Exhibition

Animism

Fri, Mar 16–Sun, May 6, 2012
Fri, Mar 16, 2012
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Sat, Mar 17, 2012
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Sun, Mar 18, 2012
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Mon, Mar 19, 2012
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Sun, Apr 1, 2012
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Mon, Apr 2, 2012
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Sat, Apr 21, 2012
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Sun, Apr 22, 2012
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Mon, Apr 23, 2012
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Wed, Apr 25, 2012
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Thu, Apr 26, 2012
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Fri, Apr 27, 2012
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Sat, Apr 28, 2012
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Sun, Apr 29, 2012
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Mon, Apr 30, 2012
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Tue, May 1, 2012
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Wed, May 2, 2012
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Thu, May 3, 2012
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Fri, May 4, 2012
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Sat, May 5, 2012
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Sun, May 6, 2012
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Animism

How do we distinguish things from beings? The exhibition “Animism” examines the delineation between life and non-life on the basis of aesthetic symptoms.

The scientific positivism of modernity was based on the categorical separation of nature and culture, of the subjective and objective world. Animism stood for the counter-image of this self-concept. It is at this juncture that the exhibition intervenes. With works by some 30 international artists, curator Anselm Franke transforms the Haus der Kulturen der Welt into a self-reflexive “anthropological museum of modernity”.

With works by:
Adam Avikainen, Artefakte//anti-humboldt, Angela Melitopoulos und Maurizio Lazzarato, Tom Holert, Martin Zillinger und Anja Dreschke, Dierk Schmidt, Jimmie Durham, Daria Martin, Paulo Tavares, Agentur, Len Lye, Walt Disney, Ken Jacobs, Marcel Broodthaers, Didier Demorcy, Vincent Monnikendam, Candida Höfer, Yayoi Kusama, Victor Grippo, León Ferrari, J.J. Grandville, Rosemarie Trockel, Erik Steinbrecher, Daniel Spoerri, Istvan Orosz, Lars Laumann, David Maljkovic, Anna und Bernhard Blume, Roee Rosen, Hans Richter, Jean Painlevé, Walon Green a.o.