Exhibition

»Swinger«

19 May 2018 – 1 Jul 2018

Regular hours

Saturday
11:00 – 19:00
Sunday
11:00 – 19:00
Tuesday
11:00 – 19:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 19:00
Thursday
11:00 – 19:00
Friday
11:00 – 19:00

Cost of entry

Admission free

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Bärenzwinger

Berlin
Berlin, Germany

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In the exhibition "Swinger", former demarcations are revised. The works by Kerstin Honeit and Pätzug/Hertweck touch, overlap, interrupt each other and outline modifiable structures, the Bärenzwinger's construction of eality collapses and can be re-interpreted in a never-completing loop.

About

The architecture of the Bärenzwinger constructs a specific reality: Movements and encounters between bears and humans were regulated through perfect mechanisms: Security grating systems determined the animals' path, and keepers would operate them, thus maintaining the scenery in the outdoor enclosures for the visitors' view. Today, these systems form the backdrop for another staging of movement and a new choreography of encounter.

To what extent does architecture structure the relationship between humans, animals and objects? How is behavior shaped by spacial structures, and how can these established conditions be disrupted and re-negotiated?

In the exhibition "Swinger", former demarcations are revised. The mechanically animated installation "Pagodenwackeln" by Pätzug / Hertweck moves throughout the interior and exterior of the Bärenzwinger and challenges a positioning in relation to the space and its voids. In Kerstin Honeit's Video work "Panda Moonwalk or Why Meng Meng Walks Backwards", human and inhuman bodies actively and resistantly assert themselves in the context of social injustices. The works touch, overlap, interrupt each other and outline modifiable structures, so that the Bärenzwinger's construction of eality collapses and can be re-interpreted in a never-completing loop.

We are exited to have Stefan Aue, Anne Hölck and Jessica Páez as visiting curators for the fifth exhibition project at Bärenzwinger.

Stefan Aue concieves and realizes thematic projects between science and art, currently he works at the House of World Cultures (HKW) in Berlin. Anne Hölck is an independent scenographer for theatre projects and curator in the field of human-animal studies. Jessica Páez is an independent producer and dramaturg in theatre and visual art and works as a project coordinator at House of World Cultures (HKW) since 2015. Their common interest in the artistic production of knowledge and its presentation combines them as curatorial team.

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Since September 2017 the former bear pit of the heraldic animals of the city of Berlin has re-opened as a cultural venue for site-specific contemporary art in Berlin-Mitte. The two-year exhibition program thematizes three core areas: “Traces of the Animalic” addresses the perceptible absence / presence of the bears. The second key aspect “Architectures of Segregation” sweeps through both the internal and external grounds of the bear pit. The third, “Projections of Indistinguishability” ultimately develops ideas for future scenarios of the bear pit.

CuratorsToggle

Jessica Páez

Stefan Aue

Anne Hölck

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Pätzug/Hertweck

Kerstin Honeit

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