Realität und Fiktion Villa Schöningen, Potsdam 28.04. - 01.10.2013 Curator: Friedrich von Borries Artists: Jakob Boeskov, Jeremy Deller, Thomas Demand, BeateGütschow, Dirk Dietrich Hennig, Christoph Keller, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle,Mikael Mikael, Ora-Ïto, Walid Raad, Julian Rosefeldt, Nat Tate, The Yes Men What is reality, what is fiction? This is the question addressed by the exhibition in the Villa Schöningen, which begins on May 1, 2013. The exhibition will feature works by 13 international artists who have dealt with themes such as reality, perception, identity formation and deception in different ways. The thematic exhibition will feature works from the genres of painting, photography, design and video art. The spectrum of the works shown ranges from examinations of the patterns of perception and cognition (Thomas Demand, Christoph Keller, Walid Raad) über Verfahren der Konstruktion von Wirklichkeit (Beate Gütschow, Julian Rosefeldt) and confrontations with fictional characters (Dirk Dietrich Hennig, Nat Tate), to unexpected interactions between reality and fiction (Jakob Boeskov, Mikael Mikael, Ora-Ïto) and the political-economic dimension of the fictionalization of reality (Jeremy Deller, Iñigo Manglano- Ovalle, The Yes Men). Press comments: Press:
George Cup & Steve Elliott: Static Painting # 3, 1956 / 2008 / oil and mixed media on plywood, 280 x 128 x 12 cm / © Photo: Seth Widman, 2013
Detail: George Cup & Steve Elliott: Static Painting # 3, 1956 / 2008 / oil and mixed media on plywood, 87 x 52 x 5 cm / © Photo: Seth Widman, 2010
Cinema programme at Tate Modern London: The Square, the Line and the Light - George Cup & Steve Elliott: The connection between form and sound, 1974 / 09.-11.04.2010 / printed copy of original file / © Photo: Seth Widman, 2013
George Cup & Steve Elliott, original filmstill: The connection between form and sound, 1974 / silvergelatine print / © Photo: Seth Widman, 2013
George Cup & Steve Elliott, emailcorrespondence between The George Cup Research Center and Tate Modern,London, for: The connection between form and sound / printed copys of the original files with name blacked out, 15 pages - each21 x 29 cm / Edition 1/5, Courtesy Sprengel Museum Hannover / © Photo: Seth Widman, 2013
George Cup & Steve Elliott, VHS Cassette: The connection between form and sound, 1978, ArtistVideo, New York / Mixed media / © Photo: Seth Widman, 2013
Blacked Out - George Cup & Steve Elliott: The connection between form and sound, 1978, ArtistVideo, New York, Städtische Gallerie Nordhorn, 2009 / © Photo: Seth Widman, 2013
»Creating facts with fakes: Dirk Dietrich Hennig wants to do that too. The German artist invents other artists and their biographies, even creates archive material to prove their existence, and then creates works under their names. In 2010, a film by the fictional artist duo George Cup and Steve Elliot made it to the Tate Modern without the curators suspecting that the real creator was Dirk Dietrich Hennig.« (…) »The curator Friedrich von Borries has put together works by 13 artists ... The exhibition in the Villa Schöningen captivates with many impressive objects...« Tobias Becker, Spiegel Online »The new exhibition in the Villa Schöningen deals with the topic of "reality and fiction". "In times when a fake Twitter message about an attack on Obama can change world politics, this is certainly a topical topic," says curator Friedrich von Borries. "That is depressing for all of us because a lot of things are being postponed." (...)Von Borries goes further. Irritation is part of his principle. The white walls of the private art house are covered with black and white "terror" wallpaper, the swirls of lines of which make our eyes spin psychedelically.« Gabriela Walde, Morgenpost »With this group show, curator Friedrich von Borries examines the generally unstable and, especially today, increasingly blurred boundary between constructed reality and pseudo-realistically presented simulation.« art-magazin.de »So false, so true: The art of deception in the Potsdam Villa Schöningen. The show brings together a total of 13 works, one story follows the next, exciting and concrete.« Xymna Engel, Monopol © dirkdietrichhennig.com 2024
Accompanying the exhibition, a supplement appeared in Monopol.