Genossin Sonne
In the organizer's words:
The exhibition Comrade Sun was created in 2024 at the invitation of Milo Rau, director of the Wiener Festwochen, as a cooperation between the Kunsthalle Wien and the Wiener Festwochen | Freie Republik Wien. In 2025, Comrade Sun is now coming to the HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein in an expanded form and with twice as much exhibition space.
Before the term "revolution" was used in the 18th century - under the influence of the Haitian, Caribbean, French and North American revolutions - to describe a "violent overthrow of the existing political or social order", it was used in astronomy to describe the rotation of celestial bodies.
The essayistic group exhibition Comrade Sun is dedicated to artistic works and theories that link the cosmos and in particular the sun, the energy supplier for life on earth, with social and political movements. Against the background of the decentering of the human being as a historical subject, we ask to what extent not only the environment on earth but also the cosmos has a part to play in historical processes. Is there, as the Soviet cosmists - in particular Alexander L. Chizhevsky in 1924 - claimed, a connection between solar storms and earthly revolutions? And what speculative, pleasurable considerations can be found in contemporary art and poetry?
The works of international artists focus on the moving image - on cinema, film and video as media of light. But the works in other media also radiate hypnotic, feverish, glowing, threatening affects. Overall, the sun functions on the one hand as a source of life and energy for political struggles and on the other as a warning figure whose sheer mass and lifespan make the brevity of human life on planet Earth clear. And also: what if it never sets or rises again and time becomes even more unhinged than it already is?
The international group exhibition presents 30 works by 18 artists on two floors of the Dortmunder U (U3 + U6).
The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication (de/en).
An exhibition by HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein im Dortmunder U in cooperation with Kunsthalle Wien and Wiener Festwochen | Freie Republik Wien
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