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30/6/2010

FischGratenMelkStand

Temporare Kunsthalle, Berlin

A group show curated by the artist John Bock who has developed a meta-structure within which he installs works by 61 important artists. Within a structure that is functional and grotesque in equal measure, the artworks fuse with the space that surrounds them. With a surprising poetic, formal, and thematic connections and contradictions that refer to pop culture, architecture, film, science, and everyday life, as well as to parapsychology, music, and fashion.


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curated by John Bock

With Franz Ackermann, Pawel Althamer, And Also The Trees, Micol Assaël, Heike Aumüller, BARarchitekten, Matti Isan Blind, Anna und Bernhard Blume, Brandlhuber+, Björn Braun, Pavel Büchler, Andreas Bunte, Matthew Burbidge, Nina Canell, Franziska Cordes, Björn Dahlem, Discoteca Flaming Star, Sean Edwards, FAT KOEHL, Martin Fletcher, Saul Fletcher, Karsten Födinger, Heiner Franzen, Mathew Hale, Raimund Harmstorf, John Hejduk, Gregor Hildebrandt, Anuschka Hoevener, Sergej Jensen, Stefan Kern, Martin Kippenberger, Harald Klingelhöller, Lachenmann, Ludwig Leo, Sergio Leone, Klara Lidén, Adrian Lohmüller, Lone Haugaard Madsen, Paul McCarthy, Sandra Meisel, Isa Melsheimer, Meuser, Matt Mullican, Ascan Pinckernelle, Julian Rosefeldt, Egill Sæbjörnsson, Michael Sailstorfer, Albrecht Schäfer, Christoph Schlingensief, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, Armand Schulthess, Andreas Slominski, Sven Temper, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kara Uzelman, Edgar Varèse, Vinyl Terror & Horror, Franz West, Ingrid Wiener, Iannis Xenakis, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Heimo Zobernig.

For FischGrätenMelkStand – the final project at Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin – the artist John Bock has developed a masterful meta-structure within which he installs works by 61 artists. An eleven-meter-tall walk-in steel construction creates a range of spatial situations over four levels, linking the individual works into a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk, or total artwork.

Unlike the classic white cube, this scenario offers the works on show anything but a neutral setting. Within a structure that is functional and grotesque in equal measure, the artworks fuse with the space that surrounds them. By this means, John Bock creates surprising poetic, formal, and thematic connections and contradictions that refer to pop culture, architecture, film, science, and everyday life, as well as to parapsychology, music, and fashion. Visitors to the show are invited to embark on their own voyage of discovery.

In his own works, John Bock deals with open structures for which he finds absurd forms with an inner logic that is both playful and compelling. By combining various media – sculpture, installation, film, performance – he creates a total artwork within which the artist himself often appears as a protagonist, explaining his cosmos in sprawling, surreal experimental set-ups. For FischGrätenMelkStand, John Bock reverses this principle, letting the viewer take his place in exploring the precarious structure with its bizarre installations and constellations.

FischGrätenMelkStand will be accompanied by the release of a limited signed edition by John Bock.

Program:

05.07.10
John Bock: Vortrag & Montags Bar with Kara Uzelman

09.07.10
Concert: And Also The Trees (UK)

19.07.10
Screening: Mickey Rourke I & Montags Bar with Gregor Hildebrandt

23.08.10
Screening: Mickey Rourke II and Montags Bar: Tracht & Prügel + Machínes Désirantes

30.08.10
John Bock: Vortrag & Montags Bar: Discoteca Flaming Star

For further information and interview scheduling, contact:
Bärbel Hartje
Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin Press and Public Relations Tel. 030-25 76 20 431, Fax 030-257620419 press@kunsthalle-berlin.com

Opening: 1 July, 2010, 8 pm

Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
Schlossplatz, Berlin-Mitte
Hours: Daily 11 am – 6 pm, Mondays to 9 pm.
Free admission to the exhibition

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FischGratenMelkStand
dal 30/6/2010 al 30/8/2010

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