Gregor Schneider
14 Nov 2014 - 10 Jan 2015
GREGOR SCHNEIDER
Die Familie Schneider
14 November 2014 - 10 January 2015
Konrad Fischer Galerie Berlin gladly announces the opening of Gregor Schneider's solo exhibition „Die Familie Schneider“.
Already back in 2004, the artist in collaboration with Artangel started a project in London's East End: in Walden Street No. 14 and the neighbouring house No. 16, Schneider created absolutely alike looking interieurs including wallpapers, furniture and even the fridges contents. In addition, Schneider hired twins acting in both houses and doing identical performances completely irritating the audience allowed in for some minutes.
„Letting myself in with borrowed keys, I feel like the home help, or the health visitor come to call on „Die Familie Schneider“, Gregor Schneider's installation – if that is quite the word – in two adjacent terraced houses in London's Whitechapel. Or perhaps I live here too, but have somehow forgotten.“, Adrian Searle describes his unhomely feelings about Walden Street (The Guardian, Oct, 4, 2004).
Duplication and reenactment are recurrent topics in the artist's oeuvre for many years. Gregor Schneider creates radical spaces and sculptures confronting the beholder with primal fears of isolation and loss. On the other hand, the audience is forced to highly concentrate at the very same time.
The exhibition at Konrad Fischer Galerie Berlin includes the large room sculpture „Nursery“ (Kinderzimmer), a double video projection showing a tour of both buildings plus a photo series made 2004 in Walden Street. At our first floor gallery we'll show photo works and objects from earlier projects of the artist.
Gregor Schneider lives and works in Mönchengladbach-Rheydt where he started his monumental „Haus ur“ project back in 1986. Parts of this house have been shown as „Totes Haus ur“ 2001 as the German contribution to the Venice Biennial. The work was awarded the „Golden Lion“.
Recently, Gregor Schneider installed „Kunstmuseum“ as a part of RuhrTriennale Festival at Kunstmuseum Bochum, „Hauptstrasse 85a“ at the famous Stommeln Synagogue, „Neuerburgstrasse 25“ at Schauspiel Köln and „It's all Rheydt“ at Wako Works of Art, Tokyo. Only until 23 November 2014 there will be his „Liebeslaube“ on show at Berliner Volksbühne. On 28 November he'll start the exhibition „unsubscribe“ at Zacheta National Gallery in Warschau which will be continued later on in December 2014 at Volksbühne as well.
Die Familie Schneider
14 November 2014 - 10 January 2015
Konrad Fischer Galerie Berlin gladly announces the opening of Gregor Schneider's solo exhibition „Die Familie Schneider“.
Already back in 2004, the artist in collaboration with Artangel started a project in London's East End: in Walden Street No. 14 and the neighbouring house No. 16, Schneider created absolutely alike looking interieurs including wallpapers, furniture and even the fridges contents. In addition, Schneider hired twins acting in both houses and doing identical performances completely irritating the audience allowed in for some minutes.
„Letting myself in with borrowed keys, I feel like the home help, or the health visitor come to call on „Die Familie Schneider“, Gregor Schneider's installation – if that is quite the word – in two adjacent terraced houses in London's Whitechapel. Or perhaps I live here too, but have somehow forgotten.“, Adrian Searle describes his unhomely feelings about Walden Street (The Guardian, Oct, 4, 2004).
Duplication and reenactment are recurrent topics in the artist's oeuvre for many years. Gregor Schneider creates radical spaces and sculptures confronting the beholder with primal fears of isolation and loss. On the other hand, the audience is forced to highly concentrate at the very same time.
The exhibition at Konrad Fischer Galerie Berlin includes the large room sculpture „Nursery“ (Kinderzimmer), a double video projection showing a tour of both buildings plus a photo series made 2004 in Walden Street. At our first floor gallery we'll show photo works and objects from earlier projects of the artist.
Gregor Schneider lives and works in Mönchengladbach-Rheydt where he started his monumental „Haus ur“ project back in 1986. Parts of this house have been shown as „Totes Haus ur“ 2001 as the German contribution to the Venice Biennial. The work was awarded the „Golden Lion“.
Recently, Gregor Schneider installed „Kunstmuseum“ as a part of RuhrTriennale Festival at Kunstmuseum Bochum, „Hauptstrasse 85a“ at the famous Stommeln Synagogue, „Neuerburgstrasse 25“ at Schauspiel Köln and „It's all Rheydt“ at Wako Works of Art, Tokyo. Only until 23 November 2014 there will be his „Liebeslaube“ on show at Berliner Volksbühne. On 28 November he'll start the exhibition „unsubscribe“ at Zacheta National Gallery in Warschau which will be continued later on in December 2014 at Volksbühne as well.