The Way Things Run (Der Lauf der Dinge) Part III: Wage
Exhibiting artists: Julieta Aranda, Anna-Sophie Berger, Lou Cantor, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Claire Fontaine, Isabella Fürnkäs, Mariana Hahn, Alicja Kwade, Fred Lonidier, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Mickael Marman, Ahmet Ogut, Gina Proenza, Thilo F. Reich, Analia Saban, Katharina Sieverding, Eric Winkler, He Xiangyu
Co-curated by Jeppe Ugelvig
September 29th–November 1st
Opening: September 28th, 19:00–late.
Performance: 19:30
The third and final iteration of The Way Things Run investigates art’s ability to speculate labor politics. Through artworks – be they images, object, or immaterial experiences – artists may effectively narrate histories of labor, informed and shaped by social and geopolitical factors in local, regional or national contexts. At the same time, as capitalist society’s prime producer of symbolic value, the complex concept and industry of “art” is itself embroiled in a range of deeply problematic labor processes, unfolding as art is made, displayed, exchanged and speculated. The Way Things Run III sets out to examine how artists – in an attempt to discuss the essential political importance of work and its effect on bodies, places, institutions, and societies – insist on the work of art as a critical and viable space for such a discussion, expanding or subverting its function while acknowledging its inherent implication in value-generation.
Der dritte und letzte Teil von The Way Things Run untersucht die Fähigkeit der Kunst, Arbeitspolitik zu beeinflussen. Durch Kunstwerke - seien es Bilder, Objekte oder immaterielle Erfahrungen – können Künstler effektiv von Geschichten der „Arbeit“ erzählen, die durch soziale und geopolitische Faktoren in lokalen, regionalen oder nationalen Kontexten bestimmt und geprägt sind. Gleichzeitig ist der komplexe Begriff und die Industrie der „Kunst“ als Hauptproduzent der kapitalistischen Gesellschaft für symbolische Werte selbst in eine Reihe von zutiefst problematischen Arbeitsprozessen verstrickt, die sich entfalten kann, wenn Kunst geschaffen, ausgestellt, ausgetauscht und spekuliert wird. The Way Things Run III untersucht, wie kritische und lebensfähige Räume für eine solche Diskussion auf dem Kunstmarkt geschaffen werden.
Image: Isabella Fürnkäs, Vermillion (from the series “Wounded”), 2017.
Fred Lonidier
N.A.F.T.A... #16A & B: N.A.F.T.A... Return to Tijuana, /
T.L.C... Regresa a Tijuana, 2005
2 pigment print
83,82 x 309,88 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Silberkuppe
Isabella Fürnkäs
Vermillion and Scarlet (from the series "Wounded"), 2017
Sheep skin, various materials
85 x 45 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Clages gallery
Anna-Sophie Berger,
Berla 1 & 2 (Bestellschein & Verkaufs- u. Lieferbedingungen, 2018
Inkjet on paper
59 x 42 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna
Claire Fontaine
Untitled (Rotary Spike: Schwarz-Rot-Gelb, Schwarz-Rot-Senf, Schwarz-Rot- Scheisse), 2016
Galvanised and painted rotary spike, tubing and fixtures. 72 elements
25 x 600 x 25
Edition of 1 plus 1 artist's proof
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Neu
Mariana Hahn
Gertrude, 2018
Wheelbarrow (antique), one ton of salt
135 x 74 x 59
Courtesy of the artist
He Xiangyu
Coca-Cola Project, 2018
Coca-Cola, table, stove, pot
variable
Courtesy of the artist
Ahmet Ögüt
Fair Wage for a Made up Job, 2018
Video and Performance
A performer will be hired to spin a monitor displaying my film with low-paid Sign Spinners of LA. As part of the project, performer will be paid per hour as much as Members of the Bundestag, the federal parliament of Germany.
Courtesy of the artist
Eric Winkler
Neue Uniformen (Dao de jing), 2015
Textile print on cotton, transfer print, hanger, hook
Size 96 / ca. 208 x 70 x 15 cm
Courtesy of the artist
Peter Fischli & David Weiss
Untitled (Small bucket), 1994
Carved object, polyurethane, acrylic, dispersion
20 x 20 x 8,5 cm
Ed. 32/X
Courtesy of a private collection
Mariana Hahn
Leibzopf, 2018
yeast, flour, hair ash, egg, butter, milk,
40 cm
Courtesy of the artist
He Xiangyu
Lemon Pickers, 2018
Corian, oil paint, plastic
variable
Courtesy of the artist
Katharina Sieverding
DEUTSCHLAND WIRD DEUTSCHER, 1992
digital print on fleece-backed-paper
Courtesy of the artist
Analia Saban
Potato Sack (Still Life with Scissors, Abstract Cityscape, Portrait of a Blonde Pink Woman, Oceanscape with Girl and Boy, Portrait of a Man with Green Hat and Blue Fan), 2013
Potatoes, oil and acrylic on canvas
81,3 x 61 x 30,5
Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers
Analia Saban
Potato Sack (Abstraction with Blue and Green Forms, Mountainscape, Portrait of a Cat), 2013
Potatoes, oil and acrylic on canvas
81,3 x 61 x 30,5 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers
Gina Proenza
a a e o (Arrancamuela & John F. Kennedy), 2018
ceramic, motor, silk
Courtesy of the Artist
Lou Cantor
Spiritual Reality - Care, 2018
Backlight roll poster display, 5 c-prints on paper
210 x 150 x 15 cm
Courtesy of the Artist
Peter Fischei & David Weiss
The Way Things Go (Der Lauf der Dinge), 1987
Color video, transferred from 16 mm film, with sound
30 min
Courtesy of Sprüth Magers, Matthew Marks Gallery, Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Alicja Kwade
Used and Tired, 2012
pallet
135 x 100 x 85 cm
Courtesy of the artist and König Galerie