Artists: Angelika Loderer, Bitsy Knox, Christophe de Rohan Chabot, Core.Pan, Hanny Oldendorf, Nicholas Riis, Phillip Mueller, Real Madrid, Studio Furthermore, Erik Niedling, Jura Shust, Pakui Hardware, Patrick Panetta, Paul Sochacki, Sarah Pichlkostner, Sarah Schönfeld
Exhibition title: Dead End Galaxies
Curated by: Marlies Wirth and Christian Siekmeier
Venue: EXILE, Berlin, Germany, Polansky Gallery, Prague, The Czech Republic
Date: March 10 – April 14, 2018
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists, EXILE, Berlin and Polansky Gallery, Prague
For the lack of better knowledge galaxies are infinite, endless spaces, which will always offer an ever so imaginary escapist niche, somewhere. Such magical spheres where Siri or Alexa are just poetically named starlets, where a ‘Hello Alexa’ remains unanswered, where there is silence beyond entrenching reason.
The longing to escape to such a non-defined, free space is as ancient as contemporary relevant. In times of seemingly endless reason, it remains the ultimate desire, yet ultimately results in a dead end. No form of contemporary escapism can any longer provide an idealized, naïve notion of a lost paradise. Escapism is at its end as it is en vouge. Parallelism or Internalism can provide relief yet, in the very end, it is the here and now.
Anyone who has thought about parallel universes will know that it is hard to figure out which one of them is ‘real’. The denominators of what we call ‘reality’ have become blurred, a new flexibility of ‘truth’ rules even over the galaxy we currently reside in. The ‘fake-news’ of the day is poking holes in the sensitive skin of our very own filter-bubbles and within the blink of an eye your day can vault you into the ‘upside-down’.
Maybe it is time to travel. Where could we go from here?
‘Introspection’ is the new long distance journey, as we slide through the endless feed of information and images that busy algorithms have chosen for our fingers to scroll through: A gentle touch, a ‘reaction’ of sorts – like staring into the abyss of binary code.
The afterimage of a world seen from outer space, the alienation of the self and ‘the other’ in a dense habitat we share with the digital
creatures of our own making. Looking at the remainders of the world we produce and consume, light years filled with the human trace of artificial goods, it is time to enter the void.
The inscription of a seminal painting by the French artist Paul Gauguin reads “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” (P. Gauguin / 1897), a question still unaccounted for as of today. A promise has been made, and for the longest time it remains unfulfilled.
Dead End Galaxies is a single exhibition running parallel across two different cities connected via a time tunnel.
Opening: Sat, Mar 10
Dead End Galaxies at EXILE, Berlin
Artists: Angelika Loderer, Bitsy Knox, Christophe de Rohan Chabot, Core.Pan, Hanny Oldendorf, Nicholas Riis, Phillip Mueller, Real Madrid, and Studio Furthermore.
Opening: Sat, Mar 17
Dead End Galaxies at POLANSKY, Prague
Artists: Bitsy Knox, Christophe de Rohan Chabot, Erik Niedling, Jura Shust, Pakui Hardware, Patrick Panetta, Paul Sochacki, Sarah Pichlkostner, and Sarah Schönfeld.
Dead End Galaxies is curated by Marlies Wirth, Curator for Digital Culture and Design at MAK Vienna, and Christian Siekmeier, EXILE.
Dead End Galaxies, 2018. Installation view, Polansky Gallery, Prague
Christophe De Rohan Chabot: Untitled/(Film Complet Le Casanova de Fellini bivx Fr+Eng 1976 Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont-You Tube), 2018. Digital print on aluminum behind plexi and glass, 90 x 90 x 3 cm
Hanny Oldendorf: Beach View, 2018, Archival pigment print on canvas, UV lacquer, wooden frame with sisal twine, 153 x 24 x 10 cm
Dead End Galaxies, 2018. Installation view, EXILE, Berlin
Studio Furthermore: Replica, 2018, Ceramic terracotta foam, aluminum casts, 32 x 20 x 20 cm
Studio Furthermore: Replica, 2018, Ceramic terracotta foam, aluminum casts, 32 x 11 x 11 cm
Studio Furthermore: Replica, 2018, Ceramic terracotta foam, aluminum casts, 32 x 28 x 28 cm
Studio Furthermore: Replica, 2018, Ceramic terracotta foam, aluminum casts, 32 x 20 x 20 cm
Dead End Galaxies, 2018. Installation view, Polansky Gallery, Prague
Jura Shust: Exo Oblivion, 2015, Granite, eggs, steel egg cups, broken wine and beer bottles, Scorpion motorcycle helmets, 206 x 52 x 35 cm, 160 x 63 x 37 cm & 192 x 55 x 40 cm
Dead End Galaxies, 2018. Installation view, Polansky Gallery, Prague
Paul Sochacki: Le Monde est un Portrait, 2017, Oil on canvas, 145 x 100 cm
Paul Sochacki: Le Monde est un Portrait, 2017, Oil on canvas, 115 x 77 cm
Paul Sochacki: Le Monde est un Portrait, 2017, Oil on canvas, 61 x 45 cm
Paul Sochacki: Le Monde est un Portrait, 2017, Oil on canvas, 48 x 39 cm
Dead End Galaxies, 2018. Installation view, EXILE, Berlin
Core.pan: DNN being visualized II, 2018, Printed & laser cut acrylic PMMA, crystal cement, led lighting &tv mural stand, 63 x 21 x 15 cm
Angelika Loderer: Quiet Fonts, 2017, Metal, brass & various sands, various dimensions. Courtesy Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna
Dead End Galaxies, 2018. Installation view, Polansky Gallery, Prague
Sarah Schönfeld: Shamanistic Travel Equipment / Coat XVI, 2017, UV print on cowhide, 246 x 210 cm
Erik Niedling: Future 12/30/16, 2016, Tin, lead, 36.5 x 41 x 8.5 cm
Pakui Hardware: On Demand IV, 2017, Glazed ceramics and neon, 23 x 24 x 30 cm
Erik Niedling: Future 12/27/16, 2016, Tin, lead, 24.5 x 17.5 x 18 cm
Erik Niedling: Future 01/19/17, 2017, Tin, lead, 8 x 53 x 18.5 cm
Pakui Hardware: On Demand V, 2017, 23 x 24 x 30 cm
Erik Niedling: Future 01/20/17, 2017, Tin, lead, 22.5 x 23 x 8.5 cm
Dead End Galaxies, 2018. Installation view, Polansky Gallery, Prague
Bitsy Knox: Untitled, 2014, Photocopy on A3 colored paper
Bitsy Knox: Untitled, 2014, Photocopy on A3 colored paper
Dead End Galaxies, 2018. Installation view, Polansky Gallery, Prague
Sarah Pichlkostner: KUY calls KAY: oh darling, we flying to the moon we need to save weight, 2017. Aluminum, silver-plated glass, strap, metal suspension, 68 x 200 x 395 cm. Courtesy of Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna
Dead End Galaxies, 2018. Installation view, EXILE, Berlin
Philip Mueller: Nisyros Krater, 2017, Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm, Courtesy Carbon 12, Dubai
Nicholas Riis: Whooba Rosie, 2018, Polystyrene, wax, epoxy, glass fibre, felt, wool, latex, fabrics, pearls, hip protectors, plastic rope, 53 x 64 x 125 cm
Nicholas Riis: Durachew, 2018, Polystyrene, wax, epoxy, glass fibre, felt, wool, latex, fabric, pearls, rope, hip protectors, cardboard, plastic, fur, 55 x 57 x 130 cm
Philip Mueller: Faraglioni Tiberio, 2018 Oil on canvas, 190 x 180 cm, Courtesy Carbon 12, Dubai
Dead End Galaxies, 2018. Installation view, Polansky Gallery, Prague
Patrick Fabian Panetta: Dead End Galaxies, 2018, Two-channel video, 8′ 30”
Patrick Fabian Panetta: Dead End Galaxies, 2018, Two-channel video, 8′ 30”
Dead End Galaxies, 2018. Installation view, EXILE, Berlin
Hanny Oldendorf: Beach View, 2016, Archival pigment print on canvas, UV lacquer, wooden frame, 253 x 183 x 12 cm
Hanny Oldendorf: Beach View, 2016, Archival pigment print on canvas, UV lacquer, wooden frame with coco twine, candles, epoxy resin, 85 x 105 x 12 cm
Real Madrid: You make the program for life, you make the program, 2017, Glass, various dimensions
Bitsy Knox: Untitled, 2014, Photocopy on A3 colored paper
Bitsy Knox: Untitled, 2014, Photocopy on A3 colored paper
Christoph De Rohan Chabot: Untitled/(Film Complet Le Casanova de Fellini bivx Fr+Eng 1976 Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont-You Tube), 2018. Digital print on aluminum behind glass, 90 x 90 x 3 cm
Dead End Galaxies, 2018. Installation view, EXILE, Berlin
