NOWs: Chic by Bruno Zhu

07 - 22 March 2020 / Nows

Chic

solo exhibition by Bruno Zhu

Opening
5 March, 7 pm

Fragile
Leipzigerstraße 63
10117 Berlin

Fragile is pleased to announce the collaboration with Bruno Zhu for his solo show Chic.

I kept returning to ‘whys’. Back then as I photographed: why the vertical format, why the raised, fallen figures? And now: why the recurring scenes, why bodies, events in arousal? Heat. Perhaps it never was about photographing ‘sex’, but about being driven by it, so a parallel between the camera lens and the phallus is drawn. Shooting, jerking, pressing. Constantly stunted by the shutter and the membrane.

Proverbs like ‘curiosity killed the cat’ or ‘Peeping Tom’ came to mind. They are folky warnings to not look beyond one’s means. But what if one does, what would one see? Peeping Tom went blind after spying Lady Godiva on her horse riding naked down the streets. And even though my work is not about Tom, it was poignant to remember cautionary tales where vision-knowledge-discovery are tied to human fatalism: when is an opportunity too risky, when is a cut too deep? Ah, according to folklore, Tom was a tailor!

About FRAGILE

FRAGILE fosters a program of conversation, antagonism, renegotiation, and celebration.
FRAGILE is a non-profit project for contemporary artistic practices located in Berlin. It encompasses an exhibition and a residency space.
FRAGILE is guided by curations etymology, the practice of caring and was founded on the warmest summerday of 2018 by Maurin Dietrich and Jonas Wendelin.

NOWs: Mindscapes by Elise Eeraerts and Claude Cattelain

08 March - 26 April 2020 / Nows ⟶

Mindscapesexhibition by Elise Eeraerts and Claude Cattelain Opening 8 March, 3 pm – 7 pm Plagiarama Rivoli Building C24 690 chaussée de Waterloo / Waterloosesteenweg Brussels, Belgium exhibition concept by Yuna Mathieu-Chovet The works of Elise Eeraerts and Claude Cattelain rely upon strong ties that unite them to the materials they work with. They both work from simple raw material, with only light transformations. Transfers, movements and balances of materials are at the heart of their practices, with particular attention paid to prehistoric and early cultures. Elise Eeraerts presents soil samples containing several centuries of geological history. She considers human traces on nature, as well as the scientific, mathematical and chemical representations of it, and she is interested in the geometry resulting from observations. Her most recent works on metals and their conductive qualities has led her to work with technological means. Claude Cattelain challenges the environment through performance. The place of the body is central: a “ferryman”, the center of intention, is the one who relates human construction to nature. His works are commensurate to his own body. He is attached to ancestral gestures and rituals: leaving a trace in the clay, placing objects in balance or igniting an object. He expresses the body as a support that distributes energies. The artists question their environment by showing a keen interest in the landscape, nature and the human impact on its biotope, both personally and collectively. By using the notion of landscape in relation to humans, the artists are returning to interiority, while including the human in its context. They highlight that access to outside is made through inside and invite us to observe our own mental landscape. Mindscapesexhibition by Elise Eeraerts and Claude Cattelain Opening 8 March, 3 pm – 7 pm Plagiarama Rivoli Building C24 690 chaussée de Waterloo / Waterloosesteenweg Brussels, Belgium exhibition concept by Yuna Mathieu-Chovet The works of Elise Eeraerts and Claude Cattelain rely upon strong ties that unite them to the materials they work with. They both work from simple raw material, with only light transformations. Transfers, movements and balances of materials are at the heart of their practices, with particular attention paid to prehistoric and early cultures. Elise Eeraerts presents soil samples containing several centuries of geological history. She considers human traces on nature, as well as the scientific, mathematical and chemical representations of it, and she is interested in the geometry resulting from observations. Her most recent works on metals and their conductive qualities has led her to work with technological means. Claude Cattelain challenges the environment through performance. The place of the body is central: a “ferryman”, the center of intention, is the one who relates human construction to nature. His works are commensurate to his own body. He is attached to ancestral gestures and rituals: leaving a trace in the clay, placing objects in balance or igniting an object. He expresses the body as a support that distributes energies. The artists question their environment by showing a keen interest in the landscape, nature and the human impact on its biotope, both personally and collectively. By using the notion of landscape in relation to humans, the artists are returning to interiority, while including the human in its context. They highlight that access to outside is made through inside and invite us to observe our own mental landscape.

NOWs: suspense by Fabian Knecht, Yuichiro Tamura, Raul Walch

07 March - 04 April 2020 / Nows ⟶

top left: Fabian Knecht, still from Genitiv, 2017; top right: Raul Walch, Eureka (Königsplatz Munich), 2018; bottom: Yuichiro Tamura, suspense, 2020 suspensegroup exhibition by Fabian Knecht, Yuichiro Tamura, Raul Walch Yuka Tsuruno Gallery 1-33-10-3F Higashi-Shinagawa Shinagawa-ku Tokyo, Japan Yuka Tsuruno Gallery is pleased to present a three person show suspense with Fabian Knecht, Yuichiro Tamura, and Raul Walch, from March 7th to April 4th, 2020. The dialogue between these three artists, which emerged from their time together in 2013 at the Institut für Raumexperimente, Berlin University of the Arts led by Olafur Eliasson, has continued to present day as their paths cross globally. An examination of the common practices and aesthetic languages present in the three artists’ works allows for a renewed reading of their works. Among Knecht, Tamura, and Walch, all three have developed their practices by engaging with diverse media such as photography, video, installation, public intervention, and performance. In this exhibition, the works on view elicit intangible relationships and de-stabilize the inherent norm by interrupting the contours of social codes, meanings, and histories associated to spaces, locations, things, and events, and assembling hypothetical, dissimilative circumstances. The title suspense, like the genre, points to the psychological state of continued internal tension in the audience as the plot approaches its conclusion, but this can also allude to “the prolonged state of being suspended.” This “state of being suspended” appears in the work of the three artists as a trajectory of ephemeral exercise in the form of repetition without end, fixed vertical motion, and floating objects. For example, in Genitiv (2017), a work by Fabian Knecht, who often presents work that dismantles the framework of “exhibitions,” a man plunging is seen through a window of the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin; in Yuichiro Tamura’s C’s Ladder, N’s Ashbins (2020) and suspense (2020), a ladder and ashbins intended for falling, as well as a hanging curtain are displayed; in Raul Walch’s public intervention Eureka (2016/2018), the projectile water that should strike the ground and disappear is captured momentarily. These works which retain the process that confronts an event even while anticipating its ending, and concern the motion of hovering in space, induce the simultaneously physical and immaterial temporality and its recurrence. At the opening reception, there will be a performance of Raul Walch’s intervention Eureka Tokyo. － Fabian Knecht Born 1980 in Magdeburg, Fabian Knecht studied at the Universität der Künste Berlin and at the California Institute of the Arts. In 2014 he completed his master’s degree with Olafur Eliasson, at whose Institut für Raumexperimente he studied from 2009 to 2014. In 2012 he assisted in the studio of Matthew Barney in New York. Fabian Knecht’s works have been shown in national and international institutions and exhibitions, among them the MSU Museum for Contemporary Art (Zagreb), the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, the Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), the Imperial War Museum (London), and the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Yuichiro Tamura Born 1977 in Toyama, Yuichiro Tamura lives and works in Kyoto. He holds a doctoral degree from the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. He was a guest researcher for the Institut für Raumexperimente at the Berlin University of the Arts. His recent solo exhibitions include Milky Mountain (Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, 2019) and Hell Scream (@KCUA, Kyoto, 2018), and group shows include Asian Art Biennial (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, 2019), Image Narratives: Literature in Japan (National Art Center, Tokyo, 2019), Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo), Busan Biennale (Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, 2018), Nissan Art Award 2017 (BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama), and 2 or 3 Tigers (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2017). Raul Walch Born in 1980, Raul Walch began studying sculpture at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, completed his studies Freien Kunst (free art) at the University of the Arts in Berlin with Olafur Eliasson and became a scholarship holder at Institut für Raumexperimente Berlin. His work has been exhibited at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, Kunsthaus Dresden, and Kunstverein Arnsberg. Numerous artist-in-residence programs have made it possible to work internationally, such as Tokyo Arts and Space, the Nida Art Colony, and the Hessian Cultural Foundation. Walch currently teaches “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies” at the Bauhaus-University Weimar. top left: Fabian Knecht, still from Genitiv, 2017; top right: Raul Walch, Eureka (Königsplatz Munich), 2018; bottom: Yuichiro Tamura, suspense, 2020 suspensegroup exhibition by Fabian Knecht, Yuichiro Tamura, Raul Walch Yuka Tsuruno Gallery 1-33-10-3F Higashi-Shinagawa Shinagawa-ku Tokyo, Japan Yuka Tsuruno Gallery is pleased to present a three person show suspense with Fabian Knecht, Yuichiro Tamura, and Raul Walch, from March 7th to April 4th, 2020. The dialogue between these three artists, which emerged from their time together in 2013 at the Institut für Raumexperimente, Berlin University of the Arts led by Olafur Eliasson, has continued to present day as their paths cross globally. An examination of the common practices and aesthetic languages present in the three artists’ works allows for a renewed reading of their works. Among Knecht, Tamura, and Walch, all three have developed their practices by engaging with diverse media such as photography, video, installation, public intervention, and performance. In this exhibition, the works on view elicit intangible relationships and de-stabilize the inherent norm by interrupting the contours of social codes, meanings, and histories associated to spaces, locations, things, and events, and assembling hypothetical, dissimilative circumstances. The title suspense, like the genre, points to the psychological state of continued internal tension in the audience as the plot approaches its conclusion, but this can also allude to “the prolonged state of being suspended.” This “state of being suspended” appears in the work of the three artists as a trajectory of ephemeral exercise in the form of repetition without end, fixed vertical motion, and floating objects. For example, in Genitiv (2017), a work by Fabian Knecht, who often presents work that dismantles the framework of “exhibitions,” a man plunging is seen through a window of the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin; in Yuichiro Tamura’s C’s Ladder, N’s Ashbins (2020) and suspense (2020), a ladder and ashbins intended for falling, as well as a hanging curtain are displayed; in Raul Walch’s public intervention Eureka (2016/2018), the projectile water that should strike the ground and disappear is captured momentarily. These works which retain the process that confronts an event even while anticipating its ending, and concern the motion of hovering in space, induce the simultaneously physical and immaterial temporality and its recurrence. At the opening reception, there will be a performance of Raul Walch’s intervention Eureka Tokyo. － Fabian Knecht Born 1980 in Magdeburg, Fabian Knecht studied at the Universität der Künste Berlin and at the California Institute of the Arts. In 2014 he completed his master’s degree with Olafur Eliasson, at whose Institut für Raumexperimente he studied from 2009 to 2014. In 2012 he assisted in the studio of Matthew Barney in New York. Fabian Knecht’s works have been shown in national and international institutions and exhibitions, among them the MSU Museum for Contemporary Art (Zagreb), the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, the Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), the Imperial War Museum (London), and the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Yuichiro Tamura Born 1977 in Toyama, Yuichiro Tamura lives and works in Kyoto. He holds a doctoral degree from the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. He was a guest researcher for the Institut für Raumexperimente at the Berlin University of the Arts. His recent solo exhibitions include Milky Mountain (Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, 2019) and Hell Scream (@KCUA, Kyoto, 2018), and group shows include Asian Art Biennial (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, 2019), Image Narratives: Literature in Japan (National Art Center, Tokyo, 2019), Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo), Busan Biennale (Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, 2018), Nissan Art Award 2017 (BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama), and 2 or 3 Tigers (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2017). Raul Walch Born in 1980, Raul Walch began studying sculpture at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, completed his studies Freien Kunst (free art) at the University of the Arts in Berlin with Olafur Eliasson and became a scholarship holder at Institut für Raumexperimente Berlin. His work has been exhibited at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, Kunsthaus Dresden, and Kunstverein Arnsberg. Numerous artist-in-residence programs have made it possible to work internationally, such as Tokyo Arts and Space, the Nida Art Colony, and the Hessian Cultural Foundation. Walch currently teaches “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies” at the Bauhaus-University Weimar.

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