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Sun Rise | Sun Set

Henri Rousseau, La Belle et la bête, c. 1908, 32 x 41,5 cm, Oil on canvas, Courtesy of Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg; Pamela Rosenkranz, Infection (Calvin Klein Obsession for Men), 2021, Terra Preta, scent, LED light, Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers, Berlin; Precious Okoyomon, Ditto Ditto, 2020, 63 x150 x 74 cm, Rock, earthworms, moss, dirt, Courtesy of the artist; Pierre Huyghe, Cerrio Indio Muerto, 2016, 64 x 96 cm, Framed Photograph, Courtesy of the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin, Sun Rise | Sun Set, exhibition view Schinkel Pavillon, © Schinkel Pavillon and the artists, photo: Andrea Rossetti

Rachel Rose, Borns, 2019, various dimensions, Rock and glass, Courtesy of the artist and Pilar Corrias Gallery, London; Henri Rousseau, La Belle et la bête, c. 1908, 32 x 41,5 cm, Oil on canvas, Courtesy of Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg;Pamela Rosenkranz, Infection (Calvin Klein Obsession for Men), 2021, Terra Preta, scent, LED light, Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers, Berlin Sun Rise | Sun Set, exhibition view Schinkel Pavillon, © Schinkel Pavillon and the artists, Photo: Andrea Rossetti

Max Ernst, Swampangel, 1940, 65.2 x 81.0 cm, Oil on canvas, Courtesy of Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Schenkung Ulla und Richard Dreyfus-Best; Emma Kunz, Work No. 25, undated, 79 x 79 cm, Crayon and oil crayon on blue graph paper, Courtesy of Emma Kunz Zentrum, Würenlos; Pierre Huyghe, Circadian Dilemma (El Día del Ojo), 2017, 137.5 x 123 x 164.1 cm, Aquarium, Astyanax Mexicanus (eyeless and with eyes), algae, cave scan cast in concrete, black switchable glass, geo-localised program, Courtesy the artist; Marian Goodman Gallery, New York; Hauser & Wirth, London; Esther Schipper, Berlin; and Chantal Crousel, Paris, Sun Rise | Sun Set, exhibition view Schinkel Pavillon © Schinkel Pavillon and the artist, Photo: Andrea Rossetti

Karrabing Film Collective, Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland, 2019, Video, colour (27 minutes), Courtesy of the artists, Sun Rise | Sun Set, exhibition view Schinkel Pavillon, © Schinkel Pavillon and the artists, Photo: Andrea Rossetti

Monira Al Qadiri, Divine Memory (2019), video, 4.5 minutes Image courtesy of artist

Location

Schinkel Pavillon

Date

26.02 –21.08.2021

Curator

Curated by Nina Pohl and Agnes Gryczkowska, Curatorial assistance by Kerstin Renerig

Photography

Andrea Rossetti; Malina Heinemann

Subheadline

Monira Al Qadiri, Karl Blossfeldt, Dora Budor, Max Ernst, Joan Fontcuberta, Karrabing Film Collective, Max Hooper Schneider, Pierre Huyghe, Emma Kunz, Richard Oelze, Precious Okoyomon, Neri Oxman, Jean Painlevé, Pamela Rosenkranz, Rachel Rose, Henri Rousseau, Torbjørn Rødland, Ryūichi Sakamoto and Anj Smith

Text

The cross-generational group show Sun Rise | Sun Set brings together contemporary, as well as 19th and 20th century artists to form a multi-layered response to the fast unfolding eco-catastrophe. The exhibition aims to reconfigure our relationship to the Earth and all its inhabitants, by nourishing the ever-changing interconnections between humans, animals, plants, inanimate objects, technologies and non-beings. The exhibited works guide us through surreal landscapes, bio-technical hybrids, futuristic scenarios and speculative concepts and create an other-worldly experience that counters the current dark season of restriction, uncertainty, and loss. At a moment, in which the planet’s habitability is becoming increasingly compromised due to human activity, the exhibition addresses the collective necessity to redefine our role as part of a whole and to find new ways of living in the world by rethinking the boundaries of our species and welcoming transformation and hybridity in all forms. By highlighting circular system and entangled, multispecies perspectives Sun Rise | Sun Set encourages alternative attitudes that aim for the procreation and regeneration of the Earth to come.