Take Place 

The exhibition invites 210 Berlin-based artists to come into an empty gallery space and their presence becomes part of the work. It aims to go beyond the usual bound that separates the artist and the performer from the public, and invite the public to participate in the artist’s experience and to the artist’s point of view.

Statement

As a response to Institut für Alles Mögliche, Take Place Ⅰ fills the 20 square meter gallery space with artists. Presented through the window wall towards the street, the work consists of live encounters between people, while the material is the artists or the artists’ presence. During the opening hour, street passengers and visitors are welcome to come into the gallery. Once they enter the gallery, the audiences become parts of the work. With artists standing, sitting and chatting in the space, the work erases the difference between the artists and visitors, and questions the general expectations towards an exhibition. It exists as a performance, an interaction, and an immaterial experience.

In Take Place ⅠⅠ, a group of artists sit on three rows of stadium seats inside the gallery facing the window, and stare at the street through the entire opening hours. Rather than being observed, the work is observing whatever is happening outside the gallery and creating an unfamiliar situation for both the artists and the viewers. And the work itself is held in the moments of these encounters. Through these encounters, the work challenges the viewers’ as well as the artists’ roles and participations in a work and in an exhibition, blurring the lines between the making, presenting, and experiencing of an art piece.

Paticipating Artists:

Abdulsalam Ajaj, Adrian Mcintosh, Alexander Kokx, All Black Series, Amelia Emma Forrest, Anastasiia Belousova, Andreea Cioran, Andreea Hriscu, Andrew Berry, Anitra Bohman-Penttinen, Anna Barth, Anna Benner, Anneliese Greve,Anto Marinov, Archan Nair, Astra Pentaxia, Aurora Del Rio, Boris Eldagsen, Cau Silva, Chris Aragón ,Christian Niccoli, Christina Themeli, Christopher Sage, Ciara-Angela Engelhardt, Cihangir Guemuestuerkmen, Crisalide D'aria, Crista Siglin, Daiane Rafaela, Daniel Schaal, Daniela Maria Geraci, Danielle Benvenuto, Daria Belous, Despoina Filippidou Dimitra Thomaidou, Dmytro Fedorenko, Dorota K. Samborski, Elif Okay, Elisa Duca ,Elisa Jule Braun, Elisa Vidalis, Elly Kahn, Eric Alonzo, Eva Maria Kaack, Evgenia Chetvertkova, Fabifa, Faranak Zaboli, Flavius Augustin, Francesca Melotti, Friederike Ruff, Gabija Razanskaite, Gabriella Forzelius, Gawie Joubert, Gene Kittchen, Genesis Victoria, Giulia Valenti, Golden Diskó Ship, Greg Kappes, Hadas Amster, Horia Savescu, Hyejin Lee, Irma van Doornmalen, Ivan Paniotov, Ivana Dilva, Ivana Jecmenica, IZZY AMUW, James Patock, Jane Hwang Jannis Eggelsmann, Jb.Lyonga, Jenny Dam, Jessica Roes, Jie-Liang Lin, Jimmie James, Joanna Chwiłkowska, Joanna Kawicka, Julija Kaulinytė, Karin Knutsson, Karmen Kraft, Katarzyna Mazur, Kelly Moorosi, Kelsey Linder, Kimberly Meenan, Lale Willan, Lei Tzeshi, Leslie Atkins, Liat Peled, Lukas Hanus, Lyndsey Walsh, Machig de Valence, Machito Timotheo José Sánchez, Malavasi Samanta, Marcus Ahlers, Maria Leibnitz, Marina Aizome, Marina Belikova, Markella Davu, Markusen, Mathias Roloff, Mia Stark, Min Kim, Miriam Glinka, Mirthe van Popering, Mohamed FarahatMojca Hadela, Natalia Irina Roman, Natalya Gimson, Neïtah Janzing, Nicol Rivera, Niklas Soestmeyer, Mitsuko, Nora Novak, Nose of Wax, Nusha Shishi, Olena, Olya Bychkova,Oumou Nasri, Pavel Fernandez, Pawel Jankiewicz, Peppy Cheng, Philipp Kay, Pierluigi Muscolino, Rebeca Domiciano, Rocio Garrido, Ronald Rose, Sanja Star, Sarah Duah, Sarah Teichmann, Sebastian Kurth, Seweryn Jański, Shannon Sea, Silvestre Natalia, Silvia Camagni, Silvia Trebbi, Simone Brühl, Sinéad Butler-Aldridge, Siri Zetterman, Sofia Marques Ferreira, Sonia Noya, Souhir Neumeister, Stephanie Mohun, Sue Dlamini, Svenja Schaefer, Sylvia Rybak, Thomas Tirel, Tomoya Kawamura, Valeria Aleksic, Vao Kumitz, Vicky Heinlein, Vincenzo Suscetta, Wanqian Lin, Wolfgang Busch, Xiaoer Liu, Xiaofu Wang, Yun Ju Chen, Zavoloka, Zazaa Ganbold, Zi Gattina,