Exhibition
Transactions. About the value of artistic labour
1 Jun 2017 – 20 Aug 2017
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Travel Information
- U1 Nollendorfplatz
With a wide-ranging accompanying program, the exhibition offers a platform for discourse, aimed at illuminating and challenging various aspects of the relationship between artistic practices and the current financial system.
About
„We’re at a point where success in market terms justifies and validates everything, replacing all the theories“
(Michel Houellebecq, 2010)
Economic aspects have always belonged to the production and reception of art. But the medium never seems to have been reshaped and driven by the forces of the market to the extent we observe today. Art and capital enter close collusions, the basis on which the Western product of “Contemporary Art” is distributed worldwide. Haus am Lützowplatz shows works that reflect, uncover, or even embody the underlying structures of capitalist exchange. What are the conditions under which art is produced? How is it distributed and perceived? Who are its recipients? How is symbolic capital produced and taken into account in determining the value of a work of art? How does art change in the context of the prevailing attention economy? Must you be creative as an artist? What parallels exist between the freelance artist and the independent entrepreneur? Is the perpetuation of contemporary art a result of our financial and consumer systems? Figuratively speaking, these and other questions are placed into the spaces between the works. The artworks on display will not offer answers as such, but challenge and maybe also accelerate thought processes. Potential contradictions arising from the arrangement and juxtaposition of the works are anticipated.
with works by:
Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC)
Nadine Fecht
Ali Fitzgerald
Moritz Frei
Thorsten Goldberg
Christian Jankowski
Ligthart Enterprises
Michael Sailstorfer
Joshua Schwebel
Santiago Sierra
Jonas St. Michael
Pilvi Takala