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1/2/2007

Two exhibitions

Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf

Words and Things

Alexander Gutke, Annette Kelm, Susanne Kriemann, Matthias Meyer, Christopher Williams

Words and things have a somewhat arbitrary relationship to one another. Any thinking about the constitution of language incorporates therefore thinking about the cognition of reality, images and things. How do language and systems of categorization determine reality and the portrayal of reality? Is our perception governed by what we think we know? In his book The Order of Things, the original title of which translating as "Words and Things", the French philosopher Michel Foucault investigates different historical systems of classification with regard to ways in which the "world" is apprehended.

The group exhibition "Words and Things" features a series of photographs and films by international artists, who, in the broadest sense possible, engage in with questions of representation and show how aesthetic and cultural meaning often emanates primarily from the interpretation of images.

Discussions with artists in the context of the exhibition "Words and Things":

Thursday, 22nd February, 7.30 pm
Discussion I
Matthias Meyer

Thursday, 8th March, 7.30 pm
Discussion II
Susanne Kriemann

Thursday, 22nd March, 7.30 pm
Discussion III
Alexander Gutke

Thursday, 29th March, 7.30 pm
Discussion IV
Annette Kelm

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parallel event
27th January — 9th April 2007

between1969—73 at Kunsthalle Dusseldorf
Chronicle of a non-exhibition

In February 1969 the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf inaugurated a new series of exhibitions entitled between. The central idea behind these events was to utilize the gaps between successive exhibitions for short, additional, experimental shows. Karl Ruhrberg's deputy director at the Kunsthalle at the time, Jurgen Harten, was henceforward to be responsible for co-ordinating the programme of events. The initial impetus for between came from the English artist and then Dusseldorf resident Tony Morgan, who was on the look out for openings for contemporary artists to stage exhibitions of their work. A further controversial stimulus was provided by the radical protest group Politisch Soziale Realitat (PSR), who demanded more co-determination for the public in matters of programming at the Kunsthalle.

In commemoration of the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf's fortieth anniversary, a retrospective will be held of the seven between exhibitions that took place from 1969 to 1973. The main difference between these events and conventional exhibitions was above all the fact that the origination, implementation and use of the artworks formed the central focus of attention. Many of these actions and performances were unique, some of the artworks exhibited lasted only for the duration of the respective between show. It is all the more significant then that the Dusseldorf photographer Bernd Jansen documented several of the between exhibitions, and that this considerable treasure-trove of material, comprising a wealth of hitherto unpublished photographs, can now be displayed. Alongside a diverse collection of films, exhibits and contextual documentation from the between series, reconstructions of some of the exemplary artworks-undertaken in conjunction with the artists-will be on show once more. The painter Gotthard Graubner will reconstruct one of his rare environments in the shape of his "Nebelraum": a walk-in, spacious enclosure in which thick fog plays heavily with one's powers of perception. The spectacular "Giant Billiard" by Haus-Rucker-Co will also be available for use. In October 1970 this gigantic inflatable mattress was famously responsible for inducing visitors to between 5 to cavort in uninhibited, childlike fashion.

The between events set the course for future innovative exhibition practice. They provided the impetus to place the debate surrounding the need for socio-political commitment in art and concomitant new approaches in its dissemination into an artistic forum. Furthermore, they were able to make concrete the much vaunted opening-up of art's institutional sector. Pioneering impulses were generated by many of the participating artists, including Marcel Broodthaers, Robert Filliou, Gilbert & George, Gotthard Graubner, Klaus Rinke, Ingrid Schreiber, Gunther Uecker, Timm Ulrichs and Franz Erhard Walther amongst others. This retrospective of the actions and performances that took place under the auspices of the between series amply reflects the central role played by the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf in the art scene of the 1960s and 1970s.

A Kunsthalle Dusseldorf exhibition in collaboration with Renate Buschmann.

A newspaper will be published to accompany the exhibition (German/English) with several illustrations, an introduction by Renate Buschmann, as well as the transcripts of interviews with Jorg Bostrom, Gotthard Graubner, Jurgen Harten, Tony Morgan and Karl Ruhrberg.

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Kunst im Tunnel

Hotel Cerberus
10.2. - 22.4.2007

For the opening exhibition of KIT - Kunst im Tunnel 14 young graduates from the Dusseldorfer Kunstakademie have created laborious new art works. Already in the aboveground located Promenaden-Cafe', the Profi-Malkurs-Serie (series of the professional painter course) "Welcome to the paint" announces what the visitor is to see when going down the stairs leading to the 850 square metre exhibition room newly renovated by Atelier Prof. Fritschi Stahl Baum: paintings, sculptures and photographic art works demonstrate how the occidental tradition of questioning what is fact and, on the other hand, what is fiction undermines effectively the expectations of the beholder. Instead of finding the hell-hound Cerberus here underground, he encounters a bright "Hotel Cerberus" inhabited by the artist`s genius loci.

Hotel Cerberus (Cerberus, the three-headed hell-hound guarding the entrance of the lower world, the Hades; outwitted by Heracles and lulled into sleep by Orpheus playing his lyre while looking for Eurydice) refers to the exhibition space located underground and plays with the aura of depth, obsession, abysses, passion.

14 artists have been invited (between 27 and 34 years old). Six sculptors who studied in courses of the Professors Herold, Kamp, Schwegler, Rinke and Trockel. The painters are students of the Professors Oehlen, Immendorf, Lupertz, Dibbets, Doig, Anzinger and Federle. One female artist belongs to the course of Prof. Ruff and exhibits an art work using the medium photography.

Kunst im Tunnel
is the new exhibition space of the Landeshauptstadt Dusseldorf and the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf

Address
Eiskellerberg 1-3
40213 Dusseldorf Phone +49.(0)211.8920769
kit@kunsthalle-duesseldorf.de
http://www.kunst-im-tunnel.de

Image: Matthias Meyer, The Black Museum, 2006 Filmstill

Opening: Friday, 2nd February, 7.30 pm

Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen
Grabbeplatz 4 - Dusseldorf
Opening times: Tuesday - Saturday 12 - 7 pm / Sundays 11 am - 6 pm
Admission: EUR 5.50 / concessions EUR 3.50 / free admission the disabled and to young people under 18

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