Eine Welt Aus Hack goes into sprint for its finish line! Thee Ausstellung V is starting tomorrow at Westgermany!
Artists: Damien Tran, Viktor Schmidt, Hannah Schiefelbein, Fuzzgun91, Oliver Regahl & Sebastian Gaissert, Juliane Kowalke, Christoph Blankenburg, Hackfleisch, Drawing Competition Contestants, Sara Lehn, Sackratte.
Opening: 19.01.2017, 7pm
Opening Hours: Every day 5-9pm (except for the concert days)
Entrance: Free
Westgermany
Skalitzer Strasse 133 Berlin
An exhibition opening marks a particular kind of threshold, the moment when weeks of preparation give way to a room full of people looking at things together. For a project that has been moving at speed toward its finish line, that evening carries a mixture of relief and anticipation. Works by a range of artists sit side by side, some loud and some quiet, each one holding its own small argument with the next. Visitors drift between pieces, pause, come back, and the show begins to take shape in the conversations it provokes rather than in any single wall label.
The surrounding programme keeps the same momentum going, weaving together concerts, video screenings, presentations, and drawing competitions into a dense calendar of events. Different cities and different rooms each bring their own character, from a gallery floor to a bandstand, and the roster of guests keeps expanding as new collaborators join. Announcements arrive in bursts, trailers and posters appear, and the archive slowly fills with documentation of what has already happened. What ties it together is a shared curiosity about how art, music, and performance can share a single space without competing for attention.
Behind all of it sits a spirit that is playful and a little unruly, treating the whole undertaking as an experiment rather than a fixed format. The name itself hints at that impulse, a world assembled out of scraps and improvisation, held together by the energy of the people involved. Some projects are polished, others deliberately rough, and both are welcome in the same frame. For anyone following along, the appeal lies in watching something unfinished take shape in public, with each new date adding another layer to a story that keeps writing itself as it goes.
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