Parallax at Medical Museum

Artists: Brishty Alam, Minda Andren, Josefin Arnell, Taschko Deliyski, Marc Alex Dumoulin, Jennifer Gelardo, Benjamin Grodin, Jessyca R. Hauser, Lukas Heistinger, Alexander Jackson Wyatt, Ludwig Kittinger, Galya Krumova, Pencho Leshtarov, Omri Livne, Phelim McConigly, Billie Meskens, Fernando Mesquita, David Muth, Flavio Palasciano, David Peschka, Ivo Petrov, James Swift, Hong Zeiss, Julia Znoj

Exhibition title: Parallax

Organized by: The Atanas Petrov Foundation

Venue: Medical Museum, University Hospital Georgi Stranski, Pleven, Bulgaria

Date: September 9 – October 15, 2016

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and The Atanas Petrov Foundation

The Atanas Petrov Foundation invites artists to take part in the contemporary exhibition “Parallax” at the Medical Museum on the grounds of University Hospital Georgi Stranski, Pleven, Bulgaria.

The “Parallax” project aims to create a permanent installation of works in the medical museum, which is representative of the political and social upheaval from its founding in 1965, the 50+ years of the structures existence, including its closure around 1989 and reopening in 2015 with the exhibition titled “Appendix”.

This second project “Parallax” at the museum furthers the foundation’s goals of working concretely on the (non traumatic) historical concerns of this modest socialist modernist museum and its surroundings.

It accesses themes such as (un)documentation, accessibility, cure/care as artists explore the characteristics and experience surrounding the historical and political environment of the Architect Petrov’s era through intervention in architecture, art dealing with biopolitics, the significance of identity politics in describing a multifaceted dividualism, the culture of being versus belief, institutional critique and the dispositives of art, science, medicine and architecture.

The Atanas Petrov Foundation, in existence since 2015, first made contact with the architect in 2016, who, as guest at the opening of Parallax, made the first donation of his research work to the foundation.

Julia Znoj, Untitled (care), 2012

Hong Zeiss, Marble (holes #1)

Alexander Jackson Wyatt, Being Odd At The Factory, Soap Dispenser, 2016

Jennifer Gelardo, Celebration

Ivo Petrov, Direct electrical research

1942 Telefunken transistor radio found by Phelim McConigly, repaired by Pencho Leshtarov, used by Ivo Petrov

James Swift, A bloody flood could never messed these rooms up any worse

Flavio Palasciano, Together we stand

Minda Andren, The resting place

Phelim McConigly, Corrections taken from a radio script / medical museum, 1971

Minda Andren, Ghost in the head (series on glass)

Billie Meskens, Above and opposite. Haunt canon trans transparent, 2015-2016

Phelim McConigly, Repairing the basis for everything else

Galya Krumova, chair #1

Worldeater Generics, Axel Stockburger, 2015
Worldeater Generics is part of an ongoing series of works that engage with lists as an approach to a wide range of contemporary phenomena. In the context of the exhibition Appendix, which takes place in the abandoned part of a University Hospital in Pleven, Bulgaria, Stockburger presents a work based on the world’s most important generic pharmaceutical products. Every single one of these brand names was designed in order to create enough difference to the “original” brand, while attempting to create a semantic link to the medical condition it is used for. Worldeater Generics questions the issue of copyrights and their huge importance for the pharmaceutical industrial complex by presenting of poetic list of names that have meaning for doctors and patients worldwide.

Ludwig Kittinger, On the evolution of cooperation II

Benjamin Grodin, Untitled (print on plexiglass)

Omri Livne, Even a skeleton staff could receive an anatomical drawing on a holiday

Phelim McConigly, Semmelweis prints with Inaccessible Climbing Structure

Benjamin Grodin, Instructions for the disposal of a body

Phelim McConigly, Carved broken stone rearranged in combination with David Muth, Towards an Inventory of Global Objects of Merely Decorative Nature: Ikea Plant #04 (artificial)

Taschko Deliyski, Targets

Galya Krumova, Untitled (table with flowers)

David Peschka, Untitled, cassette tape case, riso print on paper

Galya Krumova and Ludwig Kittinger, Untitled (seating area)

Benjamin Grodin, Untitled (intervene)

Marc Alex Dumoulin, Untitled (Celestial body #2), 2016

Phelim McConigly, The Architect Atanas Petrov replacing the removed wall in front of his museum, (clothing by Jessyca R. Hauser, Ipek Hamzaouglu #aliensmustbefree)

Jessyca R. Hauser & Ipek Hamzaoglu, dwelling, #aliensmustbefree

Ludwig Kittinger, Untitled (Future Memorial)

Flavio Palasciano, Untitled (STOP)

Lukas Heistinger & Josefin Arnell, Corn Love

Fernando Mesquita, Path 1 turn: 1st 30° right, 2nd 60° right, 3rd 120° left, 4th 60°R, 5th 120°L, 7th 60° R, 8th 120°L, 9th 60° R, 10th 120°L, 11th 60°R, 12th 30°L. distance between points 6 steps