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Artists: Shannon Book, Anne Speier, Pure Fiction, Dara Friedman, Kerstin Cmelka, Peles Empire, Tobias Rehberger and Rirkrit Tiravanija

Venue: various locations, Frankfurt

Exhibition Title: Portikus XXX

Curated by: Franz Hempel, Fabian Schöneich

Date: July 19 – October 14, 2017

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Pure Fiction, excerpt of Mikhail Wassmer’s video for Reading; displayed on Frankfurt Airport Terminal 1 monitors

Full gallery of images, videos, press release and link available after the jump.

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Dara Friedman, excerpt 1 of Dancer, 2011, 16mm film transferred to video, 25 mins; displayed on Frankfurt Airport Terminal 1 monitors

Dara Friedman, excerpt 2 of Dancer, 2011, 16mm film transferred to video, 25 mins; displayed on Frankfurt Airport Terminal 1 monitors

Dara Friedman, excerpt 3 of Dancer, 2011, 16mm film transferred to video, 25 mins; displayed on Frankfurt Airport Terminal 1 monitors

Dara Friedman, excerpt 4 of Dancer, 2011, 16mm film transferred to video, 25 mins; displayed on Frankfurt Airport Terminal 1 monitors

Pure Fiction, excerpt of Dan Kwon’s video for Reading; displayed on Frankfurt Airport Terminal 1 monitors

Pure Fiction, excerpt of Ellen Yeon’s video for Reading; displayed on Frankfurt Airport Terminal 1 monitors

Images and videos courtesy of Portikus, Frankfurt

Press Release:

July 18 – October 14, 2017

Portikus is turning thirty. Founded as a small art space on Schöne Aussicht in 1987, we moved from there to the Leinwandhaus and then to the Maininsel. Portikus XXX is the name of our anniversary project that doesn’t look back, but simply keeps moving ahead, not inside Portikus itself, but in the city so important to Portikus: Frankfurt am Main. We leave our space and, with small gestures and major interventions, present new works in urban places that shape the cityscape. In this way, Portikus XXX addresses a broad audience while, at the same time, we continue to do what we’ve been doing in recent years: making exhibitions that stimulate, expand perspectives and ask questions.

Summer Screening Program:

July 19, 2017, 21h Portikus Filming Lack w/ Thirteen Black Cats, Martha Rosler, among others

July 26, 2017, 21h Portikus Dara Friedman

August 2, 2017, 21h Procession / Parade w/ Nina Könnemann, Jimmie Durham, among others

August 9, 2017, 21h Portikus Sound Bleed w/ Minouk Lim, Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, among others

August 16, 2017, 21h Portikus Non-work w/ Helke Bayrle, Frances Stark, among others

What might a minor history of Portikus told through video look like? Helke Bayrle’s Portikus Under Construction gives this history its images, building an institutional memory and body of artworks out of what is almost always erased and obfuscated: work left outside of finalized and public-facing installations within the main gallery. Though the artworks in this screening program are by no means minor in and of themselves, they work outside of the limits of these artists’ previous contributions to the exhibitionary legacy of Portikus. Almost none of these films and videos have been shown within the galleries of Portikus before, yet they provide a vehicle for reflection through their addition and deviation. In an effort to let these relations permeate the methods of this program, groupings of films and videos will together assert the value of lack, the uncertain, the secondary, the obscured, the forgotten, and the unclassifiable. This project attempts to build a minor history of Portikus, inspired by Bayrle, from these foggy positions.

Program by Levi Easterbrooks

Shannon Bool Press Release:

July 19 – October 1,2017

Dom St. Bartholomäus Domplatz 1 60311 Frankfurt am Main

In her work, Shannon Bool deals with the representational systems of art history with regard to visual and decorative arts and creates drawings, collages, photograms, murals and installations. In them, she often references related disciplines such as architecture, literature or psychology. For the Dom St. Bartholomäus (imperial cathedral), Bool has produced a new marble bench sculpture, which the artist has engraved with surface incisions oriented on historical church graffitis found in various archives. The work is complemented by a large-format tapestry reflecting the artist’s interest in ornaments, early modernism as well as oceanic cult. In this context, ornamental elements and different surfaces are not merely decoration, but bearers of meaning that reflect the complexity of perceptive and comprehension processes. Scribed Grid is a painterly work with a grid related to the structure of the windows in the cathedral, thus entering into a dialogue with the setting.

Pure Fiction Press Release:

July 18 – October 14, 2017

ON DISPLAY

Frankfurt Airport Terminal 1 60547 Frankfurt am Main Security zone – only accessible for arriving passengers!

Videos with texts by Ellen Yeon Kim, Dan Kwon, François Pisapia, and Mikhail Wassmer will be screened on the displays at the luggage area of Terminal 1 at Frankfurt Airport.

READINGS

July 18, 2017, 20h Le Méridien Frankfurt Hotel Wiesenhüttenplatz 28–38 60329 Frankfurt am Main

August 10, 2017, 20h Frankfurt Airport Terminal 2 – Visitor’s terrace 60547 Frankfurt am Main

August 10, 2017, 20h Maxie Eisen Bar Münchener Str. 18 60329 Frankfurt am Main

In 2011, students of Städelschule invited writer Mark von Schlegell to organise a fiction seminar in the school. Since then, the class, Pure Fiction, has brought together current and former Städel students to examine and above all produce texts in the most diverse forms possible, from written artistic works and experimental writing to readings and performances that inevitably draw in other aspects of the diverse artistic practices of all the class members. The works of authors from Cervantes to Woolf form the pre–given raw material of the seminar. An engagement with the material and mystical properties of printed matter have led the class to produce numerous publications. For Portikus XXX, Pure Fiction presents itself in two ways. Recurring texts can be seen on 116 digital screens throughout the Frankfurt Airport. The words are translated into moving images, which suggest a sequential interpretation and follow a general notion of word flow. The relationship between form and content is visually reduced by means of the typographic design. In addition, the Pure Fiction class will give readings: on three evenings, new and old texts will be presented.

Dara Friedman Press Release:

July 18 – October 14, 2017

ON DISPLAY Frankfurt Airport Terminal 1 60547 Frankfurt am Main Security zone – only accessible for arriving passengers!

Excerpts of Dancer (2011) are shown on displays in the luggage area of Terminal 1, Frankfurter Airport.

ARTIST TALK July 26, 2017, 21h Portikus

Dara Friedman is best known for experimental, non-narrative works that deconstruct the techniques of conventional filmmaking. For Dancer (2011), she enlisted a variety of Miami-based dancers to move through the urban space. Shot on 16mm black-and-white film and transferred to HD video, Dancer celebrates both the city and the medium of dance. With the city streets as a stage, dancers improvise, expressing the specificity of their styles and making meaning through movement. Inspired partly by the late Pina Bausch (1940–2009) creator of the dance theater movement, Friedman – like Bausch is not necessarily interested in how people move, but rather, what moves them. Brief excerpts from the original 25-minute film, which shows some 60 dancers in about 40 scenes, will be presented on the monitors in Frankfurt Airport’s arrivals area. In this way, the travelers in front of the screens become dancers themselves. Through a careful crafting of the filming process, and reacting to the dancers’ bodies – Friedman transforms each participant from someone being passively watched to someone being danced with, a partner.

Anne Speier Press Release:

July 21 – October 1, 2017

Opening: July 20, 2017, 17–20h

Fleming’s Selection Hotel Frankfurt-City Eschenheimer Tor 2 Bleichstraße 64–66 60318 Frankfurt am Main

In her work, Speier employs different techniques to deal with contemporary questions of art production. The intricacy of her work is reflected in the medium of the collage, which is processed digitally as an expression of the contemporary. The artist addresses her own location in the field of art as the subject of everyday situations. In a new sculpture, Anne Speier has created a primate that viewers encounter hanging from the ceiling. The pose of the orangutan suggests fear and a corresponding defensive stance. However, there is nothing signifying what else is going on in the room. Is the orangutan just imagining reasons for his posture? Is he pulling away from us visitors? As a work of art, the animal becomes the projection surface, which can play various roles in its attribution as a primate. Beyond pop culture references, Speier’s sculpture raises questions about identity – that of the object and our own confronted by it. The stairway becomes a stage, drawing attention to the sculpture and making it possible to see it from different angles. The rope can be read as a multi-story guideline.

Kirsten Cmelka Press Release:

July 27 – September 27, 2017 September 21, 2017, 19h Introduction and lecture performance by Kerstin Cmelka & Mario Mentrup

September 21 – September 27, 2017 The Attackables by Kerstin Cmelka as supporting film always at 20.30h

Filmforum Höchst Emmerich-Josef-Straße 46A 65929 Frankfurt am Main

August 3 – August 9, 2017 The Attackables by Kerstin Cmelka as supporting film always at 20h

Mal seh’n Kino Adlerflychtstraße 6 60318 Frankfurt am Main

July 27, 2017, 19h Introduction and lecture performance by Kerstin Cmelka & Mario Mentrup

July 27 – September 20, 2017 The Attackables by Kerstin Cmelka as supporting film before selected screenings

Orfeos Erben Hamburger Allee 45 60486 Frankfurt am Main

In her works, Kerstin Cmelka combines different media such as photography, video and performance with objects and creates extensive installations. Her works often reference plays, movies and TV shows, which she adapts and expands. They move at the interface between visual and performing arts, make use of traditional dramatic techniques and transfer them to the exhibition context. In many of her productions, Cmelka takes on the roles of director, screenplay writer, actor, as well as scenery artist and costume designer. A patchwork family, where the adults as well as the children are active as professional performers in contemporary fields of the arts industry and other services is at the center of her new portmanteau film The Attackables (Die Angreifbaren). They are protagonists of a socially undervalued profession: modern jugglers or carnies who coordinate their various activities and roles with great physicality, a high degree of concentration, pragmatics and professionalism, demonstrating less fame than ongoing work and flexibility in a wide variety of performative terrains. The first episode of Die Angreifbaren begins with performers heading to an extraordinary shoot on a frantic car ride, in which the other themes of the film are revealed. This part is both a teaser for the entire film project as well as an independent short film. Accordingly, The Attackables – Episode #1 will be shown at various cinemas in Frankfurt in the opening program before the main feature.

Peles Empire Press Release:

August 5, 2017

20h Parkhaus Alt-Sachsenhausen Upper parking deck Walter-Kolb-Straße 16 60594 Frankfurt am Main

The artist duo Katharina Stöver and Barbara Wolff have been working together since 2005 under the name of Peles Empire, questioning categories like “original” and “reproduction” in their work. They borrow not just the name of the Romanian castle of Peles, but alienate it as part of their work. The historical structure, which unites different historic architectural styles in a collage-like manner, is always a reference point for the works, which often undergo a double translation of two- and threedimensionality, from object to image of it and back to sculpture. In addition, the aspect of hosting is part of the artistic practice of Peles Empire, who have created various spaces for dialogue and organized exhibitions with other artists in Frankfurt, London, Los Angeles, Cluj, Istanbul and Berlin. For Portikus XXX, Peles Empire return to Frankfurt where they started with salons and bar evenings. They are presenting a bar made of Jesmonite, a special material that the two artists have discovered for their work and reconceived as a form of expression.

Tobias Rehberger & Rirkrit Tiravanija Press Release:

October 10 – October 14, 2017

Kleinmarkthalle Hasengasse 5–7 60311 Frankfurt am Main

Tobias Rehberger works in a wide variety of media to create works and extensive installations at the crossroads of art, design and architecture. His works are difficult to categorize and are notable most of all for this diversity. Rirkrit Tiravanija grapples with social issues and his work often takes on the form of social happenings, finding expression, for example, in cooking events, readings or concerts. It is always about the participants, who become active parts of and help to shape the work of the artist. For Portikus XXX, the two artists are realizing a project that brings both of their practices into the forefront while working with local producers. Rehberger and Tiravanija will offer a limited edition of ceramics for sale in the Kleinmarkthalle this fall. Part of these ceramics will be a variety of dishes freshly prepared by the two artists from ingredients from the market.

Tobias Rehberger (*1966 in Esslingen am Neckar, lives and works in Frankfurt, DE) Rirkrit Tiravanija (*1961 in Buenos Aires, AR, lives and works in New York, US; Berlin, DE and Chiang Mai, THA)

Link: “Portikus XXX” at various locations

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Artists: Armando Andrade Tudela, Patricia Esquivias, Geoffrey Farmer, Llyn Foulkes, Fernell Franco, Fritzia Irízar, Minouk Lim, Darling López Salinas, Louise Menzies, Pratchaya Phinthong, Jhafis Quintero, Ben Rivera, Bob Schalkwijk, Ariel Schlesinger, Shimabuku, Michael Stevenson, Germán Venegas, Dick Verdult (Dick El Demasiado), Camilo Yáñez

Venue: Regen Projects, Los Angeles

Exhibition Title: Primordial Saber Tararear Proverbiales Sílabas Tonificantes Para Sublevar Tecnocracias Pero Seguir Tenazmente Produciendo Sociedades Tántricas – Pedro Salazar Torres (Partido Socialista Trabajador)

Curated by: Abraham Cruzvillegas, Gabriel Kuri

Date: September 9 – October 28, 2017

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Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.

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Images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Regen Projects, Los Angeles. Photos by Brian Forrest.

Press Release:

Regen Projects is pleased to present an exhibition curated by gallery artists Abraham Cruzvillegas and Gabriel Kuri concurrent with Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles / Latin America.

The exhibition will examine the influence of the Latin American diaspora by bringing together a group of works by international artists living and working beyond the geographical limits of Latin America. Spanning a variety of media from the 1940s to the present, the exhibition will feature painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, performance, and installation. Shown together, the works in the installation represent the result of a dialogue between Cruzvillegas and Kuri, who are also long time friends and colleagues, creating an idealized world of cultural exchange that is defined by affinities rather than differences.

Providing both a catalyst as well as a visual metaphor for the curatorial vision and conceptual origin of the show, the gallery’s walls will feature socio-political maps inspired by artist Miguel Covarrubias. Entitled Pageant of the Pacific, six rigorously detailed illustrations highlight various economic and cultural routes of trade: Peoples of the Pacific, The Fauna and Flora of the Pacific, Art Forms of the Pacific Area, Economy of the Pacific, Native Dwellings of the Pacific Area, and Native Means of Transportation of the Pacific Area. Spliced together to create multiple iterations of the maps, the images on the walls serve as an hommage to the artist and form a literal backdrop or framing device onto which other art works will be hung.

Nodding to the early history of Latin America, Germán Venegas’ Danza de Coatlicuereferences pre-Columbian artistic traditions. According to legend, Coatlicue, a Nahuatl word for skirt of snakes, is the goddess who gave birth to the moon, stars, and Huitzilopochtli, the god of the sun and war. Venegas’ blonde carved wood sculpture depicts the eponymous Aztec goddess as two snakes writhing in space. Nearby a suite of his watercolor studies line the walls of the gallery.

Michael Stevenson’s The Fountain of Prosperity was created after the artist’s extensive research into the Phillips Machine, a.k.a. Moniac (Monetary National Income Analogue Computing Machine), a hydro-mechanical analogue computer invented in 1949 by Bill Phillips with the purpose to represent fiscal and monetary flows in a national economy. As a visualization of the abstract it became briefly popular as a pedagogical aid and was used in university departments – around 15 examples were constructed for this purpose. Stevenson’s sculpture is however inspired by an outlier in this history; one of the machines was purchased by the Central Bank of Guatemala. His research stems largely from archival and field research in Guatemala, where the Moniac made a brief appearance in 1953.

Ariel Schlesinger’s Bubble Machine is a kinetic sculpture comprised of a hydrogen tank affixed with a motorized mechanism that forms bubbles. Once the bubble is blown, it drops onto an electrified field of wire coils below. Operating as part studio exercise and part laboratory experiment, Schlesinger’s work uses humour to illustrate violence and destruction.

Some works represent smaller parts of larger existing installations like Cuban Sambaby Shimabuku. Inspired by a poetic and chance encounter in which the artist discovered a series of coffee cans placed underneath a leak to catch drips of water, Shimabuku recreates the installation with a coffee can tin out of which emanates a field recording of water droplets, reminiscent of a samba, comprising the memory of a sound.

For the realization of this project, Cruzvillegas and Kuri asked themselves the following questions when considering which colleagues to include, which works to put together, and what issues would be the best to address:

What defines us? Is it the time zone we inhabit? Is it the continent on which we live? Is it a slippery surface we only surf or fall over? Are we still dreaming in ideological consistency? Is nationalism a standard to bear and sing slogans for? Are borders still representative symbols that help to define us, but which we do not quite fully understand? What is a wall? What is an ocean? … . Artists featured in the exhibition include:

Armando Andrade Tudela (b. 1975 Lima, Peru; lives and works in Lyon, France and Berlin, Germany)

Patricia Esquivias (b. 1979 Caracas, Venezuela; lives and works in Madrid, Spain)

Geoffrey Farmer (b. 1967 Vancouver, Canada; lives and works in Vancouver, Canada)

Llyn Foulkes (b. 1934 Yakima, WA; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA)

Fernell Franco (b. 1942 Versalles, Colombia; d. 2006 Cali, Colombia)

Fritzia Irízar (b. 1977 Culiacán, Mexico; lives and works in Culiacán, Mexico)

Minouk Lim (b. 1968 South Korea; lives and works in Seoul, South Korea)

Darling López Salinas (b. 1987 Managua, Nicaragua; lives and works in Managua, Nicaragua)

Louise Menzies (b. 1981 Christchurch, New Zealand; lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand)

Pratchaya Phinthong (b. 1974 Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand; lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand)

Jhafis Quintero (b. 1973 La Chorrera, Panama; lives and works in Verona, Italy)

Ben Rivera (b. 1971 San Pedro Sula, Honduras; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA)

Bob Schalkwijk (b. 1933 Rotterdam, The Netherlands; lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico)

Ariel Schlesinger (b. 1980 Jerusalem, Israel; lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Mexico City, Mexico)

Shimabuku (b. 1969 Kobe, Japan; lives and works in Okinawa, Japan)

Michael Stevenson (b. 1964 Inglewood, New Zealand; lives and works in Berlin, Germany)

Germán Venegas (b. 1959 La Magdalena Tlatlauquitepec, Mexico; lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico)

Dick Verdult (Dick El Demasiado) (b. 1954 Eindhoven, The Netherlands; lives and works in Calanda, Spain)

Camilo Yáñez (b. 1974 Santiago, Chile; lives and works in Santiago, Chile)

Link: Group Show at Regen Projects

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