It is said that laughter is healthy. But in German there is also the expression, I laugh myself to death. Laughter is a coin with two sides. You flip it and it is up to fate which side it falls on. Joy or pain.
The laugher and the laughed at. Laughter is an experience and, in the purest sense, something over which we have no real control. Laughter is something universal. Last but not least: Laughter is power, and laughter releases happiness hormones. So when two people who hold very different views meet, laughing together can literally create a connection, at least lowering the high hurdle of rejection in the experience of common ground.
Wars, doomsday moods, despots.
In the so-called free Western world, including Germany, money and freedom are increasingly being cut from the arts. Politicians on the right-wing fringes of society are now openly questioning the meaning of art and culture for so-called ordinary people, what it achieves or fails to achieve, what relevance various cultural offerings may have in the everyday lives of the “working class”.
Thorsten A. Kasper
Exhibit: Humor my love, Humor
Gökçen Dilek Acay, Ellen Akimoto, Johannes Albers, Barbara Breitenfellner, Florian Hesselbarth, Bretz/Holliger, Zohar Fraiman, Anja Fußbach, Stella Geppert, Alexei Gordin, TAK, Alana Lake, Kennet Lekko, Barbara Lüdde, Justina Los, Robin Ellis Meta, Claudia Pegel, Daniel Rossi, Alicia Valladares, Geerten Verheus
curated by Thorsten Kasper
co-curated with Helene Boseckera cooperation between frontviews and roam projects at roam projects
Programme
Vernissage
Thu 12 Dec 6 – 9 pmX-mas Roamance ! The Julklapp
/ with a gift from the heart
Fri 20 Dec 5 – 9 pm
Julklapp, dices with an art twist and Glühwein
Wrap something small and clever from the heart – who knows, it might be art, and get the same heartfelt gift in return. Let´s roll the dice!
Finissage
Fri 24 January 6 – 9 pm
with artists talk by Julia Meyer-Brehm and special guests
7:07 – 8:08 pm
Are you ready for one last smile before the lights go out and the exhibition closes? Then we have a wonderful gift for you. Artists of images and words come together. They shed a colourful light on the shadowy question of what humour is.
Duration: 12 Dec 2024 – 24 Jan 2025
Christmas Break
21 Dec 2024 – 8 Jan 2025
visits during Christmas Break
only on personal appointments here
Opening times
Thu – Sat 4 – 7 pm
and on personal appointments here
This project is profoundly supported by Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. It´s also made possible with the initiative of the whole collective.
location
roam projects
Lindenstraße 91
10969 Berlin
Entry at the back corner of the building facing W. Michael Blumenthal Akademie des Jüdischen Museums Berlin.
social media
@frontviews_
@roam_projects_____
websites
frontviews.de
www.roam-projects.eu
Contact
kasper@frontviews.de
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