Review Essay on Charlotte Johannesson, Save as Art? @ Kunsthalle Friart, Fribourg
While the historical relationship between textile work and a gendered division of labor has recently gained prominence in art history, the parallels between the loom and the computer have received less attention. In this essay, I discuss Charlotte Johannesson’s solo show Save as Art? at Friart to explore the connections between weaving and coding as well as between radical leftist politics and 1960s–1970s countercultures.
Bea Schlingelhoff, Accounting Confessions, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, 14. September 2023 bis 12. Januar 2024
Bea Schlingelhoffs Ausstellung Accounting Confessions im Neuen Berliner Kunstverein beschäftigt sich mit den architektonischen und finanziellen Rahmenbedingungen des Kunstvereins. Christina Irrgang zeichnet in ihrer Besprechung die Eingriffe der Künstlerin nach und fragt, wie diese es ermöglichen, Alternativen denkbar zu machen.
Ludwig Forum, Aachen April 22, 2023 – September 10, 2023
In this essay, Rose-Anne Gush discusses the exhibition Illiberal Lives at Ludwig Forum in Aachen, examining how unfreedom subtends art’s freedom, with attention given to its conflicted and ambivalent national impulses and representations. Her remarks center on the exhibition’s conceptualization and on specific positions within it that reveal this unfreedom in liberalism’s unfulfilled promises. The essay critically reflects on works evoking images and practices that attempt to exist beyond the capture of liberalism’s institutions.