Akram Al Halabi, Eva Kadlec, Thomas Kübler, Robert Pawliczek, Janie Poelzl, Susanne Richter, Bartisz Sikorski

curated by

Luisa Kasalicky and Abraham Orden

October 26 – November 7, 2011

GAVU

Academy od Fine Arts in Prague,

U Akademie 4, Prague 7

Unterior

For the Modern, the moral was always to resist tradition. But when tradition is no longer imposed, but only on offer?

Western liberal democracy (WLD) marches toward the status of universal, homgenous state. Traditions, those little nuggets of loval relativity, have stood in the way. HIstorically the solution has been to destroy them; the innovation of late-liberalism has been to realize that in many cases, only going sofar as pacifying a given tradition is not only enough, it is better: not onyl is the societal discomofrt that attend sbearing witness to annihilation releived, but with the tradition still extant, and rendered ubable to pose any resistance, it also becomes potentally useful to the system as a marketable commodity.

The exhibiton Unterior presents a few students from the Abstract Painting class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna The curatorial duo as well as the Professor assistants of the class Luisa KAslicky and Abraham Orden deal with the didactic approach that to set onself up as a classical modern artist, resisting a traditionthat society has already mastered and rendered passive, is to waste energy in nostalgia, and perhaps to partake of that commodification. In either case it is a forfeit of imagination.

They teach that the where the world’s traditions have been rendered malleable and left, they lie like bits and scraps. These can be gathered into the studio, gathered into the work, repurposed, put to new use, made to function again, but otherwise.

They teach that when an artis takes up a given tradition with respect, with an exe towards how it once “meaned” against WLD before the ideology sapped the meaning out of it, a power can be unlocked that the ideology is not prepared for, a new purchase and resistance: at such meetings of artist and tradition, moments of freedom occur, glimpses of an alternative future.

Akram Al Halabi, Eva Kadlec, Thomas Kübler, Robert Pawliczek, Janine Poelzl, Anne Puhony, Susanne Richter ans Bartosz Sikorski have been mist strongly inspired with the urge to make from the history of art, the traditions therein, a frame in which it is possible for their work to become a new thought.

-Abraham Orden

Project 8

8tallet

Robert Jacobsens Vej 62A
2300 København S
(100m from Metrostation Vestamager)
Denmark

14 Oktober bis 6 November

Opening:  14.10., 17.00

Gallery is open Tuesday to Friday 11-17

Saturday to Sunday 12-17

English

Project 8 is a popup gallery of almost 600m2 located in the award-winningarchitect Bjarke Ingels construction 8tallet in ørestad south.  Projekt8 presents 8 international art academies (Berlin, Prague, London, Düsseldorf, New York, Amsterdam, London,Vienna)  that each show works of 8students. Exhibitions are curated by students themselves, so it’s new art - without the filter - with a new show each month.

German

Project 8 ist ein Popup-Galerie von fast 600m2 in dem der  preisgekrönten Bau 8tallet der  Architekten Bjarke Ingels in Ørestad Süden.Es zeigen jeweils 8 Studierende von  8 Kunstakademien  ( Berlin, Prag, London, Düsseldorf, New York, Amsterdam, London, Wien) ihre Arbeiten.

Danish

Projekt 8 er et popup galleri på knapt 600m2 placeret i arkitekten bjarke ingels prisbelønnede byggeri 8tallet i ørestad syd.Projekt8 praesenterer 8 internationale kunstakademier ( Berlin, Prag, London, Düsseldorf, New York, Amsterdam, London, Wien) som hver viser vaerker af 8 elever. udstillingerne er kurateret af eleverne selv, så det er ny kunst – helt uden filter – med en ny fernisering hver måned.

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