Songs from a Room, Pt 2
As the title suggests, this exhibition is a sequel. Songs from a Room, Pt. 2 is the second instalment of a group exhibition that opened with the same title at Meyer Riegger in Karlsruhe in November 1998. The themes for that show were space and time 鈥� songs straddle both of these categories.
The origins of this now recurring title stretch back even earlier, to 1968, the year of the left-wing student and civil rights protests. It was then that Leonard Cohen recorded his album of the same name. While the exhibition title 鈥� with its nod to 1968 鈥� alludes to the street as a public space for protest, and to song as a collective form of expression, the arrangement of the works in the current Karlsruhe exhibition also examines a space, albeit a smaller one: the gallery space. None of the works are in the middle of the room; they are all, in varying degrees, close to the wall.
The songs that now resound in this room, twenty-five years after the first instalment of the show, originate from the work of seven artists, who each occupy the space with different media: Tamina Amadyar, Katinka Bock, Dan Graham, Jonathan Monk, Andreas Schulze, Robin Stretz, and Amelie von Wulffen. Their works are a probing exploration, feeling their way in the dark and delving into the subconscious. They take what already exists as their starting point; from there, they spin a web of references, interpretations and new beginnings. Just as the exhibition is a sequel, the works shown are also based on gestures of connection, imitation, or repetition.
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As the title suggests, this exhibition is a sequel. Songs from a Room, Pt. 2 is the second instalment of a group exhibition that opened with the same title at Meyer Riegger in Karlsruhe in November 1998. The themes for that show were space and time 鈥� songs straddle both of these categories.
The origins of this now recurring title stretch back even earlier, to 1968, the year of the left-wing student and civil rights protests. It was then that Leonard Cohen recorded his album of the same name. While the exhibition title 鈥� with its nod to 1968 鈥� alludes to the street as a public space for protest, and to song as a collective form of expression, the arrangement of the works in the current Karlsruhe exhibition also examines a space, albeit a smaller one: the gallery space. None of the works are in the middle of the room; they are all, in varying degrees, close to the wall.
The songs that now resound in this room, twenty-five years after the first instalment of the show, originate from the work of seven artists, who each occupy the space with different media: Tamina Amadyar, Katinka Bock, Dan Graham, Jonathan Monk, Andreas Schulze, Robin Stretz, and Amelie von Wulffen. Their works are a probing exploration, feeling their way in the dark and delving into the subconscious. They take what already exists as their starting point; from there, they spin a web of references, interpretations and new beginnings. Just as the exhibition is a sequel, the works shown are also based on gestures of connection, imitation, or repetition.
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