"Körper Speicher Tempel" und "Artministration Teil 1"

Susanne Ring – Körper Speicher Tempel

In her solo exhibition, artist Susanne Ring (*1966) presents a large-scale installation of ceramic works, incorporating elements from painting, drawing, fabric and furniture into her installations. The figures presented in the installation are constructed by the sculptor as hybrid beings with reduced physical features such as heads, arms or legs, which nevertheless cannot be assigned to any clear body image. Partly balancing on thin stilts, they refer to a tension between statics and materiality. Her sculptural vocabulary moves at the interface between body and shell, and the figures are reminiscent of vessels as storage places.
In their fragmented presence, the sculptures question body norms, ideals of beauty and the attribution of identity and gender. They address the right to ambivalence and non-belonging, open up spaces for alternative interpretations and elude clear attributions.
The result is spatial arrangements of sensitive individual bodies that oscillate between strength and vulnerability, self-assertion and neediness. Ring's unmistakable sculptural vocabulary forms a plastic language that not only speaks about the body but becomes the body itself, questioning notions of wholeness, form and integrity.

• Curated by Veronika Witte
  

Accompanying events:

• Wed 25 June, 7 p.m.: Curatorial tour with Veronika Witte
  
• Thu 17 July, 7 p.m.: Artist talk: Susanne Ring and Veronika Witte
  
• Wed 30 July, 7 p.m.: Curatorial tour with Janine Pauleck
  
• Sat 9 August, 7 p.m.: Finissage with itinerant interlude # 51: Body Electronics with Viola Yip
  

Office for Curatorial Research – Artministration Part 1

Founded by curators Julia Heunemann and Ulrike Riebel, the Büro für kuratorische Forschung (BKF) is opening an exhibition space in Galerie Nord on 2 June with a DJ and snacks. The BKF explores the practices, politics and fields of curating in the form of exhibitions, events and publications.

With the exhibition series Artministration, the BKF takes a self-deprecating and system-critical look at private, professional and public administrative practices and processes, as well as the forms of knowledge associated with them.
To kick off the series, visitors are invited to participate in the realisation of an exhibition: from the development of an open call to the selection of the resulting artistic applications to the opening of the open call exhibition at the Büro für kuratorische Forschung. In addition, the BKF team offers personal curatorial advice during office hours.
Curatorial, administrative, participatory, and performative acts will continually redefine the relationship between office and exhibition throughout the entire duration of the project.
The results of the process will further expand the thematic scope of administrative acts in art and culture and set priorities for future editions of the Artministration exhibition series.

Office hours: Wed and Sat, 3–7 p.m., and by appointment

Accompanying programme:

• Paragraph (1) Office opening ceremony with DJ and snacks: Thursday, 12 June at 8 p.m.
  
• Paragraph (2) Circulating portfolios between BKF and administrative institutions: throughout the exhibition period, curated by Roger Rohrbach
  
• Paragraph (3) Excursion to the exhibition Körper Speicher Tempel followed by a discussion with the artists: Thursday, 17 July at 6.57 p.m., meeting point: in the entrance area of the BKF
  
• Paragraph (4) Opening of the open call exhibition at the BKF: Wednesday, 23 July at 7 p.m.
  
• (5) Curator's tour of the open call exhibition: Saturday, 26 July at 5 p.m.
  
• (6) Finissage of the open call exhibition: Saturday, 2 August at 5 p.m.
  
• (7) End of curatorial research: Saturday, 9 August at 7 p.m.
  

Openings: Thursday, 12 June

7 p.m.: Körper Speicher Tempel, welcome and introduction with Veronika Witte

8 p.m.: Artministration Part 1, welcome with Julia Heunemann and Ulrike Riebel

• With the kind support of the district KoGa funding fund of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.