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kunstraum_8020
WOHNEN BEI BENJAMIN UND BRECHT
Temporary Housemate Wanted from November 1, 2020, in ca. 1900 Apartment, Partly Furnished

Exhibition

24.9.–16.10.
Artist talk with Bettina Allamoda and Eva Brede: 26.9., 14:00

Artist talk: Ateliergemeinschaft printi
Mariahilferstraße 30 a, 8020 Graz

36 appointments total for apartment tours (25-minute slots):
27.9., 17:00–20:00  with Bettina Allamoda, Markus Wilfling, and Eva Brede
4.10., 17:00–20:00 with Eva Brede
5.10., 14:00–17:00 with Minh Duc Pham and Eva Brede
15.10., 17:00–20:00 with Eva Brede
17.10., 18:00–21:00 with Eva Brede
Finissage 16.10., 18:00–21:00 with Markus Wilfling and Eva Brede

Slots always start at the full and half hour at the meeting point:
Idlhofgasse 74 (by the wall bordering the yellow house with the number 78), 8020 Graz

Free admission (Rent and more information on request: info [​at​] kunstraum8020.at)

Artists: Markus Wilfling, Minh Duc Pham, Bettina Allamoda

Curated by Eva Brede

Credits

Supported by steirischer herbst ʼ20

Offering apartments for rent on a temporary basis or sharing an apartment are possible options for those who can no longer pay the rent or who need to travel on short notice for a project. Or when cultural institutions don’t pay on time. Or when sociopolitical conditions make it necessary to cohabit to make ends meet. The friendship between Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht was based on such conditions. Shortly after Benjamin had written about Brecht’s epic theater, they developed a “typology of domesticity.” A diary entry Benjamin wrote during this period reveals that home life was his favorite topic.

kunstraum_8020, which transposes Benjamin’s themes onto today’s world, has taken up Benjamin and Brecht’s collaboration as a way to mount an exhibition not only in the classical art context but also as a post in online marketplaces. The 25-minute apartment tours on six different days also constitute the exhibition project Living with Benjamin and Brecht, featuring works by Markus Wilfling, Minh Duc Pham, and Bettina Allamoda, whose medium straddle the border between sculpture and social sculpture.

Credits

Supported by steirischer herbst ʼ20