Group show with works by The Berg, Marco Fusinato, Kira Keune, Luise Marchand, Rosanna Marie Pondorf, Anna Raczynska, Renen - g.i.i.c.s:, Alexander Scharf, Lazar Stojić, Joseph Maurus Wandinger
Curated by Rebekka Kronsteiner & Kalas Liebfried
MONEY talks, so shut the fuck up and listen.
This line from Domo Genesis’ track Power Ballad hits the core of our exploration: the unspoken relationship between money and power, the fine line between silence and confession that shapes our reality. In a system founded on the old maxim »You don’t talk about money«, change can only occur when this silence is broken and the inevitable interplay between capital and culture – both ideological and material – is dissected.
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ZUCKER is a platform explicitly focused on issues of value creation, consumerism, and classism—complexities that are omnipresent but often taboo in the art system. The ten participating artists approach these questions through their practice and their backgrounds as cultural workers.
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ZUCKER is a metaphor: on one hand, a consumable substance that provides short-term energy, and on the other, a reference to the commodity as currency and to Europe’s problematic past, particularly the Hanseatic cities in colonial trade—a symbol of the entanglement between economic power and cultural capital. In this sense, the inputs and outputs of the scenes from both cities, including thematically curated works, become an alliance for the urgent questions of our time: a space that not only calls for reflection but invites discussion and urges action.
Graphic Design: CHCA and Alexander Scharf