Exhibition text Deichtorhallen, Hamburg:
The collection of Barbara and Axel Haubrok in Berlin is one of the leading collections of contemporary art in Germany. Like no other, it focuses consistently on international contemporary Concept Art and thus on multimedia art, in particular on video, photography, and installations.
Deichtorhallen Hamburg presents in its Sammlung Falckenberg satellite a representative cross-section of works from the Haubrok Collection. Inviting private collectors to exhibit their works in Hamburg has meanwhile become a veritable tradition. Thanks to it, specifically in the premises of Sammlung Falckenberg spectacular and in part quite unforeseeable interaction between artworks arise. This form of dialog or mutual commentary not only affords a comprehensive insight into the visiting collection in a new context but also offers a new take on the Sammlung Falckenberg as part of the Deichtorhallen exhibition program.
The Berlin couple was invited to decide the exhibition concept and installation themselves and choose how to use the premises and participate in the Sammlung Falckenberg agenda. Installations form the core of the exhibition, featuring more than 60 pieces from the Haubrok Collection. The selection focuses on formal, essentially restrained works that for that reason alone already contrast with most of the Sammlung Falckenberg’s holdings. The list of artists includes well-known names such as Martin Boyce, Carol Bove, Christoph Büchel, Martin Creed, Willem de Rooij, Rodney Graham, Wade Guyton, Cady Noland, Simon Starling, Kelley Walker, Haegue Yang, and Heimo Zobernig. It will also present lesser-known artists such as Michael Beutler, Tim Lee, Rodney McMillian, Ruben Ochoa, Stephen Prina, Michael Riedel or Jan Timme.
The exhibition will stretch across three floors of the Sammlung Falckenberg building in Harburg. Michael Riedel has developed a poster piece for the exhibition that will also be on show at the Sammlung Haubrok in Berlin next year. Berlin-based artist Michael Beutler has expanded his site-specific piece entitled Copygraffitty with in light of the specific spatial setting in Harburg. Moreover, light art by Cerith Wyn Evans and Ólafur Elíasson will be on display on the factory floors of Sammlung Falckenberg and there are sets of works by Haegue Yang and Florian Slotawa awaiting discovery by visitors. A film theater has been created to screen Rodney Graham’s Two Generators.
The exhibition is entitled No Desaster after a terse drawing by Georg Herold, an artist represented in both collections. The title is also intended to highlight the fact that the encounter between two so very different approaches to collecting need by no means culminate in chaos. Rather, the idea is to have the conceptual positions championed in the Haubrok Collection interact with the more provocative positions espoused at Sammlung Falckenberg. Both collections elucidate representative angles taken in postmodern contemporary art.
List of works
Michael Beutler
Copygraffity, 2002
Carol Bove
untitled #1, 2008
Carol Bove
Nurejev Mandala, 2006
Carol Bove
untitled (Former centerpiece of installation: The ride of universal intercourse), 2004
Carol Bove
Vege-tables (Land and sea), 2003
Carol Bove
Tower of the prophet, 2002
Martin Boyce
Thoughts that breathe, 2011
Martin Boyce
Evaporated pools, 2009
Martin Boyce
Fear view (Light), 2000
Martin Boyce
White disaster, 2000
Martin Boyce
You are somewhere inside, 2000
Martin Boyce
untitled (after Rietveld), 1999
Christoph Büchel
untitled (Düsseldorf), 2001/06
Tom Burr
Put down III, 2003
Matt Calderwood
Stripes (Vertical), 2005
Claire Fontaine
untitled (Lost & found), 2011
Martin Creed
Work no. 270: The lights off, 2001
Martin Creed
Work no. 122: All the sounds on a drum machine, 1995–2000
Willem de Rooij
Bouquet V, 2010
Willem de Rooij
Black to black, 2011
Willem de Rooij
Black to brown, 2011
Ólafur Elíasson
Highlighter, 1999
courtesy Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Cerith Wyn Evans
With the advent of radio astronomy… (Grey), 2010
Cerith Wyn Evans
299792458 m/s, 2004
Cerith Wyn Evans
Slow fade to black… (Reversed), 2004
Cerith Wyn Evans
Adorno centenary “The stars down to earth” (pub. 1974), 2003
Donald Evans
Sabot – poisonous mushrooms – a series of eight stamps, 1973
Donald Evans
Tropides islands – a series of 3 stamps, 1973
Douglas Gordon
Sketch for AK47-Samovar, 2012
Rodney Graham
Two generators, 1984
Wade Guyton
untitled, 2008
Wade Guyton
untitled, 2006
Wade Guyton
X sculpture, 2005
Wade Guyton
untitled, 2005
Wade Guyton
Untitled action sculpture (Breuer), 2003
Wade Guyton & Kelley Walker
untitled (Bone), 2005
Wade Guyton & Kelley Walker
untitled (Ketel 1), 2005
Wade Guyton & Kelley Walker
Domane white, 2004
Georg Herold
Rekonstruktion einer Dachlatte, 1994
Georg Herold
Blind order, 1990
Georg Herold
Gehörntes Gehörn, 1990
Georg Herold
Nylons, 1990
Georg Herold
untitled (Würfel), 1990
Georg Herold
untitled, 1989
Georg Herold
Holz ohne Raum, 1988
Georg Herold
Inter-national, 1988
Georg Herold
No disaster III, 1988
Emily Jacir
From Paris to Riyadh (Drawings for my mother) Juin / Juillet 1990, 1999–2001
Tim Lee
The Goldberg Variations, Aria, BMV 988, 1741, Johann Sebastian Bach (Glenn Gould, 1981), 2007
Tim Lee
The Goldberg Variations, Aria, BMV 988, 1741, Johann Sebastian Bach (Glenn Gould, 1981), 2007
Rodney McMillian
untitled (from the series The Clampetts), 2010
Rodney McMillian
18 boxes, 2006
Rodney McMillian
untitled #12, 2006
Rodney McMillian
untitled (Great Society II), 2006
Rodney McMillian
Balloon, 2004
Jonathan Monk
The documentation of a life and of a death, 2011–2012
Cady Noland
Blank for serial, 1989
Ruben Ochoa
Get off my black, 2010
Ruben Ochoa
Exposed in the 90293, 2007
Ruben Ochoa
Zoned out in the 90045, 2007
Manfred Pernice
Bell II, 11, 1998
Manfred Pernice
Bell II, 14, 1998
Manfred Pernice
untitled, 1998
Manfred Pernice
untitled, 1998
Stephen Prina
Monochrome painting I, 1988/1989
First station – Christ condemned to death
Kasimir Malevich
Suprematists Composition: White on white, 1918
Oil on canvas
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Stephen Prina
Monochrome painting II, 1988/1989
Second station – Christ carrying the cross
Alexander Michailowitsch Rodtschenko
Pure Red Colour, 1921
Oil on canvas
location unknown
Stephen Prina
Monochrome painting III, 1988/1989
Third station – The first fall
Władysław Strzemiński
Unistic composition 8, 1931–32
Oil on canvas
Muzeum Sztuli, Lódź
Stephen Prina
Monochrome painting IV, 1988/1989
Fourth station – Christ meets Mary
Barnett Newman
Abraham, 1949
Oil on canvas
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Stephen Prina
Monochrome painting V, 1988/1989
Fifth station – Simon helps carry the cross
Robert Rauschenberg
White Painting, 1951
Oil on canvas
Collection of the artist
Stephen Prina
Monochrome painting VI, 1988/1989
Sixth station – Veronica wipes the face of Christ
Ellsworth Kelly
Two panels: Yellow relief, 1955
Oil on canvas
Collection of the artist
Stephen Prina
Monochrome painting VII, 1988/1989
Seventh station – The second fall
Yves Klein
IKB 48 (International Klein Blue), 1956
Pigment on canvas on plywood
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Stephen Prina
Monochrome painting VIII, 1988/1989
Eighth station – He comforts the women of Jerusalem
Piero Manzoni
Achrome, 1959
Canvas stitched in squares
Piva Turin, Turin
Stephen Prina
Monochrome painting IX, 1988/1989
Ninth station – The third fall
Ad Reinhardt
Abstract Painting, Black, 1960–66
Oil on canvas
The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Stephen Prina
Monochrome painting X, 1988/1989
Tenth station – He is stripped of his garments
Lucio Fontana
Spatial Conception, Expectations, 61T22, 1961
Water-based paint on canvas
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
Stephen Prina
Monochrome painting XI, 1988/1989
Eleventh station – The crucifixion
Brice Marden
The Dylan Painting, 1966
Oil and wax on canvas
Bykert Gallery, New York
Stephen Prina
Monochrome painting XII, 1988/1989
Twelfth station – The death of Christ
Robert Ryman
Standard, No. 1, 1967
Enamel on steel
Panza Collection, Varese
Stephen Prina
Monochrome painting XIII, 1988/1989
Thirteenth station – The deposition
Gerhard Richter
Grey, 1972
Oil on cotton
Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn
Stephen Prina
Monochrome painting XIV, 1988/1989
Fourteenth station – The Entombment
Blinky Palermo (Peter Heisterkamp)
untitled, 1973
Red lead paint on steel plate
Barbara Nüsse, Hamburg
Florian Pumhösl
Strohgeige, 2011
Florian Pumhösl
Dimunition Serie 2, 2010
Florian Pumhösl
Aushang #1, 2007
Florian Pumhösl
Aushang #2, 2007
Daragh Reeves
Dracula – Tod Browning, 2003
Michael Riedel
Invitation poster (Haubrok), 2012
Michael Riedel
Printed and unprinted posters, 2008
Davis Rhodes
untitled, 2007
Davis Rhodes
untitled, 2007
Gregor Schneider
Der deutsche Beitrag, 2001
Florian Slotawa
Museumssprints, 2000–2001
Florian Slotawa
Hotelarbeiten, 1998–1999
Simon Starling
Waratah (Artichoke, kogle, zapfen, pomme de Pin), 2001
Jan Timme
Complices accomplis, 2001/2002/2009
Kelley Walker
4870 Series, 2009
Kelley Walker
untitled, 2009
Haegue Yang
Storage Piece, 2003
Heimo Zobernig
nun das…, 2006
Heimo Zobernig
untitled, 2005
Heimo Zobernig
Nr. 13, 1996
Heimo Zobernig
Nr. 12, 1996
Heimo Zobernig
Nr. 9, 1995
Heimo Zobernig
Nr. 11, 1995
Heimo Zobernig
38, 1992
Heimo Zobernig
Nr. 5, 1991
Heimo Zobernig
untitled, 1990
Heimo Zobernig
untitled, 1990
Heimo Zobernig
untitled, 1990
Heimo Zobernig
Nr. 2, 1989
Heimo Zobernig
Nr. 4, 1989
Heimo Zobernig
untitled, 1988
Heimo Zobernig
untitled, 1988
Heimo Zobernig
untitled, 1987
Heimo Zobernig & Richard Hoeck
untitled, 1992
Heimo Zobernig & Hans Weigand
untitled, 1992