Jochen Schmith
29 Oct - 28 Nov 2010
The artists, Peter Hoppe, Peter Steckroth and Carola Wagenplast, have worked together under the name of Jochen Schmith since 2000.
Their exhibitions often have the character of heterogeneous compilations in which they use various formats such as video, photography, sound, painting and text combined with spatial interventions that relate to the conditions in the exhibition space. These stagings involve the viewer in a complex game and the exhibitions often appear as narrative plays.
Within these stagings conditions that also form the focus in relation to their own artistic production, are central, as are phenomena that are productive in the search for places such as hotel foyers, symposia and exclusive clubs as well as special economic areas or employment agencies. The question of value and production frequently plays a central role.
Jochen Schmith’s conception for the Kunstverein Langenhagen turns the exhibition space into a setting for the viewer. Through the combination of site-specific interventions Jochen Schmith structures the room sequentially - the minimally adjusted cabinets open up a network of symbolic and social codings marked by an intense atmosphere.
Their exhibitions often have the character of heterogeneous compilations in which they use various formats such as video, photography, sound, painting and text combined with spatial interventions that relate to the conditions in the exhibition space. These stagings involve the viewer in a complex game and the exhibitions often appear as narrative plays.
Within these stagings conditions that also form the focus in relation to their own artistic production, are central, as are phenomena that are productive in the search for places such as hotel foyers, symposia and exclusive clubs as well as special economic areas or employment agencies. The question of value and production frequently plays a central role.
Jochen Schmith’s conception for the Kunstverein Langenhagen turns the exhibition space into a setting for the viewer. Through the combination of site-specific interventions Jochen Schmith structures the room sequentially - the minimally adjusted cabinets open up a network of symbolic and social codings marked by an intense atmosphere.