Rendez-vous de chasse at XPINKYBERLIN with bn+BRINANOVARA, Patricia Lambertus und Carolin Ott, curated by Astrid Silvia Schönhagen & Isabella Sedeka.
Duration: 26th May - 20th June 2021
Thur & Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sun 11 - 6 pm
XPINKY Berlin
Florian-Geyer-Str. 109a
D - 12489 Berlin
The exhibition is a cooperation of the project space XPINKY Berlin with the research group“wohnen+/-ausstellen”, Institute for Art Studies – Film Studies – Art Education and Mariann Steegmann Institute. Art & Gender at the University of Bremen.
In the hunting room, we stage ourselves as conquerors of wild animal nature. Be it deer or boar hunting scenes on medieval tapestries, be it painted wall coverings with fights of exotic predators, or skillfully arranged still lives of dead birds: Over the centuries, animals of almost every species have made their way into the home like this. In the trophy room, man’s triumph over the hunted animal is staged most impressively. As a trophy, the dead animal has become part of the living human’s rooms and furnishings. The preserved animals’ bodies are souvenirs of successful hunts, and the glass eyed trophies are supposed to show the hunter’s love of nature. At the same time, the animal bodies create an eerie ambience of the ‘heimlich–unheimlich’.
The ‘rendez-vous de chasse’ exhibition takes this ambivalent relationship between an appropriation of and a connection with nature in the interior as its starting point to explore the cruel and at the same time highly aestheticized staging of animals and nature in different spatial settings and/or scenographies. In this exploration, the show reflects upon the hunting room as a space of representation and illusion. By bringing a ‘rendez-vous de chasse’ (hunting party) into the gallery, Patricia Lambertus (*1970, GER), Carolin Ott (*1994, GER), and the artist duo bn+BRINANOVARA (*1993/94, IT) invite us to approach the topic from different directions.
Text: Silke Förschler, Astrid Silvia Schönhagen (Übersetzung/translation: Christiane Keim)
Online artist talk mit bn+BRINANOVARA (in English) 27.5.2021 6 pm, Zoom-Link