Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now» at PASQUART
with Elmgreen & Dragset, Julian Charrière, Pedro Wirz, Stéphanie Saadé, On Kawara, Barbara Probst, Martin Creed, Sophie Jung, Rodney Graham and many more, September 9 until November 18, 2018
Artists
Agnieszka Polska, Barbara Probst, Cécile B. Evans, Daniel Gustav Cramer, David Horvitz, Dieter Roth, Dora Budor, Elmgreen & Dragset, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gernot Wieland, Julian Charrière, Kapwani Kiwanga, Kris Martin, Laure Prouvost, Martin Creed, Michael Sailstorfer, Mikko Rikala, On Kawara, Pedro Wirz, Peter Dreher, Pilar Quinteros, Pope.L, Ragnar Kjartansson, Raqs Media Collective, Rodney Graham, Roman Buxbaum, Slavs And Tatars, Smudge Studio, Sophie Jung, Sophy Rickett, Stéphanie Saadé, Taryn Simon, Tehching Hsieh, Ursula Biemann
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Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Slavs and Tatars, Kapwani Kiwanga and Raqs Media Collective» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Courtesy: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin / Courtesy: the artist and Gallery Jérôme Poggi / Courtesy: the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Julian Charrière» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Courtesy: the artist, Günther Vogt and Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Ursula Biemann» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now / view on Elmgreen & Dragset, Broken Clock / Powerless Structures, Fig. 245, 2001» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Courtesy: Family Servais Collection, Bruxelles
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now / view on Julian Charrière, Weight of Time, 2016 and Stéphanie Saadé, Moongold Series, 2016-18» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Courtesy: Günther Vogt and Courtesy Marfa’ Projects
Through installation, video, photography, performance, and painting, ZEITSPUREN - The Power of Now examines the aesthetic and cultural significance of time within contemporary narratives and its impact on how we structure our lives and experiences. In their work, the 34 international artists selected for the exhibition explore the temporal nature of labor and leisure, politics and power, the body and representation, or technology and memory.
Time and its Discontents
Time and its Discontents introduces us to the intersections of labor and social time. The works in this section build critical and playful narratives around current discontents of standardized living, work, and leisure time. An early figure in the development of durational performance art, Tehching Hsieh displays in One Year Performance (1980–81) the documented evidence of a performance that chronicled a year of the artist’s life. The tedium of industrial labor highlighted by Hsieh’s performance reinforces the dominance of western time structures that is investigated in Ragnar Kjartansson’s Scenes from Western Culture (2015). Meanwhile, David Horvitz’s The Distance of a Day (2013) breaks with the normal passage of time by juxtaposing videos of a single day made in different locations and time zones.
Sculpting Time
Sculpting Time examines the material processes of historiography with a focus on the role of research in artistic methodologies. Artists revisit historical artifacts to draw out new meanings and associations. Kapwani Kiwanga’s Flowers for Africa (2014, 2017) reveal the artist’s interest in archival imagery of postcolonial independence celebrations. Stéphanie Saadé’s Accelerated Time (2014) treats time as a physical property, making a mystery of the work’s broken fragments and the forces which produced them.
Capture: Staging the Live
Capture: Staging the Live foregrounds the body as a site for expanding our perception of time, focusing on approaches to performance-based work. Pope.L’s practice takes the form of durational and endurance-based performances. Drawing frequently on sources from pop culture or philosophy, Sophie Jung produces marathon-length performances. Jung’s performance plays on the slippage between language and objects, transforming what the artist describes as a skewed format of « show and tell».
Speculative and Planetary Time
Speculative and Planetary Time analyzes how digital connectivity and computerized technologies have radically shifted our experience of time. Works in this section reflect on deep time – time beyond the human – to speculate what new worlds might look like. Agniezska Polska’s My Little Planet (2016) combines animated daily-use objects floating in the cosmos with a humorous voice-over as a comment on the ways in which consumer culture dominates our world. Julian Charrière’s series First Light (2016–17) addresses the histories of nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll, making visible an atomic landscape within idyllic tropical island scenes.
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Pedro Wirz» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Courtesy: the artist und Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Köln
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Kapwani Kiwanga and Raqs Media Collective» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Courtesy: the artist and Gallery Jérôme Poggi / Courtesy: the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Taryn Simon» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Courtesy: the artist and Gagosian
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Sophie Jung» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Courtesy: the artist
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Sophie Jung» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Courtesy: the artist
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Martin Creed» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Courtesy: the artist and Hauser & Wirth
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Peter Dreher and Barbara Probst» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Taryn Simon and Ragnar Kjartansson» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Courtesy: the artist and Gagosian / Courtesy: the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Dora Budor» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Courtesy: New Galerie, Paris
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Dora Budor» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Courtesy: New Galerie, Paris
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with On Kawara» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Courtesy: Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Marie Müller-Guarnieri-Stiftung
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Pedro Wirz» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Rodney Graham, Pilar Quinteros, Stéphanie Saadé, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Agnieszka Polska adn David Horvitz» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Dora Budor» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Courtesy: the artist and Hauser & Wirth / Courtesy: Private collection, Bologna; the artist & ChertLüdde, Berlin / Courtesy: ZAK | BRANICKA / Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Rodney Graham, Pilar Quinteros, Stéphanie Saadé, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Agnieszka Polska adn David Horvitz» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Dora Budor» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Courtesy: the artist and Hauser & Wirth / Courtesy: Private collection, Bologna; the artist & ChertLüdde, Berlin / Courtesy: ZAK | BRANICKA / Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Rodney Graham, Pilar Quinteros, Stéphanie Saadé, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Agnieszka Polska adn David Horvitz» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Dora Budor» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Courtesy: the artist and Hauser & Wirth / Courtesy: Private collection, Bologna; the artist & ChertLüdde, Berlin / Courtesy: ZAK | BRANICKA / Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Rodney Graham, Pilar Quinteros, Stéphanie Saadé, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Agnieszka Polska adn David Horvitz» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Exhibition View Groupshow «Zeitspuren – The Power of Now with Dora Budor» at PASQUART, Biel/Bienne, 2018 / Photo: Gunnar Meier / Courtesy: the artist and Hauser & Wirth / Courtesy: Private collection, Bologna; the artist & ChertLüdde, Berlin / Courtesy: ZAK | BRANICKA / Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
