15:00 - 20:00
Galerie Mimicry, Kassel
multiple days
In this exhibition, the artist Henrik Langsdorf refers to the work Five Car Stud in the form of a video installation” by US artist Edward Kienholz, the 1972 at the documenta 5 was shown. Kienholz’ Installation depicts a racist scene of violence. Langsdorf investigates the question, where we today — 50 Years later — stand in terms of violent hate crime and racism more generally. Related to this is “HAPPYLAND: No First Aid”, his contribution to the exhibition “First Aid” in the Huguenot House from 18. June to 24. September 2022. A version of the work developed for this is also part of the exhibition at Galeria Kollektiva. Henrik Langsdorf works in the fields of video installation, Public art and design. 2019 he took with his work “Ghost town: from Utopia to the present” at the Congo Biennale in Kinshasa. His video installation “Rudolf Duala Manga Bell — a German story” was shown at ruruhaus/documenta fifteen in Kassel and at the MARKK Museum in Hamburg. He is the initiator of Blind Spots in the Sun, a series of art interventions, who deal with colonialism and racism in Germany. He lives and works in New York, Kassel and Nairobi.
In this exhibition, the artist Henrik Langsdorf refers in the form of a video installation to the work “Five Car Stud” by the US artist Edward Kienholz, which was shown at documenta 5 in 1972. Kienholz’s installation depicts a racist scene of violence. Langsdorf explores the question of where we are today – 50 years later – with regard to violent hate crimes and racism in general. Thematically linked to this is “HAPPYLAND: No First Aid”, his contribution to the exhibition “First Aid” at the Hugenottenhaus from June 18 to September 24, 2022. A version of the work developed for “First Aid” is also part of the exhibition at Galeria Kollektiva. Henrik Langsdorf works in the fields of video installation, public art and design. In 2019, he participated in the Congo Biennale in Kinshasa with his work “Ghost town: from Utopia to the present.” His video installation “Rudolf Duala Manga Bell – a German story” was shown at ruruhaus/documenta fifteen in Kassel and at MARKK Museum in Hamburg. He is the initiator of Blind Spots in the Sun, a series of art interventions dealing with colonialism and racism in Germany. He lives and works in New York, Kassel and Nairobi.
Friday Vinissage 18:00
Opening times:
Wednesdays and Thursdays
15:00 – 20:00
Fridays
15:00 – 22:00
Saturdays
14:00 – 22:00
Sunday
11:00 – 18:00
Closed Mondays and Tuesdays
Galeria.Kollektiva
Schiller Street 30