Folding Unfolding Space - Gruppenausstellung

Folding Unfolding Space: Sylvie Boisseau & Frank Westermeyer (F/D), Simon Deppierraz (CH), Christina Dimitriadis (GR/D), Aloïs Godinat (CH), Elín Jakobsdóttir (IS/GB), Andrea Knobloch (D), Luc Mattenberger (CH)
Curated by Dr Christine Nippe

In the group exhibition Folding Unfolding Space at cubus-m the initially abstract concept ‘space’ is addressed. Through the artistic works, altered spatial contours unfold: With the help of the utilized media – like film, photography, installation, lithography, three-dimensional objects and works on paper – the dimensions of space are artistically examined, negotiated and activated.
In an ethnographically inspired research project, in which I was interested in the artist’s respective practices and their ways of conceptualizing space, I visited seven studios and discovered many facets of this theme. Whether in Berlin,
Brussels, Düsseldorf, Geneva or Lausanne, many artists – such was my impression during the research – engage with these questions. It seems that the spatial turn fascinates not only the social sciences and cultural studies, but guides
artistic practice as well.
Interestingly, these works not only address “classical” spatialization via architecture, but also explore the social, the psychological, the imaginary, the linguistic and the physical space by employing various methods. In this way, the
focus is on a multiplicity of spaces that fan out, sometimes directly, sometimes sublimely, in the artists’ concepts.
These different approaches have in common the invitation to the viewer to reflect and imagine. Using their artistic techniques, together they may succeed in playfully pushing our notion beyond the container model (in which space is
considered limited in size) and in inviting us, such that the space in its multiple dimensions folds and unfolds again in the “eye of the viewer.” Christine Nippe, Curator

Opening: Friday, 2 May, 2014, at 7 p.m.
3 May – 14 June, 2014
cubus-m, Pohlstraße 75, 10785 Berlin