The crooked building of the Ganserhaus in Wasserburg is well suited for an exhibition entitled “solitary / solidary”. In 1968, the year of the student revolt, Arbeitskreis 68 was founded here, the Wasserburg Artists’ Association, which is still active today. Now, again in the midst of a turning point in history, the Kunstverein invited Professor Katharina Gaenssler and her students from the Munich Academy of Fine Arts to use the rooms of the gallery building from the basement to the roof. The 16 young artists took the opportunity to develop works with which they reacted to the location. Some of them deal with the history of the house or the city, while others make references to artistic positions of the 1960s.
The title of the exhibition is borrowed from Albert Camus’ short story “Jonas or the Artist at Work” (1957). In it, the French writer unfolds the conflict between the lonely freedom of artistic creation and the economic constraints of everyday life. Accordingly, the works deal with the tension between solidarity and individual freedom, explore current work realities.
The result is a wide range of works, only a few of which can be mentioned as examples. The South Korean artist Kimo has transferred her own workplace to the Ganserhaus for the duration of the exhibition. The Iranian artist Zahra Ghadimian, who developed her work over several months, reacts to the constantly changing events during the current Iranian revolution and shows a two-channel video installation that draws on material from the Internet on the one hand and her own on the other own dance performance during the opening of the exhibition. In a semi-fictional ancestral gallery, Thalia Schoeller deals with questions about her own origins. And Mira Schienagel installed a resting place for “Fletzi” in a storage room, a skeleton from the Middle Ages that was discovered in 2013 near the Ganserhaus.
Solitary / Solidary — Class Katharina Gaenssler in the gallery im Ganserhaus Wasserburguntil March 11, catalog presentation: March 11, 4 p.m., Schmidzeile 8, 83512 Wasserburg am Inn