Friday, December 5, 2:00 & 3:30 PM
NARS Studios 401, 403, 415B
As part of our Art in Dialogue and the NARS Artists Present: A Day for the Public series, NARS Foundation is pleased to present Warm-Up to Cross, a public program with three Season IV, 2025 Artists-in-Residence, organized by NARS Curatorial Fellow Jungmin Cho.
This public program, Warm-Up to Cross, presents a series of sensory experience sessions led by three artists—Hannes Egger, Niv Gafni, and Ayelet Amrani Navon. Each artist centers on a single sense—sight, hearing, or touch—to create intimate encounters within their studios. Audiences move through the NARS studios, weaving between artistic spaces and entering the layers of crossings that hold each artist’s process.
Session 1: Studio 401 / Hannes Egger
In Studio 401, the artist opens up a space for experience and directs attention towards the invisible. What cannot be seen becomes visible—it reveals itself. After a brief awareness-raising introduction, participants have the opportunity to see whatever for themselves with their eyes wide open.
Session 2: Studio 415B / Ayelet Amrani Navon
In Studio 415B, the artist invites you to investigate the concept of touch by exploring and making an object with clay—without seeing it. Guided only by the tactile sensations of the clay’s continuous transformations, the act of molding becomes a quiet, attentive ritual of touch.
Session 3: Studio 403 / Niv Gafni
In Studio 403, the artist invites participants to focus on the slow movement of sound. Following a short introduction and a gentle transition into stillness, participants are invited to settle and let the sound reveal its subtle shifts in their inner space with imaginations and memories.
Ultimately, these sessions invite participants to come closer to the artists’ practices by engaging the senses through shared space, time, and attention in the present. Moreover, in a hectic daily life, we often forget what and how to feel, these moments offer a brief, soothing pause, a gentle sensory awakening.
About the artists:
Hannes Egger (born 1981 in Bolzano, Italy) is a conceptual artist whose work explores participation, interaction, and the transformation of everyday situations into artistic experiences. With a background in philosophy from the University of Vienna, Egger approaches art as a process of shared perception — inviting audiences to take part, question, and co-create meaning. His performances, installations, and participatory projects often unfold in public or domestic spaces, shifting the role of the spectator into that of an active participant.
Egger has presented solo exhibitions at institutions including Lottozero (Prato, 2024), Kulturbahnhof (Kassel, 2022 – with Thomas Sterna), Via Farini (Milan, 2021), Mewo Kunsthalle (Memmingen, 2018), and Museion (Bolzano, 2014). His works have also been featured internationally in group exhibitions such as the 11th Cheongju International Contemporary Art Exhibition (2024), Belvedere 21 (Vienna, 2023), Fundació Joan Brossa (Barcelona, 2020), ZKM (Karlsruhe, 2019), and the 14th Curitiba Biennial (2019).
He currently teaches at the Faculty of Art and Design at the Free University of Bolzano, where he continues to investigate the intersections between art, philosophy, and collective experience.
Niv Gafni is a sound artist, sculptor, composer, and lecturer. His body of work consists of large-scale installations as well as abstract sound works. At the core of his practice, Gafni is engaged with the invisible, the enigmatic force that drives life, and the spiritual field between humans and everything that is non-human. Using sound as a form of existence, as a way of thinking, as a behavior, and as pure energy, he creates situations that encourage listening and observation, opening a gateway to a very primal and ancient encounter with the environment and the world. Gafni harnesses the abstract qualities of sound into a system of movement, form, and space—a whole that constantly oscillates between matter and spirit, between the conscious and the unconscious, between the human and the post-human, seeking a different understanding of art and existence. His work constantly examines how to transcend cultural, aesthetic, intellectual, and existential patterns through the thought of sound and by manifesting complex environments that emphasize objects as a whole, the air between things, and the course of time and transformation. Gafni has presented solo and group exhibitions, and his work has been featured in international festivals.
Ayelet Amrani Navon explores themes of transience and intimacy. Contemplating what it means to be human, in a human body, and what it means to encounter another. By means of painting, sculpture, and installation, Amrani Navon constructs environments that contain “a place to meet” where human connection can be amplified. This meeting place is the site of her one-to-one performances through which she attempts to achieve a meaningful encounter with a participant, an “accelerated friendship”. The performance consists of rituals based on sensory stimulation, talk, and principles of psychoanalytic theory. Growing up questioning the idea of attachment to land, alongside a perpetual search for a “place”, she explores forms of belonging and intimacy in circumstances of transition, perpetual migration, flight and change. Amrani Navon attended Basis School of Art, Israel (Top Honors Graduate) and the Tel-Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis’ Interdisciplinary Program. She holds an LLB from Tel-Aviv University Law School and was a Bar member in NY, California and Israel.
About the Curatorial Fellow:
Jungmin Cho, based in Seoul and New York, is the founder and director of WHITE NOISE—an art space and platform in Seoul dedicated to fostering artistic experimentation and building global art communities since its establishment in 2018. Also, as an independent curator, writer, and art advisor, she tries to pose accessible yet critical questions to the world through art. Her current interest explores East Asian modernity and its ongoing transformation of emotional and material residues, focusing on how these elements are symbolized and commodified in art and pop culture from a microscopic lens.
Through WHITE NOISE and her independent practice, Cho has collaborated with a wide range of international organizations, including Brief Histories, Canal Projects, Frieze Seoul, GYOPO, Hessel Museum, Montez Press Radio, NOISE Istanbul, Space NN in Munich, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, among others. Their work has been featured in publications such as The Art Newspaper, Artsy, Hyundai Art Lab, The New York Times, and Spike Art Magazine. Recently, Cho served as a guest curator for Untitled Miami 2024, exploring the theme "East Meets West." She got the 2025 AHL-Chun Family Foundation Curatorial Open Call Grant and graduated from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
Time Slots: 2pm, 3:30pm
This program will run in two rounds, with all three sessions presented consecutively in each round. Each full round lasts approximately one hour, and visitors will move together as a group through the three studios. Those who arrive between rounds are invited to remain in the gallery spaces and explore our current exhibitions on the 2nd and 4th floors until the next round begins.
RSVP is encouraged; walk-ins are welcome!
