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Since May 19, 2016, we have organized six to eight exhibitions a year.
The current show by Alain Jenzer is described by him like followed:
From installations with mattresses or flower boxes, via the vacuum cleaner creature „Doubteater“ to various performances and actions with crockery, food and textiles (knitwear, sheets), typical objects from the domestic sphere often appear in Alain Jenzer’s works of the past ten years; if not even the apartments themselves become part of the installation, as e.g.B. in the absurd action „this is no white space“, where Alain Jenzer renovated a living room in a residential building about to be demolished, which the city of Berne had left to a temporary artists‘ collective as an exhibition and event venue for a few weeks.
The sphere of the domestic, with all its works and social processes, social attributions and evaluations, occupies and demands Alain Jenzer in his role as partner and father and is an essential and formative part of his existence as an artist. Intimacy and dependency, balance and fragility, along with questions about gender images, are some of the topics that open up in this sphere and which he questions and examines with the means of art. And then there is not least the concept of the absurd, which is of central importance not only for his current works, but also in some older works, which, however, were settled in the thematic area of death, grief and the culture of memory.
The title of the exhibition, „Making friends with Sisyphos“, can also be read as a reference to Alain Jenzer’s preoccupation with the absurd, and the blue space drawing made of clothesline perhaps even more concretely as an occupation with the actual or supposed absurdities that occur more frequently in the sphere of the domestic. Following Albert Camus, he tries to imagine Sisyphus as a happy being. He examines the potential that lies in the embrace of the absurd. The moment of repetition, the endless loop, as we also see it in this Spatial Drawing, is an essential design element, as is the use of the material used for other purposes.
Alain Jenzer has cut up the invitation cards – in the sense of an extension of the exhibition space to this means of communication – in an action understood as a drawing, all of them cut up and glued together again with Scotch. Through this supposedly pointless action, each invitation became unique.
Find here images from our past shows:
Lena Kiss – Annette Mueller – Nina Hebting – Angela Cerullo & Giorgio Bloch – 2016
Lorenzo Salafia – 2016
Uta Pütz – 2016
David Zehnder – 2016
Martin Jakob – 2016
Rebakka Moser and Tamara Hauser – 2017
Philipp Madörin – 2017
Katrin Hotz & Jérôme Lanon – 2017
Grégory Sugnaux – 2017
Daria Gusberti – 2017
Sybilla Walpen & Kotscha Reist – 2017
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