The road leads back and back to the black square

The series The road leads back and back to the black square, curated in cooperation with Lukas Töpfer, deals with significant conventions, assumptions, functions and contexts of the institution of 'art'. At its heart is a reflection on exhibitions and their premises (i.e. the criteria of selection, the creation of value, the building of the canon ) as well as a questioning of the curator´s function through exhibitions ‘without works’ that shift the focus from individual objects onto the framework of presentation.





THE RETRACTION OF THINGS (4)*

A DAY IN AN INSTITUTION

A Day in an Institution: grainy black and white image of a tree and a lamp in a park

KW Institute for Contemporary Art
KUNST-WERKE BERLIN
Auguststraße 69
10117 Berlin

12.11.2014
curated by Bublitz and Lukas Töpfer

A day in an institution presents the collector’s edition of an image, previously shown in Die Melancholie der Elite (The Unhappy Elite) and the road leads back and back to the black square(I and II). After one day in the KW the exhibition will become part of the Sammlung Bergmeier, Berlin. It will be open to the public on November 12th.

The road leads back and back to the black square: exhibition space with a glass front to the garden, small frames on the wall and a bench
The road leads back and back to the black square: a white room with two small frames, an object on the floor and a view into the garden
The road leads back and back to the black square: exhibition hall with a wooden ceiling, small frames and an object on the floor
The road leads back and back to the black square: framed sheets and photographs leaning against a wall on a grey floor




THE RETRACTION OF THINGS (2)*

THE ROAD LEADS BACK AND BACK
TO THE BLACK SQUARE (II)

The Road Leads Back And Back To The Black Square (II): heavily grained black and white image of a tree and bushes beside a path

KW Institute for Contemporary Art
KUNST-WERKE BERLIN
Auguststraße 69
10117 Berlin

15.10. – 20.10.2014
curated by Bublitz and Lukas Töpfer

„The question of repetition is very important. It is important because there is no such thing as repetition.“ (Gertrude Stein)

The road leads back and back to the black square II deals with a well known public domain photograph that was taken on July 15th, 1972. The exhibition "repeats" another, recently past exhibition.

Related topics: curation, modernism, social housing, segregation

The road leads back and back to the black square: two black-framed photographs of a row of trees side by side
The road leads back and back to the black square: three white-framed photographs in a row on the wall
The road leads back and back to the black square: corner of a room with five small framed photographs and a dark floor
The road leads back and back to the black square: stacks of photographic prints of a row of trees on the floor


* The exhibition cycle The Retraction of Things, curated by Lukas Töpfer, engages with different parameters of exhibitions: the “Institution”, the curator, the collector, the “public”, the “work”, the canon and its rejects etc. The exhibition takes place at 3½, a small space between the third and fourth floor of the KW. It’s duration varies – from one day to one month. The cycle opens on September 14th with The Unhappy Elite.





THE ROAD LEADS BACK AND BACK
TO THE BLACK SQUARE

Plattenpalast
Wollinerstrasse 50
10435 Berlin

23/08 – 28/09/2014
Opening: 22/08/2014, 18–21 Uhr

curated by Bublitz
and Lukas Töpfer

The road leads back and back to the black square is part of Secondary Narratives 2014.

Secondary Narratives links four exhibitions to a greater whole and couples together the work of independent exhibitions spaces and curators. Each of the exhibitions is at once autonomous and a part of a larger narrative.

Secondary Narratives 2014 is a collaboration of Bublitz and Lukas Töpfer, Julia Martha Müller & Frederiek Wede, Neue Berliner Räume and The Wand.

The road leads back and back to the black square: two black-framed panels on a white wall, one empty, one with a black-and-white photo of a row of trees
The road leads back and back to the black square: three white-framed photographs of a row of trees on a gallery wall
The road leads back and back to the black square: small framed photographs spread across a tall white wall
The road leads back and back to the black square: two small frames on the wall of an empty room with a window and an object on the floor
The road leads back and back to the black square: glass façade of an exhibition space between shrubs, black and white
The road leads back and back to the black square: black-and-white photo of a person hanging a framed picture on a wall