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  • Mari Lena Rapprich, fortlaufende Serie o.T. (Nummer 7), 2013, Photo: Michael Schmid
  • Class Paco Knöller. HAPPILY EVER AFTER, installation view GAK Bremen 2013, Photo: Michael Schmid
  • Myong-Hee Ki: Einzel-Teile, 2011, Photo: Michael Schmid
  • Class Paco Knöller. HAPPILY EVER AFTER, installation view GAK Bremen 2013, Photo: Michael Schmid
  • Sebastian Schneider: The wall, 2013, Photo: Michael Schmid
  • Conor Gilligan: matter of life and death, 2008, Photo: Michael Schmid
  • Matthias Ruthenberg: o.T., 2012/2013, Photo: Michael Schmid
  • Nina Lempenauer: In between my own boundaries, 2013, Photo: Michael Schmid
  • (on the left) Tobias Heine: #1_Wäsche zusammenlegen, 2013; (on the right) Norman Sandler: o.T., 2013, Photo: Michael Schmid
  • Tobias Heine: Tage, 2013, Photo: Michael Schmid
  • Matthias Ruthenberg: o.T., 2013, Photo: Michael Schmid
  • Matthias Ruthenberg: o.T., 2013, Photo: Michael Schmid
  • Class Paco Knöller. HAPPILY EVER AFTER, installation view GAK Bremen 2013, Photo: Michael Schmi
  • Class Paco Knöller. HAPPILY EVER AFTER, installation view GAK Bremen 2013, Photo: Michael Schmid
  • (on the left) Anna Roberta Vattes: o.T., 2009–2012; (on the right) Anna Roberta Vattes: o.T., 2011, Photo: Michael Schmid
  • Vincent Kück: o.T., 2013, Photo: Michael Schmid

Class Paco Knöller
HfK Bremen
HAPPILY EVER AFTER

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07.09–15.09.2013

As part of the series Frei.Zeit, the class of Prof. Paco Knöller of the Hochschule für Künste Bremen is a guest at the GAK. Contrary to expectations, however, the twelve students of the “Drawing and Painting Class” will not exclusively present works of art in these two classical artistic genres. The group exhibition rather brings together different media, from site-specific installations to photography, from sculpture to video. 

Nevertheless, if one looke for the lowest common denominator of the twelve positions, one finds it in an intensive preoccupation with the interweaving of artistic strategies and everyday influences. Banal patterns of everyday culture are elevated to motifs in the image, everyday actions – transferred to the exhibition space – visualize the fluid boundaries between art and life. The transformation of everyday life through artistic design is negotiated between two poles: sometimes intuition, the spontaneous and immediate plays the leading role, sometimes systems and structures, the planned and the ordered dominate. The capture of the outside world always takes place in close alignment with the inner world, from which a signature, an artistic gesture manifests itself in the work. 

“HAPPILIY EVER AFTER”, in German fairy tales “…and if they did not die, then they are still alive today”, marks in the fairy tale the happy end of a story after passing great challenges. Perhaps this can be transferred to the occasion of the exhibition: it is the retirement of Professor Paco Knöller, who is now retiring after twelve years of teaching at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen. 

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07.09–15.09.2013

Conor Gilligan
Tobias Heine
Myong-Hee Ki
Janine Klank
Vincent Kück
Nina Lempenauer
Mari Lena Rapprich
Hannah Regenberg
Matthias Ruthenberg
Norman Sandler
Sebastian Schneider
Anna Roberta Vattes
Curated by Yvonne Bialek 

In cooperation with HfK Bremen

Events

Fri 06.09.13, 7 pm
Opening 

Wed 11.11.13, 7 pm
Guided tour with Yvonne Bialek

Thu 12.11.13, 7 pm
NIKA SON
Konzert 

Support  

The Senator for Culture, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 

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