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Groups at Kunstverein Braunschweig

August 10, 2019

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, 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

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

(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

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