Waiting Room

with works by

Meltem Calisir, Manutcher Milani, Mauro Ventura, Lukas Stoever, Nicolas Endlicher, Cem Dukkha, Jiin Jeong

curated by Jiin Jeong and Mauro Ventura

Opening: Thursday, April 14, 2022, 7 pm

Opening Performance: Thursday, April 14, 2022, 8 pm
Mauro Ventura & Kiani Del Valle present „Forma”, with Cem Dukkha and Gertrüda Gilyté

Duration: April 15 to April 24, 2022
Opening Hours: Thursday to Sunday, 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.

The exhibition ‘Waiting Room’ takes as its starting point the Buddhist notion of patience, a state merging the past and future into the present moment and triggering awareness. This deeper consciousness is reflected on both digitally and organically, with the question how can that which is unknown affect that which is now?

The seven artists Meltem Calisir, Manutcher Milani, Mauro Ventura, Lukas Stoever, Nicolas Endlicher, Cem Dukkha and Jiin Jeong will show works visualising the hyperaware state of patience, taking as their inspiration concepts such as memory cards primed for data loading and the transcendental nature of ancient bodies, which transport and kill culture by leaving and erasing traces on its print. Explorations are taken into ways we evoke simultaneously the past and future, for instance the transportive characteristics of hallucigenia. The Waiting Room becomes a limbo time sustainer where we are confronted with a virtual idea of ancestry, and a purgatory of existential sigils.

(Beth Cherryman)

The selected works include painting, sculpture, installation, media art and performance art. 

image credtis:  Jiin Jeong, Untitled, 2021. 1-ch.Video, 3’57”, Color, Sound. Photo: Artist