Dave Allen
Juliana Bardolim
Sergey Voronzov
Gilvan Barreto
Eva Beham
Sebastian Troger
Dirk Bell
Klaus Beyer
Candice Breitz
Laura Bruce
Susanne Burner
Jorg Buttgereit
Frieder Butzmann
Max Cabello
Yane Calovski
George Condo
Hubert Czerepok
Daniela Dacorso
Walter Dahn
Jeremy Deller
Sven Druhl
Lucas Foletto Celinski
Pablo Garber
Henryk Gericke
Moritz Gotze
Julia Herbster
Andy Hope 1930
Tibor Horvath
MK Kahne
Klaus Killisch
Cristian Kirby
Helmut Kirsch
Christina Kral
Jonathan Kroll
Jason Lazarus
Via Lewandowsky
Robert Lippok
Catherine Lorent
Claus Loser
Jakobine Motz
Jorg Mandernach
Bjarne Melgaard
Heiner Muhlenbrock
Christoffer Munch Andersen
Stary Mwaba
Hajnal Nemeth
Raymond Pettibon
Elizabeth Peyton
Bettina Pousttchi
Daniel Richter
Pipilotti Rist
Andreas Rost
Miguel Rothschild
Sammlung Burmeister
Chris Sauter
Gunter Schickert
Rene Schoemakers
Sarah Schonfeld
Hans J. Schulze
Greg Semu
Jeremy Shaw
Raf Simons
Elizabeth Skadden
Florian Sussmayr
Sebastian Szary
Keiichi Tanaami
Nahuel Tow
Joris Van de Moortel
Fabrizia Vanetta
Koen Vermeule
Lucas Wahl
Hans Weigand
Michael Wesely
Markus Wirthmann
Adam Witkowski
Ming Wong
Christoph Tannert
Miriam Barnitz
Fan Behaviour and Art. Through their works the artists in this exhibition examine how the fans' torrents of passion manifest themselves, which are the objects of desire, and how mass media and pop culture deal with fan attitude.
Youth culture is known to manifest itself in a variety of ways. One of its most appealing forms of commonality is fandom: young people feeling aligned with any of the subcultures whose cohesion relies primarily on a fixation with a sports team or popular entertainment (music, film, TV, Internet, digital gaming culture, fashion, literature, comics) and is nurtured by body art, raves, moves or theatrical performances as experimental spaces. Fantum should not be equated with the interest of the “normal” public in pop culture; rather, it takes the shape of a heightened form of popular culture and seeks to differentiate itself. Incidentally, very few visual artists would unequivocally describe themselves as fans of a given band or style of pop music.
The exhibition Passion: Fan Behaviour and Art focuses on the realm of rock music. It explores fan behaviour bearing in mind that before the advent of the Internet and social media music fans communicated among each other by writing letters, exchanging pictures, designing posters, publishing magazines, taping concerts and radio broadcasts or decorating cassette covers, often interweaving rumours and fictional accounts with poems and declarations of love in an effort to keep the distance between artists and fans as small as possible.
Through their works the artists in this exhibition examine how the fans’ torrents of passion manifest themselves, which are the objects of desire, and how mass media and pop culture deal with fan attitude. And, naturally, they speak of the rock-musical interests and dreams of their own teenage years. Their works reveal the power of the analog message: when we document something, photograph it, film it, paint it on canvas or on the wall, put it on a pedestal, write it on our skin, it means we take it seriously – all the more so when we question our own fan behaviour. As was to be expected, expressions of worship and homage abound in this exhibition.
The exhibition is curated by Christoph Tannert; curatorial assistant: Miriam Barnitz.
Participating Artists:
Dave Allen, Juliana Bardolim & Sergey Voronzov, Gilvan Barreto, Eva Beham & Sebastian Tröger, Dirk Bell, Klaus Beyer, Candice Breitz, Laura Bruce, Susanne Bürner, Jörg Buttgereit, Frieder Butzmann, Max Cabello, Yane Calovski, George Condo, Hubert Czerepok, Daniela Dacorso, Walter Dahn, Jeremy Deller, Sven Drühl, Lucas Foletto Celinski, Pablo Garber, Henryk Gericke, Moritz Götze, massoud graf-hachempour, Julia Herbster, Andy Hope 1930, Tibor Horvath, IRWIN, MK Kähne, Klaus Killisch, Cristian Kirby, Helmut Kirsch, Christina Kral, Jonathan Kroll, Jason Lazarus, Via Lewandowsky, Robert Lippok, Catherine Lorent, Claus Löser & Jakobine Motz, Jörg Mandernach, Bjarne Melgaard, Heiner Mühlenbrock, Christoffer Munch Andersen, Stary Mwaba, Hajnal Nemeth, Raymond Pettibon, Elizabeth Peyton, Bettina Pousttchi, Daniel Richter, Pipilotti Rist, Andreas Rost, Miguel Rothschild, Sammlung Burmeister, Chris Sauter, Günter Schickert, René Schoemakers, Sarah Schönfeld, Hans J. Schulze, Greg Semu, Jeremy Shaw, Raf Simons, Elizabeth Skadden, Florian Süssmayr, Sebastian Szary, Keiichi Tanaami, TARWATER, Nahuel Tow, Joris Van de Moortel, Fabrizia Vanetta, Koen Vermeule, Lucas Wahl, Hans Weigand, Michael Wesely, Markus Wirthmann, Adam Witkowski, Ming Wong
The exhibition travels to the Kunsthaus im KunstKulturQuartier, Nuremberg (Opening: December 16, 2015), the Mùzeum Ludwig, Budapest, Hungary (Opening: April 14, 2016) and the Stadtgalerie, Kiel (Opening: September 9, 2016).
The band ZIGURI from Berlin (www.ziguri.net) will be playing at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien opening on the 9th of July at 8pm.
Admission is free.
Press office:
Christina Sickert Tel 030/ 616903 - 15 e-mail sickert@bethanien.de
Opening 09.07.2015 7 pm
Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Kottbusser Straße 10 - 10999 Berlin
Tue - Sun: 2 - 7pm
Admission free