LEARNING FROM TROPICAL ISLANDS — FLAMINGO IN ASPIK
Pauline Curnier Jardin, Josefin Arnell, Rebecca Adam, Arhun Aksakal,
Johannes Apelt, Sebastian Ebbing, Darius Grimm, Alice Hagenbruch,
Chris Lachmund, Marlon Middeke, Kerstin Rupprecht, Julia Stolba, Hase & Zinser
Opening Thursday, June 14, 2018, 5 – 9pm • Performance starts 8pm
Open hours: June 15 — 16, 3 — 6pm
LAGE EGAL [HB55 Kunstfabrik — Aufgang A, 1. OG]
Herzbergstraße 55, 10365 Berlin-Lichtenberg
“Tropical Islands” — a resort built inside a massive hangar in the former GDR in Brandenburg — and other spaces of domesticated nature are the basis of the exhibition.
Presented by the class “Kunst im zeitgenössischen Kontext“ (KizK) at the Kunsthochschule Kassel led by Guest-Professor Pauline Curnier Jardin, the works are based on an expedition taken to the resort and grew out of a direct engagement with the topics of the replication of colonial structures and various ethical issues, including ecological wastefulness, the eroticization of the exotic, and the tropical as colonial euphemism.
With the kind support of Kunsthochschule Kassel, Universität Kassel,
ARTBUTLER, HB55 Kunstfabrik, LE FLÂNEUR und EXHIBITIONARY
