March 31, 2019–April 26, 2020
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION is pleased to present two solo exhibitions by Rindon Johnson (JSC Düsseldorf) and artist duo Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz (JSC Berlin). The exhibitions will be accompanied by a screening program with films by Eduardo Williams, Arjuna Neuman & Denise Ferreira da Silva, and Chelsea Knight (JSC Düsseldorf); and a performance with composer and choreographer Colin Self (JSC Berlin).
Rindon Johnson
Circumscribe
March 31–July 28, 2019
JSC Düsseldorf
Schanzenstraße 54
40549 Düsseldorf
Opening: March 29, 2019, 7–10pm
Artist Talk: March 31, 2019, 3pm
In Circumscribe, Rindon Johnson’s first institutional solo show in Europe, the artist examines material and conceptual forms of circulation and containment in relation to capital and consumption, as well as language, images, bodies, and technologies. Alongside existing works of painting and sculpture, the exhibition features new videos and virtual reality works, a site-specific livestream installation, and a soundtrack produced in collaboration with Milo McBride.
Johnson’s inquiries begin with language and return to it through the titles of his works, each of which emerges through the constant triangulation of poetry, the video or object, and the viewer. In this collision of language, object, and viewer, Johnson explores the complex hierarchies that structure our societies, challenging their legitimacy and legibility. He does so by introducing radical subjectivity and intimacy to the work and by indulging in moments of ambiguity and ambivalence. Through language, Johnson draws attention to the often invisible but acute violence that permeates his—and our—everyday lived experience. Meaning, however, is obscured and continually questioned; each articulation is thereby also an act of refusal: a refusal to comply and a refusal to disappear. Instead we witness a desire to overcome the binding states, the containers, and categories that define us.
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz
Ongoing Experiments with Strangeness
April 26–July 28, 2019
JSC Berlin
Leipziger Straße 60
10117 Berlin
Opening: April 25, 2019, 8–11pm
Artist Talk: July 27, 2019, 6:30pm
Ongoing Experiments with Strangeness is Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz’s most comprehensive exhibition to date. Spanning the ground floor and first-floor cinema of the collection’s Berlin gallery, the show comprises four large-scale moving image installations, stage elements, lights and sculptural objects that, according to the artists, experiment with possibilities “between protest and resistance,” a reference to Ulrike Meinhof’s 1968 essay “Vom Protest zum Widerstand.”
In their collaborative practice, driven by ongoing conversations about the subjects of performance and performativity, companionship, and resistance, Boudry / Lorenz excavate unrepresented moments and gestures in history, challenging accepted narratives and binary categories of identity and meaning. The moving image works featured in the exhibition—Telepathic Improvisation (2017), Silent (2016), I Want (2015), and To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation (2013)—all draw on musical scores, scripts, and speeches, adapted and interpreted by performers. Collectively, the artists and performers explore the works’ various political and sexual potentials, adopting a non-hierarchical approach to their examination of their relationships among themselves and with the viewers.
Through their camera work, Boudry / Lorenz reflect the violent history of visualization, questioning who or what is seen and in return goes unseen, or unheard. By including objects from their films in the gallery space, the boundaries between the representational space of the film and the actual space of the gallery begin to dissolve. These on- and off-screen human and non-human encounters examine the limits of musical and filmic forms as protest and resistance, calling for an urgently desired future.
Performance
Colin Self
May 31 and June 1, 2019, 8pm
JSC Berlin
Screenings
Eduardo Williams
March 31–May 5, 2019
JSC Düsseldorf
Arjuna Neumann & Denise Ferreira da Silva
May 15–June 22, 2019
JSC Düsseldorf
Chelsea Knight
June 26–July 28, 2019
JSC Düsseldorf
About horizontal vertigo
horizontal vertigo is an ensemble of solo exhibitions, performances, screenings, and talks at the JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION in Düsseldorf and Berlin, striving to amplify the multiplicity of narratives and narrators at hand while acknowledging their difference. Curated by Lisa Long.
Over the course of a year, horizontal vertigo brings together a diverse group of international and interdisciplinary artists whose individual projects address the complexities and contradictions inherent to articulations of identity, (cultural) representation, and history, challenging systems of binary opposition and definitive categorizations.
About the Collection
The JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION is one the world’s most comprehensive private collections of time-based art, dedicated to the public presentation, advancement, conservation, and scholarship of media and performance practices. At present, over 850 artworks by more than 255 contemporary artists across genres and generations offer an overview of time-based art from the 1960s to today with a strong focus on works made after 2000. Public access to the collection is made possible by the support of the JULIA STOSCHEK FOUNDATION.
