Exhibition at
After the Butcher – space for contermpoary art & social issues
Spittastr. 25 | D-10317 Berlin
Participants: Yane Calovski, Hristina Ivanoska, Gergely László, Nóra Lukács, Katarina Šević, Sonya Schönberger
The Seeker is doomed to wander, albeit not to some final destination. The Seeker’s attention is dedicated to the journey itself and navigation tactics. Along the way, the Seeker gathers information, orientates, deconstructs, and rearranges the imprints of the present, filters out the superfluous, the false, the deceptive, what is untrue or what seems even more real than reality itself. What will be gleaned from these movements and rituals? Can their knowledge be preserved for the future in more than a set of rites? And will the Seekers of the future be able to read their pasts?
Developed as an episodic installation that unfolds through three iterations, punctuated by public events, On Seeking aims to acknowledge Berlin’s critical artistic community and dialogue in a state of uncertainty marked by the disintegration of social structures, the crisis of counterculture or the erosion of solidarity. The project gathers artists in Berlin who share a background in the (post-)socialist context as well as research-based practice, reflecting on images of the future shaped by a possible dystopia. All participants have a history of running independent spaces and initiatives for art, in Budapest, Skopje and Berlin.
The project is about embracing the fluidity of artistic inquiry, emphasizing the value of process over the formality of presentation, turning the exhibition space into a site of ongoing collective experimentation, spontaneous and responsive artistic practice and dialogue. Alongside research-driven approaches, the presented works and performances attempt to reinterpret and reimagine archival material and biographies, to (re)archive the ephemeral, the discarded, the waste of history or archival waste, and to address practices of remembrance. All the while, these artistic endeavors reflect on the act of seeking itself, as a response to our time that demands new forms of knowing.
In November 2024 a temporary collective took over the running of After the Butcher with the project On Seeking. Over the course of three months, the exhibition space unfolds as an evolving, morphing installation in which individual works are replaced and repositioned, refocusing the initial constellation and keeping the dialogue fluid and ongoing.
On view: 23 November 2024 – 28 February 2025
Opening / iteration #1: 22 November 2024, from 7pm
Zsolt Sőrés – MUT NAQ FO MUS (IC), sound performance at 8pm
Opening / iteration #2: 13 December 2024, from 7pm
With:
Hajnal Német – Copy Nothing, Performance at 8pm
Harry Sachs, Susanne Schröder
Opening / iteration #3: 17 Januar 2025, from 7pm
With Anna Zett
https://www.sonyaschoenberger.de
www.berliner-zimmer.net
https://hristinaivanoska.com
https://noralukacs.com
https://www.katarinasevic.com
https://tehnicaschweiz.com
https://www.zilbermangallery.com/yane-calovski-a447.html
https://hajnalnemeth.com
https://yellowsolo.de