Group show
dal 26/9/2001 al 28/10/2001
Segnalato da
Dietmar Fleischer
Sean Gallagher
David Hatcher
Geka Heinke
Sofia Hulten
Andreas Koch
Wolf von Kries
Bewegung Nurr
Chloe Smolarski
Heidi Specker
Vassiliea Stylianidou
Gernot Wieland
Carla Ã…hlander
26/9/2001
Group show
White Collar, Berlin
White Collar presents an array of aesthetic positions touching on aspects of the white collar state of mind, with artists drawing on elements of its interior and exterior environments and design, social rituals, economic preoccupations and operational systems as they examine and subvert the visual and formal languages of urban professionals by misapplying, inverting, falsely representing, forensically capturing, inventing and extrapolating from the detritus of the white collar world.
White Collar presents an array of aesthetic positions touching on aspects of
the white collar state of mind, with artists drawing on elements of its
interior and exterior environments and design, social rituals, economic
preoccupations and operational systems as they examine and subvert the visual
and formal languages of urban professionals by misapplying, inverting, falsely
representing, forensically capturing, inventing and extrapolating from the
detritus of the white collar world.
Coining the term 'white collar' in the early 1950s, the American sociologist
C. Wright Mills provided a trope for an emerging 20th century middle class
keeping its hands clean as it toiled behind desks in the banal working
environments of the industrialised world. In their bid for gradual ascension
up the corporate ladder, the white collar workforce constituted a rank, a
milieux, a kind of social orbit - but the socio-economic fruits of conforming
to the daily routines and regulated climates of the office brought with them a
disaffected and precarious psychological life. Half a century later the white
collar world is out of orbit - the faceless goals of multinationalism, the
collapse of the new economy, the euphemistic ambience of the pink slip party
and the persistent uncertainties of globalisation conflate to leave today's
cell-phone-toting generation pondering the feasibility of a sure footing on
the slippery slopes of the white collar pyramid.
The exhibition foregrounds the ambivalence of contemporary artists as they
respond to the contemporary corporate values, systems, hierarchies and
aesthetics by which they are surrounded.
Dietmar Fleischer, Sean Gallagher, David Hatcher, Geka Heinke, Sofia Hulten,
Andreas Koch, Wolf von Kries, Bewegung Nurr, Chloe Smolarski, Heidi Specker,
Vassiliea Stylianidou, Gernot Wieland, Carla Ã…hlander
Preview: Thursday, September 27th, 7pm
Charlottenstraße 79/80
Corner Zimmerstr. (Entrance Zimmerstr.)
10117 Berlin-Mitte