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18/9/2013

Gerard Byrne and Jutta Koether

Praxes - Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin

PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, a new not-for-profit venue for international contemporary art and research in Berlin, presents half-year cycles of consecutive exhibition modules, papers, and live activities revolving around two unassociated artistic practices. For the inaugural exhibition cycle, PRAXES presents two parallel strings of exhibitions by Gerard Byrne (Dublin/Copenhagen) and Jutta Koether (Berlin/New York).

Gerard Byrne uses photographic, video, and live art to explore the ambiguities inherent in revisiting the legacies of cultural forms such as theater, photography, and magazines. For his second exhibition module at PRAXES, Byrne presents the single channel film *ZAN -T185 r.1: (Interview) v.1, no. 4 - v.2, no. 6, 19 (1969 -Feb. 1972); (Andy Warhol's (Interview) v.2, no. 21 - v.3, no. 9 – the title of which refers to microfilm numbers in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Made with actors at the New York Theatre Workshop in May 2007, Byrne reconstructed six interviews with peripheral celebrities from early issues of Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine. Forever caught in the expectations of media and genre, yet strangely charming and timeless in its failure to fully deliver as either documentary or fiction, *ZAN -T185 was shot by cinematographer Christopher Doyle.

Eight weeks ago (19 September 2013) is also on display, a black-and-white photograph belonging to “Newsstand,” an ongoing series depicting magazine racks and newsstands. Presenting viewers with analog photography of hundreds of magazine cover images that essentially constitute “the contemporary,” these works are continuously re-titled to mark the temporal span between the day the photograph was taken and the day of exhibition.

Jutta Koether’s exhibition Viktoria remains on display through September. While centered on the eponymous PVC sculpture scattered with objects, metal hinges, and souvenirs encircling a canvas spine, this work is occasionally joined and connoted by the paintings Alostrael (2009) and Black Garland Berlin (#1: WTF) (2011).

Publications
The PRAXES Papers are a steady accumulation of edited, free, downloadable material sourced from and around the artistic practice. As a growing journal of articles, commissioned commentary, documentation, ephemera, and more, PRAXES Papers aim to be an alternative resource for thinking of and around artistic processes and presentations today.

Anticipating the display opening on 19 September, Gerard Byrne’s Paper no. 1 is available at http://www.praxes.de/Byrne.htm. This Paper creates the opportunity to download a “new edition” of Byrne's “Newsstand” photograph every day (bled fully, privileging an on-screen viewing over home-printing or even the physical display), while broadcasting the time spent with Byrne's work at PRAXES.

Coming up:
Paper no. 2 I Gerard Byrne Conversation, Gerard Byrne and Sven Anderson
Paper no. 1 I Jutta Koether Jenny Jaskey on Koether’s Black Garland and Viktoria
Paper no. 2 I Jutta Koether Layered sketches by Jutta Koether

About PRAXES
PRAXES invites audiences to collectively and critically explore the range and diversity of artistic practice today by gradually presenting artworks, production processes as well as related material in cumulative display, text, and event formats.

Every six months, PRAXES focuses on two artistic practices in parallel, presenting and correlating three or more exhibitions (a cycle) investigating both broader strokes and odd corners of the practice of each artist. Displays of older works, collaborations, performances, unfinished business, failed ideas, archives, and other material allow for a slow surfacing of recurring themes, materials, and methods as well as contradictions and productive disruptions across a body of work. As simultaneous outlets for the same investigation, PRAXES presents a multitude of short-term live explorations (Parlors) and publications (Papers).

This autumn at PRAXES:

Gerard Byrne
31 August – 15 September: Recent works
19 September – 29 September: Older works
2 October – 20 October: Early works
23 October – 17 November: Around that time
20 November – 14 December: Just before that

Jutta Koether
31 August – 6 October: Viktoria
12 October – 3 November: Luise
7 November – 14 December: Isabelle

PRAXES is a registered not-for-profit institution founded and directed by Rhea Dall and Kristine Siegel.

Image: *ZAN -T185 r.1: (Interview) v.1, no. 4 - v.2, no. 6, 19 (1969 -Feb. 1972); (Andy Warhol's (Interview) v.2, no. 21 - v.3, no. 9., 2007. Single channel DVD projection. Courtesy of the artistbr>
Press Contact
Denhart v. Harling . segeband.pr . dh@segeband.de . +49 179 4963497

Thursday 19 September
19:00-21:30 Opening: Gerard Byrne: "Older works"
20:30 Parlor/Artist talk with Gerard Byrne

PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art
Alexandrinenstraße 118-121, 10969 Berlin
Hours: Wednesday – Sunday 13:00 – 18:00
Extended hours during Berlin Art Week / abc
Thursday – Saturday: 11:00-21:30; Sunday: 11:00-18:00

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