Zentrum für Kunst
Hermann-Ritter-Str. 108 E
28197 Bremen
The exhibition illuminates smoke as an everyday phenomenon, a cultural-historical motif and a symbol for a reality in constant change – fleeting, contradictory and yet with a lasting impact.
The Center for Art, formerly a tobacco processing factory, embodies the economic, social, and cultural aspects of smoking in its history. The transformation of the site from a place of industrial production to a space for cultural reflection opens up new levels of meaning: tobacco and smoke are transformed from a commodity and everyday practice into the subject of artistic exploration.
The exhibition explores the tension between past and present, between material industrial history and immaterial perception. Smoke appears as a trace and legacy, but also as a projection surface for imaginations and new narratives. It alludes to processes of disappearance and reappearance, creating images and dissolving them again in the next moment.
Victor Artiga Rodriguez, Amina Brotz, Claudia A. Cruz, Veronika Dobers, Anja Engelke, Luisa Eugeni, Toni Ehrhardt, Tom Gefken, Nanja Heid, Patricia Lambertus, Raphaëlle Mellet, Veronika Maier, Ezzat Nashashibi, Antonio Velasco Muñoz, Pia E. van Nuland, Laura Pientka, Sabine Schellhorn, Ul Seo, Sabine Wewer, Noriko Yamamoto, ZKÖR/Sönke Busch.
Center for Art Hermann-Ritter-Str. 108 E 28197 Bremen