keywords_required

keywords_required

Group exhibition
01-22.07 2017 - Thu-Sat 4-7 pm
vernissage 30.06.2017 - 7 pm - performance by Elana Katz
finissage 22.07.2017 - 7 pm - performance by Pauline Payen

“The majority of gallery visitors are art enthusiasts, casual visitors and vernissage guests - in other words nice-to-have visitors - and collectors and art professionals form only the minority” of the public. (M. Resch, Management of art galleries, 2015)

According to the report of GmbH 2017, more than 70% of the exhibition visitors are less interested in the presented artworks and their concepts or in an exchange with artists than in the probability to meet curators and gallerists that can push their career; not to mention the possibility of getting cheap drinks.

These facts make us, curators, think twice about which artists and works to present in a proper conceptual direction, in order to create a meaningful and coherent group exhibition.
The serious question we might ask now is what makes an exhibition more meaningful than another? According to which criteria should an art show be evaluated? The numbers of visitors? The profit of the sales of drinks at the bar and of artworks? The feedbacks from art critics and audience? The smile on the curators’ faces?

In the group show “keywords_required” we propose to artists, art lovers, collectors and nice-to-have visitors to question what motivations lead the public here and what information they receive. To evaluate the meaningfulness of the exhibition, we selected a list of conceptual keywords that permitted us to set up a sample of artists who are likely to reuse and reinterpret them, to find out if these are transmitted to the public.

Yann Vanderme
http://yan.vanderme.free.fr/

Pauline Payen
http://www.paulinepayen.net/

Elana Katz
http://www.elanakatz.eu/

ssmidd
http://www.gedankenschmied.net/



Yann Vanderme - You Broke My Cheese In Two - Office -HD Video - 2017 -
08:35 min installation : cardboard


Yann Vanderme - You Broke My Cheese In Two - Office -HD Video - 2017 - 08:35 min installation : cardboard



View of Yann Vanderme’s installation „You broke my cheese in two»


View of Yann Vanderme’s installation „You broke my cheese in two»

 
 Yann Vanderme - You Broke My Cheese In Two - Of ce -HD Video - 2017 - 08:35 min (detail) - installation : cardboard


Elana Katz - un _ shadowed, 2017, Long duration performance


Elana Katz - un _ shadowed, 2017, documentation form long duration performance


Pauline Payen - Spaceship, A performative installation - Unknown materials - 2017
(with the complicity of Kevin S. Morrison)


Pauline Payen - Spaceship, A performative installation - Unknown materials - 2017
(with the complicity of Kevin S. Morrison)


Pauline Payen - FragtMorgenWieder - Decorative-fountain, mini speaker, soundtrack - 2010


ssmidd - SPACE ENTER - print - 84,1 x 118,9 cm - 2017


ssmidd - SPACE ENTER - print - 84,1 x 118,9 cm - 2017



ssmidd - GROUND – 2017 – mixed media - ca 45x35x20 cm


ssmidd - GROUND – 2017 – mixed media - ca 45x35x20 cm (detail)



keywords_suggestions

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keywords_required_finissage

22.07 2017
7-10 pm

Radio Broadcast by Pauline Payen

+keywords will be revealed

Yann Vanderme
http://yannvanderme.com/
Pauline Payen
http://www.paulinepayen.net/
Elana Katz
http://www.elanakatz.eu/
ssmidd
http://www.gedankenschmied.net/



Radio Broadcast by Pauline Payen of her new edition of The Voyager Radio Show, with interviews and sounds by human art-visitors.
The Voyager Spaceship has landed in a human-art gallery in Berlin, in July 2017. During the vernissage, art visitors and human artists exchanged words and sounds in the Spacheship that turned out to be a recording device. Here is the edited result.
Listen to The Voyager Radio Show here: http://www.paulinepayen.net/projects/the-voyager-radio-show/


Elana Katz - un _ shadowed, 2017, documentation form long duration performance



keywords_revealed, projection


This project has been supported by Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques.



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