Galerie Crystal Ball

Fort – Horror Vacui

Exhibition opening on Fri. 13. November at 8 p.m.
13.11. – 29.12.2009
Finissage am Die. 29. December at 8 p.m.

Horror Vacui, Fort

The artist collective Fort (Anna Jandt, Jenny Kropp und Alberta Niemann) work through a system of references using documentary, objects, stories and their interrelations.  In their installations and engineered spaces, Fort construct precise interiors with conscious references made through the choice and placement of objects. They create poetic, surreal spaces and performances. Thing, action and derivation, as well as their historical and scientific evaluation collide with a dream like logic- through the revelation of complex unconscious structures and enigmatic backgrounds.

The stories of the entities, excerpts and apportions become parts of a mystic documentation. Things are copied, multiplied and  reflected. They become signs, representative information of a world remembered, transforming into catalysts of cognitive processes of a cruel, poetic reality.

At this mysterious point of human perception; the twins, the forgotten, the unclear identity, Fort begin – with their belief in the impossible and the legendary in this world, to work for a change.

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One-Cubic-Decimeter-To-Boil-The-Ocean, Fort

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Horror Vacui, Fort

past presentations

  • POINT GRAY, Installation, Action, Show
  • Sequences Real Time Art Festival Reykjavik, Island &Bremer Kunst Satellit/ Museum Weserburg Bremen 2008
  • HOTEL MARIENBAD, Installation (in collaboration with Claudia Heidorn and Anneli Käsmayr – dp) KW Institute For Contemporary Art Berlin 2008

Galerie Crystal Ball – Karneval der Galerien

Carnival of the Galleries, Berlin 11.11.2009

Gallery Crystal Ball at the Carnival of the Galleries, Berlin

The Crystal Ball Gallery is sending an embassy as an autonomous art block to the first Berlin carnival of the galleries. Hotzi, Motzi and Zoei made the demands “Silence money for artists!” and “Free beer for all”.  Gentrification back and forth, artists should not continue to produce unpaid NO art. The widespread assumption that artists are forced to make art for obsessive, psychological or social reasons, is finally receiving a blessing. We do not want a Temporary Kunsthalle to plug the polithistorical Castle Square Hole, but the Temporary Artist’s Pension!  money, for all artists who no longer comment on these and other social standards. With the basic supply of artist silence, the monetary inaction, the saliva licking of the gallery scene finally ends and the art market empties away weakened from its high-end staff, its germ-free gallery houses and art? Shares.  Artists are rethinking your role! What else are you as simple art theory coasters! Get out of the self-crisis into consciousness! The crisis is over! Long live the crisis! On to the artist general strike! … Excerpt from the Büttenrede of Galerie Crystal Ball, Manfred Kirschner, Berlin

Gallery Crystal Ball: Zoei at the Carnival of the Galleries, Berlin 2009
Crystal Ball Berlin