The Holocaust Garden of Hope in Kingwood, near Houston, opened its first phase on November 5th, 2023.
The images of Inna Rogatchi’s well known works from the artist’s two series are displayed at the Entrance Exhibit which meets visitors of the new memorial garden in Texas.
Inna’s artworks are displayed on the second panel of the Entrance exhibit of the new important project in a beautiful garden with the lake in Kingwood.
The works are Creation of Trees from the artist’s Creation Stories notable project, and Blue Winds. Homage to Leonard Cohen whom Inna knew personally, from the artist’s Homages international art project.
Throughout the path of the Garden, various exhibits would tell the story of the Holocaust and urge for its remembrance, understanding and actuality of it at our challenging times.
Eighteen more of Innal Rogatchi’s artworks will be part of a permanent display throughout the Holocaust Garden of Hope which is under further construction now.
Inna Rogatchi artwork dedicated to Rene Magritte was awarded with a Honourable Mention at the prestigious TIME exhibition at the leading European PH21 Gallery & Art Photography Centre ( Budapest – Barcelona – Rome).
Inna’s work Yesterday. Magritte Home ( 2022) will be presented at the international curated TIME exhibition at the PH21 Gallery & Art Photography Centre from November 17 through December 10th this year.
Inna’s other work, also dedicated to Magritte, is also featured at the exhibition.
Both Inna’s works are part of her project MAGRITTE which is created upon her extensive research of one of the most intellectually formidable masters of modern art. Inna regards Rene Magritte as her favourite artist.
Both works featured the authentic premises of Rene Magritte’s life and work in Brussels. These premises, unlike the large Rene Magritte museum in Brussels, are far less known.
At the internationally curated TIME exhibition, 70 works of 35 artists will be present, representing the USA, Australia, Italy, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Denmark, Israel, Lithuania. Inna is the only artist representing Finland at the exhibition. The exhibition is curated by professor Zsolt Batori and Dr Borbala Jasz, both well known art professionals, philosophers, curators, and art historians.
Inna Rogatchi’s My Turku fine art collage featuring Turku Archipelago was selected to be shown in Dallas, the USA, at the SCRIPT IV exhibition of contemporary art organised by the well-known ENVISION ARTS Gallery.
The exhibition, which is the Envisions fourth Edition of the theme of usage of letters, phrases, and scripts as an organic part of contemporary art, is both international and predominantly American. Among twelve of its participants eight are American artists, with the artists from Ireland, Thailand, Sweden and Finland. Inna Rogatchi is the only artist from Finland participating in this interesting exhibition.
Inna Rogatchi (C). My Turku. Heart Maps. Baltic Edition. 2021.
Heart Maps is Inna Rogatchi’s project for which the artist has created numerous art collages combining her fine art photography with the maps of the certain places, to see and to show those places from the new perspective. From some of the collages, original large-size art panels were produced.
“I am very glad that the serenity and beauty of the Finnish Archipelago, in this new contemporary art rendering, will be displayed in Dallas. In this way, the art really fulfils one of its essential purposes by opening new horizons and bringing people closer from afar” – said Inna Rogatchi.
The Script IV exhibition in the ENVISION ARTS Gallery in Dallas is on display for the whole month of September.
Inna Rogatchi’s Dreaming Melody work ( 2020) participates in the internationally curated SILENCE exhibition at the PH21 Gallery and Art Photography Centre in Budapest, Hungary. The exhibition presents over 50 works by the 45 artists from 14 countries, including the USA, Canada, the UK, Italy, Austria, Greece, Israel, Finland. Germany, Malta, Belgium, Australia.
Inna Rogatchi (C). Dream Melody. 2020.
The selection exhibited at the SILENCE show is exceptionally strong and interesting, it is a top-quality art overall.
According to the exhibition curators, ‘Silence is always conceived against its opposites; sound, noise, loudness. Silence is strongly associated with loneliness and alienation, the unknown and disturbing landscape on the one hand, and the known tranquillity and peace on the other hand. Photographically, the contrast between deep darkness and dazzling light is also decisive. After natural or social catastrophes, everything falls silent; empty cities, villages, abandoned public transport and empty workplaces remind us of the transience and fragility of humankind. Silence is accompanied by quiet activities such as contemplation and meditation, which negate the very nature of action itself. Silence is also often present in still lifes, cityscapes, portraits, and many other photographic genres”.
This concept just cannot be more matching Inna Rogatchi’s feelings and thoughts when choosing her work for the exhibition under the new and dramatic circumstances of the brutal, unprovoked war of Russia against Ukraine. Inna’s Dreaming Melody work ( 2020) is dedicated to the shocking situation of sudden war in Europe, unnecessary and tragic.
Inna and The Rogatchi Foundation in partnership with the PH21 Gallery & Art Photography Centre have decided to run her and her work’s participation in the SILENCE exhibition as a part of their new international art charitable action Art for Ukraine. More detail about it can be read here.
In her Artist Statement, Inna Rogatchi said:
“My Dream Melody ( 2020) artwork is one of my favourite works. It is a quiet visual ‘symphony’ of memories. More tangible and not tangible at all. More expressive and vivid and almost invisible ones, as well. It is a silent song of over-exposition of one’s memories. It is an X-ray picture of one’s dreams, and a dialogue between one’s consciousness and subconsciousness. For me, the most interesting process in one’s life.
This work was created in 2020 as a lyrical and philosophical work and supposed to be like that. Until now. In the year 2022, we all in Europe, with horror, are witnessing an awful war in Ukraine which has marked our lives for a long time ahead.
In partnership with PH21 Gallery, I dedicate this work to the people of Ukraine, and I will donate my share of all proceeds from the sales of the limited edition of the exhibited work to the brave and honest journalists who are working on this war and who are risking their lives to tell us the awful, but absolutely necessary truth about this Mean War”.
The exhibition is on display in Budapest from April 7 through April 27, 2022.
Inna Rogatchi’s Self-Portrait In Venetian Mirror ( 2020) is exhibited in Budapest, at the Personality: Contemporary Portraiture exhibition at the PH21 Gallery and Art Photography Centre.
Inna Rogatchi (C). Self-Portrait in a Venetian Mirror. 2020.
The exhibition is large and representative, it exhibits portraits by 60 artists from all over the world, with many American artists, as well as those from Mexico and Canada, and a lot of European artists as well, from the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Croatia, Slovenia, Romania. Among the artists from the other continents are those from Australia, African artists from Ghana and Madagascar.
The works presented at the exhibition represent a wide spectrum of contemporary portraiture, from philosophical, poetic and enigmatic works such as the Self-Portrait in Venetian Mirror by Inna, to dynamic post-modern statement-like works.
In their introduction to the exhibition, the PH21 curators mentioned the following: “Today we live in an exciting new era for portraiture. There has never been a time in human history when so many portraits and self-portraits were produced day after day as in the era of digital technologies. Photographers have responded to the cultural, social and technological changes by reinterpreting the age-old genre of portraiture, and it is always an exciting and rewarding task to organise an exhibition for some of the recent achievements in the field.”
In her Artist Statement, Inna Rogatchi explained her thoughts and ideas with regard to this work: It is not the genre in which I work a lot. The work is rather an exception, given its subject-matter. It would be correct to say that the work is rather a portrait of that special and magnificent old venetian mirror in which I took a self-shot trying to amalgame the moment of my presence next to it, next to the history that mirror presents to me. Several of my personal strong attachments have coincided in this work: my deep love for Italy, at every layer of its history, language and culture, my love and strong connection to Venice, my fascination with mirrors in general and venetian mirrors with all its rich history, in particular. I do believe that some mirrors are able to keep the energy from what had been reflected by them, from the past. I spent some time in the art history research of venetian mirrors, also conducting that research at the place and working with the art and history experts specialising on the theme. So, for me, the venetian mirrors are ‘speaking’ objects which I am always fascinated with. I see and feel in them not only art objects, but also a very special reservoir of human memory. I love the mystery and promise of those mirrors. “
The exhibition is on display at the PH21 Gallery in Budapest from March 10th through April 2nd, 2022.
