Participating artists:Thomas Hirschhorn, Emma Kunz, Marie-Eve Levasseur, Marie Lieb, Sophie Lindner, Charlotte McGowan-Griffin, Pakui Hardware, Polymora Inc., Miriam Simun
Venue:HGB galleryWächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig
www.hgb-leipzig.de/galerieinstagram.com/hgbgalleryPartner:Supported by the European Social Fund Young Researchers Groups REACT-EU: As part of the Union's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Barrier-free access to the HGB main building and the HGB Gallery is possible via Grassistraße via the inner courtyard. The HGB Gallery is partially accessible.
The exhibition explores the question of how artists, in relation to their environment, create their own worlds through care practices and resilience strategies. Based on the artistic processes used for this purpose, it designs an exemplary network of relationships to enable an involving, reciprocal encounter.
In biology, "morphoses" are non-hereditary variations in the shape of plants and other organisms that arise through the influences or stimuli of their environment. Based on this, artistic work can also be understood as a formative reference to and response to specific conditions: for example, in the (critical) reference to social roles, empowerment/disability, desire or gender affiliation. The artists in the exhibition design their own life worlds and practice alternative forms of relating to the world. In doing so, they transform different knowledge practices and biographical experience into aesthetic forms of expression that address the edges of our society and open up plural, intersectional, including (queer) feminist narrative perspectives. The artists' processes and works can be read against their respective specific backgrounds as practices of resistance that enter into alliances and productive dissonances within the framework of the exhibition. The exhibition space thus becomes a meeting place for historical as well as current counter-narratives, which in turn have an impact on their surroundings. They are given space for mutual questioning, updating and mediation through a comprehensive accompanying programme. Here, the reference to Donna Haraway's "Worlding" is obvious, which can be understood as a participatory practice of becoming world.
Project management: Ilse Lafer
Exhibition concept: Martin Haufe, Deborah Jeromin, Dana Lorenz, Silas Mücke, Karoline Schneider
Educational concept: Martin Haufe, Chiara Rauhut
Curatorial Team: Martin Haufe, Silas Mücke, Karoline Schneider
Coordination, organisation and realisation: Martin Haufe, Silas Mücke, Karoline Schneider with the support of Deborah Jeromin, Dana Lorenz, Kevin Koen, Salome Lübke, Chiara Rauhut and Hagen Tanneberger
Public relations: Meike Giebeler
Translation: Rosi Hase (Sütterlin), Sabine Pomarède (English)
Graphic design: Sophie Florian
Texts: Silas Mücke, Karoline Schneider
Copy editing: Anna Kowollik
Programme
gallery/ atrium (Lichthof)
14.10.2022
7 pm
Polymora Inc.: Tiefen. Deeps. ausatmen. exhale.
Performance
03.11.2022
6 pm
Sophie Lindner: Profit und Umkehr im Orbit
Lecture Performance
10.11.2022
19 Uhr
Thomas Hirschhorn und trans | discipline Simone Weil
denʞkollektiv Treffpunkt Simone Weil–Map
contemplative intervention
14. & 15.11.2022
11 am - 3 pm
Kristian Byskov & Margarita del Carmen: Pedagogy of Space
Workshop
17.11.2022
6 pm
Kristian Byskov & Margarita del Carmen: The City in the Sandbox, The Development of the City as Social Practice
book presentation
30.11. & 01.12.2022
3 - 6 pm
Mikhail Tolmalchev und Deborah Jeromin: Regarding the pain of others
Workshop
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