Zwischenraum : Space Between
Oliver Bulas, Nick Evans, Julia Horstmann, Alon Levin, Ingrid Lonningdal, Ciara Phillips et al.
16 October – 28 November 2010
Der Kunstverein, since 1817.
Klosterwall 23
20095 Hamburg, Germany
The groundwork for this is the artists to be present. Because without artists no production and without presence no intensive, collaborative dialogue–amongst each other, with the organizing parties, with the members, the artists in the city and the general public. To achieve a close dialogue a residency will be installed. This set-up opens up the possibility of applying the flexibility and the processuality of the art work to the situation of the exhibition. During its running time this dialogue will manifest within the presentation and change its appearance on smaller and bigger terms. Starting mid-September the residency extends into the running period of the exhibition. This “extension” is meant to allow the residents to actively accompany the exhibition with talks, presentations, screenings, performances–either by themselves or other people invited into a public program residency–or to make alterations to the exhibition if this should prove fit.
The overall program, constituted by the residency, the exhibition and the public program, sets out to reflect on production, its means and its necessities. How can it be located in or connected to an institution, in a specific city and how can—as the Kunstverein Hamburg is an exhibition space and therefore publicly visible—an exhibition be shaped to make the process of production tangible? And does not freeze the process; as the exhibition’s duty is to mediate art. And this mediation is not in hand-outs to visitors but in the art work itself, in its performative strength.
”Inviting a number of artists to inhabit an art institution for a set amount of time is to invite uncertainty and the unknown into the exhibition space. In omitting any presupposed thematic coherence between the works in this exhibition, we know that the artists’ urge to create and participate will become apparent, and art will happen, but at the same time we know we don’t know what creation, participation and works they will make happen. When we use the word “happen”, we do so deliberately, since the exhibition is surrounded by a residency platform which has been part of the process prior to, but still is part of, the exhibition.” (Annette Hans, Anne Szefer Karlsen and Jamie Kenyon, curators of the exhibition)
Program:
November 18, 2010, 7 pm
Skulpi – A Magazine Presentation with Hella Gerlach, Julia Horstmann and Roman Schramm
November 11, 2010, 7 pm
Going Away Celebrations by Institute for Colour
November 25, 2010, 7 pm
Lecture by Ina Marie Weber: Geschichten des Verfahrens, oder: “dass eine absolut seiende Welt ein Nonsens ist”
This project is made possible through funding by Allianz Kulturstiftung, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung, Mondriaan Stichting, Fonds BKVB and Office for Contemporary Art Norway. Supported by Imparat. The Kunstverein is funded by Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg Behörde für Kultur, Sport und Medien.