Arthub Favorite: Week 104

Welt ohne Außen (World without Ouside)
Immersive Spaces since the 1960s

Duration: 2018 June 8 – August 5
Venue: Gropius Bau, Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin, Germany

Participate Artists: Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, Larry Bell, Laura Burns, Renée Coulombe, Lou Drago, Amit Elan, Fernanda Farah, Ed Fornieles Studios & Omsk Social Club, Lucio Fontana & Nanda Vigo, Peter Frost and The Group Le Frau, Cyprien Gaillard, Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė (Young Girl Reading Group), Wolfgang Georgsdorf, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Stefanie Görisch, Jeppe Hein, Michael Helland, Hidden Agency / ∞Os And Guests, Carsten Höller, Josh Johnson, Ana Jordão, Just In F Kennedy, Lea Kieffer With Angela Schubot & Rocio Marano, Dambi Kim, Isabel Lewis, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Ángela Muñoz Martínez, Susan Ploetz, Thomas Proksch, Tabita Rezaire, Xavier Le Roy, Maria Francesca Scaroni & Mieko Suzuki, Chris Scherer, Scent Club Berlin, Tino Sehgal, Colin Self, Coral Short & Jean P\’Ark, Iv Shri, Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Jessy Tuddenham, Two-Women-Machine-Show, Doug Wheeler, Helga Wretman, Xenoentities Network

Curators: Tino Sehgal, Thomas Oberender
Associate Curator: Annika Kuhlmann

The exhibition “Welt ohne Außen” features art works spanning from the late 60s to the present day, together with live works and workshops. For the first time, Gropius Bau is issuing passes that will give permanent access to the exhibition and all its activities, inviting visitors to explore all facets of the show and to actively participate in the daily workshop programme.

The exhibition traces a development from the pioneers of immersive installations to contemporary artistic practices, bringing together a wide range of art forms and disciplines. Featuring installations, virtual reality, 3D-film, a smell organ, as well as live works and workshops, the exhibition develops a unique dramaturgy that allows visitors to enter these immersive spaces, with each work unfolding within its own temporality.

The exhibition opens with a series of historical works from the late 1960s, with early works by Larry Bell and Doug Wheeler contrasted with an Environment by Lucio Fontana and Nanda Vigo. From here, the arc spans from more recent works like Carsten Höller’s “Light Wall” and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s “Cosmodrome” – two seminal works from the early 2000’s – to Cyprien Gaillard’s “Nightlife”. Gaillard’s hypnotic 3D-film marks the threshold of the transition from analogue to virtual spaces, on the other side of which VR-pioneer Nonny de la Peña makes social realities tangible with the aid of virtual worlds. Beside the multi-layered scent-compositions of Wolfgang Georgsdorf, there will be weekly rotating live works in the Schliemann-Saal and a series of workshops co-curated by artist Isabel Lewis, exploring the elements that define “Welt ohne Außen” as a format between exhibition and live experience, between tangible works and social process, between art and non-art.

As a central element of the exhibition, the Schliemann-Saal will open its doors several times a day to present live works that exist in a tension between the staged and the situational. Artists from a wide spectrum of contexts will be presented in weekly rotation, among them Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Peter Frost and the Group Le Frau, Maria Francesca Scaroni, Xavier Le Roy and two-women-machine-show.

More details about the exhibition and agenda, please click here.