NOWs: Produktion. Made in Germany Drei

03 June - 03 September 2017 / Nows

Felix Kiessling: Your map is not correct anymore. (video still), 5.30min, Nordkyn, 2017

NOWs:

Produktion. Made in Germany Drei
Kestner Gesellschaft, Kunstverein Hannover, Sprengel Museum Hannover

Exhibition opening: June 2nd, 2017, 5.00 pm
17.00 pm – Sprengel Museum Hannover
19.00 pm – Kestner Gesellschaft
20.15 pm – Kunstverein Hannover
22.00 pm – IMPUREFICTION, Perfomance – Kunstverein Hannover/Literaturhaus

The third edition of Made in Germany, which is collectively curated on a five-year-cycle by the three institutions, focuses on the conditions of producing art in Germany. The group exhibition pursues the questions of how geographical, political, and institutional structures as well as new technologies are creating important conditions for the production of art in the course of the digital turn. In an art landscape that, by international standards, continues to have a unique concentration of institutions (art academies and colleges, art associations, and museums), the German scene is a major international site for the production of and discourse on contemporary art.

The exhibition focuses on artistic positions that address production processes and examines the sites at which it is produced and presented. Besides processual approaches, by way of examples it investigates forms of production that direct the spotlight on network concepts. This becomes palpable based on collective approaches and time-based presentations in which the body and the social attain altered visibilities.

As participating institutions, the Schauspiel Hannover, the Festival Theaterformen, and the KunstFestSpiele are contributing the first time, supplementing the question of production and site with additional projects and thus highlighting the changing production conditions of theater and performance not only in spaces of visual art.

Artists
Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili | Olga Balema | Julius von Bismarck | Juliette Blightman | Katinka Bock | BPA. Berlin Program for Artists (Maria Anna Bierwirth, Sofia Duchovny, Richard Frater, Mia Goyette, Sylvester Hegner, Johanna Klingler, Nile Koetting, Grayson Revoir, Miriam Yammad) | Carina Brandes | Henning Fehr & Philipp Rühr | Kasia Fudakowski | Sascha Hahn | Lena Henke | Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff | IMPURE FICTION | Daniel Knorr | Schirin Kretschmann | Veit Laurent Kurz | Oliver Laric | Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho | Lotte Lindner & Till Steinbrenner | lonelyfingers | Das NUMEN (Julian Charrière, Andreas Greiner, Markus Hoffmann, Felix Kiessling)| Peles Empire | Willem de Rooij | Thomas Ruff | Yorgos Sapountzis | Timur Si-Quin | Hito Steyerl | Studio for Propositional Cinema | Raphaela Vogel

Markus Hoffmann, Inverted Invisible Imprint / Domarring, 2016