Unklarheit ist die neue Gewissheit, Unentschiedenheit das neue Urteil

Installation view

Installation view
from left: Noele Ody, Eoghan Ryan, Aura Rosenberg

Jason Dodge, Lights the height of dogs eyes.

Richard Hoeck & John Miller
Mannequin Death, 2016, High definition digital video with sound, 3 mins 14 secs

Installation view

Installation view Annika Larsson

Christian Kobald
Hello and Welcome, Recording of a guided tour through the Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna, 2011, Sound work, 26 mins 6 secs

Nora Turato
where what happened to people …, 2018, Inkjet Print, 84,1 x 118,9 cm, unique

Installation view

Installation view Kiki Kogelnik

Kiki Kogelnik
CBGG, 1976, 16mm film, © Kiki Kogelnik Foundation. All rights reserved

Ewa Partum
My problem is a problem of a woman, 1978, Colour photography, 68,5 x 48,5 cm, edition of 5, framed
Zmiana change, 1974, Offsetprint, signed on back, 36,5, Courtesy M + R Fricke, Berlin

Jason Dodge, Lights the height of dogs eyes.

Marie Angeletti
Untitled, 2017, Enamel screenprint on fabric, Courtesy of Édouard Montassut

Jason Dodge, Lights the height of dogs eyes.

Aura Rosenberg
Statues Also Fall In Love: Version II for Unklarheit Ist Die Neue Gewissheit, Unentschiedenheit Das Neue Urteil, Courtesy the artist

Jason Dodge, Lights the height of dogs eyes.

Aura Rosenberg
Statues Also Fall In Love: Version II for Unklarheit Ist Die Neue Gewissheit, Unentschiedenheit Das Neue Urteil, Courtesy the artist

Ewa Partum
Zmiana change, 1974, Offsetprint, signed on back, 36,5 x 27,5 cm, framed, Courtesy M + R Fricke, Berlin

Lukas Posch
Die Nerven (guests), 2017, Acrylic on glass, aluminium, wood, 46 x 82 cm

Lukas Posch,
Die Nerven (getwellsoon), 2017, Acrylic on glass, aluminium, wood, 82 x 46 cm

Noele Ody
Thank You, Fuck You, 2012, Plastic bag „Thank You“, Mp3 player with looped song, headphones

Installation view Eoghan Ryan, Aura Rosenberg

Eoghan Ryan
Clamdigger, 2015, HD video, 7.55 min, Courtesy of the Artist

Aura Rosenberg
Statues Also Fall In Love: Version II for Unklarheit Ist Die Neue Gewissheit, Unentschiedenheit Das Neue Urteil, Courtesy the artist

Alli Miller
An Application, 2015–ongoing

Nora Turato
shouldn’t there be sirens?, 2018, Inkjet Print, 84,1 x 118,9 cm, unique

Seth Price.
Triumf, 2000, Single channel video, 19.18 min, courtesy of the artist

Hanna Putz
Untitled 2015–2018, 21,4 cm x 17cm, Color Pigment Prints

Noele Ody
Sharing is caring, 2017, champagne box, concrete, steel, leather, brake handle

Hanna Putz
Untitled 2015–2018, 21,4 cm x 17cm, Color Pigment Prints

Nora Turato
from what it had been into what it now is, …, 2018, Inkjet Print, 84,1 x 118,9 cm, unique

Annika Larsson
The Discourse of the Drinkers, 2017, 38 min loop, HD Video, Stereo Sound, Colour, Courtesy of the Artist

Installation view

Installation view

Installation view
from left: Noele Ody, Eoghan Ryan, Aura Rosenberg

Jason Dodge, Lights the height of dogs eyes.

Richard Hoeck & John Miller
Mannequin Death, 2016, High definition digital video with sound, 3 mins 14 secs

Installation view

Installation view

Installation view

Installation view Annika Larsson

Christian Kobald
Hello and Welcome, Recording of a guided tour through the Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna, 2011, Sound work, 26 mins 6 secs

Nora Turato
where what happened to people …, 2018, Inkjet Print, 84,1 x 118,9 cm, unique

Installation view

Installation view Kiki Kogelnik

Kiki Kogelnik
CBGG, 1976, 16mm film, © Kiki Kogelnik Foundation. All rights reserved

Ewa Partum
My problem is a problem of a woman, 1978, Colour photography, 68,5 x 48,5 cm, edition of 5, framed
Zmiana change, 1974, Offsetprint, signed on back, 36,5, Courtesy M + R Fricke, Berlin

Jason Dodge, Lights the height of dogs eyes.

Marie Angeletti
Untitled, 2017, Enamel screenprint on fabric, Courtesy of Édouard Montassut

Jason Dodge, Lights the height of dogs eyes.

Aura Rosenberg
Statues Also Fall In Love: Version II for Unklarheit Ist Die Neue Gewissheit, Unentschiedenheit Das Neue Urteil, Courtesy the artist

Jason Dodge, Lights the height of dogs eyes.

Aura Rosenberg
Statues Also Fall In Love: Version II for Unklarheit Ist Die Neue Gewissheit, Unentschiedenheit Das Neue Urteil, Courtesy the artist

Ewa Partum
Zmiana change, 1974, Offsetprint, signed on back, 36,5 x 27,5 cm, framed, Courtesy M + R Fricke, Berlin

Lukas Posch
Die Nerven (guests), 2017, Acrylic on glass, aluminium, wood, 46 x 82 cm

Lukas Posch,
Die Nerven (getwellsoon), 2017, Acrylic on glass, aluminium, wood, 82 x 46 cm

Noele Ody
Thank You, Fuck You, 2012, Plastic bag „Thank You“, Mp3 player with looped song, headphones

Installation view Eoghan Ryan, Aura Rosenberg

Eoghan Ryan
Clamdigger, 2015, HD video, 7.55 min, Courtesy of the Artist

Aura Rosenberg
Statues Also Fall In Love: Version II for Unklarheit Ist Die Neue Gewissheit, Unentschiedenheit Das Neue Urteil, Courtesy the artist

Aura Rosenberg
Statues Also Fall In Love: Version II for Unklarheit Ist Die Neue Gewissheit, Unentschiedenheit Das Neue Urteil, Courtesy the artist

Alli Miller
An Application, 2015–ongoing

Nora Turato
shouldn’t there be sirens?, 2018, Inkjet Print, 84,1 x 118,9 cm, unique

Seth Price.
Triumf, 2000, Single channel video, 19.18 min, courtesy of the artist

Hanna Putz
Untitled 2015–2018, 21,4 cm x 17cm, Color Pigment Prints

Noele Ody
Sharing is caring, 2017, champagne box, concrete, steel, leather, brake handle

Hanna Putz
Untitled 2015–2018, 21,4 cm x 17cm, Color Pigment Prints

Nora Turato
from what it had been into what it now is, …, 2018, Inkjet Print, 84,1 x 118,9 cm, unique

Annika Larsson
The Discourse of the Drinkers, 2017, 38 min loop, HD Video, Stereo Sound, Colour, Courtesy of the Artist

Annika Larsson
The Discourse of the Drinkers, 2017, 38 min loop, HD Video, Stereo Sound, Colour, Courtesy of the Artist

Unklarheit ist die neue Gewissheit, Unentschiedenheit das neue Urteil

What to do as an artist, if time doesn’t feel like your own? How do you find more immediacy, less of the art world’s conventionality? We live in a fucked up time. We are hooked on art like junkies, the drugs got harder though and damage our bodies. We have to invent new forms, new ways of working, different spaces and different contexts, jump over the abyss, and have more fun again.

Marie Angeletti
Jason Dodge
Richard Hoeck & John Miller
Christian Kobald
Kiki Kogelnik
Annika Larsson
Alli Miller
Noële Ody
Ewa Partum
Lukas Posch
Seth Price
Hanna Putz
Aura Rosenberg
Eoghan Ryan
Nora Turato
and a ceiling painted blue

Curated by Rita Vitorelli

26 April – 10 June 2018
Spike Berlin
Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 45
10119 Berlin

Discourse

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Louise Lawler, (Stevie Wonder) Living Room Corner Arranged by Mr. & Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Sr., New York City , 1984/1985, silver dye bleach print with printed text on mat, 46.5 x 60.5 cm. All images courtesy: the artist and Sprüth Magers

Louise Lawler, (Stevie Wonder) Living Room Corner Arranged by Mr. & Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Sr., New York City, 1984/1985, silver dye bleach print with printed text on mat, 46.5 x 60.5 cm

And Other Pictures

Espying 20th-century art icons in all their public guises and moments of uncanny repose, Louise Lawler’s photographs convey that how we look is as formative as what we’re meant to see.

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View of Ma Qiusha, “No.52 Liulichang East Street,” Beijing Commune, Beijing, 2023. Courtesy: the artist and Beijing Commune

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Portrait of Vincenzo de Bellis. Courtesy: Art Basel

Portrait of Vincenzo de Bellis. Courtesy: Art Basel

Art Basel’s Fairs Director On the Market for Inner Worlds

Ahead of the Alpine extravaganza, Vincenzo De Bellis talks his Peep-Hole origins, sickness as an artistic thematic, and viewing the fairs as curatorial snapshots of the right now.

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View of “Intertwined,” New Museum, New York, 2023. Courtesy: the artist and New Museum. Photo: Dario Lasagni

View of “Intertwined,” New Museum, New York, 2023. Courtesy: the artist and New Museum. Photo: Dario Lasagni

At the Cost of Ambiguity

The largest-ever retrospective of a living artist at New Museum, New York charts Wangechi Mutu’s turn from the material resonance of found-object collages to the easy symbolic iterations of bronze sculpture.

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Still from Jeamin Cha, Nameless Syndrome , South Korea, 2022. © Jeamin Cha

Still from Jeamin Cha, Nameless Syndrome, South Korea, 2022. © Jeamin Cha

The machine doesn’t always love you back

The melancholy muse, glitchy machinimas, and plenty of Super 8: The 69th Oberhausen Short Film Festival mined the space between arthouse and art world for new and archival gems.

People

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Kenneth Anger (left) and Tav Falco (right) in conversation at the 2006 Viennale. Photo: Wolfgang Thaler

Kenneth Anger (left) and Tav Falco (right) in conversation at the 2006 Viennale. Photo: Wolfgang Thaler

The Dark Side of the Moon: Kenneth Anger

In memory of Kenneth Anger (1927–2023), we’re republishing our 2006 interview with the iconoclastic filmmaker on silk flowers, vindictive scientologists, and his refusal to hustle for production money.

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Mak2, Home Sweet Home: Love Pool 6 , 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas in three parts, each: 205 x 122 cm; overall: 205 x 366 cm. All images courtesy: the artist and Peres Projects

Mak2, Home Sweet Home: Love Pool 6, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas in three parts, each: 205 x 122 cm; overall: 205 x 366 cm. All images courtesy: the artist and Peres Projects

8-Bit Intimacies

In triptychs of hot-and-heavy bodies at Peres Projects, Berlin, Hong-Kong-based artist Mak2 materializes the tensions of synthetic desire and our urges to gawk and look away.

Discourse

North Face x Gucci linen puffer from a campaign shot in Iceland, 2021. Courtesy: Gucci. Photo: Jalan and Jibril Durimel

North Face x Gucci linen puffer from a campaign shot in Iceland, 2021. Courtesy: Gucci. Photo: Jalan and Jibril Durimel

Theory of Style: On Seasonality

“Fashion is the future, clothes are what we already wear.” In her May column, Joanna Walsh ponders how fast fashion’s accelerationism plays with seasons, desire, and the virtual, projecting us into an elsewhere we’ll never venture into.

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Xiyadie, Sorting sweet potatoes (Dad, don't yell, we're in the cellar sorting sweet potatoes), 2019, papercut with water-based dye and Chinese pigments on Xuan paper, 140 x 140 cm. All images courtesy: the artist

Sorrows and Delights

An exhibition of Xiyadie’s steamy papercuts at The Drawing Center, New York narrates his four-decade usurpation of a traditionalist folk form and a coming-out transition from shame to bliss.

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The Many Fathers of Success: Ei Arakawa

Ahead of his first-ever pool performance at Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, Ei Arakawa walks through the changing infrastructure for artist-parents, the integrality of surprise to humor, and modelling queer fatherhood.

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View of “My eyes like shovels.” Courtesy: the artists and Hua International, Berlin

View of “My eyes like shovels.” Courtesy: the artists and Hua International, Berlin

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Unklarheit ist die neue Gewissheit, Unentschiedenheit das neue Urteil

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