[spectre] Where am I (and who are all these people)?, EXIT, Peja, July 24, 2004

[Inke Arns]

Where am I (and who are all these people)?

Gallery EXIT, B.Vukmirovic / 27, Pejë, Kosovë
July 24 - August 29, 2004
opening: Saturday, July 24, 2004, 20:00 hrs

Participating artists: Nina Fischer/Maroan el Sani, Christoph Keller, 
Daniel Pflumm, Heidi Specker

Curator: Inke Arns, Berlin

Organized by: EXIT Contemporary Art Institute, Pejë, Kosovë

The exhibition »Where am I (and who are all these people)?«, 
conceived and curated by Inke Arns, presents works by five Berlin-
based artists whose works reflect Berlin as a specifically local and 
at the same time global cityscape and an urban space in 
transformation. The works of the participating artists Nina 
Fischer/Maroan el Sani, Christoph Keller, Daniel Pflumm and Heidi 
Specker are formally very diverse. They deal on the one hand side 
very directly with the architectural and urban heritage of real 
existing Socialism. Heidi Specker, for example, analyses the 
structural elements of late-Socialist concrete architecture of the 
1970s which can be found in many post-socialist countries (and not 
only here). Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani had been documenting the 
Berlin club scene that developed in the 1990s in run-down houses and 
basements. Since 2001 they have been focussing on the (past) future 
and (future) fate of the Palast der Republik (Palace of the 
Republic), built in the 1970s, which hosted the Volkskammer (i.e. the 
parliament) of the GDR until 1990. While Christoph Keller constructs 
his own photographic strip cameras to produce what he calls »Rundum 
Photographs« (static images depicting the movement of the camera 
during recording) enabling him to record the urban space and the 
people and objects moving in this space, Daniel Pflumm presents 
Berlin as a global cityscape. He does this by meticulously dissecting 
the elaborate global language of advertisement, of corporate 
identities and logo culture he finds in the urban space, on 
television and the Internet.

More information can be found at
http://www.v2.nl/~arns/Projects/EXIT_2004/


Inke Arns
http://www.v2.nl/~arns