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© Galerie Mitte & Nebyula / CHCA & Alexander Scharf
Finissage / ZUCKER / künstlerisch-kuratorische Allianz zwischen NEBYULA (München) und der Galerie Mitte (Bremen)
In the organizer's words:
Artistic-curatorial alliance between NEBYULA (Munich) and Galerie Mitte (Bremen)
Artists: The Berg, Marco Fusinato, Kira Keune, Luise Marchand, Rosanna Marie Pondorf, Anna Raczynska, Renen / g.i.i.c.s:, Alexander Scharf, Lazar Stojić, Joseph Maurus Wandinger
Curators: Rebekka Kronsteiner, Kalas Liebfried
MONEY talks, so shut the fuck up and listen. This line from Domo Genesis' track Power Ballad gets to the heart of our intended discussion: the unspoken relationship between money and power, the fine line between silence and confession that characterizes our reality. In a system based on the time-honored maxim "You don't talk about money", something can only be changed if this silence is broken and the inevitable interaction between capital and culture - ideal and material - is dissected.
This is the background to the artistic-curatorial alliance between NEBYULA, Munich, and Galerie Mitte, Bremen: a collaboration that highlights both geographic and economic contrasts. While Bavaria is currently the economically strongest federal state in Germany, Bremen is at the other end of the spectrum. Yet this divergence reveals surprisingly similar systematic challenges in terms of art: precarious working conditions, inadequate funding and an often unattainable institutional connection for artists and cultural practitioners. The curators of this project, Rebekka Kronsteiner and Kalas Liebfried, are themselves artists who deal with the creation of art spaces and off-spaces as well as the negotiation and restructuring of social, economic and cultural conditions.
ZUCKER is a platform that explicitly focuses on issues of value creation, consumerism and classism - complexes that are all-present but often taboo in the art operating system. The ten artists involved approach these questions through their practice and their background as cultural workers. The discussions cover topics such as infrastructure and institutional critique (Renen/g.i.i.c.s.), the game of happiness and self-empowerment (Kira Keune), the im/materiality of value creation (Rosanna Marie Pondorf), systems of participation, guilt and the use of resources (Joseph Maurus Wandinger), and the ambivalent relationship between consumers and art institutions (The Berg). Sugar as a lure in VR worlds (Alexander Scharf), anarchism and publication (Marco Fusinato), the disturbing, alienated qualities of money (Luise Marchand), status symbols as artifacts of post-modernism (Lazar Stojić) and the relationship between the euro and the harvest (Anna Raczynska).
SUGAR is a metaphor. On the one hand, a consumer product that provides short-term energy; on the other, a reference to the raw material as currency and to the problematic past of Europe, especially the Hanseatic cities in colonial trade - a symbol of the intertwining of economic power and cultural capital. In this sense, the inputs and outputs of the scenes of both cities, including thematically curated works, become an alliance for the pressing issues of our time: a space that not only invites reflection, but also invites discussion and calls for action.
Exhibition duration: 15.11.24 - 15.02.2025 / Bremen
Opening hours: Thu - Fri / 3 - 6 pm
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