August 16, 2023, 2 PM
Many thanks to Dorottya Balla introducing our participants to the concept, program & history of Galerie Thomas Schulte and guiding us through the exhibition The Temptation to Exist by Alfredo Jaar. The visit is part of the BAI Studio Program | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
Exhibition Date: June 24 – August 19, 2023
Location: Galerie Thomas Schulte
Opening Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12 Noon – 6 PM
Address: Charlottenstrasse 24, 10117 Berlin
“The exhibition The Temptation to Exist by Alfredo Jaar will be on show at Galerie Thomas Schulte in Berlin in the summer of 2023. For over four decades, Alfredo Jaar has used photography, film, installation, and new media to create compelling works that examine complex socio-political issues and the ethics and limits of representation. For the exhibition, which is constructed in two moments with two major installations, Alfredo Jaar has selected works from around 50 artists who have sought to resist and change the world since the 1950s. These are shown along with works by Alfredo Jaar.
The exhibition’s title makes a reference to a book by Emil Cioran, one of the artist’s favorite writers. A dark, subversive thinker, Cioran was the poet of pessimism. A philosopher who was always on the verge of suicide, he once said: “If I didn’t write, I could have become an assassin. Writing is a matter of life and death. Human existence, at its core, is endless anguish and despair, and writing can make things a bit more bearable. A book is a suicide postponed.” For Cioran, failure permeates everything. Great ideas can be stained by failure, and so can art and the human condition. “No longer wanting to be a man, he is dreaming of another form of failure,” he wrote. “The universe is one big failure, and not even poetry can succeed in correcting it.” (Excerpt from the press release by courtesy of Galerie Thomas Schulte)
More information on the Galerie Thomas Schulte Website.
