Renzo Martens
The Matter of Critique

 

 

2 May – 7 June 15

 

Renzo Martens, Critical Curriculum, Institute for Human Activities, 2014
Renzo Martens, Critical Curriculum, Institute for Human Activities, 2014

 

Opening: 1.5.15, 17–21 h

Renzo Martens founded the Institute for Human Activities (IHA) in 2010 to run a Gentrification Program on a former Unilever plantation in the Congo. The IHA focuses on the usually unwanted byproducts of gentrification, and uses them to make an alternative income opportunity available to the cocoa plantation workers: art.

IHA sets up a public office at KW Institute for Contemporary Art for the duration of The Matter of Critique. From there, Martens accompanies the Congo settlement of the institute and uses the institutional infrastructure to raise additional funds and discuss the conditions of the project.

The Matter of Critique is a project of the Institute for Human Activities in collaboration with KW Institute for Contemporary Art.

Accompanying Program:
21.5.15, 19 h
The Matter of Critique–Fluidities

The Matter of Critique is funded by Mondriaan Fund, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, and the Embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin.

Simultaneously there will be an exhibition with works by members of the Congolese Plantation Workers Art League at KOW, opening May 1st, 2015 at 6 pm.