The invited artists Bob and Roberta Smith as well as Georg Herold invoke bulky constructions fashioned from “poor” materials—originating from construction areas or bulky waste—that serve as carriers of the written word and meaning. Yet the exhibition by no means owes its title to normed roof battens or scrapped wood fashioned into writing tablets. The artworks exhibited in Men at Work instead stand for conditions and lives lived within today’s society, for an established “need for change” but also for deeply rooted doubts about a potential conclusion to this state of exception.
Artists
Georg Herold (DE), Bob and Roberta Smith (GB)Margrit Brehm
Margrit Brehm was awarded her doctorate in 1991 (Der Fall Caravaggio); from 1992–2002 she was a curator for the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and from 2003–2005 she worked as chief curator for the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Since 2006 she has been taking care of exhibitions and/or publications for the Belvedere in Vienna, the ZKM in Karlsruhe, the Falckenberg Collection in Hamburg, the me Collectors Room in Berlin, etc. She has published on contemporary Japanese art, post-minimalism, John M. Armleder, Chuck Close, George Condo, Mat Collishaw, John Isaacs, Füsun Onur, Tobias Rehberger, Cindy Sherman, Paul Thek, Richard Tuttle and many others.
Gabriele Senn Galerie
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