Exhibition
Misfits: Pages from a loose-leaf modernity
21 Apr 2017 – 3 Jul 2017
Regular hours
- Friday
- 16:00 – 20:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 21:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 19:00
- Monday
- 16:00 – 21:00
- Wednesday
- 16:00 – 20:00
- Thursday
- 16:00 – 20:00
Cost of entry
Daily (except Tue) 11 – 7pm
Admission: 5€/3€, admission free on Mondays
Combined ticket for the parallel exhibitions 2 or 3 Tigers and “Misfits”: 10€/7€
Guided tours: €3 plus admission
Pages from a loose-leaf modernity: How can outsider figures in modern art question the framing narratives of art history—the bounds of national narratives as much as those that organize global contemporary art?
About
How is visibility generated and art validated? The three artists Tang Chang, Rox Lee, and Bagyi Aung Soe defy clear classification, developing their work outside of art’s institutions. Their consciously marginal positions suggest alternative criteria for canonization: refusing patterns of identification, developing a critical transnational consciousness, and understanding modernity and the present as a precarious, contested state. With concrete poetry and abstract expressionism, experiments in performance, comics, animated film, and above all, drawing, “Misfits” showcases work from personal archives that haven’t previously been accessible to a wider public.
Curated by David Teh in collaboration with Yin Ker, Merv Espina and Mary Pansanga
Kanon-Fragen under the artistic direction of Anselm Franke
Part of Kanon-Fragen 2016-2019