December 21, 2023, 3 pm
Many thanks to the director Susanne Prinz introducing our participants to the concept, program & history of the Verein zur Förderung von Kunst und Kultur am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V. [Association for the Promotion of Art and Culture at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V.] and guiding us through the exhibition Manageable Matter by Emma Waltraud Howes . The visit is part of the BAI Studio Program | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
Exhibition Date: November 24 – January 27, 2023
Location: Kunstverein am Rosa–Luxemburg–Platz
Opening Hours: Thursday – Saturday, 2 PM – 6 PM & by appointment
Address: Linienstraße 40, 10119 Berlin
“In the exhibition „Manageable Matter“ Howes presents a series of glass sculptures and speculative graphic scores. Gravity and grace are explored through different sculptural variations of glass artichoke hearts. Combined with metal and wooden elements, some of these forms are encased in club-like trunks that transform from medieval clubs into drumsticks, branching and ramifying to become elongated driftwood sticks. The ‘oracle decanters’ are grouped together in the dark, while visual instruments practise multidirectional gaze variations. These prostheses are used as performative objects for a series of interventions on the theme of ‘Optimistic Incrementalism’ – ‘incrementalism’ refers to a strategy of action characterised by trial and failure, expansion and improvement, to address the way in which we are inexorably bound to the past.” (Excerpt from the press release by courtesy of Kunstverein am Rosa–Luxemburg–Platz)
More information on the Kunstverein am Rosa–Luxemburg–Platz Website.
