Jan Bünnig We`ll Stay Until 1000 O`Clock Kerry Tribe Do You Know

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Jan Bünnig
We’ll Stay Until 1000 O’Clock
Studio #6
Kerry Tribe
Do You Know What Time Is?
9 February – 7 April 2013
Opening: 8 February 2013, 7 pm
Press Release
In both a trenchant and poetic manner, sculptor Jan Bünnig presents the creative process of
his artwork to viewers. In his first institutional solo exhibition “Wir bleiben bis 1000 Uhr”
(“We’ll stay until 1000 O’Clock”) at the Heidelberger Kunstverein, five tons of clay will be
moulded on location into minimalist sculptures. The exhibition space becomes a part of the
process––the atelier, as a space of creation, and the exhibition space get mixed up. For his
often large-scale work, Bünnig combines traditional materials like clay, mud and wood with
industrially connoted materials like concrete, tar and nylon thread, and in addition uses
everyday objects. He stages the materials in his sculptures in such a way that they seem to
no longer be limited to their inherent physical properties.
The upcoming exhibition directs our attention to the motif of desire in Bünnig’s sculptures.
The starting point for the new works produced for the Heidelberger Kunstverein is simply to
recognize and enjoy the beauty and overall uniqueness of a given moment in time. This
position is also adopted in his on-going series “Luftpost” (air mail): a collection of found
objects from around the world that the artist brought on plane flights as his checked luggage.
Marked by their journey, the objects become almost like profane relics. They are similar to
his “performative” sculptures made of clay and wood, which also bear witness to something
from the past, a fact visible in the materials themselves.
“Wir bleiben bis 1000 Uhr” is the third exhibition from the series “Einzelausstellung: Nicht
alleine” (“Solo Exhibition: Not Alone”), in which curator Susanne Weiß incorporates
references and influences from artistic positions into the exhibition. In 2012, this series
included shows by Ulf Aminde and Heide Hinrichs.
The exhibition “Do You Know What Time Is?” by U.S. American artist Kerry Tribe will open at
the same time in the Studio as part of the exhibition series “Im Gespräch – Acht
Untersuchungen zum subjektiven Wissen”. Tribe’s 2-channel video installation, produced in
2002, is presented here for the first time in an institutional solo exhibition in Germany. The
exhibition series was developed in cooperation with Anna Till.
Press Contact
Denhart v. Harling . segeband.pr . +49 – 179 – 4963497 . [email protected] Jan Bünnig (born in 1972 in Berlin) lives and works in Berlin. After training as an artist
blacksmith, he studied at Burg Geibichenstein University of Art and Design as well as at the
Berlin University of the Arts in Tony Cragg’s class.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Sculpture of Desire, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin (2010)
Einstweilen, Autocenter Berlin (2009)
Superego, Akira Ikeda Galerie, Taura, Japan (2008)
Papierarbeiten, SOUTERRAIN, Project space of the Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin (2007)
Wir bleiben bis 1000 Uhr, Nice & Fit Galerie, Berlin (2006)
Offroad Galaxies, Berlin (2005)
Bring Wurst mit!, Studio des Neuen Berliner Kunstvereins, Berlin (2005)
Wolkenbild, Projektraum Turboplex, Berlin (2004)
Bodenhaltung, HKD Burg Giebichenstein, Halle/Saale (2000)
Selected Group Exhibitions
AMATEURISM, Heidelberger Kunstverein (2012)
5 Curators 5 Cities, Seoul and Rome (2011)
SOUTERRAIN Boutique, Berlin (2010)
GEIST Vol. 3 bis 4, Joint project with the Institut für Raumexperimente (2010)
GEIST Vol. 1 bis 2, Berlin (2009)
tape modern no.10, Berlin (2009)
Under Influence, Kunsthaus Dresden (2008)
Fresh kills, Dumbo Art Center, New York (2008)
Monumento Mori, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (2008)
Förderpreis Bildende Kunst der Schering Stiftung, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2007)
Athensbienniale, Athens (2006)
Closet, Nice & Fit Galerie, Berlin (2005)
Kerry Tribe (born in 1973 in Boston) lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her
BA in Art and Semiotics from Brown University, Rhode Island in 1997 and her MFA from the
University of California, Los Angeles in 2002. She was a Whitney Independent Study
Program Fellow from 1997 to 1998 and a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin from
2005 to 2006. Since 2003 she has taught at various universities, primarily in California.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Speak, Memory, The Power Plant, Toronto (2012)
Dead Star Light, Modern Art, Oxford (2011)
Dead Star Light, Camden Arts Centre, London (2011)
Dead Star Light, Arnolfini, Bristol (2010)
Selected Group Exhibitions
All of this and nothing, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2011)
2010: Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image Part II: Realisms, Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2008)
The Generali Foundation, Vienna
History Will Repeat Itself – Strategies of Re-enactment in Contemporary Art, KW Institute for
Contemporary Art, Berlin (2007)
SMAK, Gent