post-title Robert Kuśmirowski | Lindenstraße 35 | ŻAK | BRANICKA | 29.04.-02.09.2017

Robert Kuśmirowski | Lindenstraße 35 | ŻAK | BRANICKA | 29.04.-02.09.2017

Robert Kuśmirowski | Lindenstraße 35 | ŻAK | BRANICKA | 29.04.-02.09.2017

Robert Kuśmirowski | Lindenstraße 35 | ŻAK | BRANICKA | 29.04.-02.09.2017

until 02.09. | #1195ARTatBerlin | ŻAK | BRANICKA presents from 29th April 2017 the exhibition “Lindenstraße 35” by the artist Robert Kuśmirowski.

ŻAK | BRANICKA presents in the frame of Gallery Weekend, Robert Kuśmirowski’s Lindenstr. 35. On this occasion, the gallery’s traditional space will vanish, time will be shifted back about 80 years and history will be relived.

The year 2017 is of special significance for ŻAK | BRANICKA, that in 2007 had its debut with the exhibition Datamatic 880 in the Galerienhaus at Lindenstr. 35. Ten years later, Kuśmirowski will once again transform the space of the gallery, this time with a project dedicated to the space and the building.

In his practice, Robert Kuśmirowski blurs the line between fact and fiction. For this project, he uses the history of the building as the starting point of his playful research. He collects, bends and constructs these finely crafted time hiccups as a means to remind us that the past has a tendency to repeat itself. He explores ideas of history and its representation as well as memory. But also demonstrates in an uncanny way the artist’s self-identification with an imagined collective past. Kuśmirowski uses the past as his raw material and simultaneously re-invents it through his use of fake pictures, forgeries and unlikely materials that question our individual and collective memory transforming the Present into his personal imaginary time capsule. Kuśmirowski assumes the protagonist’s role in these imagined installations where he is the actor, the director and the audience.

At the 4th Berlin Biennale his installation was modeled after train carriages used to transport detainees to Auschwitz. He then created a life-size Bunker out of Barbican’s history and location – a site that was devastated by bombings during World War II. And, with his newest project for ŻAK | BRANICKA, Time as we know it travels back to the early dream of airtravel…

Robert Kuśmirowski was born in 1973 in Łódź, Poland. He lives and works in Lublin. He is a performer, author of installations, objects, photographs and drawings. His work has been shown in several institutions such as Secession in Vienna (2003), Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2004), Kunsthalle Wien (2005), 4thBerlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2006), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2008), Torino Triennale (2008), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2009 and 2012), Nottingham Contemporary (2010), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2011), 3rd Biennale Tel Aviv (2011), 11th & 13th Biennale Lyon (2011, 2015), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2012), among others. His solo shows include institutions such as Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum (2005), Kunstverein Hamburg (2006), Migros Museum, Zurich (2006), Barbican Art Gallery, London (2009) and Neuer Kunsteverein Wien (2016). His work is a part of several international collections such as the Boros Collection, The Olbricht Collection and the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, to name a few.

Aside from the exhibition at the gallery, Kuśmirowski is going to present a second project in the frame of Gallery Weekend at Encode Factory in Schützenstr. 40, 10117 Berlin. For Euphonia he will be creating fictional unseen and unheard historical music-machines, which he will use to present his own, alternative music history and to evaluate the past and future of the electronic sound. All music will be curated by the Berlin based artist duo Tale of Us.

Vernissage: Friday, 28th April 2017, 6 to 9 p.m. (the artist will be present)

Preview: Friday, 28th April 2017, 2 to 6 p.m.

Exhibition period: Saturday, 29th April to Saturday, 2.nd September 2017 

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Image caption: Robert Kusmirowski | DLH A.G, 2017, work on paper © the artist, courtesy ZAK | BRANICKA

Exhibitions Berlin Galleries: Robert Kuśmirowski – Lindenstraße 35 – ŻAK | BRANICKA | ART at Berlin

 

 

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