Uploaded 28. Juli 2010
John Bock, Foto: Kim Sandong
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION presents a new performance by
JOHN BOCK: PFUNDSTÜCK
Thursday, July 29, 7 - 9 p.m.
Free Admission
Doors: 6 p.m., Beginning of the event: 7 p.m.
Location: JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, Schanzenstrasse 54, 40549 Düsseldorf
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Uploaded 14. Juli 2010
Simon Fujiwara, The Personal Effects of Theo Grünberg, performance slide, 2010. Courtesy of the artist
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION presents
SIMON FUJIWARA: THE PERSONAL EFFECTS OF THEO GRÜNBERG
Friday, July 16, 7 p.m.
Through theatre plays, music, fiction writing, performances and installation, Simon Fujiwara scripts and performs his own biography as fiction. In the densely spun narrative dramas of personal relationships, family, politics and grand histories that unfold, Fujiwara plays the part of multiple characters: Archaeologist, architect, writer, director, eroticist. When Theo Grünberg: academic, explorer, Nazi prisoner and eroticist died in Berlin in the winter of 2008 he was 136 years old. The personal effects he left behind included a library of almost 1000 books, poetry diaries, vinyl records, newspaper cuttings and postcards that Fujiwara inherited from Grünberg’s grandson. Shortly after, Fujiwara embarked on a journey to piece together the life of the impossibly ancient man through the story his library told, but was quickly led into a maze of mirrors, dead ends, and deception. Telling the personal story of his search, Fujiwara presents a performance set within the library of Theo Grünberg that details a quest that consumed him for almost two years and brought him some 10,000 kilometers around the world, from Berlin’s ‘Stasi’ headquarters to the deep Amazonian jungle in Brazil. As Grünberg’s life story becomes increasingly entwined with the history of modern Germany, Fujiwara in turn finds himself suffocatingly possessed by a man that he no longer recognizes as his own invention – until the day he discovers that Theodor Grünberg, the 20th Century Man, may not even be dead.
Simon Fujiwara studied architecture at Cambridge University and Fine Art at the Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Main. Selected recent and forthcoming exhibitions include: 53rd Venice Biennale (2009), 29th Sao Paulo biennale (2010), Manifesta 8 (2010), MUSAC, Leon (2010), Art Basel Statements (2010). He is this year's recipient of both the Cartier Award, Frieze Art Fair and the Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel 41 and is nominated for the forthcoming Future Generation Art Prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev. He lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City.
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Box office: 6 p.m., Beginning of the event: 7 p.m.
Location: JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, Schanzenstrasse 54, 40549 Düsseldorf
No reservations!
Contribution towards expenses 10 € / 5 € reduced
All guests are required to register by name in each case at the box office.
Please note changes of dates for NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW:
ALLORA & CALZADILLA
Saturday, 10 / 17, 1/ 4 p.m.
Saturday, July 24, 11 a.m.
The dates on wednesdays and on saturday July 31 are cancelled!
JOHN BOCK
Thursday, July 29, 7 p.m.
Uploaded 30. Juni 2010
Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on Ode to Joy for a Prepared Piano, 2008, Prepared Bechstein Piano, Pianist (Andrea Giehl, depicted in the photo), Installation view Haus der Kunst, Munich, Photo: Marino Solokhov, Courtesy of the artists and Gladstone Gallery, New York.
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION presents
ALLORA & CALZADILLA
STOP, REPAIR, PREPARE: VARIATIONS ON ODE TO JOY
Saturday, July 3, 11 a.m. / 1 p.m.
Saturday, July 10 / 17, 1 / 4 p.m.
Saturday, July 24, 11 a.m.
Since 1995, Allora & Calzadilla have developed a complex artistic vocabulary utilizing films, installations, performances, and sculpture. Their artistic practice engages with history and contemporary geo-political realities, exposing their complicated dynamics, destabilizing and re-ordering them in ways that can be alternately humorous, poetic, and revelatory.
In NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW they will present Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on Ode to Joy for a Prepared Piano, which was originally exhibited at Haus der Kunst, Munich in 2008. Blending sculpture and performance, Allora & Calzadilla have carved a hole in the center of an early 20th-century Bechstein piano, creating a void through which the performer stands to play the Fourth Movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Commonly known as the "Ode to Joy," this famous final chorus has long been invoked as a musical representation of human fraternity and universal brotherhood in contexts as ideologically disparate as the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Ian Smith’s White Supremacist Rhodesia, and the Third Reich among many others. Today it is the official anthem of the European Union. Expanding the notions of both a prepared-piano and a player piano, the performer must reach over the keyboard and resituate his/her fingering of the keys both upside down and backwards while at times physically mobilizing the instrument to trace a path through the gallery. This structurally incomplete version of the ode (the hole in the piano renders two full octaves inoperative) creates variations on the corporeal as well as sonic dimension of the player/instrument dynamic, the signature melody being played, and its pre-established connotations. With Stop, Repair, Prepare, Allora & Calzadilla explore the fluid and organic relationships inherent in music, exposing the varied dynamics between composition and meaning, instrument and performance, while tracking the political and artistic sentiments involved in music’s history.
Jennifer Allora (born 1974, USA) and Guillermo Calzadilla (born 1971, Cuba) have been collaborating since 1995. They have been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions around the world, including presentations at Haus der Kunst and Kunstverein Munich; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; San Francisco Art Institute; Whitechapel Art Gallery and the Serpentine Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Zurich; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. They have also been included in group exhibitions such as "Prospect 1 New Orleans" 2008; the 8th & 9th Lyon Biennales, 2005/2007; 2006 Whitney Biennial; 2005 Venice Biennale; "How Latitudes Become Form" Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, 2003, and "Common Wealth," Tate Modern, 2003. Allora & Calzadilla are based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 2009 they were DAAD scholarship holders in Berlin, Germany.
Pianist:
Markus Hinz
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Admission free!
Please note changes of dates for
NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW:
SIMON FUJIWARA
Friday, July 16, 7 p.m.
JOHN BOCK
Thursday, July 29, 7 p.m.
Uploaded 17. Juni 2010
Tris Vonna-Michell, Auto-Tracking: Ongoing Segments, 2008, performance still, performance at Jan Mot, Brussels, May 7, 2008, Photo: Filip Vanzieleghem
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION presents
TRIS VONNA-MICHELL
Friday, June 18, 2010, 7 p.m.
Tris Vonna-Michell’s appearances are as meticulously planned as they are freely improvised. In each case, his audience is point of contact, and can determine the pace of the performance. Vonna-Michell often uses historical events as a framework story, spicing up the narrative with biographical details, photographs, texts, film sequences and everyday objects. For this performance he will compose a new set of slide sequences.
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Box office: 6 p.m., Beginning of the event: 7 p.m.
Location: JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, Schanzenstrasse 54, 40549 Düsseldorf
No reservations!
Contribution towards expenses 10 € / 5 € reduced
All guests are required to register by name in each case at the box office.
Please note changes of dates for NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW:
ALLORA & CALZADILLA
Saturday, July 3/ 10/ 17, 1 p.m./ 4 p.m.
Saturday, July 24, 11 a.m./ 1 p.m.
The dates on wednesdays and on saturday July 31 are cancelled!
SIMON FUJIWARA
Friday, July 16, 7 p.m.
JOHN BOCK
Thursday, July 29, 7 p.m.
Uploaded 2. Juni 2010
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION presents
TINO SEHGAL
Saturdays, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. throughout June
The works from the german-british artist Tino Sehgal are artistically constructed situations. Sehgal forms these situations as fleeting gestures, assignments, movements or spoken words. Just like traditional works of visual art they can remain over time in private and museum collections due their ability to be repeated.
In NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW Tino Sehgal will show a new work.
Opening times:
Saturdays, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m., throughout June
The dates on wednesdays are cancelled.
Admission free!
The artist is present on 5 June, 2010.
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Please note changes of dates for NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW:
TRIS VONNA-MICHELL
Friday June 18, 7 p.m.
ALLORA & CALZADILLA
Saturday, July 3/ 10/ 17, 1/ 4 p.m.
Saturday, July 24, 11 a.m./ 1 p.m.
The dates on wednesdays and on saturday July 31 are cancelled!
Die Termine mittwochs und am Samstag, den 31.07. entfallen!
SIMON FUJIWARA
Friday, July 16, 7 p.m.
JOHN BOCK
Thursday, July 29, 7 p.m.
Uploaded 25. Mai 2010
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION presents
JOAN JONAS: READING DANTE II
Friday, May 28th, 7 p.m. / 9 p.m.
A pioneer in the field of video and performance art, Joan Jonas’ work has had a genre-crossing influence on both conceptual art and theatre. She studied art history, sculpture and visual art. Towards the end of the 1960s Jonas partook in workshops with Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown and others. At that time she began to develop her own performances, collages of various forms of artistic expression including film, video, photography, drawing and acting. The central focus of her work has always been to explore the human body, the way it is perceived, its movements and its interaction with different media and space. In terms of content, Jonas takes her themes from rituals, folklore, fairytales and myths. Masks and mirrors that conceal and deceive are recurrent motifs in her work. The mirrors transform and fragment the room, mingling the reflections of the performers with those of the viewers.
Performances and installations relating to each performance are transformed and/or translated back and forth. A project may finally be resolved as an autonomous video work or as a multi-media installation.
Reading Dante II is a large-scale performance based on elements from Dante’s epic fourteenth-century poem The Divine Comedy, collaging footage shot in four locations—the Canadian woods, 1970s New York, a ruin surrounding a lava field in Mexico City, and a shadow play in Italy—together to translate Dante into Jonas’ own remarkable “infernal paradise.”
For this piece and the site-specific performance The Shape the Scent the Feel of Things commissioned from the DIA:Beacon, New York she worked together with the jazz-composer Jason Moran. This performance for the Julia Stoschek Collection was previously presented at the Sydney Biennial (2008) and the Yokohama Triennial (2008). Installation versions of the project were presented at the Wilkinson Gallery (2008), the Sydney Biennial (2008), the Venice Biennial (2009), and at Yvon Lambert, New York (2010).
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Box office: 6 p.m., Beginning of the event: 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.,sharp, no admission after starting of events!
Location: JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, Schanzenstrasse 54, 40549 Düsseldorf
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Contribution towards expenses 10 € / 5 € reduced
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Uploaded 12. Mai 2010
Manuel Graf, Photo: © Manuel Graf, courtesy of the artist
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION presents
MANUEL GRAF: BUCHTIPP 2
Friday, May 14, 2010, 7 p.m.
Manual Graf currently lives and works in Instanbul and Paris and has been working mostly with film since 2003. His animated films reflect models from architecture and design. His digital and hand-made animations are visual lectures that combine associative visual references with text and music samples. In addition to his digital work with sound and film, Manuel Graf’ s interest in the sensuality inherent to craft work has led him to start making his own ceramics and women’s shoes since 2007. These objects have become an important part of his work and he has incorporated them into his films and their presentation. Rudolf Steiner' s "Die Kernpunkte der sozialen Frage in den Lebensnotwendigkeiten der Gegenwart und Zukunft" and Richard Sennett' s "The Craftsman" deal with the reconciliation between man and work and form the basis for Graf' s works. For NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW the protagonists of BUCHTIPP 2 drink off the ceramics and wear the women' s shoes. A couple that shows up on a monitor, read out the book "Die Kernpunkte der sozialen Frage in den Lebensnotwendigkeiten der Gegenwart und Zukunft".
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Box office: 6 p.m., Beginning of the event: 7 p.m.
Location: JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, Schanzenstrasse 54, 40549 Düsseldorf
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Uploaded 19. April 2010
Image: Jen DeNike. Scrying. 2009. Collage with photo, foil mirror, and watercolor paper, 8 x 10". Courtesy of the Artist
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION presents
SCRYING - A Ballet in Three Acts
Directed by Jen DeNike
Choreographed by Melissa Barak
Assistant choreography by Natalia Boesch
SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2010
7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
Following the world premiere at MoMA in January 2010, Julia Stoschek Collection invites you to the European debut of SCRYING, a non-narrative performance ballet conceived and directed by New York-based artist Jen DeNike and choreographed by Melissa Barak. Inspired by George Balanchine's architectural forms and structural movements, SCRYING emphasizes repetitive patterns and gestures that translate the iconic ballerina image, merging contemporary art and classical ballet. "Scrying" is the act of divination or obtaining spiritual visions by peering into water, a mirror, or another reflective surface; the ballerinas engage in a scrying ritual of their own, transforming an architectural space into one of ethereal vision. Additionally, DeNike will present her latest video installation ANOTHER CIRCLE, a continuation of her investigation of a perfect and iconic form.
SCRYING starts promptly at 7:30 p.m. and at 8:30 p.m.
SCRYING Dancers:
Natalia Boesch
Stephanie Greenwald
Emi Hariyama
Evelyn Kocak
Rainer Krenstetter
Nanami Terai
ANOTHER CIRCLE Dancer:
Nina-Sophie Brettschneider
Related links:
http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=29624
http://melissabarak.com
http://www.moma.org/poprally/41_scrying
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Box office: 6 p.m., Beginning of the event: 7 p.m.
Location: JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, Schanzenstrasse 54, 40549 Düsseldorf
No reservations!
Contribution towards expenses 10 € / 5 € reduced
All guests are required to register by name in each case at the box office.
Special Thanks: Julia Stoschek
Thank you: Staatsballett Berlin, Ballett am Rhein, Jackie Barrett, Anat Ebgi, Damian Echols, Eliza Ryan, Jenny Schlenzka, Lucy Van Cleef
Uploaded 14. April 2010
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION presents
I want to see how you see
APRIL 16th – JULI 25th 2010
Grosse Deichtorhalle
We request the pleasure of your company at the opening of the exhibition "JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION - I want to see how you see" on
Thursday, April 15th, 2010 at 7 p.m. at Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Speakers:
Dr. Dirk Luckow, General Director of Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Karin v. Welck, Minister of Culture, Sports and media
Prof. Dr. Daniel Birnbaum, Principal of the Städelschule and Director of the Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
Artists:
Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Pep Agut, Peggy Ahwesh, Doug Aitken, Eleanor Antin, Heike Baranowsky, Lynda Benglis, Walead Beshty, Björk (Encyclopedia Pictura), Monica Bonvicini, Robert Boyd, Chris Burden, Jeff Burton, Matt Calderwood, Paul Chan, Patty Chang, Thomas Demand, Jen DeNike, Nathalie Djurberg, Claus Föttinger, Douglas Gordon, Cao Guimarães, Andreas Gursky, Jeppe Hein, Christian Jankowski, Isaac Julien, Terence Koh, Klara Liden, Gordon Matta-Clark, Anthony McCall, Adam McEwen, Alex McQuilkin, Nandipha Mntambo, Lutz Mommartz, Bruce Nauman, Carsten Nicolai, Tony Oursler, Paul Pfeiffer, Rob Pruitt, Pipilotti Rist, Aura Rosenberg, Martha Rosler, Mika Rottenberg, Thomas Ruff, Christoph Schlingensief, Carolee Schneemann, Taryn Simon, Wolfgang Tillmans, Steina Vasulka, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Franz West, Hannah Wilke, Aaron Young.
The exhibition will be on view until July 25th, 2010.
On the same evening the exhibition "MICHAEL SCHIRNER- Bye Bye" will be opened at 6.30 p.m. at the House of Photography in the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.
Party: EGO Club, Talstr. 9, St. Pauli, 11 p.m.; DJs: Cassy & Julius Steinhoff.
Press conference: April 15th 2010, 11 a.m.
Press information
deichtorhallen hamburg haus der photographie
Angelika Leu-Barthel
Deichtorstraße 1-2
D-20095 Hamburg
T + 49 40 32103 - 250
F +49 40 32103 - 230
presse@deichtorhallen.de
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION
Monika Lahrkamp (M.A.)
Schanzenstrasse 54
D 40549 Düsseldorf
T +49 211 58 58 84 12
F +49 211 585884-19
lahrkamp@julia-stoschek-collection.net
The exhibition 100 Years (version #1, Düsseldorf) will be open to visitors until July 31st 2010 saturdays between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. in the Julia Stoschek Collection, Schanzenstrasse 54 in 40549 Düsseldorf. Admission free, ONLY after registration by name in situ at the counter.
Closed on May the 1st and 22nd 2010.
Uploaded 1. April 2010
von links nach rechts: Jimmy Robert, Rue Saint-g?ry, Br?ssel, 2009; Ian White, Democracy (Detail), 2009; Emma Hedditch, 2-1 (Detail), 2009.
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION presents
JIMMY ROBERT, SASKIA DE KEYSER, EMMA HEDDITCH, IAN WHITE: LA MUSIQUE DANS LA CHAMBRE
Friday, 09th April 2010, 7 p.m.
Born in French Guadeloupe, Jimmy Robert works with diverse media including photography, collages, objects, art books, short films and performance art. In his explorations into the relationship between images and objects, Robert draws attention to the dynamics of different surfaces. Questions of identity and its representation are his main interest, and he uses a variety of references to literature, art and music to emphasise the fragility of the materials he uses.
Together with his longtime partners and friends Emma Hedditch and Ian White, Jimmy Robert developed a new work for NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW with the title La musique dans la chambre. Jimmy Robert describes it this way: "The context of the Julia Stoschek exhibition space will be transformed for one night only into a more intimate curtained chamber where the audience will be guided from one work to the other. For this night I would like to concentrate on the ideas of performance, its deferral, the voice precisely, as a form of disembodied performance, opening up a discursive space for our sonorous intimacies and perhaps also exploring absence and its economy."
Emma Hedditch: Scarcity, From Horizontal To Vertical And Back Again, video documentation by Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy of a performance by Emma Hedditch, September 18, 2008, at the Musée de Montmartre, Paris. A cooly passionate meditation on modern life and its complexities.
Ian White: Democracy, 2009, live performance with radio and powerpoint presentation. A romantic exploration of the power structures that surround us and our position in relation to them.
Jimmy Robert: Consensus rouge noir, 2010, a 16-mm film, with a live text reading by Saskia de Keyser. A form of abstract yet figurative essay on film and its consequences on desire.
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Box office: 6 p.m., Beginning of the event: 7 p.m.
Location: JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, Schanzenstrasse 54, 40549 Düsseldorf
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Contribution towards expenses 10 € / 5 € reduced
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Uploaded 24. März 2010
von links nach rechts: Cie. Agar Agar, 14th Floor Performance, ACFNY 2009, Foto: Cie.Agar Agar; Michalis Nicolaides, Spacejumps, Tilburg, 2004, courtesy of the artist; Keren Cytter, The Secret Diaries Of Linda Schultz, 2009, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln and Elisabeth Kaufmann Gallery (SCHAU ORT), Zürich.
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION presents
ANNETTE SONNEWEND and MICHAEL STRASSER (CIE. AGAR AGAR), MICHALIS NICOLAIDES, KEREN CYTTER
Friday, 26th March, 7 p.m.
Since 2004, the artist duo Annette Sonnewend and Michael Strasser have pursued solo and joint projects under the name of Cie. Agar Agar. While initially focusing on video work, in the course of their cooperation they developed an increasing interest in live happenings and the presence of an audience. In their performances, the two artists slip into a variety of roles freely chosen from film, television and other media. A central aspect of their work is to use the contrasting relationship between what is quoted and what is performed to question the role of language in constructing reality, a process in which the audience becomes their unwitting accomplices. Starting point of their performance Konrad, which will be performed in the framework of NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW, is the pit Konrad, designated final nuclear disposal site in Salzgitter, Saxony-Anhalt. The visitors take part in a tour through the disposal site, in which reality and fiction are interlocked.
Born in Israel in 1977, Keren Cytter studied art at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv. Having completed her studies in 2004, Cytter produced a series of experimental film and video pieces that were shown at international exhibitions. The question which the artist, writer and filmmaker focuses on in her work is the influence of media culture on personal relationships. In her short films, Cytter often combines documentary and fictional elements in the style of home videos or video diaries. A man is a museum is the title of the work, which will be performed in the Julia Stoschek Collection. In this performance Keren tries to include many disciplines - dance text music. It will try to refer to man's memory as a museum where memories are not related to past actions any more but stands for themselves like art that after some time is not related to it's references.
The Duesseldorf-based Cypriot artist Michalis Nicolaides works with installations, video and performance. In his work, he playfully enters situational-spatial contexts, which he creates by means of videos and performances. For his piece Superman (2002), for example, he suspended himself on a rope dressed in a Superman costume, dangling above the heads of the audience against a black background. Bluebox video technology simultaneously projected images of him in flight, a negative relief of a Superman on the walls of the room. For NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW Michalis Nicolaides developed a new work with the title Richtig baggern! Über die vergessenen Lehren der Kunstgeschichte. Here´s the artist´s statement on his work: "There are some basic needs, which over time became sublimated, or have made certain transformations in the medium, but are basically the same and maybe lie in deeper layers of meaning. A view into art history can bring back many seemingly forgotten techniques, which can be brought back if one uses them accurately. One only has to set one or two attributes into a contemporary context and they immediately reveal their full effect."
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Box office: 6 p.m., Beginning of the event: 7 p.m.
Location: JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, Schanzenstrasse 54, 40549 Düsseldorf
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Contribution towards expenses 10 € / 5 € reduced
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Uploaded 10. März 2010
In the Near Future, New York (detail), 2005, multiple-slide-projection installation, courtesy of the artist & Tanya Leighton Gallery
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION presents
SHARON HAYES: TRANS + FERRE 1.0
Saturday, 13th March 2010, 7 p.m.
The work of Sharon Hayes spans the genres of video, action and installation. Her politically motivated actions explore complex social relationships and themes, principally taken from American history. These actions, which usually take the form of protests, demonstrations and speeches are staged in public spaces and draw on conceptual art and academic practice by involving elements of film, theatre, anthropology, linguistics and journalism.
Her most recent action, performed at the 2009 Istanbul Biennial I Didn't Know I Loved You, is a site-specific, collaborative performance that explores the processes in which collective and social identifies are formed. The piece is part of the artist?s ongoing interest in public pronouncements and demonstrates the role of speech and rhetoric in politics and in personal relationships between lovers, for example. For NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW Sharon Hayes developed a new work called trans + ferre 1.0.
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Box office: 6 p.m., Beginning of the event: 7 p.m.
Location: JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, Schanzenstrasse 54, 40549 Düsseldorf
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Contribution towards expenses 10 € / 5 € reduced
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Uploaded 23. Februar 2010
left: Jérôme Bel, "Shirtology" Photo: Herman Sorgeloos, right: Eva Meyer-Keller, Photo: Rhonda Repotente
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION presents
JÉRÔME BEL: SHIRTOLOGY
EVA MEYER-KELLER: DEATH IS CERTAIN
Saturday 27th February, 2010, 7 p.m.
The pieces by choreographer Jérôme Bel are hotly debated. They are disturbing, exhilarating and transcend conventional dance structures. His pieces can be described as experiments in minimalism, using only the simplest of movements and turning the performer into a sign vehicle and the body into a projection surface for social realities and cultural classification. For NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW his piece Shirtology will be performed.
Eva Meyer-Keller works at the intersection between performing and fine art and performs at festivals, art galleries and theaters all over Europe, New York and Australia. Before she graduated from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam after four years studying dance and choreography, she studied photography and fine arts in Berlin (HdK) and London (Central Saint Martins, Kings College). Eva Meyer-Keller's activities are wide-ranging: she presents her performances internationally, develops projects together with other artists and groups, dances for other choreographers and realizes works on video. Apart from her own work she was involved in projects of Baktruppen, Jérôme Bel and Christine De Smedt/ les Ballets C de la B. For NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW she will perform her piece Death is Certain.
Cherries have tender skin, meat and a kind of bone inside them. Their juice is red like blood. When you treat them like humans sometimes treat other humans, then they become human themselves or at least animate objects, which invite you to identify yourself with them. Inspired by fairy tales, where sometimes objects come to life and so become a projection screen for your own experiences and fantasies. In the performance Death is Certain Eva Meyer-Keller has installed sweet cherries as her protagonists. The stalks are removed from the fruit, but they are not washed or stoned. Instead they are being killed. She takes care of this business manually, in a way which turns the everyday into something brutal. The viewer is reminded of deaths from films, but also the reality of executions, how they really happen: associations from individual and collective experience in the face of sweet death at the kitchen table.
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Box office: 6 p.m., Beginning of the event: 7 p.m.
Location: JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, Schanzenstrasse 54, 40549 Düsseldorf
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Contribution towards expenses 10 € / 5 € reduced
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Uploaded February 04th 2010
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION presents
CHRISTIAN JANKOWSKI: JECK WE CAN
Saturday, 06th February 2010, 7 p.m.
Jeck we can - is not only the motto of this year's carnival season in the Rhineland, but also the title of Christian Jankowski's performance this Saturday at the Julia Stoschek Collection.
On the occassion of the performance program Number Three: Here and Now Christian Jankowski invites, together with local carnivalists, to a carnival session that does not only appeal to the art audience, but also to all jesters!
Please note: Entrance only WITHOUT costume!
For further questions, don't hesitate to contact us!
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T +49 211 58 58 84 12
lahrkamp@julia-stoschek-collection.net
Box office: 6 p.m. No reservations!
Beginning of the event: 7 p.m.
Location: JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION,
Schanzenstrasse 54, 40549 Düsseldorf
Contribution towards expenses 10 € / 5 € reduced.
All guests are required to register by name in each case at the box office.
Uploaded January 20th 2010
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION presents
Andreas Korte, Bert Didillon, Sven Vieweg, Stefan Ettlinger, Cornelius Quabeck
Friday, 22nd January 2010, 7 p.m.
Andreas Korte invited Bert Didillon, Stefan Ettlinger, Cornelius Quabeck and Sven Vieweg to take part in a joint project for NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW. The artists all studied painting at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Dusseldorf Art Academy). They also all work as musicians, and their music productions have been published by Andreas Korte on his web label sound-files.com. Andreas Korte is a painter, video artist and musician, who combines electronic music with video. This combination also characterises the work of Stefan Ettlinger, whose music is reminiscent of the early 1980s. Ettlinger is also a painter, film-maker and member of the performance art group anarchistische gummizelle (anarchist padded cell). Bert Didillon aka birdy produces electro sounds with nods to music from films and TV series. Cornelius Quabeck - a man and his guitars ? is also linked with the folk and metal scene as a painter and illustrator of the music world. As well as painting, Sven Vieweg creates music, producing minimalistic brutal sounds under the name Elektrohorror. For NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW Andreas Korte will present his new work Requiem für ein Insekt, Bert Didillon his Mini-Paradies, Sven Vieweg Der Tod kommt, Cornelius Quabeck beefy arms and Stefan Ettlinger a new sound-performance called Vorletzte und Verwendete.
Press is welcome, special requests to:
Press- and public relations
Monika Lahrkamp
T +49 211 58 58 84 12
lahrkamp@julia-stoschek-collection.net
Box office from 6 p.m. AND during the event. No reservations!
Beginning of the event: 7 p.m.
Location: JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION,
Schanzenstrasse 54, 40549 Düsseldorf
Contribution towards expenses 10 €/ 5 € reduced
All guests are required to register by name in each case at the box office.
Uploaded December 22nd 2009
Xavier Le Roy, Photo: ZOLTAN+
On the occasion of the performance program NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW the JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION presents
XAVIER LE ROY: FLOOR PIECES, premiere
Saturday, 09 January 2010, 7- 8.30 p.m.
The fragmentation of the body, in terms of perception and the identity of the dancing individual is the main focus in Xavier Le Roy's dance and performance pieces. Le Roy initially studied biochemistry at Montpellier University, obtaining a PhD in molecular and cell biology in 1990. During his studies he started taking classes in contemporary dance with Ruth Barnes and Anne Koren. A series of very diverse projects followed, including collaborations with the Berlin performance group detektor and the founding of le kwatt together with the musicologist Alexander Birntraum and lighting designer Sylvie Garot. In 1999 he teamed up with Petra Roggel to found in situ productions and has invited a series of choreographers and dancers such as Yvonne Rainer and Jérôme Bel, video artists and theoreticians to collaborate on his E.X.T.E.N.S.I.O.N.S. project. For NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW he will perform his new project floor pieces.
The artist will be present.
Press is welcome, special requests to:
Press- and public relations
Monika Lahrkamp
T +49 211 58 58 84 12
lahrkamp@julia-stoschek-collection.net
Box office: 6 p.m.
Beginning of the event: 7 p.m.
Please note that there is limited seating! No reservations!
Contribution towards expenses 15 € / 7 € reduced.
All guests are required to register by name in each case at the box office.
Uploaded December 16th 2009
Dara Friedman, Whip Whipping the Wall, 1998-2002, Production still, Photo: Courtesy of the artist/Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
On the occasion of the performance program NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW the JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION presents
DARA FRIEDMAN: SHOOTING GALLERY
Friday, December 18th 2009, 6 p.m.
Dara Friedman is best known for her film and video installations, in which she uses the techniques of structuralist filmmaking to depict the lushness, ecstasy, and energy of everyday life. She often distills, syncopates, reverses, loops, or otherwise alters familiar sounds and sights, drawing attention to the distinct sensory acts of hearing and seeing.
In Musical (2007)her first live, performance-based work Friedman continued her exploration of universal human experience, focusing on the emotional power of sound and, in particular, its capacity to instantly transform one's mood or sense of reality. Friedman is interested in blurring the traditional separation between art and life, and between artist and audience. For NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW she will present her new work Shooting Gallery.
The artist will be present.
Press is welcome, special requests to:
Press- and public relations
Monika Lahrkamp
T +49 211 58 58 84 12
lahrkamp@julia-stoschek-collection.net
Box office and beginning of the event from 6 p.m., no reservations!
Contribution towards expenses 10 EUR / 5 EUR reduced
All guests are required to register by name in each case at the box office.
Uploaded December 10th 2009
Andrea Zittel, Portrait of the artist, 2009
Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
ANDREA ZITTEL: WALKING PATTERNS
Saturday, December 12th 2009, 7 p.m.
Andrea Zittel primarily works with objects, installations and wall-mounted models. Her artistic career began with the furniture she designed to suit her needs and fit into her cramped New York City apartment. In her quest for organisation systems in all areas of life, the artist regards herself as an explorer and test subject of sorts: She observes and subjects herself in her daily routine and to certain situations to find out how living conditions, possession, behaviour and views can change a person.
In 1991 Zittel launched the A-Z enterprise, an ?institute of investigative living? for which she designs and produces furniture, clothes and various objects and articles of daily use. Her interest in the relationship between space and time has also led her to explore the medium of dance. Her performances are very short, governed by strict rules and their choreography often recalls parades or processions. The dancers execute simple sequences of steps, which are based, for example in Walking Patterns (2009), on a decorative element such as a crochet pattern.
The artist will be present.
Doors: 6 p.m.
Start: 7 p.m.
Contribution towards expenses 5 EUR / 2,50 EUR reduced
Please note: box office ONLY from 6 p.m. to the beginning of the event at 7 p.m., no reservations!
All guests are required to register by name in each case at the box office. No admission after starting of events.
Uploaded November 27th 2009
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION presents
WW in concert
Saturday, 28th Nov 8 p.m.
More information on: www.codalunga.org
Free admission!
Doors: 7 p.m.
Show: 8 p.m.
Uploaded November 26th 2009
Marina Abramovic, THE KITCHEN III Homage to Saint Therese, 2009 Courtesy of the artist
Invited through Marina Abramovic the JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION presents
Ragnar Kjartansson, Eunhye Hwang and Nico Vascellari
Friday, 28th Nov 2009
Considered one of the most progressive artists of our time, Marina Abramovic studied fine art in Belgrade and Zagreb before teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad. At this time Abramovic? began to focus on the performance genre, choosing the media of video and film. Her preferred themes are physical and spiritual borderline experiences and changed states of consciousness. Inspired by radical body art, her work centres primarily on her own body, which she relentlessly exposes to risks, torture and pain. For NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW she will give a lecture about the subject of Performance/ Reperformance.
The versatile works of Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson always lie between visual and performance art. The main focus of his work is performance, in which he combines elements of painting, sculpture, theatre, acting and music. Influenced by 1970s style video and performance art, Kjartansson explores his own physical and psychological limits in performances that last for long periods of time. For NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW he will perform his work Sounds of Despair.
After studying painting at Yong-In University in Yongin-Shi, Korean artist Eunhye Hwang completed a degree in Performance Art and Sound Art at the Hochschule f?r Bildende K?nste Braunschweig (Braunschweig University of Fine Arts) under Marina Abramovic? and Ulrich Eller. Hwang uses a variety of media in her ephemeral, artistic works, integrating objects she finds in her surroundings as well as the spectators who witness her performances. The work, which she will perform is called The road.
Nico Vascellari's work spans the genres of performance, photography, video, sculpture and collage. Thematically, he is interested in the kind of energy released in archaic rituals and punk concerts, andhe also often works with symbol-laden objects and old traditions from his native Italy. For NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW, he will perform his piece Mondial blue and please also note the concert with his band WW on the 28th Nov 2009 at 8 p.m.
Please note: box office ONLY from 6 p.m. to the beginning of the event at 7 p.m., no reservations!
Contribution towards expenses 10 € / 5 € reduced.
All guests are required to register by name in each case at the box office. No admission after starting of events.
Uploaded October 26th 2009
Andrea Fraser, Official Welcome, 2001, Performance, Videostills, Kunstverein in Hamburg 2003,
Photo: unknown
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION präsentiert:
Andrea Fraser: OFFICIAL WELCOME
Tuesday, October 27th 2009, from 7 p.m.
Andrea Fraser's performances, video pieces and installations make her one of the most important representatives of institutional criticism. In her work she selects various aspects of the art industry and analyses them from a social, institutional and economic perspective.
Fraser became well-known in the mid-1980s for her gallery talks, in which she analysed the presentation formats, hierarchies and exclusion mechanisms that prevail in art institutions.
Her site-specific performances took the form of humorous, but also serious or pseudo-scientific tours through museums, with Fraser assuming the alter ego of a stereotypical museum docent. The script was based on excerpts from documentations found in the museum archive or psychoanalytical and sociological sources.
The co-dependence of prominent artists and their patrons, the scope of media coverage on art events and the exhibition visitors? conditioned behaviour are just some of the themes she addresses in her performances and video installations.
Please note: box office ONLY from 6 p.m. to the beginning of the event, no reservations.
Contribution towards expenses 10 € / 5 € reduced.
All guests are required to register by name in each case at the box office. Start of the events varies between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. No admission after starting of events.
Uploaded September 2nd 2009
Keren Cytter, "From the Secret Diaries of Linda Schultz", 2009 © Keren Cytter
SAVE THE DATE
100 Years (version #1, Düsseldorf),
NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW
October, 17. 2009 - July, 31. 2010
Dear Sir or Madam, Dear Friends,
we are delighted to announce that next exhibition of the Julia Stoschek Collection will open on Saturday, October 10th. It is the first-ever exhibition in collaboration with P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (New York) and Performa, the international performance biennial (New York) and documents the past hundred years of performance art.
After beginning in Düsseldorf, the exhibition will move to New York’s P.S.1/MoMA in November and then to other institutions around the world. Conceived as a research project that would provide an overview of the most significant movements, events and performances of the past hundred years, the exhibition will take place within the context of this year’s Performa 09 and will honour the one hundredth anniversary of the Futurist Manifesto.
The content and number of exhibits will vary depending on the specific location. The exhibition will also establish connections to the local performance scene in each city.
The project is organised by P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, an affiliate of MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art, New York) and Performa 09 (New York). Curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator of MoMA's Department of Media and Performance and Chief Curiatorial Advisor at P.S.1 with RoseLee Goldberg, acclaimed Performa director and curator. Financial support for the research project comes from the Julia Stoschek Foundation e.V. (Düsseldorf).
100 Years (version #1, Düsseldorf) will be accompanied by NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW, a series of performances that will take place at regular intervals on the second floor of the exhibition space.
The following artists are scheduled to perform:
Marina Abramovic, Allora & Calzadilla, Jerome Bel, John Bock, Keren Cytter, Bert Didillon, Stefan Ettlinger, Andrea Fraser, Dara Friedman, Simon Fujiwara, Manuel Graf, Christian Jankowski, Joan Jonas, Sharon Hayes, Eunhye Hwang, Ragnar Kjartansson, Andreas Korte, Michalis Nicolaides, Jen DeNike, Cornelius Quabeck, Xavier Le Roy, Jimmy Robert, Tino Sehgal, Annette Sonnewend & Michael Strasser, Nico Vascellari, Sven Vieweg, Tris Vonna Michell, Andrea Zittel
The exhibition can be viewed every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., starting October 17th 2009 until July 31st 2010.
Kindest regards,
Julia Stoschek and team
Further we would like recommend the following exhibition programme of the Kölnische Kunstverein:
Lecture Performance
24.10.- 20.12.09
with contributions by Fia Backström, Lutz Becker, Walter Benjamin, Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Andrea Fraser, Dan Graham, Achim Lengerer, Michael Lentz/Uli Winters, Xavier Le Roy, TkH (Walking Theory), Tris Vonna-Michell, Robert Morris, Martha Rosler, V-Girls, Jeronimo Voss
The lecture performance has become a feature of contemporary art. Various descriptions of the phenomenon have circulated over the past few years. Artists in this comparatively young genre work at the interface between lecturing and performing, seeking out creative ways of including traditional methods of artistic communication in presenting themselves to an audience. The uniqueness and contemporary relevance of lecture performances lies in their hybrid nature. The exhibition Lecture Performance highlights the artistic character of this method by presenting latest video installations, documentations of historical performances and a live performance programme.
The exhibition is part of the series European Partnerships supported by Kunststiftung NRW and Goethe Institute and a cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade
Opening: Friday October 23rd, 7 p.m.
Press conference: Friday October 23rd, 11 a.m.
Kölnischer Kunstverein
Die Brücke, Hahnenstr. 6
D-50667 Köln
T +49-221-217021
F +49-221-210651
info@koelnischerkunstverein.de
www.koelnischerkunstverein.de
Uploaded July 24th 2009
Before we start rebuilding in August 2009, we’d like to invite you to our cinema room at Schanzenstrasse 54 for the last film screening in the context of our exhibition FRAGILE.
The 15th edition of STUDIO 54 features the legendary adventures of Peter Fischli and David Weiss as s´Bärli and s´Rättli (“Little Bear” and “Little Rat”) in their first films from 1981 and 1983. While Der geringste Widerstand is a philosophical and witty take on the subject of art and crime, Der rechte Weg sees the amusing twosome traverse the wilds of nature on a quest to discover the meaning of life and who they really are.
- Der geringste Widerstand 1981 (29:00)
- Der rechte Weg 1983 (55:00)
STUDIO 54
Wednesday, 29 July 2009, 7 p.m.
Basement cinema
Schanzenstraße 54, 40549 Düsseldorf
Please note that seating is limited and it is not possible to reserve in advance.
Uploaded april 15th 2009
OUT OF SPACE 1:
Cao Fei - WHOSE UTOPIA
25 April to 27 June 2009
The JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION is to present a new series of exhibition projects entitled OUT OF SPACE. These projects will take place at irregular intervals and, as the name suggests, will not be staged at the collection?s home at Schanzenstrasse 54.
The first exhibition in the series puts the spotlight on the Chinese artist Cao Fei. Opening on 24 April 2009 as part of this year?s ART COLOGNE festival, the exhibition comprises four pieces, including the bulky two-channel installation Whose Utopia from 2006.
Cao Fei is one of the most important Chinese artists of her generation. Born in Guangzhou in 1978, she grew up in a world of advertising and electronic entertainment. Fascinated by the vibrant nature of consumer society, she developed an idiosyncratic visual language that juxtaposes how we imagine, desire, criticise and enjoy reality. In her photo series, films, performances and installations, Cao Fei seeks above all to investigate the rapid social and cultural changes revolutionising China as well as the new generation of Chinese teenagers.
Opening: Friday 24 April 2009, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Running time: 25 April 2009 to 27 June 2009
Location: GLORIAHALLE, Belsenstrasse 20, 40545 Düsseldorf
Open every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Contact: info@julia-stoschek-collection.net
Uploaded october 10th 2008
The second exhibition of works from the Julia Stoschek Collection bears the title “Number Two: Fragile”.
The exhibition focuses on corporeality in videos, installations and photography, an aspect of art that has been explored intensively since the 1960s and 70s, in particular within the genres of Body Art and Performance.
The 54 works in the show were selected to shed light on the themes of self-dramatisation, pain, transformation, physicality in the sense of a plasticity that can be experienced as a real, external phenomenon, and also fragility in a literal way. Although the exhibition is unified by these overarching themes, it also allows viewers to discern the positions of the individual artists, since most of them are represented by several pieces.
Artistic self-dramatisation is perhaps the show’s most prominent theme. Thus Art-Make-Up documents a
performance by Bruce Nauman in 1967 in which the artist’s body seems to be transformed into a sculpture.
The videos, which were originally shot on 16 mm film are showing Nauman’s torso in full frontal position and
was then overlaid with four different colours (white, pink, green and black) in a painstaking process.
Technological advances in film and video and the development of closed-circuit installations in the 1960s
made it possible for artists to record their actions on film, to observe themselves in a mirror at the same time
and even transfer the recordings in another room. Several other artists featured in the exhibition, such as Vito
Acconci and Hannah Wilke, took advantage of the possibilities offered by this technology to expand the
concept of sculpture.
Thus in one of her best-known performances, Hannah Wilke Through the Large Glass, the artist performs a striptease behind Marcel Duchamps’ Large Glass in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In posing for the camera like a 1970s model, she exposes the stereotypical role of women in the art world of that day.
Women’s presentation of themselves as artists and simultaneously as art objects is also a central theme in Katharina Sieverding’s series of large-scale photographs from 1973, Die Sonne um Mitternacht schauen, and in Marina Abramovic’s performance The Onion from the year 1996, in which she also suggests the experience of pain and explores the limits of her own physical endurance.
Painful and shocking in equal measure are the performances by Chris Burden, which document self-imposed ordeals verging on martyrdom in the cause of art. In his legendary work Shoot from 1971, Burden has someone shoot him in the arm; in Through the Night Softly (1973) the naked artist writhes his way out of a pile of broken glass with his arms tied.
A very special work featured in Number Two: Fragile is The Killing Machine by Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller, completed in 2007. Inspired by Franz Kafka’s short story “In the Penal Colony”, the installation makes a statement on capital punishment that is at once critical and absurd. It is not film that takes centre stage here, as in the duo’s earlier works, but rather a torture instrument reminiscent of an electric chair. Displayed in a self-contained room and accompanied by screeching violins, the work turns viewers into spectators of a horror scenario.
In Happiness (finally) after 35,000 Years of Civilization (after Henry Darger and Charles Fourier), an animated digital video installation in wide-screen format, Paul Chan takes up the thread of his ongoing radical confrontation with politics and society. In his apocalyptic vision, a seemingly naive concept of paradise mutates into a horror scenario in a video-game aesthetic derived from the imagery of cult artist Henry Darger.
Terence Koh’s installation Snow White was created specifically for Number Two: Fragile and is one of its highlights. The work’s main feature is a cube of neon tubes suspended from the ceiling; their bright glare makes entering the room virtually unbearable. A glass coffin, porcelain chrysanthemums and a live performance recorded in the same room complete the opera-inspired, fairytale-like scenario.
Cheese (2007) and Dough (2005/06) by Mika Rottenberg are being shown together for the first time. Viewers can see Rottenberg’s most recent work Cheese in a rough-hewn, walk-in “goat shed”. The main protagonists are six sisters with long, Rapunzel-like tresses who have magic powers and can make cheese with their hair. Much like Dough, Cheese grapples with global themes such as the economy and working life in the post-industrial age. Using poetic imagery, Rottenberg repeats the production processes ad absurdum, incorporating the female body as a dynamic part of these processes and transporting viewers into a world that is at once comfortably familiar and bizarre.
Furthermore these artists are represented in the exhibition: Peggy Ahwesh, Walead Beshty, Björk (Enzyclopedia Pictura), John Bock, Patty Chang, Jen DeNike, Nathalie Djurberg, Cheryl Donegan, Kate Gilmore, Douglas Gordon, Cao Guimarães, Alex McQuilkin, Nandipha Mntambo, Lutz Mommartz, Rob Pruitt, Adam Putnam, Pipilotti Rist, Tjorbørn Rødland, Rosemarie Trockel and Aaron Young.
We would be happy to answer any questions you may have on the exhibition or on the Julia Stoschek Collection in general.
An exhibition catalogue will be published by Hatje Cantz Verlag in spring 2009.
Uploaded september 18th 2008
Julia Stoschek Collection /
Andreas Gursky / KRAFTWERK
Opening: Saturday, 27 September 2008 (invitation only)
28 September - 2 November 2008
The fascination for the treatment of present-day reality in digital pictures and music is a binding force between the collector Julia Stoschek, the artist Andreas Gursky and the band KRAFTWERK, currently made up of Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Fritz Hilpert and Henning Schmitz.
From 28 September 2008 the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev will be showing an exhibition combining these three disciplines for the first time as part of Ukraine’s Deutsche Kulturwochen (festival of German culture).
Julia Stoschek, who opened her private collection of contemporary art focusing on new media last year, will be exhibiting 19 pieces that offer a cross section of her first exhibition in Düsseldorf, Destroy, She Said.
Deconstruction/ construction is the central theme behind the exhibition, which contrasts classical positions from the early days of video art, represented in pieces by artists such as Joan Jonas and Bruce Nauman, with the work of contemporary artists like Christian Jankowski and Robert Boyd.
Andreas Gursky is known across the globe for his monumental photography in which he reconstructs reality using digitally manipulated images. The exhibition offers an overview of Gursky’s oeuvre to date, bringing together early pieces with his current work to create an exciting analysis of the contemporary world.
The musicians behind the German group KRAFTWERK are considered pioneers of electronic music and their work has influenced countless musical styles such as synth pop, electro funk and Detroit techno.
The festive opening of the exhibition, entitled Julia Stoschek/Andreas Gursky/KRAFTWERK takes place on 27 September 2008 in the PinchukArtCentre. Following the ceremony, KRAFTWERK will round off the evening with a live performance in the Arena complex.