Graphic design: Laurens Bauer, Caspar Reuss
OpeningMADEYOULOOK &
Panorama V with Fiona Grassl and Paul Grziwok (Musik für Schlangen)
Thursday, 1.8.2024, 6–10 pm
Free admission
Every first Thursday of the month from 6 to 10 pm, the event series Panorama takes place at the Kunsthaus foyer. On 1 August, Fiona Grassl and Paul Grziwok will be performing an elegantly playful DJ set between ambient, classical music and pop. The programme is conceived by DJ and music curator Nguyen Phuong-Dan.
As part of Panorama V, a new sound installation will be opened: Outside of the Kunsthaus Hamburg, the main road’s buzzy noise is interspersed with singing, conversations and nature sounds. What passers-by hear is the audio installation Mafolofolo Revisited (2024) by South African artist collaborative MADEYOULOOK. The sound piece is a sonic record of South Africa’s historical and contemporary relationship with the land and the ongoing longing for its preservation and care.
In the context of the street outside the Kunsthaus, the work attempts to connect one landscape with another. In an eleven-minute loop, the sound accompanies the urban life. Mafolofolo Revisited reflects on globally shared experiences of a loss of natural habitat and traditional ways of life and calls for collective efforts in finding solutions. There are two benches next to the entrance to the Kunsthaus for passers-by to sit and listen. A reading corner in the foyer, which is accessible to the public free of charge during the opening hours, completes the installation and invites visitors to learn more about land-related issues in South Africa.
MADEYOULOOK is a collaborative between the Johannisburg artists Nare Mokgotho and Molemo Moiloa. Their sound and spatial installation Quiet Ground is currently on display in the South African pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Their interdisciplinary practice is based on Black everyday practices and is characterized by long-term research projects and collaborative endeavours. It is centred on an in-depth examination of the local spatial and social relationships—blurring boundaries between research and practice, content and form, artist and audience—in favour of the integration of art into everyday life.
Admission is free, drinks will be served at the bar.
Supported by the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Programme with funds from the Federal Foreign Office and the ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen