MASA BERLIN
PROUDLY PRESENTS:
DIENST AN DER NOTWENDIGKEIT
AN EXHIBITION BY
:
FLORIAN WÜST
AT MASA BERLIN #8 HOSTED BY:
ARCHIVE BOOKS
DIEFFENBACHSTRASSE 31 • 10967 BERLIN
U8 Schönleinstrasse
OPENING • SATURDAY • 14 JANUARY 2012 • 7 pm
EXHIBITION • SUNDAY • 15 JANUARY 2012 • 3-7 pm
Florian Wüst's (*1970) ongoing artistic research project DIENST AN DER NOTWENDIGKEIT [SERVICE TO NECESSITY] examines shifting forms of political protest. The story of Hartmut Gründler, a West German teacher and anti-nuclear energy activist who burned himself publicly in 1977, hereby functions as a vantage point. Besides the tragic course of this swift path to self-immolation, set as an example of resistance against "continued governmental misinformation" in nuclear policy, Gründler stands out as a great communicator and author of countless pamphlets and open letters. For MASA BERLIN #8, Wüst presents various artefacts, fabricated and real, that reflect and actualize Gründler's manic writing, verbal sophistication, and critique of technocratic language.
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MASA SPREAD YOURSELF!
Masa is the Turkish word for table and simultaneously provides the title for the mobile and independent exhibition space MASA BERLIN. It is an alterable table vitrine, which appeared for the first time in 2006 in Istanbul, where it was initiated by artist Vahit Tuna as a space for contemporary art. In 2011, MASA multiplied and starting from April its offspring has been invading Berlin’s artistic and urban landscape. In-between-space itself, MASA – a table set with art – will appear in in-between-spaces, attest them, open up a dialogue and simply embody the notion of hospitality.
MASA BERLIN - BEING HOSTED AS THE HOST
To invite has a twofold meaning in Hebrew and means additional to its conventional use also »to make time«. The notion of double hospitality, triggered via its pere-grination and its halt at the most different locations, will be framed by a condensed and focused two-day exhibition format. In today's world, Masa will stand as an alternative to big budget projects, institutionalized
art, galleries that work with only a group of well established names, and it will head for a younger production overall. »As an extension that excludes art created for the system, as an environment that aims to compose an area with no boundaries for the Artist, MASA welcomes everyone!« Vahit Tuna
MASA BERLIN
is initiated and organized by Isabel Schmiga and Sandra Teitge.
http://masaprojesi.blogspot.com
masa.berlin.info@googlemail.com
Special thanks to:
Paolo Caffoni, Chiara Figone, Sven Holm, Philip Kießling,
Mardo Ohanoğlu, Jens Teitge and Vahit Tuna