Take A Walk On The Wild Side. To Russia with Love. And to Lou Reed.

Our current exhibition Take A Walk On The Wild Side – To
Russia with Love. And to Lou Reed is being extended for a
second time, and can be viewed until February 22nd, 2014.

Abetz & Drescher • Emilie Arfeuil • Winston Chmielinski •
Rainer Fetting • Giuseppe Gonella • Bettina van Haaren • Ivar
Kaasik • Ralf König • Lena Lapschina • Evgenij Kozlov •
Slava Mogutin • Wolfgang Neumann • Tim Plamper • Joachim
Seinfeld • Snapple • Franziska Strauss

At the onset of the new year, public interest has increased
significantly. The exhibition's subject matter continues to be
relevant, not only because of the forthcoming Olympic Winter
Games in Sochi, but also due to recent headlines like the
coming-out of Thomas Hitzlsperger, former member of
Germany's national football (soccer) team, and the interview
of Guido Westerwelle, former German foreign minister, in
'stern' magazine. These topics have contributed to a
revitalization of a long-overdue public discourse. Russia's
continued attacks on human rights remain alarming. Despite
the release of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Pussy Riot members
Maria Alyokhina and Nadeshda Tolokonnikova, President
Putin's latest remarks regarding homosexuality leave no room
for hope for an improvement of the current situation.
Take A Walk On The Wild Side is intended – with a view to the
increase of homophobic and racist attacks unfortunately not
just in Russia – to take a stance: against political
paternalism, censorship, and the suppression of artistic work,
against homophobia and racism. The aim is not, however, to
present an exhibition of political art. Rather, the
gallerist/curator is interested in existential decisions of people
who risk a 'walk on the wild side' and thus risk being socially
ostracized, declared outlaws or indeed risk their lives.

We asked the invited artists for works that circle around sex,
love, androgyny, around Eros and death, around ecstasy and
the Dionysian, the transgression of borders and conventions,
around nudity and the human body, and the other in the self.