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With: FAMED, Anja Kaiser, Luise Marchand, Irène Mélix, Ari Wahl, Yours truly, LoL In the exhibition, I DON’T WORK ON WEEKENDS, the participating artists critically examine the concept of work and
With: FAMED, Anja Kaiser, Luise Marchand, Irène Mélix, Ari Wahl, Yours truly, LoL
In the exhibition, I DON’T WORK ON WEEKENDS, the participating artists critically examine the concept of work and their own working conditions. The exhibition takes its starting point in the art and culture industry, but the examination of work structures and their social recognition and importance goes far beyond this sector – it is both historically and internationally situated and is public and intimate in equal measure. The project not only questions how work and its supposed productivity are socially valued, but also what possibilities and strategies for setting boundaries exist. It is not about the moment of refusing to work, but about the possibility of escaping a compulsion to produce and being able to make a voluntary decision, for example, not to work on weekends:
I don’t work on weekends.
The exhibition primarily examines and proposes solidarity-based cooperation and unity within the cultural sector, so that advocacy for better working conditions, regulated working hours, fair pay and social security doesn’t end in isolation. Collective formation and exchange are just as important here as transparency within one’s own working conditions and structures, as well as the articulation of these also within the public realm. I DON’T WORK ON WEEKENDS brings together artists and cultural workers with different backgrounds and experiences. What all participants have in common is that they critically examine their own working conditions as well as the cultural industry, and, in doing so, are critical of both institutions and themselves. The exhibition is thus a contribution to an urgent topic that needs to be discussed further and, above all, together.
In cooperation with the Art History Department of the University of Göttingen, students will develop their own thematic contributions over the course of the exhibition.
With contributions by Fenna Antonia Akkermann, Frido Elbers, Fini Freckmann, Lotta Geßner, Anne Just, Alicia May Lehmann, Alica Meyer, Justus Müller, Anna-Britt Nickel, Lena Pahnke, Tianying Shen, Lennard Worlitz, Yue Zhang, instructed by Jana August and Daniela Döring.
Curated by Vincent Schier
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- I DON’T WORK ON WEEKENDS, FAMED, The Last Word on Anything and Something (2019), Photo: Lucas Melzer
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- I DON’T WORK ON WEEKENDS, 5. Luise Marchand Zeit ist Geld – Eine Schnecke ist eine Schnecke (2021), Photo: Lucas Melzer
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- I DON’T WORK ON WEEKENDS, Büro für prekäre Angelegenheiten, Cooperation with the Art History Department of the University of Göttingen, Photo: Lucas Melzer
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- I DON’T WORK ON WEEKENDS, Büro für prekäre Angelegenheiten, Cooperation with the Art History Department of the University of Göttingen, Photo: Lucas Melzer
The exhibition will be shown at the Alte Rathaus in cooperation with the Fachdienst Kultur der Stadt Göttingen.
We thank our funding partners:
Datum
27. Juni (Montag) - 14. August (Sonntag)
Veranstaltungsort
Kunstverein Göttingen im Alten Rathaus
Markt 9, 37073 Göttingen
Öffnungszeiten
Tuesday – Sunday
11 am – 5 pm
15Jul(Jul 15)00:0028Aug(Aug 28)00:00Martin MaellerNervous DustKunstverein Göttingen
In the exhibition Nervous Dust Martin Maeller examines questions of identity, sensitivity and vulnerability, and addresses the relationship between private and public mourning. He develops his works from personal memories,
In the exhibition Nervous Dust Martin Maeller examines questions of identity, sensitivity and vulnerability, and addresses the relationship between private and public mourning. He develops his works from personal memories, mythology and pop culture to explore collective experiences of loss, processes of alienation, and the search for belonging.
In his artistic work, Maeller interweaves reality with fiction, revealing not only contradictions, but also blurring notions of social conventions, and at times referring to people who, by virtue of their own identity, see themselves as disconnected from the world. His sculptures function as expressions of queer grief, drawing form and content from nonconforming processes of commemoration. Through the use of organic and industrial materials, and the altering and reinterpreting of everyday objects, he connects things that, at first glance, do not seem to belong together. Maeller’s works appear smooth and reduced; and at the same time, they are also intimate and intuitive: heat-shrinkable rubber tubing is reminiscent of lifeless branches, vessels with figurative elements resemble mummification jars, printed cubes made of acrylic glass evoke reliquaries.
In his exhibition, Maeller gathers ambivalent inner worlds – between melancholy and repression, affection and care – and, in the process, allows new forms of personal experience to emerge. His works seem like fragments of a gloomy world of thought, like poetic set pieces that contrast the physical world. The exhibition Nervous Dust opens up alternative perspectives and puts the focus on topics that exist on the fringes of social discourse.
Martin Maeller (*1990) lives and works in Berlin. In 2016, he graduated from the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin. He has participated in numerous institutional solo and group exhibitions, including at the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (2022); Dům umění, Brno (2021); the Museum for Sepulchral Culture, Kassel (2020); Basis, Frankfurt (2019); and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2018), among others. He was a scholarship recipient of the Tokyo Residency Program of the Mart Stam Society, Berlin in 2019 and of the Alexander Tutsek-Foundation, Munich in 2017.
Curated by Vincent Schier.
We thank our funding partners:
Datum
15. Juli (Freitag) - 28. August (Sonntag)
Veranstaltungsort
Kunstverein Göttingen
Gotmarstraße 1, 37073 Göttingen
Öffnungszeiten
Tuesday – Friday
2 pm – 6 pm
Saturday – Sunday
11 am – 5 pm
September 2022
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Oktober 2022
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