Undo opacity. What do we have here? It’s not the heart but the belly of the matter. Belly up. Belly out. Turn the problem inside out and expose it’s guts. To see the thing exposed – the belly of the beast… Crystalline gall.…
Materials: iron, water-proof heavy duty fabric, UV prints on silicone, chia seeds, liquid containers, repair lamp, silicone rubber Immersed in leisure while automated bodies scurry around carrying out our daily routines and work, we devote ourselves to spiritual and cultural augmentation, cultivation of our creativity…
The battery dies at 30 %, again. Mischieving nature compressed to gadget, performing things on its own, clogging seamless communication. Cut off from the network, a body reclines on spring grass while staring into a starless sky. Across blue-hued layers are other bodies, unreachable but…
At the beginning of the 1970s, the filmmaker and artist Margaret Raspé (*1933) mounted a Super 8 camera to the visor of a hard hat, right in front her eyes, and recorded her own activities, such as dishwashing, painting and drawing. The camera, as an…
On Thursday, I took a break from the cavernous halls of Art Basel and started my day visiting what turned out to be a great group show at Kunsthalle, titled “Ungestalt”. Superb works by the likes of Michaela Eichwald, Pakui Hardware and Olga Balema proved…
The exhibition Citynature: Vilnius and Beyond is a showcase for art and scientific research which reflects the city not solely as a man-made creation, but rather as an ecosystem where human activity is in a constant interplay with processes of both an animate and inanimate nature. One…
Since 2014, Neringa Cerniauskaite and Ugnius Gelguda have been operating together as an artist duo under the label Pakui Hardware. This name derives from Pakui, the extremely quick servant of the Hawaiian fertility goddess Haumea. Legend has it that the children of the goddess were…
If the body were a museum. There would be seven galleries. Experience Gregoire Blunt & Emmy Skensved, Antoine Renard, Paul Barsch, Marian Luft, Edward Marshall Shenk, Pakui Hardware, Caspar Jade Heinemann, Yves Scherer, Burkhard Beschow & Anne Fellner, Joey Holder, Jake Kent, Bruno Zhu, BB5000,…
Bid Project Gallery is proud to present ‘ON-SCREEN AND OFF’, a group exhibition curated by Domenico de Chirico, featuring woks by BB5000, Gina Folly, Michele Gabriele, Tilman Hornig, Pakui Hardware, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Nicolas Pelzer, Sung Tieu, and Yannick Val Gesto. In a world populated by…
This show can be seen as a cube. Not a very large one. Part of it is immersed under the crust of earth, beneath the ocean’s floor; the other part is filled with water of extreme cold. And there is a chunk of a fat…
After a few hours she dozed off and dreamed of bacterial buildups inside the bodies within the trench braves. Biofilms, what most people thought of as slime: little industrious bacterial cities reducing these corpses, these once-living giant evolutionary offspring, back to their native materials. Lovely…
“Telegraph and telephone destroy the cosmos. Mythical and symbolic thinking strive to form spiritual bonds between humanity and the surrounding world, shaping distance into the space required for devotion and reflection: the distance undone by the instantaneous electric connection.” Aby Warburg Fantasmagory, both as a…
DEEP SKIN, the deepest underground art exhibition in history, took place at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNOlab), a particle physics research laboratory situated 2100 meters underground in Northern Ontario, Canada. The lab’s extreme underground location in the Creighton Nickel Mine (the world’s second deepest mine…
Gillmeier Rech Lindsay Lawson The Inner Lives of Objects 02.05.2015 – 13.06.2015 carlier | gebauer Maria Taniguchi 01.05.–06.06.2015 Micky Schubert Benedicte Gyldenstierne Sehested Seven hours knocked out of my right mind 01.05.-30.06.2015 Société Timur Si-Qin Recent Horizons 01.05.-30.05.2015 Soy Capitán Mikkel Carl, Dominik Gohla, Pakui…
YOU WILL FIND ME IF YOU WANT ME IN THE GARDEN* Exhibition from April 18th to May 16th, 2015 Opening on Saturday April 18th, 6-9pm A group exhibition with: Alessandro AGUDIO, Stefania BATOEVA, Sol CALERO, Simon DYBBROE MØLLER, Carson FISK-VITTORI, Ditte GANTRIIS, Pakui HARDWARE (in…
Pakui Hardware Lost Heritage With every limb there is detachment. Cut. Cut-open limbs with silicone arteries stretched through their hollowed shells. Slimy surfaces of never-sweating bodies. Programmed biological efficiency, exact as a mission with military precision. Micro-beginnings of species outside of nature. Human-created-designed-programmed organisms crawl…
Der Kunstraum Jenifer Nails befindet sich in einer Einkaufspassage im Frankfurter Bahnhofsviertel, inmitten von bunten Schaufenstern voller Handys, winkenden Japankatzen und billigem Waschmittel. Nur wenige hundert Meter entfernt erheben sich die Bankentürme, die Frankfurt zum globalen Marktplatz gemacht haben. In diesem Magnetfeld, zwischen den immateriellem…
KubaParis Erzählt doch kurz etwas über Euch. Was macht Ihr? Was ist Jenifer Nails? Gislind Köhler: Seit etwas über einem Jahr, also seitdem ich in Frankfurt lebe, arbeite ich als Assistenzkuratorin bei basis. Seit Anfang 2014 leite ich zudem zusammen mit Daniel den Projektraum Jenifer Nails.…