History Will Repeat Itself
dal 14/2/2008 al 12/4/2008
Segnalato da
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Guy Ben-Ner
Walter Benjamin
Irina Botea
C-Level
Daniela Comani
Jeremy Deller
Rod Dickinson
Nikolai Evreinov
Omer Fast
Iain Forsyth
Jane Pollard
Heike Gallmeier
Felix Gmelin
Pierre Huyghe
Evil Knievel
Zbigniew Libera
Korpys/Loffler
Robert Longo
Tom McCarthy
Frederic Moser
Philippe Schwinger
Collier Schorr
Tabea Sternberg
Kerry Tribe
T. R. Uthco
Ant Farm
Artur
Zmijewski
14/2/2008
History Will Repeat Itself
Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Group show. The exhibition focuses on current strategies of re-enactment in contemporary art and presents the positions of 22 international artists. On show, among the others: Jeremy Deller, Walter Benjamin, Robert Longo, Irina Botea, C-Level, Daniela Comani, Jeremy Deller, Rod Dickinson, Nikolai Evreinov.
History Will Repeat Itself
Strategies of Re-enactment in Contemporary Art
Concept: Inke Arns (HMKV Dortmund)
Curators: Gabriele Horn (KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin), Inke Arns (HMKV
Dortmund)
Co-Curator: Katharina Fichtner
Artists: Guy Ben-Ner, Walter Benjamin, Irina Botea, C-Level, Daniela Comani, Jeremy
Deller, Rod Dickinson, Nikolai Evreinov, Omer Fast, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard,
Heike Gallmeier, Felix Gmelin, Pierre Huyghe, Evil Knievel, Korpys/Loeffler, Robert
Longo, Tom McCarthy, Frédéric Moser / Philippe Schwinger, Collier Schorr, Tabea
Sternberg, Kerry Tribe, T. R. Uthco & Ant Farm, Artur Zmijewski.
The exhibition History Will Repeat Itself focuses on current strategies of
re-enactment in contemporary art and presents the positions of 22 international
artists. Re-enactments have become more and more popular in recent years. The
re-creation of historical battles or important events seem to exert a fascination
particularly because they provide the opportunity to gain a different entry into
history by re-experiencing it. In contemporary art there has been an increasing
number of artistic re-enactments.
Unlike popular historical re-enactments artistic
re-enactments do not simply affirm what has happened in the past, but question the
present by taking recourse to historical (often traumatic) events that have left
their traces in collective memory. Because history and memory are seldom directly
experienced but more often mediated through media, re-enactments also represent an
artistic interrogation of media images. They try to scrutinize the reality of the
images, while at the same time pointing towards the fact that collective memory is
essentially mediated memory.
A comprehensive catalogue with texts by Inke Arns, Katharina Fichtner, Gabriele
Horn, Tom McCarthy and others is available for 25 Euro.
The Centre for Contemporary Art
Al. Ujazdowskie 6 (Ujazdowski Castle) - Warsaw