We are very happy to announce Jill Tegan Doherty's upcoming exhibition Hungry Lungs and would like to invite you to the opening on Thursday, June 18th from 6 to 10 pm. 

Please register for the opening and book a time slot on our website or write us an e-mail with your desired time: gallery@gudbergnerger.com (and don't forget to bring your face mask).

Change is life’s inevitable companion; devoted to one another – a symbiosis. Shifts can take place rapidly, monumentally or cursory, propelling nature into a continual state of adaptation; an ineffable metamorphosis. What may first appear as misfortune transmutes and divides, compelling one to change position, to grow, to acquire: to evolve. Change triples its image, urging us to capitalise on an opportunity to learn, both subjectively and on a broader political scale. Change destabilizes, provokes, heightens our fears and anxieties as our animal passions flare up in fight or flight. Incubating on a phenomenology of panic we seek escape from the psychic torture of realities we find intolerable; libidinal energy shifts to resist rupture and manage the unbearable. The same ideological gloss is seen in its inversion: sudden change releases us, severing our attachment to the Imaginary. Stagnation is agitated and we embrace its vertigo in dialectical prefiguration.  

Hungry Lungs speaks to the unforeseen, a staggering rhetorical shift that generates a primitive craving for the familiar. A cathexis towards the before. The work confronts us, provokes us with eyes of examination whilst simultaneously offering a departure from the every day.  We’re invited to explore new environments, exuberantly budding, diving head first into a change that births us into existence.  

Written by Jill Tegan Doherty and Dr. Estelle Hoy

Exhibition opening, June 18th, from 6 to 10 pm – register here.
The artist will be present at the opening.

The exhibition is on display until July 31st
GUDBERG NERGER, Poolstraße 8, 20355 Hamburg
Opening Hours: Mo - Sa, 12:00 - 18:00

About the Artist

Jill Tegan Doherty is an Artist from Nottingham, England, born in 1983. After completing her foundation course at Kinston upon Thames, she went on to graduate from Chelsea College of Art and Design, part of the London Institute, in 2006 and now lives and works as a practising artist in Berlin. After a successful period living in London, having participated in many exhibitions, Including The Royal Academy’s summer exhibition, the Mall Galleries, as part of the Society of Women artists annual exhibition, and the Millenium Gallery in St.Ives for an exhibition curated by Alice Herrick but to name a few. Doherty is now infiltrating the Berlin art scene after moving to the city in November 2011. She has exhibited internationally in exhibitions and art fairs including Denmark, Great Britain, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands.