Performance von Bob Kil
Mit Ewa Dziarnowska und Ashley Temba
For Bob Kil (*1975 in Seoul), performance is a medium through which to examine the cultural codes that shape and connect interpersonal communication. Navigating a world through the ability to appropriate existing images, Kil explores the relationship between originality and copies, a parallel that extends to the interplay between a choreographic score and its execution, as well as between the initial movement and its subsequent repetition.
Kil’s latest work, Tourist (2024), is conceived as a two-part performance for the exhibition’s opening and closing. For the duration of the exhibition, a seemingly inconspicuous sticker serves as a placeholder, promising the artist’s eventual return. The second part of the performance intensifies the principle of repetition by involving multiple performers. The deliberate formation and synchronization of the troupe give rise to visual patterns, manifesting a symbiosis, while the prevalence of recurring movements amplifies the underlying choreographic notations.
Friday, March, 1, 2024, […]
With a laudatory speech by Stephan Berg (jury chairman, director, Kunstmuseum Bonn) followed by a discussion with Nóra Lukács and Melanie Roumiguière (curators), moderated by Thomas Wagner (critic, honorary professor of art history, Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg)
This year’s Justus Bier Prize for Curators, endowed with € 5,000, has been awarded to curators Nóra Lukács and Melanie Roumiguière together with their project team (Layla Burger-Lichtenstein, project manager, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; Krisztina Hunya, co-curator, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; Yolanda Kaddu-Mulindwa, co-curator, Galerie im Körnerpark; Malte Giesen and Angela Lammert, co-curators, Akademie der Künste event program; Kaspar Aebi and Natalie Keppler, co-curators, film program).
The prize recognizes their exhibition project and publication If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag. Art and Internationalism before the Fall of the Berlin Wall (September 14, 2023 – January 14, 2024).
Excerpt from the jury statement:
“The Justus Bier Prize prize is dedicated to exhibition projects and publications distinguished by an original theme and a well-founded […]
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