at dawn
April 28–December 4, 2022, JSC Berlin
Opening: April 27, 6–10pm
The group exhibition at dawn draws connections between techniques of image production and the social and political work that goes into imagining alternatives to what the late Cuban American thinker José Esteban Muñoz called our “poisonous and insolvent” present. The show seeks to express a sense of art’s utopian horizon—a generative space of desire, experimentation, and queer relationality aligned with what he described as “ecstatic time.” Featuring twenty-five works that range from early performance videos by Joan Jonas to the allegorical and animated worlds of Jacolby Satterwhite, the exhibition insists on the possibility of “something else, something better, something dawning.”
at dawn features works by the artists Heike Baranowsky, Rosa Barba, Carol Bove, A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner, Cassandra Press, DIS, Barbara Hammer, Jeppe Hein, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, Joan Jonas, Mary Lucier, Anthony McCall, Precious Okoyomon, Jacolby Satterwhite, Cauleen Smith, and Wolfgang Tillmans.
Curators: Lisa Long with Julia Stoschek
Curatorial Assistant: Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung
Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser
Piña, Why is the Sky Blue?
April 28–December 4, 2022, JSC Berlin
Opening: April 27, 6–10pm
Piña, Why is the Sky Blue? is an affirming techno-feminist vision of a future in which ancestral knowledge and new technologies converge. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the titular video/virtual-reality installation (2021), a speculative documentary that narrates the story of a spiritual medium known as Piña. As both an embodied being and a form of artificial intelligence, Piña is able to receive and collect inherited knowledge, messages, and dreams from people around the world in order to secure their survival. The show featuring this newly acquired installation marks the first institutional solo exhibition in Germany of Berlin-based artists Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication featuring an interview between the artists and curator Lisa Long and an essay by London-based writer Alex Quicho.
Curator: Lisa Long
Curatorial Assistant: Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung
15th anniversary exhibition on gaming and art
June 5, 2022–December 10, 2023, JSC Düsseldorf
Opening: Saturday, June 4, 2022, 12–6pm
Computer and video games have found their way into popular culture and nearly every part of society. Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Julia Stoschek Collection, this group exhibition examines the relationship between gaming and time-based media art. Early works from Julia Stoschek’s holdings will be shown with more recent works, some of which were commissioned especially for the exhibition. This juxtaposition will provide an archeological view of video games and art that bridges the past and the present. Recent developments in moving images as well as the potential of interfaces between computer games and art will be considered. The anniversary exhibition will constantly change over the course of its one-and-a-half-year run and will be accompanied by a varied program, both online and on-site. A comprehensive exhibition catalog will investigate various perspectives on the phenomenon of gaming.
Curator: Hans Ulrich Obrist
Events and screenings
Steve Reinke and James Richards, When We Were Monsters (2020)
March 11–13, 2022, JSC Berlin
Artist talk: March 11, 7:30pm
The starting point of Steve Reinke and James Richards’ When We Were Monsters (2020) is a film made by the artist Gretchen Bender, who drew upon a cache of forensic images—depicting infections, deformities, and morbid injuries—given to her by a plastic surgeon. When We Were Monsters, made at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, is marked by an atmosphere of molecular porosity and existential vastness. Expanding Bender’s medical gaze to include a broader scientific gaze, Reinke and Richards weave an affective tapestry of images—featuring Ivan Pavlov’s ghost dogs, wounds, flowers, stains, fire ceremonies, and hallucinations, among other flashes of eros.
Laure Prouvost
May 14–29, 2022, JSC Düsseldorf
In conjunction with the festival düsseldorf photo+, JSC Düsseldorf will present a screening program with works by French artist Laure Prouvost (*1978 in Croix, France; lives and works in Brussels). Prouvost’s video works and immersive installations investigate language as a means of communication. By challenging the familiar relationship of images, language, and perception, she plays with the habits and expectations of viewers. Prouvost melds real and fictional material as well as autobiographical and collective stories into new, nonlinear narratives. In a rapid montage of images, the artist combines shots of people, nature, and everyday objects with written words, sounds, and voiceovers to create surreal, sensual, and intimate moments.
Out of Space—Festival for Time-Based Media Art
September 2–16, 2022, Düsseldorf
On the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, the Julia Stoschek Foundation will host the first Out of Space—Festival for Time-Based Media Art in September 2022. Conceived as a fifteen-day intervention in Düsseldorf’s urban space featuring fifteen locations in the city, the festival will present works from the Julia Stoschek Collection. Under the title Out of Space, the festival is dedicated to the leaving of time-based media art from the conventional framework of its presentation in order to show it in an unusual public space. The selection ranges from works of media art from the 1970s to works from the recent past that are closely related to the civil, social, and political changes of our time. Included in the festival are works by Cyprien Gaillard and Dara Friedman, among others, as well as a video projection by Tony Oursler that was conceived for the facade of the Düsseldorf collection building in 2007. In addition to the works on view in public space, a screening program will be presented online at jsc.art and expands on the festival’s concept.
Curators: Junni Chen and Sophia Scherer, fellows of the Curatorial Research & Residency Program 2021/2022
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