Group Show at Halle für Kunst Lüneburg

Participants: Georgie Nettell & Freya Field-Donovan, KAYA (Kerstin Brätsch & Debo Eilers), Vera Lutz, Materials/Materialien, Maque Pereyra & Portrait XO, Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe with MayDay Rooms Archive & The Jo Spence Memorial Library Archive, “Terre Thaemlitz: Give Up On Hopes And Dreams” by Patrick Nation, firefly frequencies, Free Home University

Exhibition title: Georgie Nettell & Freya Field-Donovan, KAYA (Kerstin Brätsch & Debo Eilers), Vera Lutz, Materials/Materialien, Maque Pereyra & Portrait XO, Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe with MayDay Rooms Archive & The Jo Spence Memorial Library Archive, “Terre Thaemlitz: Give Up On Hopes And Dreams” by Patrick Nation, firefly frequencies, Free Home University

Curated by: Ann-Kathrin Eickhoff & Elisa R. Linn

Venue: Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany

Date: January 29 – April 2, 2023

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg

The exhibition Georgie Nettell & Freya Field-Donovan, KAYA(Kerstin Brätsch & Debo Eilers), Vera Lutz, Materials/Materialien, Maque Pereyra & Portrait XO, Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe mit MayDay Rooms Archive & The Jo Spence Memorial Library Archive, „Terre Thaemlitz: Give Up On Hopes And Dreams“ von Patrick Nation, firefly frequencies, Free Home University departs from a collaboration with cultural producers and their research interests. With research-based, discursive, and object-based contributions, the exhibition is dedicated to free artistic research, which manifests not only in completed artworks, but also processually, in fragmented and idiosyncratic ideas, concepts, conversations, and the written word—in the “in-between.” At the Halle fur̈ Kunst, contributions by artists, curators, musicians, writers, poets, educators, and publishers will be presented, aiming at the visibility of a “work on forms” and artistic states of production.

Here, potential narratives are negotiated in the moment of exhibition: What does research about/for/through art look like, and respectively, what does art about/for/through research look like? How can aesthetic and social orthodoxies in contemporary culture be overcome through new transdisciplinary language and artistic vocabularies as well as a co-production of archives? That dealing with material could itself become an art form was already demonstrated by a historical generation of artists, for whom creation stood for liberation, deconditioning, conviviality, and “non-teaching.” At the Halle für Kunst, it will be probed how far art and cultural production, even in its provisional, incomplete form, goes hand in hand today with a new form-finding of (re)presenting, theorizing, writing, and archiving—a formfinding that is “committed to cultivate and reclaim knowledge, relationships, and imagination” (Alessandra Pomarico, Free Home University), in order to eventually maybe also learn how to learn.

During the opening evening, there will be a reading series at 7 pm with James Goodwin, Lutfiyë Guzel,̈ and Laurel Uziell, organized by Materials/Materialien and their publishers Lisa Jeschke and David Grundy. During the exhibition period Maque Pereyra and Portrait XO will realize an intervention. At the finissage weekend there will be a workshop with FHU organized in collaboration with the art education at Halle fur̈ Kunst. The annual program at Halle fur̈ Kunst Luneburg̈ e.V. is funded by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Sparkassenstiftung Luneburg,̈ and Hansestadt Luneburg̈. The educational program at Halle fur̈ Kunst Luneburg̈ e.V. is funded by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony. The exhibition is made possible by Neustart Kultur/Stiftung Kunstfonds.

Installation view, 2023, Courtesy of Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott

Patrick Nation, Terre Thaemlitz: Give Up On Hopes And Dreams, 2021, Dokumentarfilm, 1h 15min, Courtesy of the artist and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott

Installation view, 2023, Courtesy of Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott

Vera Lutz, Verdunkelungssystem, 2023, Vorhangschienen, Aluminium, 578 × 369 × 2,5 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott.

KAYA (Kerstin Braetsch & Debo Eilers), Se Harn Hunger_Bodybag, 2017–2022, Acryl, Aufnäher, UV-Druck, Leinwand auf Leinwand, 175 × 130 cm, Courtesy of the artists and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott

Georgie Nettell & Freya Field-Donovan don‘t be evil (wallpainting) 2023, Courtesy of the artists and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott

Georgie Nettell & Freya Field-Donovan, notes 2023, Courtesy of the artists and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott

KAYA (Kerstin Braetsch & Debo Eilers), Dummkoh_Bodybag, 2017–2022, Acryl, Aufnäher, UV-Druck, Leinen auf Leinen, 175 × 130 cm, Courtesy of the artists and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott

Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe, An Empty but Repeatable Space, Text, Courtesy of the artist and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott

Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe mit MayDay Rooms Archive & The Jo Spence Memorial, Library Archive, 2023, Courtesy of MayDay Rooms Archive and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott

Kathryn Pell, Nerantzi 2023, Bemalte Keramik, Halterung, ca. 30 × 15 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott

Kathryn Pell, Pachydermata, 2023, bemalte Keramik, Halterung, ca. 25 × 15 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott

Kathryn Pell Aspergillus, 2023, Bemalte Keramik, Halterung, ca. 25 × 15 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott

Kathryn Pell, Manhatta, 2023, bemalte Keramik, Halterung, ca. 25 × 15 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott

Installation view, 2023, Courtesy of Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott

Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe, An Empty but Repeatable Space, Publication, Courtesy of the artist and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott

Georgie Nettell & Freya Field-Donovan, notes, 2023, Courtesy of the artists and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott

Vera Lutz, Verdunklungssystem, 2023, Vorhangschienen, Aluminium, Courtesy of the artist and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott

Free Home University (Nikolay Oleynikov, Alessandra Pomarico), Free Home University Drifting Library: Station Lüneburg, 2023
firefly frequencies (Silvia Maglioni, Nikolay Oleynikov, Alessandra Pomarico, Graeme Thomson), Listening membrane, 2023, Courtesy of the artist and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott

Materials/Materialien, Booktable, 2023, Chapbooks, Tisch, Courtesy of the artists and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott

Installation view, 2023, Courtesy of Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott

Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe with MayDay Rooms Archive & The Jo Spence Memorial, Library Archive, 2023, Courtesy of MayDay Rooms Archive and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott

Installation view, 2023, Courtesy of Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Photo: Fred Dott