A.K. Burns
Negative Space
September 6–December 15, 2019
JSC Düsseldorf, Schanzenstraße 54, 40549 Düsseldorf
Opening: September 5, 2019, 6–10pm
Artist Talk with A.K. Burns: November 16, 2019, 4pm
Negative Space, A.K. Burns’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, is the most comprehensive presentation of the Negative Space series to date. The works challenge long-standing assumptions about social orders, marshaling familiar images and objects to ask how value is assigned to resources, how marginalized bodies navigate a fraught social reality, and how different forms of matter come to matter.
At JSC Düsseldorf, Burns will restage two video installations A Smeary Spot (Negative Space 0) (2015) and Living Room (Negative Space 00) (2017), and premiere a new episode entitled Leave No Trace (Negative Space 000) (2019). In addition, the exhibition will include 21 collages related to the series, a new film observing a total solar eclipse, and an experimental sound work presented as a vinyl record.
Negative Space by A.K. Burns is part of horizontal vertigo, a year-long program at the Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf and Berlin, curated by Lisa Long.
WangShui
September 12–December 15, 2019
JSC Berlin, Leipziger Straße 60, 10117 Berlin
Opening: September 11, 2019, 7–10pm
For their first solo presentation in Europe, WangShui will exhibit three moving-image installations produced between 2016 and 2019 that explore intimate modes of transformation. Restaging architecture, live subjects, and everyday detritus, WangShui’s diaristic works activate the hallucinatory spaces between image and object, body and screen, diaspora and descent. The newest work, a three-channel moving-image installation, was commissioned by the Julia Stoschek Collection.
WangShui is part of horizontal vertigo, a year-long program at the Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf and Berlin, curated by Lisa Long.
Screenings
Sky Hopinka
September 6–October 13, 2019
JSC Düsseldorf
Anna Zett
October 17–November 24, 2019
JSC Düsseldorf
Trinh T. Minh-ha
November 28–December 22, 2019
JSC Düsseldorf
Julia Stoschek Collection in collaboration with Acute Art
Bjarne Melgaard / Koo Jeong A
October 12, 2019–January 5, 2020
JSC Berlin, Leipziger Straße 60, 10117 Berlin
Opening: October 11, 2019, 7–10pm
Julia Stoschek Collection announces a collaboration with Acute Art, London to present a Virtual Reality exhibition program, premiering with a new work by Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard and AR works by Koo Jeong A in October 2019. The Julia Stoschek Collection will provide a space at the JSC Berlin to show new and existing VR and AR works, produced by Acute Art, by artists Mark Leckey, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Marco Brambilla, and R. H. Quaytman, among others.
Stan Douglas
Splicing Block
November 2, 2019–March 1, 2020
JSC Berlin, Leipziger Straße 60, 10117 Berlin
Opening: October 30, 2019, 7–10pm
Since the late 1980s, Stan Douglas has been creating films, photographs, and installations, as well as recently venturing into theater productions and other multidisciplinary projects, exploring the parameters of their respective mediums. The artist queries the past in his works, breaking through traditional narrative structures to blur fact and fiction. The exhibition Splicing Block focuses on the relationship between music and society while simultaneously being a reflection on the media of film and photography. The works on display reconstruct and reimagine the 1960s and 1970s, centering on (de)colonization, migration, jazz, underground disco, and Afrobeat.
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 Collection.
