Michael Riedel
Aftershows [Palais De Tokyo 2013 – 2015]
01 Jun - 30 Jul 2016
MICHAEL RIEDEL
Aftershows [Palais De Tokyo 2013 – 2015]
01 June – 30 July 2016
23 August – 27 August 2016
Michael Riedel's exhibition in the gallery can be traced back to his three-part exhibition
series at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), which revolved around an event room – specifically
designed for the museum and resembling a stage set – where various after-show
parties were held to celebrate art.
In light of the above, Riedel’s works start where exhibitions usually end: at the
dismantling stage. To mark the vastness of the exhibition space in the Palais de Tokyo,
he developed pop-up architecture, which spreads elegantly through the rooms and is
then labelled with different texts over the course of the exhibition’s duration. Riedel
uses voice recognition software to produce this text material; he feeds into the program
background noise recorded during the dismantling of large museum exhibitions, which
leads to huge misunderstandings in the transcription.
To decorate the space, he uses discarded museum displays. Their previous application
having been to present art, they now function – emptied of all art – as benches, a stage
or a bar. This is how his exhibitions Jacques comité [Giacometti] (2013) and Dual air
[Dürer] (2014) came about, for which Riedel re-introduced to the museum setting
discarded museum elements from the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Frankfurter
Städelmuseum.
The last part of his trilogy effJ Knoos [Jeff Koons] (2015) is a museum’s shop display, in
which art-themed posters, postcards, T-shirts and bags were sold. Riedel takes up this
popular format while also producing the articles predetermined by the display, which
further develop the ideas behind his two previous exhibitions. In this way, he processes
in a multifaceted way the fine line between the artistically made and not-made, and
closely traces the aesthetic possibilities taken from established courses of events in the
cultural and creative industries.
Aftershows [Palais De Tokyo 2013 – 2015]
01 June – 30 July 2016
23 August – 27 August 2016
Michael Riedel's exhibition in the gallery can be traced back to his three-part exhibition
series at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), which revolved around an event room – specifically
designed for the museum and resembling a stage set – where various after-show
parties were held to celebrate art.
In light of the above, Riedel’s works start where exhibitions usually end: at the
dismantling stage. To mark the vastness of the exhibition space in the Palais de Tokyo,
he developed pop-up architecture, which spreads elegantly through the rooms and is
then labelled with different texts over the course of the exhibition’s duration. Riedel
uses voice recognition software to produce this text material; he feeds into the program
background noise recorded during the dismantling of large museum exhibitions, which
leads to huge misunderstandings in the transcription.
To decorate the space, he uses discarded museum displays. Their previous application
having been to present art, they now function – emptied of all art – as benches, a stage
or a bar. This is how his exhibitions Jacques comité [Giacometti] (2013) and Dual air
[Dürer] (2014) came about, for which Riedel re-introduced to the museum setting
discarded museum elements from the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Frankfurter
Städelmuseum.
The last part of his trilogy effJ Knoos [Jeff Koons] (2015) is a museum’s shop display, in
which art-themed posters, postcards, T-shirts and bags were sold. Riedel takes up this
popular format while also producing the articles predetermined by the display, which
further develop the ideas behind his two previous exhibitions. In this way, he processes
in a multifaceted way the fine line between the artistically made and not-made, and
closely traces the aesthetic possibilities taken from established courses of events in the
cultural and creative industries.