curated by Nicholas Tammens Event

Opening days
Friday 9.9. and Saturday 10.09., 12pm - 6pm

Exhibition title
Insolvency, my friend

Artists
Olga Balema, Dora Budor, Guillaume Dustan, Georg Herold, Pierre Klossowski, Guy Mees, Josephine Pryde, Rosemarie Trockel, Camilla Wills

This exhibition started with Pierre Klossowski’s essay “Living Currency” as a point of interest, with the premise that the body and its attendant desires act as units of exchange. It departed into a series of associations between artists and works that includes pieces by Olga Balema, Dora Budor, Georg Herold, Pierre Klossowski, Guy Mees, Josephine Pryde, Rosemarie Trockel, Camilla Wills, and a film by Guillaume Dustan. These works at once bear and disrupt material traces of economic and libidinal systems, without losing sight of the position of the artist, the work, and its spectator in relation to them. They ask us to look at what governs relations of production and reproduction, which logics are at play, and what fails to be assimilated into their systems. From here we might see what they categorise as useless, spent, as well as their erotics, their waste, their gaps, their exhaustion, their ubiquity, their omnipotence, their invisibility.

Nicholas Tammens (geb. in Australien) ist Assistenzkurator am Kunstverein Hamburg. Er ist außerdem Gründer von 1856, einem kuratierten Ausstellungs- und Veranstaltungsprogramm in einem Gewerkschaftsparlament in Melbourne, Australien, das sich mit den Bedingungen von Arbeit und kultureller Produktion beschäftigt. Tammens organisierte unter anderem folgende Ausstellungen: LaToya Ruby Frazier, Kunstverein in Hamburg (2022), Stars Down to Earth (mit Sung Tieu), Galerie Barbara Weiss (2021), Jef Geys, Yale Union (2018), Patricia L. Boyd, 1856 (2018), Fred Lonidier, 1856 (2017) und B. Wurtz (2015); hielt Vorträge in der Kunsthal Bergen (2021), Wiels, Brüssel (2019) und der Kunsthalle Zürich (2019. Er schrieb für das Mousse Magazine (Mailand) und die May Revue (Paris).

General opening times
Between 13.09. - 08.10.2022
Tuesday - Friday 12pm-6pm
Saturdays 12pm-4pm

Admission
The entrance to the exhibitions is free of charge.