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)

 

<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