"KÖRPERCOLLAGEN" - COLLECTION BECKER / SERIE TRUE COLLECTORS / BABETTE / BERLIN

Opening: 25 January 2012, 20h
Frome 25 to 27 January 2012
Currated by Conny Becker & Babette
http://www.barbabette.com/Babette/Programm.html

With:
Heike Gallmeier, Alex Tennigkeit, Souche, Nicole Tran Ba Vang, Richard Fauguet, Barbara Breitenfellner, Liveact: Catherine Lorent.
 

 

L'ÉTRANGE NOËL DE MADAME ET MONSIEUR DE LA CHÂTRE / GALERIE MARTINE ET THIBAULT DE LA CHÂTRE / PARIS

Opening: 3 December 2011, 16h
From 3 December to 14 January 2012
Currated by David Rosenberg

Press release:
http://www.lachatregalerie.com/show_detail.php?show_id=292&language=2

Whith:
Aurélie Levaux, Moussa Sarr, Vincent Schnepf, Souche et Fabien Verschaere.

 

 

CAPSULE PROJECT / KIBLA / MARIBOR / SLOVENIA

Opening: 21 October 2011, 18h
From 21 October to ...
Currated by Mobile Institute
http://mobileinstitute.org/capsules_alpha/capsule/c-09

Whith:
Samir Mouga, Souche, Projet Diligence, Sophie Dejode & Bertrand Lacombe, Jean-Daniel Bourgeois, Antoine Meyer, Pierre-Laurent Cassiere, Yann Leguay et Djos Janssens.

 

 

 

 

CARTE BLANCHE À L'ESADS / LA CHAUFFERIE / STRASBOURG / FRANCE

Opening: 3 October 2011, 18h
From 4 October to 21 November 2011
Curated by l'Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg

Whith:
Gilles Barbier, Damien Deroubaix, Rainier Lericolais, Maël Nozahic, Manuel Ocampo, Souche, Marcel van Eeden, Yannick Vey et Jérôme Zonder
 

 

 

 

JEUNE CRÉATION EUROPEENNE / LA FABRIQUE MONTROUGE / PARIS / FRANCE

Opening: 14 October 2011, 19h
From 15 October to 13 November 2011
Curated by Andrea Ponsini

Whith 80 artists from 10 countrys:
Deuscthland, Austria, Spain, France, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal and Slovakia

 

 

 

 

FAIS GAFFE AUX BICHES / MAISON PIEUVRE / SAINT-ETIENNE / FRANCE

Opening: 15 June 2011, 18h
From 16 June to 31 June 2011
Curated by Gas Barthély and Antoine Palmier-Reynaud

Whith:
Julien Charroin, Jean Alain Corre, Gregory Cuquel, Alexandra David, Renaud Jerez, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Bertrand Lacombe & Sophie Dejode, Grégoire Motte, Miguel Pelleterat, Liv Schulman, Souche et Yannick Vey.

 

 

STATE OF THE UNION / FREIES MUSEUM / BERLIN / GERMANY                                                               

Opening: 13 May 2011, 19h
From 14 May to 11 June 2011
Curated by writer Conny Becker and artist Damien Deroubaix.
http://freies-museum.com/state-of-the-union.html

Whith:
Christian Aberle (D), Gilles Barbier (F), Barbara Breitenfellner (A), Damien Cadio (F), Eric Corne (F), Julia Cottin (F), Martin Dammann (D), Damien Deroubaix (F), Marcel van Eeden (NL), Richard Fauguet (F), Heike Gallmeier (D), Julie Laignel (F), Audrey Nervi (F), Maël Nozahic (F), Arnaud Rochard (F), Souche (F), Barthélémy Toguo (Cameroun/F), Sandra Vásquez de la Horra (Chili), Yannick Vey (F), Zaidel & Luskind (D/Israël), Katharina Ziemke (D)

 

 

Le titre State of the Union fait référence au discours annuel du président des Etats unis d´Amérique présentant l´état du pays et les perspectives de futur. Rassemblant une vingtaine d´artistes, dont une douzaine de francais, mais aussi des allemands, Camerounais ou Chilienne, l´exposition répartie sur les 3 étages du Freies Museum Berlin fait également figure de constat et de perspective sous différents points de vue: sombre ou menacant pour certains (Eric Corne, Julia Cottin, Damien Cadio...), absurde et ironique pour d´autres (Gilles Barbier, Souche, Igor Zaidel...), poétique (Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Yannick Vey...), politique (Barthélémy Toguo, Martin Dammann...).

The title State of the Union refers to the annual speech of the US-President, which describes the present situation and offers perspectives for the future. With 21 artists – among twelve French, furthermore artists from Germany, the Netherlands, Chile and Cameroon – the exhibition at Freien Museum Berlin also formulates an actual state as well as perspectives from different points of view: dark or drastic for some (Eric Corne, Julia Cottin, Damien Cadio...), absurd and ironic for others (Richard Fauguet, Souche, Gilles Barbier...), poetic (Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Yannick Vey, Christian Aberle...) or political (Barthélémy Toguo, Martin Dammann...).

 

 

AFTER / ZERO FOLD / KÖLN / GERMANY

 

 

The works in this exhibition curated by the French artist Damien Deroubaix are as ambiguous as its title suggests. Using the preposition ‘after’, it gathers works by eight, mainly French, artists taking their cue from the history of art. Despite its apparent simplicity, the word ‘after’ opens up a wide field of associations, as suggested, among others, by the notion of hindsight, which often allows unsuspected meanings to emerge.

            Echoing Deroubaix’s own practice, the art-historical references in this exhibition have been transferred into new contexts and a topical formal language, allowing them to act as comments on contemporary society. In Deroubaix’s drawings, etchings, collages and paintings apocalyptical scenarios unfold replete with symbols of death and interspersed with words and bribes borrowed from the realms of advertising, music and finance. The works in this exhibition share Deroubaix’s references to high-brow and low-brow culture, exposing hidden dialectical relations or simply showing the flipside of things.

            The flipside of Yannick Vey’s Fist shows the triad of religion, sex and war, transforming an arm reliquary into a hardcore sex toy. Maël Nozahic ’s Le Sauveur (The Saviour), an aquarelle with an integrated devotional picture, plays on the linguistic likeness, if not equivalence, of the words ‘saviour’ and ‘savage’, an ambiguity which has riddled the history of missionary work. The horror lurking beneath the surface of innocence also haunts the figure in Jérôme Zonder ’s etching which, like a Little Jack who has jumped out of a children’s drawing, has embarked on a journey where it passes trees on which Goya’s Disasters of War blossom.

             Elodie Lesourd is focusing on the recent history of art, for instance when she makes a gloomy allusion to Banks Violette, inviting one of her illustrious predecessor’s distinctively cool installations into her own painting Glissé(e)s, where it forms an eerie architectural skeleton. In this exhibition Lesourd is showing a work after Christoph Büchel. The work of Nicole Tran Ba Vang in turn is characterised by a lighter, irreverent and ironic approach. Here, she exhibits a digitally-aged vision of Raphael’s Fornarina, illustrating the idea that even icons fade away. (It remains to be seen whether the pseudonym ‘Madonna’ preserves beauty from the workings of time.)

            On the other hand, merely a few lines are needed to reactivate other idols – and chimeras, as demonstrated by Christian Aberle ’s ink drawings, whose pointedly minimalist compositions reference Picasso or Magritte and let Thomas Schütte’s Ghosts come to live. Finally, Fabien Souche has devised a bacchanal with participants from various moments in the history of art: during the three days of ART COLOGNE, from 13 to 15 April, his bar will allow visitors of ZERO FOLD to enjoy a beer while acting as living formulaic images of pathos.