We invited LESSSER feat. Maika Hassan-Beik to produce an installation for the Kunstraum: Morgenstraße in February. LESSSER’s works are highly self-referential, creating an entire universe of biographies and authors and authors’ biographies. Yet, the atmosphere provided by the installation itself and the artists’ performances is enough to draw you into this universe; the opening evening was a very unique experience, with everyone talking in hushed tones as if they were suddenly trapped in a stranger’s room.

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Gregor Gleiwitz‘ exhibition in the Kunstraum is a first for us, as we have up till now never used architectonic elements so prominently. His idea was to create situations in which only one of his paintings can be focussed on; the only possibility to compare the individual paintings or to put them in a specific order – or narrative – is to recreate them from memory. This, of course, made the exhibition also quite hard to photograph. But this is good, as Gregor’s paintings should be seen in original, and not via installation shots. Our friend Roland Meyer wrote a fine introduction (“Vom Werden der Bilder”) as to why.

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Daniel Kiss and Sebastian Tröger from Nürnburg turned the Kunstraum: Morgenstraße into a paraphrase of an exhibition with their installation “Déformation Professionnelle”, the objects being less exhibition pieces than pieces of an exhibition. I wrote an introduction for the opening.

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Another five in a row after the summer break at Kunstraum: Morgenstraße. Again, we had a very heterogeneous programme, starting with a video by Nina Olczak (you can view the entire video here, although it is of course meant to be screened life-size). Then, we had paintings and a cut-out by Maria Kropfitsch, a media installation by Tobias Wyrzykowski, and two performance pieces: An action by a seminar on “Traps” from the HfG, which cleverly left everyone thinking that the art is elsewhere, and they, by chance, have lost the opportunity to see it; and an coal piece by Michael Schmitt, which transformed the art space into a 30m² installation.

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