Annual exhibition 2021: Klasse Prof. Simon Denny
the-engine.space
Launch date: 12. Februar 2021, 18:00Uhr
Today communications infrastructure and logistics are often provided by private companies. We are forced to live our lives using these systems – but our efforts benefit the owners of these systems.
Denny class at HFBK has worked on a digital platform that distils this dynamic into a platform for artistic communication. We combine a copy of the popular social chat network Discord with a virtual copy of a Mercedes-Benz OM502LA truck engine – providing a flexible space where we can install digital artworks. The exhibition is structured through the thematic chat channels of the Discord user interface, and represent interrelated topics that the artists address in their work. The Discord chat structure allows visitors to interact with the works e.g. via emoji reactions or direct responses.
This exhibition space is both the digital presentation of the Denny class for 2021’s HFBK Annual exhibition, and commissioned as a part of the project »Conditions of a Necessity« initiated by Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.
Mathias Riis Andersen, Belia Brückner & Merle Dammhayn, Kim Dall'Armi mit Deva Schubert, Juan Felipe Amaya Gonzales, Luisa Fernanda Alfonso, Kirsche von Bubach, Ina Ritter, Maximilian Wigger, Christiany Erler, Shen Fan, Talya Feldman, Marthe Fock, Taissa Fromme, Sam Gora, Rahel grote Lambers, Conrad Hübbe, Gustav Holst Kurtzweil, Heiko Lietz, Yi Li, Ruxin Liu, Laura Mahnke, Anne Meerpohl, Farina Mietchen, Merlin Reichart, Leon Roth, Nastassja Aurelia Schmidt, Lena-Marie Schütte, Jakob Sitter, Prateek Vijan, Amadeus Vogelsang, Insa Wagner, Julia Wolkenhauer, Leyla Yenirce, Zhi-chao Zhu, Karla Zipfel
Instagram: @klassedenny.hfbk
Single projects:
Marthe Fock, The safety of a contraceptive method is defined by the Pearl Index which is based on 100 woman-years, so 100 women using the method for one year and the percentage of resulting pregnancies. This is one woman-year, so pill up!
Sam Gora, Blind Spots (1-4)
Yi Li, Sent with perpetual love
Laura Mahnke, Anne Meerpohl, Farina Mietchen, Ectogenesis
Nastassja Aurelia Schmidt, Casa Born, A Take On Attractive Repellents & Pigeon Map Hamburg
Patreek Vijan, Das Fenster
Julia Wolkenhauer, Aroma Core
Kim Dall'Armi mit Deva Schubert, Juan Felipe Amaya Gonzales, Luisa Fernanda Alfonso, Kirsche von Bubach, Ina Ritter, Maximilian Wigger, instant distance (negotiating proximities in times of the pandemic), collaborative performance, 45 min., @ Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, October 2020
Belia Brückner & Merle Dammhayn, LUCK-UP
Sam Gora, Blind Spots (1-4)
Conrad Hübbe, Klasse
Aidan Jakfar, هـولاگه جایی که حالا زنده گی میکنیم
Heiko Lietz, Deckmantel
Ruxin Liu, Part-time Jobs (Plants)
Merlin Reichart, Wallfacer
Leon Roth, 2 in 1
Jakob Sitter, Horizon
Insa Wagner, Chronology Of My Body
Karla Zipfel,Second Nature
Saskia Ackermann (MFA), how – Feministische Formen kollektiver Praxis, Recorded talks available on https://soundcloud.com/user-499702279/sets/feministische-kollektive-praxis