15.01. – 17.03.2019
Lothringer13 Halle, München
Vernissage: 13. Januar 2019 / 17 Uhr
Allen Sekula \ Cyril Blažo \ Daniel Eatock \ Gabriele Obermaier/Ralf Homann \ Kasia Fudakowski \ M+M \ Nigel Shafran \ Peter Ravn \ Philipp Messner \ Pind \ Prill/Vieceli/Cremers \ Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt \ Stefan Weigl \ Superflex
Vorträge: Michael Hirsch and Kilian Jörg \ Musik: Carl Oesterhelt & Ensemble für synkretische Musik
Link: www.lothringer13.com
Pressetext - engl. version
New Year, 2019, best wishes, good intentions and old tasks – again the accounts have to get accompished. Way after the deadline, as ususal.
Lothringer13 Halle dedicates time and space to the omnipresent and essential: money. Yes, money, money money, or as Rolf Dieter Brinkmann* once spitted in a recorded statement: „Immer mit dem Scheissgeld, immer Probleme mit dem Scheissgeld...“. In that sense we fokus on the hidden and suppressed and follow the stultifying or inspiring routines when the self-employed and selfxploitated have to strip down the value of their work to numbers and lists.
This exhibition unfolds the impact of bashful book-keeping home performances and similar borderline activities within a money-focussed and bureaucratic social system.
The moment of poetry in orderliness and the despair within a mess is the atmospheric background-noise of this group exhibition.
While cultural budgets are spent conserving existing cultural facilities, most artists themselves have to see how they make ends meet, make a living, make sense and make make make. Olympicish competitions on grants and fundings sparkle on the horizon. Blurry perspective, but fair enough that the monetary debacle must be properly managed, documented and recorded. Administration and clerical functioning itself remains beyond dispute, a civic duty in rational times. Feel free to face and file the fiscal fiasco.
So what about the values and merits in a work field that is framed and characterized by recordsums for (dead) artists work, romantic images of the impoverished free artist and statistics on precarious economic artists realities? The role of artists is chameleon-like determined by the environment – as bohemian, provocateur, jester, philosopher or celebrated star and investment source. All artists know that splits, where desperation and success are equally suspicious and debated in the system of professional individualists. Nervesystems oscillate between conflicted twosomes: credit and credits, dispo and disco, poverty and poetry, lamination and lamentation, formal and form etc.
Jahresausgaben sounds out the comedy in every day life of handling all these tasks. Introvert meditation on homebanking and filling binders with invoices and deductions becomes absurd and painful for some, while playful or therapeutic to others. One can find clear or subtle traces of how money, shitmoney and management are an ambivalent part of artists practice and struggle.
Personal small financial crisis are likely to be experienced within a bigger perverted situation of turbocapitalism, speculation and the insane global distribution of wealth. This contorts real problems of indigent western artists into seemingly luxury-problems. Fundamental uncertainty as common ground. Artists react in various ways about their situation and status in a neoliberal capitalist atmosphere. If activists project or private withdrawal, most mindsets balance between career and capitulation. Currently there seems to be a growing consciousness about the absurd and ambivalent financial structures an distribution in creative businesses and the need to change the settings.