Nowadays, the cabinet of curiosities has become outdated and is no longer adequate for addressing the diversity and interconnectedness of contemporary art. It represented a quasi-cognitive state of the era, in which various objects were continuously accumulated from their initially chaotic state and organized into typologies.
The exhibition presents for the first time all previous issues of the journal TIEMPO MUERTO (Dead Time) with accompanying videos. TIEMPO MUERTO has been published by Juan Pablo Macías since 2012 and is dedicated to researching anarchist practice. In the context of art, it embodies a critique of representation and is central to his practice, which also extends to other grammars.
Referencing a popular internet meme, the title refers to a binary worldview in which humans are set apart from their natural environment and its organisms, creating a simplified reality of human and non-human.
Neo-Baroque gardens like the Körnerpark were meant to illustrate human mastery over nature. The exhibition Unruly Splendour invites viewers to find beauty in chaos, disorder, and uniqueness, rather than focusing on symmetry, standardization, and normality.
sometimes i hold onto the air is an exhibition in which young Belarusian artists in exile reflect on the protests that radically transformed their lives and the years that followed. Their art works deal with the repression in their home country and the fear of constant surveillance that is incessant even in exile.
