Anna Berndtson, Ali Rıza Ceylan, Effrosyni Kontogeorgou, Hadas Tapouchi
The Kunstverein Tiergarten is presenting a group exhibition at the rK Gallery for Contemporary Art that explores the following question: How can movement, memory, and sensory experience be archived? How can we preserve phenomena that elude fixation and begin to evaporate at the very moment they appear?
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Anna Berndtson, Ad hoc RePerformance, 2018, Performance, 6 hours, Photo: Laurel Jay Carpenter
The exhibition Archive des Ephemeren (Archives of the Ephemeral) brings together photography, video, installation, and performance exploring both the conditions of preserving and of recalling transient processes. At its core is the inquiry into the material, physical, and medial limits of the archive: What remains once the event has passed, and what forms of storage can do justice to the ephemeral?
Artists:
- Anna Berndtson
- Ali Rıza Ceylan
- Effrosyni Kontogeorgou
- Hadas Tapouchi
The drawings on used sandpaper that Ali Rıza Ceylan has been creating for over 40 years are imbued with experiences of industrial labor, migration, and racist violence. They demonstrate art’s role as an agent of memory, reflection, and resilience.
Through her photographic and installation work Poznań Force, Hadas Tapouchi explores how former sites of Nazi forced labor continue to resonate in urban and rural spaces to this day. Architecture and landscape emerge as vessels of history and memory.
For Anna Berndtson’s long-term performance Ad hoc Re-Performance Berlin, Berlin-based artists are invited via an open call to propose their own previously staged performances for spontaneous re-enactment by the artist. By re-performing the selected works, the project examines the body and movement as living archives, as well as repetition as a discursive and contemporary practice.
As part of her artistic research, Effrosyni Kontogeorgou explores the scent of people in their workplaces. At the intersections between material and immaterial traces of spatial-bodily experience, her experimental setups generate unpredictable images with individual, idiosyncratic aesthetics.
Together, these artistic approaches open up new perspectives on archives that draw on experience, memory, and perception. They explore bodies, places, and various materials as carriers of history, stories, and knowledge, and present archives as open processes of translation.
