byappointment until November 24. To schedule your visit, send an email to contactmareikedobewall@gmail.com with your preferred date and time.