ANGER IS A SOLUTION, IF ANGER MEANS KITTENS
September 15 - October 21, 2018
Kunstraum D21
Leipzig
A group exhibition with works by anna anthropy, Miriam J. Carranza, Vera Drebusch, Line Finderup Jensen, Olga Holzschuh, Ali Miharbi, Lara Ögel, Mary-Audrey Ramirez and Berkay Tuncay.
Collectively curated by Çukurcuma Collective (Naz Cuguoğlu / Mine Kaplangı / Serhat Cacekli), Eva Liedtjens and Nada Schroer.
The exhibition "Anger is a solution, if anger means kittens" examines manifestations of anger, frustration and exhaustion in post-digital, late-capitalist societies. How to deal with anger on individual as well as social level, if reality oscillates between disaster and satire?
By bringing together nine artistic positions, the project investigates not only destructive but also emancipatory potentials of an ambivalent feeling. Can we redefine anger as a catalyst to transform feelings of refusal, revenge and powerlessness into individual and collective forms of agency? How to use absurd images of censorship, oppression and right-wing populism against themselves? Can anger be a solution? Could kittens be as well?
The exhibition was realized in the context of “Curator’s Lab” as part of the D21 annual program “Emotional States” focusing on the politics of emotions.
PUBLIC PROGRAM
September 14
7 pm, Opening
September 15
3 pm, Guided tour with Eva Liedtjens / Nada Schroer
October 6
3 pm, Performance by Olga Holzschuh with texts by Tabea Venrath
5 pm, Lecture “Visual Contentions in Contemporary Turkish Politics” by M. Ragıp Zik (FU Berlin)
6 pm, Talk with M. Ragıp Zik, Olga Holzschuh and Nada Schroer
October 11
6 pm, Guided tour with Collective Çukurcuma
(Mine Kaplangı), Eva Liedtjens
7 pm, Tea and conversation with Eva Liedtjens, Mine Kaplangı, Berkay Tuncay (online)
October 21
4 pm, Lecture Performance “PEOPLE SUCK BUT IT’S OKAY BECAUSE CATS – why it is pretty much obvious to live riot not diet” by Julia Nitschke
VENUE
Kunstraum D21
Demmeringstraße 21
04177 Leipzig
Fr–So, 15–19 Uhr
d21-leipzig.de
Anger is a solution, if anger means kittens, Design: Lydia Sachse
Anger Is A Solution if Anger Means Kittens, Lara Ögel, Installationsansicht, D21, 2018, Bild: Paula Gehrmann
Anger Is A Solution if Anger Means Kittens, Lara Ögel/ Miriam J. Carranza, Installationsansicht, D21, 2018, Bild: Nada Schroer
Anger Is A Solution if Anger Means Kittens, Lara Ögel, Installationsansicht, D21, 2018, Bild: Paula Gehrmann
Anger Is A Solution if Anger Means Kittens, Miriam J. Carranza, Installationsansicht, D21, 2018, Bild: Paula Gerhmann
Anger Is A Solution if Anger Means Kittens, Miriam J. Carranza, Installationsansicht, D21, 2018, Bild: Nada Schroer
Anger Is A Solution if Anger Means Kittens, anna anthropy, Installationsansicht, D21, 2018, Bild: Paula Gehrmann
Anger Is A Solution if Anger Means Kittens, anna anthropy, Installationsansicht, D21, 2018, Bild: Nada Schroer
Anger Is A Solution if Anger Means Kittens, Ali Miharbi, Installationsansicht, D21, 2018, Bild: Paula Gehrmann
Anger Is A Solution if Anger Means Kittens, Olga Holzschuh, Installationsansicht, D21, 2018, Bild: Nada Schroer
Anger Is A Solution if Anger Means Kittens, Olga Holzschuh, Installationsansicht, D21, 2018, Bild: Paula Gehrmann
Anger Is A Solution if Anger Means Kittens, Olga Holzschuh, Installationsansicht, D21, 2018, Bild: Nada Schroer
Anger Is A Solution if Anger Means Kittens, Mary-Audrey Ramirez, Installationsansicht, D21, 2018, Bild: Paula Gehrmann
Anger Is A Solution if Anger Means Kittens, Mary-Audrey Ramirez, Installationsansicht, D21, 2018, Bild: Nada Schroer
Anger Is A Solution if Anger Means Kittens, Mary-Audrey Ramirez, Installationsansicht, D21, 2018, Bild: Nada Schroer
Anger Is A Solution if Anger Means Kittens, Vera Drehbusch, Installationsansicht, D21, 2018, Bild: Paula Gehrmann
Anger Is A Solution if Anger Means Kittens, Berkay Tuncay, Installationsansicht, D21, 2018, Bild: Nada Schroer
Anger Is A Solution if Anger Means Kittens, Berkay Tuncay, Installationsansicht, D21, 2018, Bild: Nada Schroer
Anger Is A Solution if Anger Means Kittens, Berkay Tuncay, Installationsansicht, D21, 2018, Bild: Paula Gehrmann
Anger Is A Solution if Anger Means Kittens, Line Finderup Jensen, Installationsansicht, D21, 2018, Bild: Nada Schroer
Anger Is A Solution if Anger Means Kittens, Line Finderup Jensen, Installationsansicht, D21, 2018, Bild: Nada Schroer
Anger Is A Solution if Anger Means Kittens, Line Finderup Jensen, Installationsansicht, D21, 2018, Bild: Nada Schroer