Miete Strom Instagram (Rent Electricity Instagram) by Walch&Winkler is an event designed to reflect the work and living conditions prevalent among artists in Berlin. Rather than an invitation to passively view a commercial exhibition and market processes, the works presented here reflect the art scene’s current sense of identity, which emerges from a desire to independently analyse and participate in the fast-growing financial interest in contemporary visual art. The aim of this project is to nurture artistic empowerment.
Beyond their artistic and geographic context, the works on show share a common functionality, reflecting the circumstances of their production. This is evident in their manifestation in the form of lamps, shoes and clothes, the objects highlight the artist’s need to create alternative means of income. The objects assembled in Miete Strom Instagram reveal a host of strategies and work methods that have arisen out of necessity among the artistic community.
The event is being launched by two Berlin-based artists, Raul Walch and Eric Winkler. In their independent artistic practice, both are known to explore the re-contextualisation of made objects by continuously challenging the genre limitations of sculpture, conceptual art and performance.
Walch and Winkler see Miete, Strom, Instagram as a platform for introducing a range of business initiatives and a space to share and discuss experiences. Alongside talks and presentations, the event includes a dining element, with a variety of chefs initiating a reinterpretation of the 1970s New York artists’ restaurant FOOD.
Miete Strom Instagram runs an own daily shuttle service between the Art Berlin Fair and the exhibition space.
With works by:
Aram Bartholl, Peter Behrbohm, Dirk Bell, Broken Dimanche Press, Jan Bünnig, Ekaterina Burlyga, Nadja Buttendorf, Maurizio Cattelan, Zuzanna Czebatul, Mariechen Danz, Charlotte Dualé, Ólafur Elíasson, Hans Peter Feldmann, Jeschkelanger (Marie Jeschke, Anja Langer), Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Kevin Kemter, Lilli Kuschel, Julius Lehniger, Dennis Loesch, Simon Mullan, Laure Prouvost, R&D (Maru Mushtrieva & Emilia Kurylowicz), Robben&Winkler (Eric Winkler), Natalia Rolón, Anna Lucia Nissen, Clemence Seilles, Seriennummer (Vincent Grunwald), Anna Szaflarski, Ugemfo, Und. Studio, Rosemarie Trockel, Urara Tsuchiya, Franz West, Marie Rømer Westh, Philip Wiegard, et al.
Urara Tsuchiya: Just close your eyes and imagine I haven’t evolved, 2017 Glazed earthenware and stoneware
Dirk Bell:
Concretest poem, 2018 Black mdf
Nadja Buttendorf:
Charging, 2016
Data & beauty cable, bling jewellery, smartphone USB charging & data cable, USB power plug gold-plated, d = 33,00 cm
Clemence Seilles:
DKMX, 2018
Hand painted metal, wood, ropes
Robben&Winkler (Eric Winkler): LKW-Couture, 2018 Performance with Eva Vuillemin Shoes, Robben & Wientjes truck
Anna Lucia Nissen:
Cigarucci with NIL cigarette, 2018 Glazed ceramic, cigarette, felt
