Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, melanie bonajo, Elolo Bosoka, Kerstin Brätsch, Raquel van Haver, Toni Mauersberg, Thomias Radin, Na Chainkua Reindorf, Lorenzo Sandoval, Emma Talbot, Mikey Woodbridge

The exhibition proposes a new, polycentric culture that moves away from monoculture (monogamy, minimalism, specialisation). POLY. A Fluid Show brings together works by eleven international artists who work across disciplines, with painting as a point of departure. They address hustling, mixing, and queering, which overcomes and dissolves boundaries between countries, genders, age groups, digital and analogue cultures, and materials.

Galerie Wedding is presenting the exhibitions Polychrome, Polymorph, and Polyharmony. POLY. A Fluid Show thematically corresponds with Emma Talbot. In the End, the Beginning in the Kesselhaus at the KINDL.

An exhibition catalogue will be published by Distanz, edited by Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Kathrin Becker.

Curator: Solvej Helweg Ovesen

16.9., 19:30
Performance, Concert, Live Visuals by Mikey Woodbridge
Free admission

17.9., 15:00
Curator’s tour and conversation with Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Elolo Bosoka and Na Chainkua Reindorf
In English
Free admission
Registration here

17.9. 16:00
Film-Screening, Premiere: Thomias Radin: RIVÂL, 2023, and dance-performance The Myth of a Trinity II with Thomias Radin and partners
In English
Free admission

27.9., 18:00
Curator’s tour POLY. A Fluid Show and Emma Talbot. In the End, the Beginning with Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Kathrin Becker
In German
Free admission
Registration here

18.10., 18:00
Curator’s tour POLY. A Fluid Show with Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Cibelle Cavalli Bastos
In English
Free admission
Registration here
– individual ride from KINDL to Galerie Wedding –
18.10., 20:00
Curator’s tour Polymorph with Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Cibelle Cavalli Bastos at Galerie Wedding
In English
Free admission

18.1., 17:00 –  19:30
POLY. A Fluid Show. Booklaunch with Kathrin Becker, Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Nitsan Margaliot, Felicia Ewert, Maxi Wallenhorst and the Distanz publishing house 
Attention: Venue is the Galerie Wedding – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Müllerstr. 146/147, 13353 Berlin
Programme:
17:00: Curator's tour of POLYHARMONY Downtime Salon 23-24 with Nitsan Margaliot 
18:00: Welcome by Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Kathrin Becker (eds.)
18:10: Felicia Ewert: Queer Existence as a Revolutionary Act, Statement
18:40: Maxi Wallenhorst: Less than a Utopia, Less than a Mystery
19:00 - 19:30: Bar 
In English
Free admission
More infos about the publication

31.1., 19:00
Polyphonic Painting
Conversation with Kerstin Brätsch and Raquel van Haver, moderated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen

Paul Klee described his visual compositions as “polyphonic painting”, drawing an analogy to polyphonic music, where multiple themes interweave. In conversation with curator Solvej Helweg Ovesen, artists Kerstin Brätsch and Raquel van Haver explore the significance of polyphony in their painterly works.
What voices, places and moods are articulated in their visual universes? How does the medium of painting serve as a canvas for non-binary perspectives today? What are the origins of polyphonic visual language?

In English
Free admission

24.2., 15:00
Finissage
15:00 – 16:00, Guided Tour of the exhibition with Solvej Helweg Ovesen
(fully booked)
16:30, Unplugged musical act by Mikey Woodbridge
17:30, The Flow Equation/SelfDefrag
Performance by Cibelle Cavalli Bastos
In The Flow Equation/SelfDefrag, Cibelle Cavalli Bastos explores their transformation and disidentification from being a cisgender singer named Cibelle to identifying as a non-binary interdisciplinary artist [{""(})] performing as @aevtarperform. This audiovisual experience weaves together elements of performance, lecture, concert and personal confession, touching on themes of identity formation, ongoing sensory overload and deconstruction.
In English
Free admission

In the western world, most people not only love one person (monogamy), they also focus their (professional) lives on being good at one thing (specialisation). This often results in a self-imposed restriction: monotony. The exhibiting artists believe that this state of affairs is completely out of sync with a globalised and increasingly complex world.
[In der westlichen Welt lieben die meisten Menschen nämlich nicht nur eine Person (Monogamie), sie richten auch ihr (Berufs-)Leben darauf aus, eine Sache gut zu beherrschen (Spezialisierung). Die häufige Folge der selbst auferlegten Beschränkung: Monotonie. Ein Zustand, der sich mit der globalisierten und immer komplexer werdenden Welt ganz und gar nicht vereinbaren lässt, finden die ausstellenden Künstler*innen.]
Tagesspiegel, 29.9.23

It brings together the works of international artists (...), called upon to address the mixing, the transition, the fluid transition between countries, genders, generations, digital and analogue cultures. 
[Riunisce le opere di artisti internazionali (...), chiamati ad affrontare la mescolanza, il passaggio, la transizione fluida tra paesi, generi, generazioni, culture digitali e analogiche.]
Marilena Di Tursi, artribune.com, 21.1.24

Further Material:
Booklet POLY. A Fluid Show

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