“TRACING UTOPIA”
8–31 July 2017
Ladies and gentlemen,
Dear friends of the Stiftung Starke,
together with the Institute for Arts and Media Management
we warmly invite you to the opening of the exhibition
TRACING UTOPIA
on Friday, 7 July 2017 at 7 pm
Participating artists:
Dominik Annies, Chen Baiyi, Janosch Becker, Florian Birk, Juan Blanco, Felipe Duarte, Shi Fu, Philipp Hainke, Lisa Herzog, Fangling Huang, Qin Lingsen, Luo Qiang, Li Quing, Ana Esteve Reig, Natalia Irina Roman, Felipe Sánchez, Liu Shihao, André Stache, Deo Gisa Brian Senyondo, Annika Stoll, Daniel Theis, Sabine Maria Voltz, Victoria Wald, Tao Xia, Yan Xiang, Ligeng Zhang
Tracing Utopia is an exhibition project within the German-Chinese workshop for emerging curators run by the Institute for Arts and Media Management (IKM) of the Freie Universität Berlin and the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Beijing, in cooperation with the Centre for Art and Public Space (ZKR) Berlin, the Stiftung Starke and the Stadtmuseum Kassel.
The garden, the lounge, the halls and the cellar of the Löwenpalais will host visual art, multimedia, installation and performance art.
About the exhibition:
Six young emerging curators each from Germany and China are staging a joint exhibition at the Löwenpalais on the theme of “Utopia”. Tracing Utopia explores utopian thinking by artistic means and is presented as a two-part exhibition at the Stiftung Starke in Berlin-Grunewald and at the ZKR and the adjoining palace park.
Performances on 7 July:
8 pm – Utopia Utopia // Performance by Annika Stoll // Rotunda
9–10 pm – Utopic East African Sound Experience // Live performance by Makadem // Rotunda
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Klaus Siebenhaar, member of the Board of Trustees of the Stiftung Starke.
Exhibition dates:
8–31 July 2017
