Strange, Familiar and Unforgotten : A group exhibition

In a playful connection to the history of the gallery itself, the exhibition endeavors to reveal the different ways in which artists explore and question history and memory in their work.

The consciousness of continuity and the understanding of a constant reactivation of the past are important concerns in the work of many contemporary artists.
The strategies employed by artists go far beyond the notions of repetition and recycling, enlarging the background of historical references and offering a more complex relationship to the past.

A vast range of artistic positions is represented in the exhibition. Some artworks interconnect not only different moments of the past, but also various local histories belonging to specific places.
Others “reinvent” history by bringing to light (un)forgotten facts and events. No matter what strategies are employed, in each case the very idea of history and our place in it are called into question.

Dessislava Dimova, March 2005

With Eleanor Antin - Robert Barry - Pierre Bismuth - Marcel Broodthaers - Sophie Calle - Peter Friedl Kendell Geers & S-338 - Liam Gillick - Johan Grimonprez - Marie-Ange Guilleminot - Olivier Millagou - Ivan Moudov - Olaf Nicolai - Rainer Oldendorf - Nedko Solakov - Jana Sterbak

Uri Tzaig - Jan Wenzel