Andrea Winkler & Stefan Panhans
DAS GEFÄHRLICHSTE BÜRO DER WELT (The most dangerous office of the world)
Exhibition: 19.9. - 24.10.2009
Opening: FRI, 18.9.2009, 19:00
FINISSAGE: SA, 24.10.2009, 18 - 23 h
Both in the presence of the artists
You are very welcome to the closing reception
and launch of the two new books of Andrea Winkler as well as Stefan Panhans:»11.27°/53.83°«
Choi Je-Hun, Kathrin Schlegel, Sven Karge, Alves Lennart, Andrea Winkler
Text by Dirk Stewen on Andrea Winkler
Förderkreis Schloss Plüschow e.V. (Hg.), 2009
www.plueschow.de»Stefan Panhans – Wann kommt eigentlich der Mond raus?«,
Förderpreis 2008 Video, Stefan Panhans, Eske Schlüters, M.1 Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung
Texts by Julia Gwendolyn Schneider, Christian Kupke; interview with Stefan Panhans by Petra Reichensperger
Petra Reichensperger (Hg.), Hamburg 2009
www.textem.de/index.php?id=1888* * *
Andrea Winkler creates room installations often of an intervening character. Her approach is distinguished by minimal alterations and a subtly estranged »restaging« of everyday fragments that partly draws from a pool of objects used for decoration and orchestration. Winkler incorporates the specific spatial situation in her installations so that the space itself becomes in its function and form a crucial part in the whole 'picture'.
Stefan Panhans is next to his video work also known for his photographic work. In the last two years he mainly focused on phenomena of contemporary life and urbanity - mostly with elaborately staged rooms and places that Panhans finds in the everyday sight of highly commercialised cities. Once with obstructed gaze, once outright, his photographs question these staged performances together with their instrumentalized promises and suggestions.
Both of the artistic approaches have a distinctive irritating undertone that queries particular allocations of meanings and functions of everyday objects, rooms and sceneries. To reinterpret them through simple modifications, as room installation or as photographic images, is both artists’ common strategy. Andrea Winkler and Stefan Panhans worked for the first time together and created an installation specifically for the RAUM FÜR ZWECKFREIHEIT.
Information and further texts on Stefan Panhans and Andrea Winkler:
download PDF here (72kb) -german-
more information and exhibitionviews on www.andreawinkler.org/projekt02/buero.html
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Opening hours:
THU+FRI 16:30 - 18:30
and by appointmentExtra opening time at Art Forum weekend: SAT+SUN, 26.+27.9.2009, 16 - 20:00
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The RAUM FÜR ZWECKFREIHEIT (SPACE FOR 'PURPOSELESSNESS' - in the sense of 'free research')
provides exactly the same in a backyard house at Adalbertstrasse 71 in the centre of Berlin.
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RAUM FÜR ZWECKFREIHEIT
Adalbertstraße 71
(Backyard)
10997 BerlinCurator: Jan Ketz
mail(at)zweckfreiheit.de
