delphine marinier: more than a million / project space exhibition GlogauAIR

more than a million
Project Space Exhibition
Curated by off - Delphine Marinier and Peter Krilles

based on a research in berlinerpool archive

Mario Asef
Marisa Benjamim
Tatjana Fell
Stephanie Gerner
Stephan Halter
Natalia Irina Roman
St. & St.

Opening: Friday, 21 / 7-12 pm
Performance by Marisa Benjamim / 8:30 pm
Concert by Naftik / 10 pm

Saturday 22 / 3-8 pm
Mo-Fri 11-14 am / by appointment

GlogauAIR
Glogauer Str. 16
10999 Berlin – Germany

Download exhibition catalog here

“The 6.000 artists and the 400 galleries make Berlin to the city with the highest density of galleries in Europe and one of the most attractive places to create art. Therefore, designers, agencies, lifestylemagazins, fotographers and trendscouts – are drawn to this young city which burst with fresh vibes.”

(Berlin Senate, http://www.berlin.de/projektzukunft/; wording as in the original)

Presenting the city as an international hotspot of art, Berlin authorities, in admirable English prose, highlight a tendency that has shaped Europe over the past years: the transformation of arts into creative industries. In view of the quantification, standards, hierarchies and superlatives of artistic practice that this shift has brought about more than a million proposes to put in the center of focus the • wishes • knots • riots • density • overthrows • ethics • global english • attraction • life • freshness • void • vibrations • difference • gaps • flurry • popcorn doggybag • sounds • ages • questions • brutalism • hate • secret • clumsiness • touch • taste • shakiness • signs • burst • third-person-s • waves • naiveté • blurry • asides • holes • involved in the experience of art.

more than a million (based on a research in berlinerpool archive) is an investigation in the very concrete and sensorial aesthetic, ethical and technical frames of contemporary art. Seven artists – Mario Asef, Marisa Benjamim, Tatjana Fell, Stephanie Gerner, Stephan Halter, Natalia Irina Roman and St .& St. – show their works and open up interspaces in between the economical, social, gender-based statistics and norms of the contemporary art field creating an atmosphere of unique, open, material and freshly vibrating experiences. Everybody is invited to /not/ question the common and individual values and criteria of art experience challenging the in/official canon and one's in/scrutable taste.

Text by off

Mario Asef, The Rice Experiment, 3 labeled containers with rice and water, setting up on March 31th 2014, each ø 8,7x8,3 cm, 2014, detail

Mario Asef, The Rice Experiment, 3 labeled containers with rice and water, setting up on March 31th 2014, each ø 8,7x8,3 cm, 2014, detail

Mario Asef, The Rice Experiment, 3 labeled containers with rice and water, setting up on March 31th 2014, each ø 8,7x8,3 cm, 2014

Mario Asef, Das Versagen des Systems beschreibt das System, drawing, ink on paper, 42x29,7 cm, 2012

Marisa Benjamim, Spring up, Installation / Performance / Sculpture, variable dimensions, 2014

Stephanie Gerner, Wünsch dir was! / Make a wish!, C-Print auf Hahnemühle Photo Rag, kaschiert, Alurahmen, jeweils 40x40cm / each 40x40cm, 2013/2014

Stephan Halter, from left to right: Sei Teil von etwas Größerem als Du. / Be part of something bigger than you, spraypaint on glass, 50x60cm, 2014;

Größe zählt. / Size matters., spraypaint on glass, 50x60cm, 2014; Willst Du es im Leben immer leicht haben, so bleibe bei der Herde. (F. Nietzsche) / The easy living in the fold,, spraypaint on glass, 50x60cm, 2014

Die Traurigkeit endet nie. / The Sorrow never ends., spraypaint on glass, 50x60cm, 2014

Stephan Halter, Left: Willst Du es im Leben immer leicht haben, so bleibe bei der Herde. (F. Nietzsche) / The easy living in the fold,, spraypaint on glass, 50x60cm, 2014; Right: Die Traurigkeit endet nie. / The Sorrow never ends., spraypaint on glass, 50x60cm, 2014