The Assumption of Values
Uferhallen
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The term 'values' is such an extensive and multi-layered concept that it must be repeatedly redefined and re-investigated if its meaning is not to remain arbitrary.
Since the 1970s a continual change of values has been going on in the western industrial nations. This has increasingly led to changes in attitudes and behaviour that tend in the direction of non-material values, and a greater emphasis on individualisation and the self-realisation of individual human beings. As a result of current confrontations between eastern and western conceptions of value, the possibility of a universal system of values is more and more being called in question. The withdrawal into the private sphere, the concentration on values like security and freedom and a new understanding of religious sensibility these have been the mandatory consequences of this ongoing process of change.
The exhibition 'Die Annahme von Werten' ['The Assumption of Values'] brings together six different artists, each of whom conducts a photographic investigation into a particular aspect of values. This approach suggests questions in relation to our existing value model.
Artist(s)
Nora Bibel, Bärbel Möllmann, Uta Neumann, Kerstin Parlow, Sabine Schründer, Marei Wenzel
Curator(s)
Bärbel Möllmann
Duration of the exhibition
9.11. - 13.12.2008
Vernissage
8.11.2008, 19 h
Opening times
Di-So 12-19 h
Location
Uferhallen
Uferstraße 8-11
13357 Berlin
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Public transport connections
U Pankstraße; S Gesundbrunnen