Events/Openings

With the series 1work/ 1room/ 1night/, Gitte Bohr. Club für Kunst und politisches Denken launched, in spring this year, a call for applications for artists. Giving artists the opportunity to present an art piece in a small underground space and discussing it with an audience, we have already been able to establish encounters with invitees from Greece, Finland/Czech Republic and Spain.

On November 7, we are proud to present a one-night exhibition and an artist talk with Fokus Grupa (a.k.a. Iva Kovac & Elvis Krstulovic) from Zagreb, Croatia. FG is an artist collective, uniting different practices: art, design and curating, and applying these practices to an artistic strategy, that takes political shapes, without epitomizing a representational "political art." With the third wave of institutional critique, in which critique became an intra-institutional and undemocratic vindication, the interpretive and discursive dominance on art shifted from the artist and the independent art critic to the institutions. After this, FG reacts to the need for re-appropriating critique, curatorial and distributional practice. By using collaborative and interdisciplinary practices, and by reshaping institutional praxis in an autonomous way, FG concentrates on the varied relations between art and its (public) manifestations, in terms of working culture, aesthetics, and social and economic exchange values. Investigating the inherent power structures of the art-system and, to this effect, its economic, spatial and legal implementations, FG expand the boundaries of the artwork. In printed matter, slideshows, works on paper and not least in discussions, FG is going to revisit institutional critique, seen from different historical and geographical perspectives. In West Germany, they will present samples from the ongoing project called Art&Market; there is no art without consequences, which they started working on in 2009, and that has already been shown in a number of places, among them the Moscow Biennial 2010.