Episode 6: blank page

ARTISTS:
Andreas Burger, Jan Freuchen, Nina Katchadourian, Ivan Moudov, Armand Quetsch, Albrecht Schäfer

3 April – 4 May 2014
insitu, Berlin

The exhibition «Episode 6: blank page» focuses on art that arises from moments of inactivity, idleness or boredom – recurring phenomena known and experienced by all of us. What result may appear when an artist faces off with the infamous uninspiring blank page? What emerges when an artist experiences a period of weariness or has hours to kill?

With a selection of six artists, the group exhibition aims to revisit the creative potential nestled within these idle intervals, in which neither haste, efficiency, nor expectation disturb the vagabond spirit. When premeditation, proficiency, and presumption are lost in a moment of boredom. Although boredom may procure a gloomy connotation, the outcome of these unpremeditated artistic productions can be positively surprising, driven by factors like intuition, humor, and spontaneity.

CURATORS:
Marie Graftieaux, Nora Mayr, Gilles Neiens (as insitu)

From left to right: Jan Freuchen «Quattro stagioni» (2014); Ivan Moudov «Teleporting Machine» (2005)


From left to right: Jan Freuchen «Quattro stagioni» (2014); Jan Freuchen «The Circle & The Square» (2014).


Andreas Burger «4,9 km» (2013), detail.


Armand Quetsch «Walk the dalk» (2014)

Nina Katchadourian «Flight Log (version 7)» (2014), detail

Albrecht Schäfer «Bleistift auf Papier #13/2» (2010).