Circumnavigate
Klasse Konrad,
Universität der Künste Berlin
| With Circumnavigate, the Konrad Sculpture Class at Berlin University of the Arts is staging an exhibition at B-Part Exhibition am Gleisdreieck. The exhibition explores the relationship between artistic position, space, and group under the conditions of temporary architecture. The B-Part—a modular, dismantlable wooden architecture in temporary urban use—serves not only as an exhibition venue, but also as an active frame of reference for the works on display. Its scale, tectonic presence, and transience shape the spatial settings and invite an examination of questions of temporary use, densification, and aesthetic interactions. The space is not understood as a neutral container, but as the starting point for a process of circling, reading, and negotiating. The challenge of Circumnavigate was to exhibit with a large group in a comparatively small space. Instead of autonomous individual presentations, a joint spatial concept was developed that focuses on relationships, overlaps, and resonances. The title refers to a practice of circumventing and circling around—of navigating between spatial conditions, individual approaches, and collective form-finding. Formal decisions were made in a collaborative process. The restriction to colorless or natural-colored works creates a visual restraint within which materiality, surface, scale, and spatial interventions gain significance. The works enter into an open dialogue with each other and with the architecture, without arranging themselves hierarchically. Circumnavigate sees itself as a spatial experiment: How can collectivity be exhibited without leveling differences? Where do aesthetic and content-related condensations form? And how can an exhibition space be read as a jointly supported structure? The exhibition invites visitors to explore these questions as they move through the space. Project supervision: Prof. Karsten Konrad, Rüdiger Lange Participating artists: Everett Babcock, Ivana Boersma, Simon Boetzkes, Zocha Bryksy, Bela Böttcher, Cristina Cordett, Lisa Eckardt, Taleja Engelke, Marleen Franke, Ariane Hakami, Sophia Hallmann, Clara Höhre, Ronja Look, Gibrán Macías, Sofia Maspero, Lilian Nachtigall, Lilith Nossol, Alida Pardey, Max Prange, Ski, Luise Sandberger, Maria Steyer, Johannes Thiel, Anna Volkmar, Franz Warnke, Sarah Westebbe, Karyna Yarmolynska | ||
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