ANIMA, Alisi Telengut
FR 10 01 2025, 7 pm
Exhibition: 11.01-21.02 2025
Special opening times during Kolonie Wedding Weekend:
Fr 31.01, 7-9pm & Sat 01.02, 2-6pm
Regular opening times: Saturdays from 2 to 6pm and by appointment
Finissage 21.02, 3-6pm
“Becoming Air” is a mixed media short film with an experimental approach exploring the deep interdependence of the living world through air and breathing.
The term anima is a Latin word typically translated as “soul”, “spirit,” or “life force.” It is closely tied to what animates a being, giving it vitality and consciousness. Anima also carries the sense of “breath,” that invisible, life-sustaining air moving in and out of the body. In her solo exhibition, Canadian artist of Mongolian roots Alisi Telengut presents one of her most recent animated films alongside materials incorporated during its production. Titled Becoming Air, the handmade animated short film explores the intertwined connections of human and non-human through concepts of air, breathing, and the natural world. As part of this exhibition, traditional Mongolian ceremonial textiles known as Khadag—given and collected by Telengut’s family—are installed. The Khadag is a symbolic offering cloth used in ceremonies and rituals to express respect, gratitude, and reverence for nature and ancestral spirits. Its presence in the gallery underscores the themes of the artist’s practice, highlighting how nature, spirit, and material culture converge to animate and deepen our understanding of life’s interconnectedness.
Alisi Telengut is a Canadian artist of Mongolian roots, living between Berlin, Germany and Tiohtià:ke/ Montréal, Canada. Her work has been screened and exhibited internationally, such as at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (USA), Whitney Biennial (USA), Sundance Film Festival (USA), TIFF (Canada), Annecy International Animation Festival (France), Biennial VIDEONALE at Kunstmuseum Bonn – Museum of Painting and Contemporary Art Bonn (Germany).
With the support of the Québec Government Office in Germany
