Art and the Spectacular. Biennials sans frontiers

Chin-tao Wu will deal in her lecture with some aspects of the “Biennalisation of the Artworld”: Over the last ten to fifteen years, art biennials have mushroomed. The popularity of the biennial as an institutional framework by means of which cities and city governments are empowered to …

Research Avatara Species Transformellae and the WordWideWitch. Constructed bodies harvesting psycho-realist knowledge

Transformellae and WordWideWitch are just two of the multiple, fictional identities and hysterical-subversive drag characters of the artist Johannes Paul Raether. They are drawn from Raether’s cyclical performance system Systema identitekturae, in which he has been gathering embodiments as well as …

Memorys and Prepositions and Conjunctions and in all Seriousness

Institutionally over- and practically underdetermined: the Kunstraum. Consisting of two equally oversized signifiers – "Kunst" (art) and "Raum" (space) – the name triggers either an excess or a lack of expectation. The inevitable disappointment is perhaps the better form of institutional critique – at least these days, in Germany. The institution, notoriously, presupposes itself (in time, too), and its stake is always at minimum a linguistic one. This is where Leonie Nagel feat. Bonk4∞ intervene. They playfully engage with the institution within a prepared environment, whose maximally weak rule is the connection (or association, if it didn't sound so class-treasonous) between words and images and bodies.

Planetary Consciousness

International group exhibition in the context of the project translateArtists: Christine Meisner, Mathias Poledna, Lisl Ponger, José Alejandro Restrepo

Testoo®

Exhibition with Fabrice Hybert and Hans Ulrich Obrist