Human Work – Junge Kunst aus Münster
In the organizer's words:
Yedam Ann, Zauri Matikashvili, Jakob Schnetz and Rebecca Ramershoven, Jan Niklas Thape
The artists in this exhibition have explored what it means to be human in an age characterized by man and technology. Experiences of time and space, repression and memory, privileges and disadvantages based on skin color and gender, dealing with illness and old and new working environments are addressed through photographs, videos and installations. Tensions between visibility and invisibility, production and exhaustion, belonging and alienation are explored and reveal that our existence is determined by work and that this work is not an end in itself. It goes hand in hand with hierarchies and relationships: Who works for whom or what? Do computers work for us? Does our body work against us? Is the corporation our new family?
Yedam Ann focuses on how people experience mobility within architectural structures and urban environments, on power relations and questions of belonging. She is interested in how global telecommunication and transportation technology has changed the meaning of geographical place: the expansion of the spaces in which we can reside has led to a change in our sense of place; physical distance and geographical location are expanding into the digital world. With "hotel.hotel.net" and "Different Floors" at KIT, she has created scenarios that represent an image of these non-places.
Zauri Matikashvili uses as little technology as possible in his film work and takes on many tasks himself in order to create the closest possible proximity to the people being filmed. At the same time, he questions his role as a performer and filmmaker. While he observes, witnesses and creates media, he sets accents through deliberate interventions and develops dramaturgical models in order to specifically expand the boundaries of the medium. At KIT, he is showing two video installations in which he processes personal experiences: "You May Not Want To Be Here" (2024-25) and "Made in Europe" (2023).
"Cascades" is a collaborative work by Jakob Schnetzand Rebecca Ramershoven. The work focuses on the interweaving of technology and aesthetic convention in photographic production. The images Speicherlandschaft I and II by Jakob Schn etz are screenshots of faulty loading processes of photographic images in image processing software. The data called up for viewing was interpreted differently due to a process error caused by the artist and the predetermined representation was disturbed. Schnetz elevates the images created in this way to the status of independent new images.
Are documentations objective, are they truthful? The very decision of where a photographer or filmmaker places his camera, which light, which lens he chooses, is a subjective one and thus his shaping of reality. For years, Jan Niklas Thape has been investigating what he, what we see and consider to be so-called reality. In "Untitled" (2025), he addresses the discomfort of the German culture of remembrance in the charged atmosphere of the current anti-Semitism debate. Jan Niklas Thape takes a further step back and thus behind the cameras of others in his installation "Speakers Corner" (2025).
Curators: Gertrud Peters and Johannes Raimann
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Admission: 4,- EUR Reduced: 3,- EUR Groups (from 10 persons): 3,- EUR Severely disabled persons incl. accompanying person: free Children and young people up to 18 years: free Every 2nd Sunday of the month: free The Düsseldorf Art:card applies
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