Where am I (and who are all these people)?

Group show, Gallery EXIT, B.Vukmirovic / 27, Pejë, Kosovë
July 24 - August 29, 2004, opening: Saturday, July 24, 2004, 20:00 hrs

Participating artists: Nina Fischer/Maroan el Sani, Christoph Keller, Daniel Pflumm, Heidi Specker

Curator: Inke Arns, Berlin

Organized by: EXIT Contemporary Art Institute, Pejë, Kosovë

The exhibition »Where am I (and who are all these people)?«, conceived and curated by Inke Arns, presents works by five Berlin-based artists whose works reflect Berlin as a specifically local and at the same time global cityscape and an urban space in transformation. The works of the participating artists Nina Fischer/Maroan el Sani, Christoph Keller, Daniel Pflumm and Heidi Specker are formally very diverse. They deal on the one hand side very directly with the architectural and urban heritage of real existing Socialism. Heidi Specker, for example, analyses the structural elements of late-Socialist concrete architecture of the 1970s which can be found in many post-socialist countries (and not only here). Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani had been documenting the Berlin club scene that developed in the 1990s in run-down houses and basements. Since 2001 they have been focussing on the (past) future and (future) fate of the Palast der Republik (Palace of the Republic), built in the 1970s, which hosted the Volkskammer (i.e. the parliament) of the GDR until 1990. While Christoph Keller constructs his own photographic strip cameras to produce what he calls »Rundum Photographs« (static images depicting the movement of the camera during recording) enabling him to record the urban space and the people and objects moving in this space, Daniel Pflumm presents Berlin as a global cityscape. He does this by meticulously dissecting the elaborate global language of advertisement, of corporate identities and logo culture he finds in the urban space, on television and the Internet.

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This project takes place in the framework of relations

relations is a project initiated by kulturstiftung des bundes
(Federal Cultural Foundation, Germany)

http://www.projekt-relations.de