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What can a public art institution offer from a location within the Black Forest’s UNESCO World Heritage site, famed as a self-care resort? Introspection? Reflection? With a new team, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden is delighted to announce its 2023 program, carrying on the search for new forms and experimental formats that oscillate between dramaturgy and curation, exhibition space and the stage. A multiplicity of critical discourses, media, materialities, and trans-disciplinary approaches is key to reforming a public institution into a collective form, as a shared studio that engenders pluralistic, engaging, and collective ways of working together; here, the next stepping stone on the path toward reconfiguration of the limits and possibilities of exhibition making and public engagement may come from the physicality of an artwork, a historical reference, a co-production, or an extensive research project.
Yvonne Rainer: HELLZAPOPPIN’—What about the bees?
January 27–29, 2023
This new performance by American choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer, a major innovator in several disciplines including dance, cinema, theory, conceptual and feminist art, will open Kunsthalle’s 2023 program. Tickets are available online.
Candice Breitz: Whiteface
February 3–April 2, 2023
Born and raised in South Africa during apartheid, Candice Breitz seeks to grapple systematically with whiteness in her work. Over recent years, she has collected a range of found-footage fragments that document white people talking about “race.” In her new work—which gives the exhibition its name—she appropriates and ventriloquizes dozens of voices drawn from this archive, channeling them through her own body.
Jan St. Werner: Space Synthesis
May 5–July 2, 2023
Space Synthesis transforms the Kunsthalle into a soundhall. This dynamic investigation of sonic thinking implies that what one person can or cannot perceive may be different from what another person can or cannot perceive. The stage built between the sound sources and the reflective surfaces is dynamic in size and shape, affecting all viewers. The sounds, the reflecting material, the performer, the listener, all are entangled in a multi-perspectival moving scenario.
Auditions for an Unwritten Opera
July 14–September 3, 2023
Borrowing its title from a key piece by British-born Australian-Turkish Cypriot Mutlu Çerkez (1964-2005), this exhibition is inspired by the uniqueness of his approach to titling. Often giving his works not a standard title but one based on a future date on which they would be remade, he proposed for them a new form of life, veering conceptually from their narration, production, or materiality. His oeuvre will guide the exhibition, appearing alongside works from a new wave of queer, critical, and radical practices that pose questions about the acts of rehearsal, living documents, and artist life as a biography of transition.
Sarkis
November 24, 2023–February 25, 2024
It was during his time in Germany that Sarkis advanced his research on the concept of Kriegsschatz in relation to colonial logic in Western art. For 2023, he is returning “home.” It is a home where his rich arsenal expands the contours of an art institution as a theatrical stage; a home where we are invited to witness the momentous, extraordinary scale of—and convergences between—his life and his work.
Marysia Lewandowska
July 14–November 12, 2023
The London based artist explores how artists, institutions and exhibitions operate in relation to ownership, collective authorship and social justice. Kunsthalle Baden Baden will present her new commission, which by drawing upon its institutional history will reimagine the public function of archives.
Viron Erol Vert: Cafe Kunsthalle
The Cafe in der Kunsthalle has always been a space for artistic interventions. This tradition continues with Viron Erol Vert, who will use architectural and spatial features of a spa as inspiration for rediscovery of the Kunsthalle’s structure.
An Imaginary Audience is, as part of SYNCH series, based on wide-ranging research into the exhibition history of performance art at the institution. It is on view until April 23, 2023.
