Artists: Cashmere Radio, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, DAS INSTITUT, Honey-Suckle Company, KAYA, (Music For) Eggplant, projektKLUB, SUPERFLEX
Exhibition title: Groups
Curated by: Jule Hillgärtner, Nele Kaczmarek
Venue: Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Date: June 21 – August 25, 2019
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Kunstverein Braunschweig
Groups focuses on collaborative work, which is shown in various formats and themes. Artists join together, form collectives, and cooperate to realize complex projects. The exhibition Groups can also be regarded as an appreciation of a way of working that contradicts the idea that art per se is to be traced back to individual authors: “In the beginning of a movement an event transforms an I into a We.” (Wittenburg / Voss)
It is important to leave the concept of the artist subject behind in order to be open to different collaborative models. As a result, the process-based work of the Honey-Suckle Company, founded in the mid-1990s, encounters installations and durational performances by (Music For) Eggplant. While Colectivo Los Ingrávidos creates experimental films in response to sociopolitical injustices, projektKLUB produces its own social spaces that are repeatedly activated in the course of the exhibition. KAYA and DAS INSTITUT are two configurations associated with the artist Kerstin Brätsch that regularly involve third parties in their projects, similar to the Danish trio SUPERFLEX, which is constantly developing new tools for participation.
In Groups, the contours between the individual and the community are blurred. It is not uncommon for projects to emerge from the work in and with the group that change over time; only in the course of a – sometimes performative and participatory – process do they gradually become visible.
GUEST ROOM: CASHMERE RADIO
As a commentary on the exhibition, artists are invited to make use of the space originally used as a guest room in the Villa Salve Hospes. As part of Groups, the radio station CASHMERE RADIO is developing a new program that takes up the gesture of hospitality.
projektKLUB, Bis sich verbindet, was im kalten Zustand auf Trennung beharrt, 2019, Installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig. Courtesy the artists, Photo: Stefan Stark
SUPERFLEX, Euphoria Now/Euro, 2015/16, Installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Design in collaboration with Rasmus Koch Studio, Photo: Stefan Stark
SUPERFLEX, When the Levees Broke We Bought Our House (New Orleans), 2008, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
SUPERFLEX, When The Levees Broke We Bought Our House (Miami), 2018, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
KAYA, Shirts, 2016, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists and Galerie Deborah Schamoni. Photo: Stefan Stark
KAYA, Shirts (Detail), 2016, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists and Galerie Deborah Schamoni. Photo: Stefan Stark
KAYA, Shirts (Detail), 2016, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists and Galerie Deborah Schamoni. Photo: Stefan Stark
KAYA, Shirts (Detail), 2016, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists and Galerie Deborah Schamoni. Photo: Stefan Stark
KAYA, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists and Galerie Deborah Schamoni. Photo: Stefan Stark
KAYA, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists and Galerie Deborah Schamoni. Photo: Stefan Stark
KAYA, _OraKle Painting (Catacomb Mirror) 2018, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists and Galerie Deborah Schamoni. Photo: Stefan Stark
KAYA, _OraKle Paintings (Catacomb Mirrors) 2018, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists and Galerie Deborah Schamoni. Photo: Stefan Stark
Honey-Suckle Company, Eswerde/Rosasprich, 2003/19, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
Honey-Suckle Company, Eswerde/Rosasprich, 2003/19, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
Honey-Suckle Company, Eswerde/Rosasprich, 2003/19, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
Honey-Suckle Company, Eswerde/Rosasprich, 2003/19, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
Honey-Suckle Company, Eswerde/Rosasprich, 2003/19, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
Honey-Suckle Company, Eswerde/Rosasprich, 2003/19, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
Honey-Suckle Company, Eswerde/Rosasprich, 2003/19, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
Honey-Suckle Company, Eswerde/Rosasprich, 2003/19, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
Honey-Suckle Company, Eswerde/Rosasprich, 2003/19, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
Honey-Suckle Company, Eswerde/Rosasprich, 2003/19, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
DAS INSTITUT, DARK CODEX, from ‘ALMANAC, ECLIPSES AND VENUS CYCLES’ Series, 2016, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
DAS INSTITUT, DARK CODEX (Detail), from ‘ALMANAC, ECLIPSES AND VENUS CYCLES’ Series, 2016, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
Cashmere Radio, Guest Room Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
Cashmere Radio, Guest Room Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
(Music For) Eggplant, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
(Music For) Eggplant, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
(Music For) Eggplant, How do you reset your mind? Aus allen Testamenten sind dir Blumen geboren, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
(Music For) Eggplant, How do you reset your mind? Aus allen Testamenten sind dir Blumen geboren, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
(Music For) Eggplant, How do you reset your mind? Aus allen Testamenten sind dir Blumen geboren, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
(Music For) Eggplant, How do you reset your mind? Aus allen Testamenten sind dir Blumen geboren, Installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
projektKLUB, Bis sich verbindet, was im kalten Zustand auf Trennung beharrt, 2019, Installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
projektKLUB, Bis sich verbindet, was im kalten Zustand auf Trennung beharrt, 2019, Installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
projektKLUB, Bis sich verbindet, was im kalten Zustand auf Trennung beharrt, 2019, Installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
projektKLUB, Bis sich verbindet, was im kalten Zustand auf Trennung beharrt, 2019, Installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
projektKLUB, Bis sich verbindet, was im kalten Zustand auf Trennung beharrt, 2019, Installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
Colectivo Los Ingravidós, The Sun Quartet: Part 4, Far From Ayotzinapa (2017), [film still]. Courtesy the artist. Mexico, 16mm > digital, 22 min, 2017
Colectivo Los Ingravidós, The Sun Quartet: Part 4, Far From Ayotzinapa (2017), [film still]. Courtesy the artist. Mexico, 16mm > digital, 22 min, 2017
Colectivo Los Ingravidós, Trilogy, Have You Seen (Mothers Day), [film still]. Mexico, 16mm > digital, 7min, 2017. Courtesy the artists.