past

Sture Johannesson

Sociodelic Paths

30/10/11 – 14/1/12

Computer Paragraph in Yellow and Blue, or: To live outside

the law you must be honest (Bob Dylan),1971

computer-generated drawing, silk screen, IBM 1130, programmed

by Sten Kallin, CalComp plotter

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Keller/Kosmas (Aids-3D)

Avoid, Control, Accept, Transfer

11/2/12 – 31/3/12

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text by Keller/Kosmas

In their debut at the gallery, Nik and Dan have continued to dynamically hedge their positions with a new body of sculpture and installation. Following protocol, they have more or less performed the following assessments: Identified assets and identified which are most critical, identified, characterized and assessed threats, assessed the vulnerability of critical assets to specific threats, and then determined the risk to those assets.

The array of defensive solutions they exhibit range in tactic from high energy density figurative painting, customized flood prevention, to a system of charitable body movements.

Ideally, the predetermined risks to the exhibition’s success will have been effectively managed, explicitly address uncertainty and assumptions, create value- (The gain should exceed the pain), and be capable of continual improvement and reassessment.

current

Florian Auer

How to Spend It

7/4/12 – 26/5/12

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How to Spend It

Florian Auer´s exhibition does not represent one of the ubiquitous attempts to deal, critique, or justify (and, finally, philosophise about) what has happened before and ever since the fall of the Lehman tower. It rather stages discretionary placeholders for the process in which a straight forward and niche exercise of calculating figures plus dealing with people and partners in the backrooms of industrial powerhouses became the center of both economic and public attention (and not least desires).

The presentation of financially loaded objects is hereby the focal point of the show. Many of them might be recognisable to some, none of them is invented or innovated; but made by the artist. They all are unified by the joy and the highs of professionalism, ideal and material.

And this is where the molds and frames are breaking. Between the offices and the studios, between tools and innovations, based on risque business.

The lows are less clear, however, present. Look back at what happened near Time Square in 2008 (and forget about Wall Street for a moment). Look at the Tombstones.

After all, we live in financial times. Including sushi.

future

The Still Life of Vernacular Agents

Michele Abeles, Lutz Bacher, Getho J. Baptiste, Peter Coffin, Kendra Frorup, Celeur J. Herard, Adriana Lara, Katja Novitskova, Racine Polycarpe, Fatima Al Qadiri, Evel Romain, Ettore Sottsass

curated by Nadine Zeidler

opening 1/6/12