Take Place 2020

About

First performed by 160 artists in a duration of 5 days in 2019, the work will be shown again in the forms of video projections, live performance and photographs at the beginning of 2020 at Bar k Gallery.

The work, that consists of human interactions, has no fixed outcome. The performance is conduced in two phrases. Almost like a test of human solidarity, the artists who are convinced by the concept, come to the gallery space voluntarily. Instead of exhibiting their own works, they are physically presented in the empty space as part of the work, for the experience of participating in something unconventional and somehow unpredictable. In Take Place I, they stand, sit and chat in the white cube, and ready for the public to join them. Once the public enters the space, he/she becomes the performer. Without a distinction between the artists and the visitors, everyone is invited to participate in the artist’s point of view. When first performed in 2019, the work provoked a range of reactions including confusing visitors looking for the exhibition around the space, despite that they were already part of it. Soaked in this experience, Take Place challenges the general expectations the public has towards an exhibition, and also the way we experience it.

In Take Place II, the artists are sitting on the stadium seats inside the gallery window and watching the street. The second act plays with the ways of looking, by staring at viewers rather than the other way around. The silent but intensive eye contacts cause different responses from the public, where the potentials of the work lies in. Both phrases of Take Place raise the questions of the relationship between the artist and the public, and their roles and participations in an exhibition.

At Bar k Gallery, Take Place II will be performed at the opening night, while the stadium seats remain in the gallery until the end of show as an interactive option for the visitors. Echoing the content of the video projections, the visitors are invited to sit on it to become the observer, and to rethink themselves in a gallery context.

Live Performance:
7:30 - 8:30 pm, Jan 11, 2020.

Opening:
7 - 9 pm, Jan 11, 2020.

Exhibition duration:
Jan 12 - 22, 2020. by appointment.

Project director: Ming Lu

Artists performing at the Opening:

Anitra Bohman-Penttinen

Daiane Rafaela

Gawie Joubert

Horia Savescu

Ivana Jecmenica

Jimmie James

Lyndsey Walsh

Rocio Garrido

Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt

Silvestre Natalia

Violetta De Saga

Participating Artists (full list):

Abdulsalam Ajaj

Adrian Mcintosh

Alexander Kokx

All Black Series

Amelia Emma Forrest

Anastasiia Belousova

Andreea Cioran

Andreea Hriscu

Andrew Berry

Anitra Bohman-Penttinen

Anna Barth

Anna Benner

Anneliese Greve

Anto Marinov

Archan Nair

Astra Pentaxia

Aurora Del Rio

Boris Eldagsen

Cau Silva

Chris Aragón

Christian Niccoli

Christina Themeli

Christopher Sage

Ciara-Angela Engelhardt

Cihangir Guemuestuerkmen

Crisalide D'aria

Crista Siglin

Daiane Domingues

Daiane Rafaela

Daniel Schaal

Daniela Maria Geraci

Danielle Benvenuto

Daria Belous

Despoina Filippidou

Dimitra Thomaidou

Dmytro Fedorenko

Dorota K. Samborski

Elif Okay

Elisa Duca

Elisa Jule Braun

Elisa Vidalis

Elly Kahn

Eric Alonzo

Eva Maria Kaack

Evgenia Chetvertkova

Fabifa

Faranak Zaboli

Flavius Augustin

Francesca Melotti

Friederike Ruff

Gabija Razanskaite

Gabriella Forzelius

Gawie Joubert

Gene Kittchen

Genesis Victoria

Giulia Valenti

Golden Diskó Ship

Greg Kappes

Hadas Amster

Horia Savescu

Hyejin Lee

Irma van Doornmalen

Ivan Paniotov

Ivana Dilva

Ivana Jecmenica

IZZY AMUW

James Patock

Jane Hwang

Jannis Eggelsmann

Jb.Lyonga

Jenny Dam

Jessica Roes

Jie-Liang Lin

Jimmie James

Joanna Chwiłkowska

Joanna Kawicka

Julija Kaulinytė

Karin Knutsson

Karmen Kraft

Katarzyna Mazur

Kelly Moorosi

Kelsey Linder

Kimberly Meenan

Lale Willan

Lei Tzeshi

Leslie Atkins

Liat Peled

Lukas Hanus

Lyndsey Walsh

Machig de Valence

Machito Timotheo José Sánchez

Malavasi Samanta

Marcus Ahlers

Maria Leibnitz

Marina Aizome

Marina Belikova

Markella Davu

Markusen

Mathias Roloff

Mia Stark

Min Kim

Miriam Glinka

Mirthe van Popering

Mirthe van Popering

Mohamed Farahat

Mojca Hadela

Myao

Natalia Irina Roman

Natalya Gimson

Neïtah Janzing

Nicol Rivera

Niklas Soestmeyer

Niko Mitsuko

Nora Novak

Nose of Wax

Nusha Shishi

Olena Maximow

Olya Bychkova

Oumou Nasri

Pavel Fernandez

Pawel Jankiewicz

Peppy Cheng

Philipp Kay

Pierluigi Muscolino

Rebeca Domiciano

Rocio Garrido

Ronald Rose

Sanja Star

Sarah Duah

Sarah Teichmann

Sebastian Kurth

Seweryn Jański

Shannon Sea

Silvestre Natalia

Silvia Camagni

Silvia Trebbi

Simone Brühl

Sinéad Butler-Aldridge

Siri Zetterman

Sofia Marques Ferreira

Sonia Noya

Souhir Neumeister

Stephanie Mohun

Sue Dlamini

Svenja Schaefer

Sylvia Rybak

Thomas Tirel

Tomoya Kawamura

Valeria Aleksic

Vao Kumitz

Vicky Heinlein

Vincenzo Suscetta

Wanqian Lin

Wolfgang Busch

Xiaoer Liu

Xiaofu Wang

Yun Ju Chen

Zavoloka

Zazaa Ganbold

Zi Gattina