Groups
Cashmere Radio, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos (MX), DAS INSTITUT (UK/US), Honey-Suckle Company (DE), KAYA (US), (Music For) Eggplant (FR), projektKLUB (DE), SUPERFLEX (DK)

Name: Groups
Start: 2019-06-22
End: 2019-08-25
Location: Kunstverein Braunschweig

Jun 22 – Aug 25, 2019

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projektKLUB, Bis sich verbindet, was im kalten Zustand auf Trennung beharrt, 2019, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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SUPERFLEX, Euphoria Now/Euro, 2015/16, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists, design in collaboration with Rasmus Koch Studio, photo: Stefan Stark
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SUPERFLEX, When the Levees Broke We Bought Our House (New Orleans), 2008, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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SUPERFLEX, When the Levees Broke We Bought Our House (Miami), 2008, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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KAYA, Shirts, 2016, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists and Galerie Deborah Schamoni, photo: Stefan Stark
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KAYA, Shirts, 2016 (detail), installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists and Galerie Deborah Schamoni, photo: Stefan Stark
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KAYA, Nightlights (Detail), 2016, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists and Galerie Deborah Schamoni, photo: Stefan Stark
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KAYA, Nightlights (Detail), 2016, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists and Galerie Deborah Schamoni, photo: Stefan Stark
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KAYA, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists and Galerie Deborah Schamoni, photo: Stefan Stark
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KAYA, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists and Galerie Deborah Schamoni, photo: Stefan Stark
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KAYA, Orakle Painting (Catacomb Mirror) 2018, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists and Galerie Deborah Schamoni, photo: Stefan Stark
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KAYA, Orakle Painting (Catacomb Mirror) 2018, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists and Galerie Deborah Schamoni, photo: Stefan Stark
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Honey-Suckle Company, Eswerde/Rosasprich, 2003/19, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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Honey-Suckle Company, Eswerde/Rosasprich, 2003/19, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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Honey-Suckle Company, Eswerde/Rosasprich, 2003/19, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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Honey-Suckle Company, Eswerde/Rosasprich, 2003/19, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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Honey-Suckle Company, Eswerde/Rosasprich, 2003/19, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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Honey-Suckle Company, Eswerde/Rosasprich, 2003/19, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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Honey-Suckle Company, Eswerde/Rosasprich, 2003/19, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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DAS INSTITUT, DARK CODEX, from ‘ALMANAC, ECLIPSES AND VENUS CYCLES’ series, 2016, installation View at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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DAS INSTITUT, DARK CODEX (detail), from ‘ALMANAC, ECLIPSES AND VENUS CYCLES’ series, 2016, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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Cashmere Radio, Guest Room, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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Cashmere Radio, Guest Room, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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(Music For) Eggplant, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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(Music For) Eggplant, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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(Music For) Eggplant, How do you reset your mind? Aus allen Testamenten sind dir Blumen geboren, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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(Music For) Eggplant, How do you reset your mind? Aus allen Testamenten sind dir Blumen geboren, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2019, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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projektKLUB, Bis sich verbindet, was im kalten Zustand auf Trennung beharrt, 2019, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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projektKLUB, Bis sich verbindet, was im kalten Zustand auf Trennung beharrt, 2019, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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projektKLUB, Bis sich verbindet, was im kalten Zustand auf Trennung beharrt, 2019, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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projektKLUB, Bis sich verbindet, was im kalten Zustand auf Trennung beharrt, 2019, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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projektKLUB, Bis sich verbindet, was im kalten Zustand auf Trennung beharrt, 2019, installation view at Kunstverein Braunschweig, courtesy the artists, photo: Stefan Stark
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Colectivo Los Ingravidós, The Sun Quartet: Part 4, Far From Ayotzinapa (2017), [film still], courtesy the artists, Mexico, 16mm > digital, 22 min, 2017
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Colectivo Los Ingravidós, The Sun Quartet: Part 2, San Juan River (2017), [film still], courtesy the artists, Mexico, 16mm > digital, 22 min, 2017
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Colectivo Los Ingravidós, Trilogy, Have You Seen (Mothers Day), [film still], courtesy the artists, Mexico, 16mm > digital, 7min, 2017

Groups focuses on collaborative work, which is shown in various formats and themes. Artists join together, form collectives, and cooperate to realize complex projects. The exhibition Groups can also be regarded as an appreciation of a way of working that contradicts the idea that art per se is to be traced back to individual authors: “In the beginning of a movement an event transforms an I into a We.” (Wittenburg / Voss)

It is important to leave the concept of the artist subject behind in order to be open to different collaborative models. As a result, the process-based work of the Honey-Suckle Company, founded in the mid-1990s, encounters installations and durational performances by (Music For) Eggplant. While Colectivo Los Ingrávidos creates experimental films in response to sociopolitical injustices, projektKLUB produces its own social spaces that are repeatedly activated in the course of the exhibition. KAYA and DAS INSTITUT are two collaborative entities that regularly involve third parties in their projects, similar to the Danish trio SUPERFLEX, which is constantly developing new tools for participation.

In Groups, the contours between the individual and the community are blurred. It is not uncommon for projects to emerge from the work in and with the group that change over time; only in the course of a – sometimes performative and participatory – process do they gradually become visible.

GUEST ROOM: CASHMERE RADIO

As a commentary on the exhibition, artists are invited to make use of the space originally used as a guest room in the Villa Salve Hospes. As part of Groups, the radio station CASHMERE RADIO is developing a new program that takes up the gesture of hospitality.

Curators: Jule Hillgärtner, Nele Kaczmarek
Curatorial assistance: Raoul Klooker

The exhibition Groups has been made possible by:
VR-Stiftung der Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken in Norddeutschland
Volksbank BraWo
Braunschweiger Privatbank
Danish Arts Foundation
Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur

The Kunstverein Braunschweig e.V. is supported by:
Stadt Braunschweig, Kulturinstitut

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Related Events

Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 7pm

Opening of the exhibition GROUPS, summer party and concert

Jun 21 – 23, 2019

(Music For) Eggplant Performance

Sat, Jun 29, 2019, 11am – 1pm

Kinderkunstsamstag

Tue, Jul 2, 2019, 7pm

projektKLUB: EATING

Jul 6 – 7, 2019, 6pm – 11am

Nachts im Kunstverein

Jul 4 – 7, 2019, 6am – 8pm

Swim John

Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 8pm – 11pm

Sommerkino Braunschweig

Jul 16 – 17, 2019, 9am – 3pm

Sommer-FiBS

Sat, Aug 17, 2019, 7pm

projektKLUB: SPEAKING

Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 11am – 7pm

LIVE-PERFORMANCES CASHMERE RADIO

In the context of the exhibition GROUPS collaboratively operated radio station Cashmere Radio presents a comprehensive live program with various artists and musicians.

Prelude (pre-recorded):

17:00
Pattern Dissection: A GROUPS Special with Christoph Berg & Stefan Lingg
Playing free jazz records and related sounds of improvised nature. This special episode for GROUPS presents recordings that feature at least 6 people.

Live:

18:30
I don't like thinking alone with DJ Shlucht
Outside of his D.I.Y. church, a regular morning show on Cashmere Radio, DJ Shlucht will draw a live collage, opposing interviews conducted with different Groups from Chemnitz, Berlin and across the United States. The interviews primarily focus on networked strategies and collective efforts in urban environments and online culture.

19:30
timestretched-ACID by Lukas Grundmann
Displacing acid music from its privileged domain of the club, this live performance is inspecting acid's sonic textures under the microscope.

20:00
Invisible to my Ear by DJ Puddle
A sound work DJ Puddle about moments of cinematic silence. How does silence function as a dramaturgical element when stripped of visual context? DJ Puddle tries to find out.

20:30
Portals: tungsten nymphs with Alizee Lenox and Sarah Johanna Theurer
Portals is a series of performative readings by artists. It opens up portals into diverse artistic practices, focusing on the role of voice, sound and rhythm. Each episode features an artist presenting new work.

21:00
Ziese Zpecial: beauty, freedom and origin in aesthetic production with Nils and Junis Ziese examines the prefigurative powers of everyday directives on the aesthetic perception of music in a performative practice. The Ziese Zpecial series seeks to fix significant moments of this practical discourse in theory. The first Zpecial is about beauty, freedom and origin in aesthetic perception.

22:00
Wanderlust: Watchman, What of the Night? by Katharina Schmidt
Each episode of Wanderlust features a soundscape, field recording or experimental composition, capturing sonic environments in all their diversity with contributions from across the world. Watchman, What of the Night? is a live soundscape performance based on a field recording that was made on the outskirts of Braunschweig

Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 6pm