CURES: CHRONIC PROMISES

In the organizer's words:

:: GERMAN BELOW ::

Cures. Chronic Promises
EXHIBITION
WITH Clara Cheung & Gum Cheng Yee Man (C&G Artpartment), Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa (Another Roadmap Africa Cluster), Imelda Cajipe Endaya (Kasibulan), Kamruzzaman Shadhin (Gidree Bawlee Foundation of Arts), Lujza Gecser and Margit Szilvitzky (Spatial Textile Movement), Lili Nascimiento and Hiura Fernandes (Loka de Efavirenz Collective), Nikhil Chopra (HH Art Spaces), Venuca Evanán (Retablos por la Memoria and SOFRASAREL - Sociedad de Sarhuinos residentes en Lima), Sam Sráč (Sam83 Gallery), Shūji Terayama (Tenjō Sajiki) - accompanied by commissioned artistic researches by Shaunak Mahbubani for SAVVY.doc, and Esinam Damalie (blaxTARLINES) for Colonial Neighbors

OPENING 09.05.2024 14:00
With presentations by Phanuel Antwi and Awilda Sterling (14:00) as well as a durational performance by Nikhil Chopra (18:00).

ON SHOW Until 21.06.2024 Thursday-Sunday 14:00-19:00
FREE ENTRY Donations welcome
ACCESS SAVVY is accessible by wheelchair

CURES: CHRONIC PROMISES opens a series of exhibitions deliberating on the power of artistic transitions. It will effloresce into many intertwined, yet autonomous, figurations of exhibitionary forces. Situated in the troubled milieu of (German) decolonization, the exhibition explores the work of art and artists that emerged from the alternative world-making practices of collectivity.

This research and exhibition project challenges the conventional notion of an illness-progression timeline (whether bodily, psychic, or ecological) imagined to have a finality. We ask: What if cures - like decolonization - produce no cure? How do we imagine decolonization beyond the remit of cure? This exhibition looks towards artists in collectives, institutions, and movements who have offered utopic proposals or promises for decolonization. Recent challenges to emancipatory struggles demand new appraisals and even inventions of language, foundational values, and spaces of well-being. In this vein, CURES: CHRONIC PROMISES dilate the nodes of decoloniality, cures, and collectivity in the frames of wound, motherhood, and chaos.

:: DEUTSCH ::

Cures. Chronic Promises
EXHIBITION
WITH Clara Cheung & Gum Cheng Yee Man (C&G Artpartment), Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa (Another Roadmap Africa Cluster), Imelda Cajipe Endaya (Kasibulan), Kamruzzaman Shadhin (Gidree Bawlee Foundation of Arts), Lujza Gecser and Margit Szilvitzky (Spatial Textile Movement), Lili Nascimiento and Hiura Fernandes (Loka de Efavirenz Collective), Nikhil Chopra (HH Art Spaces), Venuca Evanán (Retablos por la Memoria and SOFRASAREL - Sociedad de Sarhuinos residentes en Lima), Sam Sráč (Sam83 Gallery), Shūji Terayama (Tenjō Sajiki) - accompanied by commissioned artistic researches by Shaunak Mahbubani for SAVVY.doc, and Esinam Damalie (blaxTARLINES) for Colonial Neighbors

OPENING 09.05.2024 14:00
With presentations by Phanuel Antwi and Awilda Sterling (14:00) and a performance by Nikhil Chopra (18:00).

TO SEE Until 21.06.2024 Thursday-Sunday 14:00-19:00
Free admission Donations welcome
VISIT SAVVY is accessible by wheelchair

CURES: CHRONIC PROMISES opens an exhibition series that reflects on the power of artistic transitions and results in many interwoven yet autonomous entities of exhibiting. Against the difficult backdrop of (German) decolonization, the exhibition focuses on artworks and artists that have emerged from collective practices of alternative world-building.

The research and exhibition project questions the conventional notion of the finite timeline of a (physical, psychological or ecological) course of illness. We ask: What if healing practices - just like decolonization - do not produce a cure? How do we imagine decolonization beyond healing? This exhibition looks at artists in collectives, institutions and movements who have made utopian proposals or promises for decolonization. Current challenges to emancipatory struggles require new evaluations and creations of language, fundamental values and spaces of wellbeing. Against this backdrop, CURES: CHRONIC PROMISES expands the intersections of decoloniality, healing and collectivity with the concepts of wound, motherhood and chaos.

Price information:

Free admission :: We appreciate donations