In the Studio Liliane Lijn, London
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The German artist duo Anna and Bernhard Blume are internationally renowned for their black and white photographs. The duo staged performative actions and captured them on camera. Most are bizarrely arranged domestic scenes. The two artists are the performers themselves, she with a perm, wig, and a neat dress, he in a small checked suit and hat. With irony and humor, the Blumes counteract gender patterns, roles, and clichés as well as bourgeois codes of behavior.
The exhibition Mapping the 60s is based on the thought that substantial sociopolitical movements of the twenty-first century have their roots in the 1960s. Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, for example, have built on the anti-racist and feminist upheavals of yesteryear—as have current debates on war, mass media and mechanization, consumerism, and capitalism.
For the sixteenth time, Viennese galleries are preparing a program that will once again underline Vienna‘s significance as one of Europe’s most vibrant locations for contemporary art. This year Austria's largest gallery festival will examine the social practices of storytelling, the manifestation of memories – and explore its core institution: the archive. Again, curators from all over the world will be invited.
Jens-Peter Brask, Copenhagen
Jens-Peter Brask is a curator, publisher and passionate art collector. What began with an early fascination with graffiti as a form of artistic expression led to the fact that art has entered his life throughout.
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