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until 29.04. | #1986ARTatBerlin | KW Institute for Contemporary Art shows from 26th April 2018 the exhibition “Garten der Lüste” by the artist AA Bronson.
AA Bronson’s Garten der Lüste—a 5-day hybrid installation featuring performances and artworks—will inaugurate KW Institute for Contemporary Art’s second exhibition season of 2018 as part of its Pause series. Pause is envisioned as a platform to punctuate the program by presenting a singular installation for a short period of time in order to bridge relationships between the past, present and future.
AA Bronson (born 1946 in Vancouver) is both artist and curator, subject and object. In this project, Bronson continues his practice of enfolding his community of artists within his own performances and artworks. The project takes Hieronymus Bosch’s infamous painting The Garden of Earthly Delights (Garten der Lüste, circa 1500) as its starting point. To analyze Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych is an attempt to describe the indescribable and to decipher the indecipherable—an exercise in madness. The project could be seen as a queer adaptation that executes this madness through various spirits and universes.
A pioneer of collaborative and queer visual art practice, AA Bronson is the sole surviving member of the art collective General Idea (1969–94). He has had a long history with political and social issues in art and publishing, and has collaborated with many generations of artists across many disciplines. He is a founder of FILE Magazine, Toronto; Art Metropole, Toronto; The NY Art Book Fair, New York; The Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice, New York; and AA Bronson’s School for Young Shamans, which is nomadic. In the last decades he has knitted elements from various religions into his work, from Tibetan Buddhism and Shamanism to Ceremonial Magic, and Santeria.
Featuring AA Bronson / Collaborations with Adrian Hermanides, Mark Jan Krayenhoff van de Leur, Travis Meinolf, James Richards, and Scott Treleaven / Performances with Michael Dudeck, Richard John Jones, Ebe Oke, and Chrysanne Stathacos / Additional works by Elijah Burgher, TM Davy, Sholem Krishtalk, and Chrysanne Stathacos / and introducing J.X. Williams
Director: Krist Gruijthuijsen
Assistant curator: Maurin Dietrich
AA Bronson’s Garten der Lüste will be on view only throughout Gallery Weekend Berlin (April 26–29, 2018). Simultaneously, Esther Schipper, Berlin presents Catch me if you can! AA Bronson + General Idea, 1968–2018 from April 26 through May 26, 2018.
The project at KW is generously supported by Esther Schipper, Berlin, the Embassy of Canada, Berlin, and the Canada Council for the Arts. KW Institute for Contemporary Art is institutionally supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
Opening: Wednesday, 25th April 2018, 07:00 p.m.
Ausstellungsdaten: Thursday, 26th April to Sunday, 29th April 2018
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Image caption: AA Bronson, Tent for Healing (in Kollaboration mit Travis Meinholf), 2013, Installationsansicht AA Bronson, Tent of Healing, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2013, Courtesy der Künstler und Esther Schipper, Berlin, Foto © Ernst van Deursen
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