Pause:
AA Bronson’s
Garten der Lüste

26–29 April 18

 

Opening: 25 April 18, 7 pm

 

<p>AA Bronson, <em>Tent for Healing</em> (in collaboration with Travis Meinholf), 2013, exhibition view <em>AA Bronson, Tent of Healing</em>, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2013, Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin</p>

AA Bronson, Tent for Healing (in collaboration with Travis Meinholf), 2013, exhibition view AA Bronson, Tent of Healing, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2013, Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin

 

Featuring AA Bronson / Collaborations with Adrian Hermanides, Mark Jan Krayenhoff van de Leur, Travis Meinolf, James Richards, and Scott Treleave / Performances with Spencer Carter, Michael DudeckRichard John Jones, Ebe Oke, and Chrysanne Stathacos / Additional works by Elijah Burgher, TM Davy, Sholem Krishtalka, Chrysanne Stathacos and introducing: JX Williams

 

AA Bronson’s Garten der Lüste—a 5-day hybrid installation featuring performances and artworks—will inaugurate KW’s second exhibition season of 2018 as part of its Pause series. Pause is envisioned as a platform to punctuate the program by presenting a singular installation for a short period of time in order to bridge relationships between the past, present and future.

 

AA Bronson (born 1946, Vancouver) is both artist and curator, subject and object. In this project, Bronson continues his practice of enfolding his community of artists within his own performances and artworks. The project takes Hieronymus Bosch’s famous painting The Garden of Earthly Delights (circa 1500) as its starting point. To analyze Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych is an attempt to describe the indescribable and to decipher the indecipherable—an exercise in madness. The project could be seen as a queer adaptation that executes this madness through various spirits and universes.

 

A pioneer of collaborative and queer visual art practice, AA Bronson is the sole surviving member of the art collective General Idea (1969–94). He has had a long history with political and social issues in art and publishing, and has collaborated with many generations of artists across many disciplines. He is a founder of FILE Magazine, Toronto; Art Metropole, Toronto; The NY Art Book Fair, New York; The Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice, New York; and AA Bronson’s School for Young Shamans, which is nomadic. In the last decades he has knitted elements from various religions into his work, from Tibetan Buddhism and Shamanism to Ceremonial Magic, and Santería.

 

 

 

Tent for Healing

 

The Tent for Healing invites visitors to one-on-one sessions on the subject of healing. On Thursday, April 26 and Friday, April 27 from 11 am to 2 pm, the sessions will be held with artist AA Bronson, with Richard John Jones assisting. On Saturday, April 28 and Sunday, April 29 from noon to 3 pm, sessions will be held with artist Richard John Jones with Spencer Carter assisting. If you would like to join a session, please send an email to reservation@kw-berlin.de, and write a few sentences (in English) why you would like to join the session. If you are chosen for one of the sessions, you will be asked to bring a gift for the artist, something that is difficult for you to give away.

 

Director and curator: Krist Gruijthuijsenv

Assistant curator: Maurin Dietrich

 

AA Bronson’s Garten der Lüste will be on view only throughout Gallery Weekend Berlin (April 26–29, 2018). Simultaneously, Esther Schipper, Berlin presents Catch me if you can! AA Bronson + General Idea, 1968–2018 from April 26 through May 26, 2018.

 

Exhibition booklet (PDF)

 

Part of project: Pause series

The Pause series of KW Institute for Contemporary Art allowed for an ephemeral yet deep engagement with a single artwork in order to draw and question relationships between the past, present, and future. A Pause acted as a punctuation of KW’s regular program by presenting an artwork for a short period of time in between exhibition cycles, working with this state of in-between. Pause projects were predominantly commissioned or reworked pieces that shifted between or even merged the disciplines of performance, installation, video, and sonic work.

 

Overview

2017–2024

 

Pause: Billy Bultheel & James Richards

Workers in Song

7–9 June 24

 

Pause: The Noa Eshkol Chamber Dance Group
25/27 August 23

 

Pause: Alexis Blake

Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve

27–29 January 23

 

Pause: Lydia Ourahmane
sync
1–2 October 22

 

Pause: Tobias Spichtig
Die Matratzen
19–23 January 22

 

Pause: Michele Rizzo

REACHING

1–3 October 21

 

Pause: Archivio Conz Collection

Broken Sounds / Remote Music—Prepared Pianos

16–19 January 20

 

Pause: Every Ocean Hughes

Help the Dead

24–25 August 19

 

Pause: Emma Hedditch

+49 30 243459-53

18–19 May 19

 

Pause: Jimmy Robert (After Ian White)

Joie noire

19–20 January 19

 

Pause: Evelyn Taocheng Wang

What is he afraid of?

27–30 September 18

 

Pause: Ericka Beckman

Super-8 Trilogy

18–21 January 18

 

Pause: Margaret Honda

Spectrum Reverse Spectrum

18–20 August 17

 

Pause: Anthony McCall

Line Describing a Cone

27–30 April 17

 

Part of project: The Berlin Sessions
Since February 2017, KW Institute for Contemporary Art organized a series of monthly public talks in collaboration with various institutions and organizations located in Berlin. The series entitled The Berlin Sessions explored the fabric of cultural producers in the city by inviting one Berlin-based speaker to give a presentation on another cultural producer that he/she/they find inspiring. The goal of the lecture series was to highlight the work of Berlin-based creatives from the perspective of their peers; to map connections between the various producers and fields and to strengthen the existing networks between locally based artists, authors, musicians, performers, researchers and other creative producers. 
 
Overview 
2017–2021
 
 

Book launch and film screening

5 December 18

 

Escales: atelier le balto

Book Launch

21 November 18

 

Claudia Skoda on art and fashion in West Berlin

Lecture, in German

28 February 18

 

Philipp Ekardt on Heike-Karin Föll

24 January 18

 

Gregor Hildebrandt on Pola Sieverding

15 December 17

 

Dellbrügge & de Moll on below papers

4 October 17

 

Julieta Aranda on Anri Sala

Lecture, in English

21 June 17

 

Käthe Kruse on Geniale Dilletanten

Lecture, in German

31 May 17

 

Annika Eriksson on Charlotte von Mahlsdorf 

Lecture, in English

22 March 17

 

Michel Auder on Daniel Knorr

Lecture, in English

8 March 17

 

Peter Wächtler on Hans- Christian Lotz

Lecture, in English

21 February 17

 

<p>The project at KW is generously supported by Esther Schipper, Berlin, the Embassy of Canada, Berlin, and the Canada Council for the Arts, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, and Maureen Paley, London.</p>

The project at KW is generously supported by Esther Schipper, Berlin, the Embassy of Canada, Berlin, and the Canada Council for the Arts, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, and Maureen Paley, London.

 

Media partner: Hyperallergic

 

 

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AA Bronson, <i>Garten der Lüste</i>, 2018, Installation view KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Photo: Frank Sperling
AA Bronson, Garten der Lüste, 2018, Installation view KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Photo: Frank Sperling
AA Bronson in collaboration with Mark Jan Krayenhoff
van de Leur and Adrian Hermanides, with an audio component titled <i>FIELD</i> by Ebe Oke, <i>Folly</i> (Detail /detail), 2015/16, Mixed Media-Installation, installation view KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin, Photo: Frank Sperling
AA Bronson in collaboration with Mark Jan Krayenhoff van de Leur and Adrian Hermanides, with an audio component titled FIELD by Ebe Oke, Folly (Detail /detail), 2015/16, Mixed Media-Installation, installation view KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin, Photo: Frank Sperling
AA Bronson, <i>Garten der Lüste</i>, 2018, Installation view KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Photo: Frank Sperling
AA Bronson, Garten der Lüste, 2018, Installation view KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Photo: Frank Sperling
Michael Dudeck, <i>Fish Scroll (Yaldaboath)</i>, 2018, performance in conjunction with the exhibition AA Bronson <i>Garten der Lüste</i>, 2018, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Photo: Frank Sperling
Michael Dudeck, Fish Scroll (Yaldaboath), 2018, performance in conjunction with the exhibition AA Bronson Garten der Lüste, 2018, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Photo: Frank Sperling
Portrait Chrysanne Stathacos, Photo: Frank Sperling
Portrait Chrysanne Stathacos, Photo: Frank Sperling
Ebe Oke, <i>FIELD</i>, 2015, Courtesy the artist, performance in conjunction with the exhibition AA Bronson <i>Garten der Lüste</i>, 2018, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Photo: Frank Sperling
Ebe Oke, FIELD, 2015, Courtesy the artist, performance in conjunction with the exhibition AA Bronson Garten der Lüste, 2018, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Photo: Frank Sperling