Sarkis: 7 Days, 7 Nights
The Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden devotes a comprehensive solo exhibition to world-renowned conceptual artist Sarkis, whose work profoundly links the social to the conceptual, calling for the merging of practices and cultures. The exhibition is the product of a year-long exchange with the artist, focusing on art, history, and trauma, and institutions as spaces for reflection, participation and community.
The exhibition title, 7 Tage, 7 N盲chte (7 Days, 7 Nights), derives from the artist鈥檚 installation 7 Nuits (7 Nights, 2016鈥�2019), which Sarkis considers to be one of his most important works until today. It consists of seven different multi-media compositions and a sleeping bag on the floor of the artist鈥檚 studio in Paris, in front of the work La grande vitrine (The Great Vitrine, 1982鈥�2021). 7 Nuits is presented in an institutional context for the first time. As a poignant statement on the position of the artist today and transformative aspects of the politics and poetry of art, the work defines an intimate space for self-reflection and meditation as much as it confronts contextual aspects of living as an artist with resilience and resistance.
As a participatory artwork, L鈥檃telier d鈥檃quarelle dans l鈥檈au (Aquarelle in Water, 2005鈥�2006), transforms the Kunsthalle鈥檚 main exhibition space into a common ground and a conceptual stage. All visitors from age 7 to 70 are invited to participate in an ephemeral ritual based on watercolor and water. Water, a defining element of the city of Baden-Baden with its Oos river and thermal baths, provides the flowing link that organically enables working together, sharing, and creating intimate encounters and memories alike. Through water, Sarkis proposes attention and patience as fundamental aspects of learning together, with and through art, in the service of collective and personal healing.
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The Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden devotes a comprehensive solo exhibition to world-renowned conceptual artist Sarkis, whose work profoundly links the social to the conceptual, calling for the merging of practices and cultures. The exhibition is the product of a year-long exchange with the artist, focusing on art, history, and trauma, and institutions as spaces for reflection, participation and community.
The exhibition title, 7 Tage, 7 N盲chte (7 Days, 7 Nights), derives from the artist鈥檚 installation 7 Nuits (7 Nights, 2016鈥�2019), which Sarkis considers to be one of his most important works until today. It consists of seven different multi-media compositions and a sleeping bag on the floor of the artist鈥檚 studio in Paris, in front of the work La grande vitrine (The Great Vitrine, 1982鈥�2021). 7 Nuits is presented in an institutional context for the first time. As a poignant statement on the position of the artist today and transformative aspects of the politics and poetry of art, the work defines an intimate space for self-reflection and meditation as much as it confronts contextual aspects of living as an artist with resilience and resistance.
As a participatory artwork, L鈥檃telier d鈥檃quarelle dans l鈥檈au (Aquarelle in Water, 2005鈥�2006), transforms the Kunsthalle鈥檚 main exhibition space into a common ground and a conceptual stage. All visitors from age 7 to 70 are invited to participate in an ephemeral ritual based on watercolor and water. Water, a defining element of the city of Baden-Baden with its Oos river and thermal baths, provides the flowing link that organically enables working together, sharing, and creating intimate encounters and memories alike. Through water, Sarkis proposes attention and patience as fundamental aspects of learning together, with and through art, in the service of collective and personal healing.
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