in and out

Jan Großer, Katja Hammerle, Anna Homburg, Rainer Menke, Loredana Mondora, Konstanze Müller-Kitti, Birgit Nitsch

Seen from Berlin, Europe may seem modern, stable, and inevitable. Yet anyone looking to the periphery, to the discourses that are mainly economic and rational in tone, to the normative power of the markets, and who then relates these to the individual, needs to ask some questions.
The eight artists represented in this exhibition combine critical analysis of the social conditions at the centre of Europe with a personal reflection on values. Several of them do not restrict themselves to the photographic image, but expand their visual language to include elements of installation, film, sculpture, or painting.
The range of this exhibition extends from surveillance, control, and the mechanisation of organic life (Anna Homburg), to deceleration, delimiting, openness (Birgit Nitsch); identity, exclusion, consumerism, sexuality, and fetish (Jan Großer); opposition and the right to dissent, to an individual, inner perspective (Katja Hammerle); renewal, optimism, and activity (Konstanze Müller-Kitti); pose, personality, intimacy (Loredana Mondora); as well as fascism, repression, splitting off, and the heritage of violence against man and animal (Rainer Menke).