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Marianne Wex
"Female" and "Male" Body Language as a
Result of Patriarchal Structures
("Weibliche"
und "männliche" Körpersprache als Folge patriarchalischer
Machtverhältnisse)
Badischer Kunstverein presents
Marianne Wex in her first comprehensive solo exhibition in Germany since
the 1970s. From 1972 to 1977 Wex photographed people and their body
language on the streets of Hamburg and subsequently classified her photos
into different categories. She juxtaposed women and men according to the
specific positioning of arms and legs, feet, knees, elbows, hands,
shoulders, and heads. She was interested in the degree to which
gender-specific conditioning and hierarchy are reflected through everyday
poses and gestures. In order to expand her research, Wex supplemented the
approximately 5000 photographs taken in public spaces with rephotographed
pictures from mass-media sources and statuary from antiquity and the Middle
Ages.
Marianne Wex's vast work of photographic taxonomy is at
once conceptual and documentary, personal and polemical. It elucidates a
specific approach to the medium of photography and to the appropriation of
found image material. At the same time, her work has its roots in the
feminist movement of the 1970s, with the collaged photo panels having been
shown for the first time in 1977 as part of the exhibition "Women Artists
International 1877–1977" at NGBK in Berlin.
Co-curated by
Mike Sperlinger, London.
The display structure has been
developed in cooperation with artist Ruth Buchanan and architect Andreas
Müller. With special thanks to the archive bildwechsel, Hamburg,
www.bildwechsel.org.
Marianne Wex (b. 1937 in Hamburg) lives and works in
Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany.
Atrium:
Tanja
Widmann
one of you (eine von euch)
With the exhibition eine von euch (one of you),
Badischer Kunstverein presents a new, space-encompassing installation by
the Vienna-based artist Tanja Widmann.
Establishing the point of
departure for the new installation eine von euch is a report on a
psychoanalytical session held by Félix Guattari with his patient
R.A. and the composition of their interaction. This has led Widmann to
investigate acts of speaking that suggest a specific (power) relation
between "speaking/knowing" subjects and "unknowing" ones, as can be
discerned in the psychoanalyst's speech—but also in remarks made by
the British animal scientist David Attenborough about his research
subjects, or by the scientists in Frederick Wiseman's film Primate
(1974).
In the exhibition, Widmann arranges various media and
materials in an open form of installation, which now allows heterogeneous
elements to uniquely encounter one another, such as psychoanalysis, primate
research, early speeches given by Margaret Thatcher, contemporary art
blogs, but also a Versace collection for H&M, and embroidery patterned
in speculative constellations.
Setup: Johannes Porsch
Embroidery: Tonio Kröner
In cooperation with Grazer
Kunstverein and tranzitdisplay, Prague.
Tanja Widmann (b. 1966
in Villach, Austria) lives and works in Vienna.
Waldstrassensaal:
Daniel Gustav Cramer & Haris
Epaminonda
The Infinite Library
Badischer Kunstverein is showing The Infinite Library in its
first solo presentation in Germany. The Infinite Library is an ongoing
project through which the artists Haris Epaminonda and Daniel Gustav Cramer
have been collaborating since 2007. Their interest is focused on the
creation of an archive comprised of books, whereby one or more pages from
other existing publications are integrated into each volume. The concept
behind each new volume develops step by step: the starting point is both
the content of the respective original book and the associations that
evolve throughout the process of creation.
The exhibition will
be accompanied by a comprehensive publication published in cooperation with
Jeff Khonsary/New Documents, Vancouver.
Daniel Gustav Cramer
(b. 1975 in Neuss) and Haris Epaminonda (b. 1980 in Nicosia,
Cyprus) live and work in Berlin.
Talks and events
Friday, 6 July, 7–10pm
Workshop with Marianne Wex
Körpersprache, Lebensräume
Friday, 13 July,
6pm
Frau Freitag at Kunstverein
Performances in dialogue with
Marianne Wex's body language project
In the context of the
performance festival Frau Freitag at State Academy of Fine Arts
Karlsruhe
Wednesday, 5 September, 7pm
Film screening
Films compiled by Daniel Gustav Cramer & Haris Epaminonda
Friday, 7 September, 8pm
Performance by Tanja Widmann
this is how (the artist is present) oh yeah
Followed by an
artist's talk and bar
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