LOOKS FAMILIAR / Savvy Contemporary / 8. January 2011, 7pm

Opening: 8 January 2011, 7 p.m.

Exhibition: 9 January – 5 February 2011 at SAVVY Contemporary

Marco Montiel-Soto, Julia Prezewowsky, Edition Taube
Un-curated by Susanne Husse and Jana Sotzko

LOOKS FAMILIAR is dedicated to the idea of family – as the smallest of social cells, as a political issue, as a culture bearer, as history, as home. LOOKS FAMILIAR is an exhibition, an art project and a book dealing with actions that are both political and moving playfully, questingly towards the city and society.

For four weeks, new works by Julia Prezewowsky, Marco Montiel-Soto and Edition Taube will be exhibited at SAVVY CONTEMPORARY. Approaching the subject and the location, the artists dealt with questions such as: What do family ties tell us about social networks, elective affinities or individualism in societies? How do justice and injustice, power relations and ways to dream and to fail present themselves within constellations of (surrogate) families?

With its project FAMILIENBESUCH, LOOKS FAMILIAR actively involves local residents and visitors. Parallel to the exhibition, photographer Sibylle Hoessler, illustrator Bo Soremsky and author Karim Ben Abdelkader will visit families in Neukölln. The documents and portraits these visits result in will be added to the ongoing exhibit.

Additionally, LOOKS FAMILIAR will be documented and accompanied my means of a publication. The artistic encyclopedia is a cooperation with art book publishing house Edition Taube.

EVENTS

OPENING 8 January, 2011, 7 p.m.
Address of welcome: Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (Art director and initiator of SAVVY Contemporary) + Jazz Improvisation by Robert Würz

ARTension: Straight forward with Prof. Dr. Regina Römhild (Institut für Europäische Ethnologie Humboldt-Universität), xx.1.2011, 7 p.m.

READING: 27 January 2011, 8 p.m. Karim Ben Abdelkader

BOOK PRESENTATION, FAMILY CELEBRATION, FINISSAGE 5 February 2011, 7 p.m.

CONTACT

AUSDENKEN UND MACHEN SAVVY Contemporary
Susanne Husse & Jana Sotzko Richardstraße 43/44
0176 20330034 12055 Berlin
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