Under the title NETZE, Diana Galli, Julie De Kezel, Aki Kiefer and Giovanni Raabe have come together to create an experimental exhibition in the Kunstarkaden space through collaboration and exchange. In addition to the heterogeneous artistic modes of expression that they all contribute individually, theorists will also be brought in and become part of the exhibition in the form of open discussion rounds. It revolves around new forms of togetherness and connection, like parts of a network that grows from knot to knot from many different strands and derives its strength from the diversity of the individual components. The exhibition also refers thematically to the following excerpt from Donna Harraway’s work ‘Staying With The Trouble’: ‘Thread games are like stories. They suggest and enact patterns so that they can somehow be inhabited by those who play the game. (…) Playing with threads is about passing on and receiving patterns, about dropping threads and failing, but sometimes also about finding something that works, something consistent and perhaps even beautiful; something that wasn’t there yet, a passing on of connections that count; a storytelling that goes from hand to hand, from finger to finger, from connection point to connection point – to create conditions that allow finite flourishing on earth, on terra. Thread games require one to hold still in order to receive and pass on. Thread games can be played by many, with all kinds of limbs, as long as the rhythm of give and take is maintained.’ From sound to objects and painting, all areas come together in a shared immersive installation and interact with both the Kunstarkaden space and the visitors to the exhibition.

All participating artists live and work in Munich.

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