Events/Openings

OPENING & PERFORMANCE 12 September at 6-9pm
EXHIBITION 13 September - 1 November 2015

MOMENTUM is proud to present the first solo show in Germany of the pioneering Chinese video and animation artist Zhou Xiaohu. It is curated by English-born curator and writer, David Elliott, who has worked extensively on contemporary Asian art.

Live performances will take place as follows. At all other times, a video of the performance will be shown within the installation.

12 September (SAT) 18:00-21:00 [Opening]
13 September (SUN) 15:00-17:00
18 September (FRI) 18:00-20:00 [Berlin Art Week]
19 September (SAT) 18:00-20:00 [Berlin Art Week]
26 September (SAT) 15:00-17:00
3 October (SAT) 15:00-17:00
10 October (SAT) 15:00-17:00
17 October (SAT) 15:00-17:00
24 October (SAT) 15:00-17:00
31 October (SAT) 15:00-17:00
1 November (SUN) 15:00-17:00 [Finissage]

Website link: http://momentumworldwide.org/exhibitions/scheisse-zhou-xiaohu/
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1621544518134428/
E-invitation: http://eepurl.com/bwP_Rj

Scheiße, German slang for faeces and a popular expletive, the artist’s choice for the exhibition’s title, reflects not upon his view of art but on the conditions in which all work is made, including art. This is expressed in Das Kapital No. 1 – Questionnaire Show (2015), a new site-specific performance and installation Zhou Xiaohu has made for this exhibition. Sleazy peep shows and the sultry, inviting glances of Amsterdam “window girls” are invoked here as ready-mades for an interactive performance designed to challenge preconceptions of power, ideology, communication, and misunderstanding.

Accompanying this new work are two of Zhou Xiaohu’s early animated videos, and a video installation, that reflect on the body – physical, gendered, political – in radically different ways: The Gooey Gentleman (2002), Conspiracy (2004), and Secret (2012).

In parallel with the opening of Scheisse at MOMENTUM, Video Bureau inducts Zhou Xiaohu into their archive. During the exhibition, viewing access to an archive of Zhou Xiaohu’s video works, documentation of select exhibitions and research material will be made available through Video Bureau at MOMENTUM.

Zhou Xiaohu (b. 1960 Changzhou, lives and works in Shanghai) was one of the first contemporary artists in China to work experimentally with sculptural ideas of video and animation. He has participated in such art exhibitions as the Shanghai Biennale (2002); Seville International Art Biennale (2004); China Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (2004); Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia (2006); The Real Thing, Tate Liverpool, UK (2007); Not Soul For Sale, Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London, UK (2010); the 8th Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju Art Museum, Korea (2010); and Pandamonium: Media Art from Shanghai at MOMENTUM, Berlin (2014). Zhou Xiaohu was awarded the CCAA Award in 2002 and 2006. In 2014-2015 he is the recipient of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program award to live and work in Berlin for one year.