Secret Surface - Where Meaning Materializes
Departing from the traditional coordinates of the occidental world-view, the exhibition Secret Surface asks where – and more importantly, how – meaning may materialize.
Through our permanent reference to a “beyond” (be it the horizon, the universe, or the ultimate “beyond” death), an opositition is set up in which these depths are regarded as the ordinary’s other, which provide direction to our existence, and which implicitly devalue the surface. People and things are considered superficial if they lack complexity and intensity. SECRET SURFACE turns this logic upside down, and presents contemporary artworks that conceive of the surface as the location of experience itself, both in terms of subjectivity and towards the outer world.
UK artists
The group exhibition shows the works of UK artists Anna Barham, Beth Collar, Andy Holden, Mark Leckey, Lawrence Lek, Elizabeth Price, Cara Tolmie and Patrick Staff.
Details
Venue: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, KUNST-WERKE BERLIN e.V., Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin
Tickets: 6 €, reduced 4 €, Thursday evening ticket (18–21 h): 4 €
Opening hours: Wed – Mon 12 – 19 h, Thu 12–21 h, Tuesdays closed
Partners
Secret Surface/Where Meaning Materializes is funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). With additional support of the Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs and the British Council.