16–07–2020 Free from Discourse Collaboration For PASSE-AVANT the authors Luisa Del Prete, Naomi Rado and Demba Sanoh wrote an article about the current debate on the presentation of a racist painting by Georg Herold. In their text, which is accompanied by comments from James Gregory Atkinson, Nicholas Grafia and Geneviève Lassey, they reveal the extent to which this is not an isolated case in German museums and what it means to assume responsibility as an institution.
08–07–2020 Frei von Diskurs Collaboration Für PASSE-AVANT haben die Autor*innen Luisa Del Prete, Naomi Rado und Demba Sanoh einen Artikel über die aktuelle Debatte über die Präsentation eines rassistischen Bildes von Georg Herold geschrieben. In ihrem Text, der von O-Tönen von James Gregory Atkinson, Nicholas Grafia und Geneviève Lassey begleitet, wird offengelegt, inwiefern es hierbei nicht um einen Einzelfall in deutschen Museen handelt und was es bedeutet als Institution Verantwortung zu übernehmen.
18–06–2020 Speaking Persuasively Galerie Rothamel, Frankfurt & Kunsthalle Darmstadt Artist text Im Jahr 2017 malte Ellen Akimoto ein Bild, dem sie den Titel The Lower Left Hand Corner of Such a Good Painting gab. Es unterscheidet sich von vielen anderen ihrer Bilder, da es aus nur drei Elementen besteht: einem Parkettfußboden, einer weißen Wand, einem an ihr hängenden abstrakten Gemälde. Perspektive und Bildausschnitt sind so gewählt, dass die drei Sujets jeweils nur zum Teil zu sehen sind.
12–06–2020 There's a Crack in Everything Artist text We’re looking at an almost perfectly painted black canvas. At first glance it seems to be a little tattered on the edges, but a closer look reveals that the fringes are actually tape. Affixed nearly in the middle of the canvas is a cut-out detail of a photograph, which depicts a torn open animal mouth and one single, white tooth.
11–06–2020 A Relation To Infinity Artist text A letter by Minh Nguyen written in response to Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi's recent exhibition at Atletika in Vilnus.
22–04–2020 Quarantine Questionnaire #2 Samantha Bohatsch Berlin Collaboration Due to the outspread of the coronavirus many performances have been either cancelled or postponed. In order to pay attention to the work of young artists, who are affected by these circumstances, PASSE-AVANT initiated a livestream series on Instagram titled 'Sunday's Stream On'. For the second episode, Berlin-based artist Samantha Bohatsch did a reading performance and answered our 'Quarantine Questionnaire'.
18–04–2020 Samantha Bohatsch in isolation Artist text For the exhibtion 'Body. Gaze. Power' at Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Samantha Bohatsch created the audio-visual work *BB * which is installed in the Roman bath ruins on site. Since the exhibition is currently closed due to the pandemic, PASSE-AVANT invited the artist to work on an online version of her performance.
17–04–2020 A Carpet for Your Somersaults Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam Exhibition Note Thinking inwards, I remember the trampoline had green tape on it. I saw it in the dark, it was raining.Now in the film I see the tape to be white and black. After 12 seconds of a dark screen the trampoline appears amidst summer foliage. Black bars, black net, white clusters of tape on both, the part that one actually jumps on is black with a dark teal skirting, a grey metal structure and a rusty ladder are peaking out.
11–04–2020 Quarantine Questionnaire #1 Kalas Liebfried Munich Collaboration Due to the outspread of the coronavirus many performances have been either cancelled or postponed. In order to pay attention to the work of young artists, who are affected by these circumstances, PASSE-AVANT initiated a livestream series on Instagram titled 'Sunday's Stream On'. For the first episode, Munich based artist Kalas Liebfried did a sound performance and answered our 'Quarantine Questionnaire.
31–03–2020 Jasmin Werner's Façadomy Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels Exhibition Note 17,000 years ago, a number of holes were made in the walls of the caves of Lascaux, in the South of France. Branches were stuck in the holes, serving as stable horizontal beams. Vertical beams were then attached, creating a structure that gave access to the ceiling. This is how the Lascaux caves were painted.
29–03–2020 How to Be in Touch without Touching Each Other Collaboration In days of self isolation, we asked artist Zuzanna Czebatul how we can stay in touch without touching each other and she suggested new ways for reaching out. Download her specially commissioned poster here, print it out and hang it your neighbourhood. Defeat infection with connection.
26–03–2020 Why Do People Attend Bars? Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden Recommendation Solange Bars aufgrund der aktuellen Corona-Krise geschlossen sind, könnt ihr die Cocktailrezepte des Mitbegründers der Fluxusbewegung, Ben Petterson, befolgen und euch die Zeit zu Hause hiermit ein wenig zu versüßen.
24–03–2020 MMK Collection Candy MMK Frankfurt Collaboration Aufgrund der aktuellen temporären Schließung des Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, haben wir Autor*innen, Kurator*innen und Künstler*innen aus dem Rhein-Main-Gebiet gefragt, über ein Werk aus der Sammlung des MMKs zu schreiben.
23–03–2020 Corona Chronicles Collaboration Many of our friends and colleagues stay at home. A few of them because they are afraid of being infected, others to flatten the curve, but most of them because their jobs have been cancelled and exhibitions have been postponed. What happens to the people in the cultural world if it suddenly shuts down? What are the pitfalls and can there still be a productive potential within this crisis? PASSE-AVANT asked several friends that are affected by COVID-19 in different ways to share their perspectives. Read their stories.
04–03–2020 Von Schwärmen und vom Umschwärmt werden Galerie Christine Mayer, München Exhibition Note In ihrer Ausstellung macht Kristina Schwärme, in denen das individuelle Objekt aufgelöst wird. Nur durch die Präsenz jedes Einzelnen, kann der Schwarm existieren. Wenn man das romantisch verstehen möchte. Ich spüre in Kristinas Schwärmen ein Unbehagen oder vielleicht Misstrauen gegenüber der einfachen Lösung, des zu naheliegenden Versprechens.
19–01–2020 Get Well Soon Kunsthaus Nürnberg Exhibition Note Wann sind wir eigentlich 'völlig gesund'? Und wer diagnostiziert aufgrund welcher Indizien und Befunde, dass wir 'krank' sind oder es bald zu werden drohen? Ob Weltgesundheitsorganisation, Krankenkasse, Arbeitgeberin, Familienangehörige – jeder hat eine Meinung dazu, wie es uns gehen sollte und was das für unsere Rechte und Pflichten in der Gesellschaft bedeutet.
12–12–2019 Pia Ferm: In Stofflichkeit verfließen Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden Artist text Allein die Fassade des Nassauischen Kunstvereins ist herrschaftlich und offenbart sämtliche Charakteristika des Gebäudes, die das großbürgerliche Herz höherschlagen lassen: Sandstein, Erker, Balkon und alle Varianten verspielter Formationen und griechischer Säulenordnungen. Im herrschaftlichen Gestus empfängt die herrschaftliche Architektur ihre Besucher*innen.
07–12–2019 Le Grand Trampolage An Outlook, The Mythical Institution Exhibition Note Museums of natural history and botanical gardens cover the assemblage nature offers, specifically of the dead and the primitive. Precisely situated in space, yet somewhere displaced in time, the Mythical Institution embodies the enigma of contemporary art and its gallery ‘an outlook’ is the perfect recollection of such controversy.
28–11–2019 FEAT TO BOOT Kunstraum Ortloff, Leipzig Exhibition Note You hear the crackle of a 2006 Sony Cybershot and encase it with your several senses, until a blurry face becomes yourself, the little crawler, in a spiderweb of glass
14–10–2019 Snap Competition Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim Exhibition Note In ihrer ersten Einzelausstellung Snap Competiton schafft Dominika Bednarsky ein absurdes Biotop, das die Dualität des Gartens als Gleitzone zwischen Fiktion und Realität, Utopie und Dystopie, Paradies und Verderben reflektiert.
