In The House Of Mr & Mrs X
18 May - 04 Aug 2013
Zin Taylor, A collection of thoughts about a subject, made into forms about a subject, 2012. Courtesy: der Künstler, Vidal Cuglietta Brüssel, Supportica Lopez Berlin und Jessica Bradley Toronto
IN THE HOUSE OF MR & MRS X
Holly Antrum + Hervé Garcia + Mai Hofstad Gunnes + Bea Mcmahon + Silke Schatz + Jürgen Stollhans + Zin Taylor + Mr & Mrs X
18 May - 14 August 2013
"In the House of Mr and Mrs X" - the title promises ambiguous, even mysterious situations and encounters: For the exhibition the Temporary Gallery, a former factory hall built in the late 1950s within an inner-city housing area, will be converted into a dwelling with consecutive and merging rooms, temporarily handed over to its tenants and subtenants. Some of the new inhabitants furnish their rooms for the three months’ exhibition period. Others again might attend for a few hours only and disappear after. They attribute art works that require fixed positions or as they themselves are not necessarily permanent. They present these pieces together with objects from everyday life, something personal, collected, found, eventually also borrowed, instantly responding in the exhibition to the exhibition. Seven contemporary artists have been invited as guests, Holly Antrum (*1983, UK), Hervé Garcia (*1971, F), Mai Hofstad Gunnes (*1977, NO), Bea McMahon (*1972, IR), Silke Schatz (*1967, D), Jürgen Stollhans (*1962, D) and Zin Taylor (*1978, CA). What connects their works is the intrinsic examination with space and its changes and transitions between one semantic level and another. The door key to the room of Mr & Mrs X rotates independently among local art producers and researchers and can be used for own presentations. "In the House of Mr & Mrs X" is an exhibition regarded as process, as game with unknowns, where the temporary moment of exhibiting becomes more important than the permanent. Here, room is no longer supposed to be a room, no more than time can be captured in fixed terms or a piece of art is conceived as art only. Moreover, the exhibition tries to adapt to the alternating conditions, depending on the requirements of the network of relationships of artist, work and space.
Holly Antrum + Hervé Garcia + Mai Hofstad Gunnes + Bea Mcmahon + Silke Schatz + Jürgen Stollhans + Zin Taylor + Mr & Mrs X
18 May - 14 August 2013
"In the House of Mr and Mrs X" - the title promises ambiguous, even mysterious situations and encounters: For the exhibition the Temporary Gallery, a former factory hall built in the late 1950s within an inner-city housing area, will be converted into a dwelling with consecutive and merging rooms, temporarily handed over to its tenants and subtenants. Some of the new inhabitants furnish their rooms for the three months’ exhibition period. Others again might attend for a few hours only and disappear after. They attribute art works that require fixed positions or as they themselves are not necessarily permanent. They present these pieces together with objects from everyday life, something personal, collected, found, eventually also borrowed, instantly responding in the exhibition to the exhibition. Seven contemporary artists have been invited as guests, Holly Antrum (*1983, UK), Hervé Garcia (*1971, F), Mai Hofstad Gunnes (*1977, NO), Bea McMahon (*1972, IR), Silke Schatz (*1967, D), Jürgen Stollhans (*1962, D) and Zin Taylor (*1978, CA). What connects their works is the intrinsic examination with space and its changes and transitions between one semantic level and another. The door key to the room of Mr & Mrs X rotates independently among local art producers and researchers and can be used for own presentations. "In the House of Mr & Mrs X" is an exhibition regarded as process, as game with unknowns, where the temporary moment of exhibiting becomes more important than the permanent. Here, room is no longer supposed to be a room, no more than time can be captured in fixed terms or a piece of art is conceived as art only. Moreover, the exhibition tries to adapt to the alternating conditions, depending on the requirements of the network of relationships of artist, work and space.