20 kwietnia 2017
13 maja br. rozpoczyna się 57. Biennale w Wenecji - La Biennale di Venezia. Dornbracht po raz trzeci sponsoruje wkład w Pawilon Niemiecki, który w tym roku stworzyła artystka – Anne Imhof. Zajmuje się ona zarówno rozciągniętą w przestrzeni oraz w czasie pracą, która łączy malarstwo, rzeźbę, instalację oraz performance.
The 57th Venice Biennale is set to start on 13 May 2017. For the third time, Dornbracht will be sponsoring the contribution for the German Pavilion which is to be designed by Anne Imhof this year. Especially for the Biennale, Imhof is developing a piece of work which travels through space and time, comprising sculptural, installative and performative elements. In her scenarios, she envisions how the human body is constituted within material and discursive, technological, socio-economic and pharmaceutical demarcations.
In its personal and social dimension, the physical describes a range of topics with which Dornbracht has been preoccupied for many years within the framework of various cultural projects and discussion formats. For example, the company sponsored the videos and installations presented by Rosemarie Trockel in the German Pavilion on the occasion of the 48th Venice Biennale as well as Gregor Schneider’s solo exhibition entitled “Totes Haus u r”, which was awarded a Golden Lion at the 49th Biennale in Venice.
Since then, the tension between physicality, intimacy and publicity has remained a starting point for Dornbracht Culture Projects: for example, the one-hour “Dendron” dance performance by Mark Jarecke, presented in 2005 as an initial edition of the “Dornbracht Performances” series at the Milan Furniture Fair, or the “Into Me/Out of me” exhibition sponsored in 2006. Only recently, the New York artists’ collective DIS picked up on the theme with its The Island (KEN) installation developed in collaboration with Dornbracht and Creative Director Mike Meiré: a hybrid product which links the otherwise separate areas of the (social) kitchen and the (private) bathroom. Within the framework of the third Triennale by the New Museum (“Surround Audience”, in spring 2015), The Island (KEN) was the setting for a performance organised by DIS and featuring alternating actors.
And Dornbracht has also often collaborated with Susanne Pfeffer – Commissioner of this year’s German Pavilion and curator of the contribution presented by Anne Imhof. In 2012, the company promoted the “One on One” exhibition which she curated in the Kunst-Werke Berlin, thereby re-addressing the issues of privacy and publicity. The concept of the exhibition was based on an unfiltered confrontation by the visitor with art: alone with the piece, without being observed or influenced by others. A supporting event entitled “Public Intimacy” took place in the form of Dornbracht Conversations 4 which involved Susanne Pfeffer, Carolin Christov-Bakargiev and Jeremy Shaw discussing the loss and repositioning of privacy with Charlotte Klonk.
“We are delighted to be able to pick up on this range of topics in the form of this renewed sponsorship of the German Pavilion which is also of particular importance in our everyday work”, claims Managing Partner Andreas Dornbracht. “Exchanges with artists such as Anne Imhof are a significant component of our brand awareness and deliver key impulses in order to continually develop bathroom and kitchen design.”
Following on from Anne Imhof’s work for this year’s German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Dornbracht will be hosting the sixth edition of the “Dornbracht Conversations” series in The Magazine at London’s Serpentine Sackler Gallery on 23 May 2017. Participants in this discussion will include Anne Imhof, Susanne Pfeffer and the Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Joanna Bartnik
JBcomm
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