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Hosek Contemporary is pleased to invite you to the opening/performance 'Ego & Orchestra' by Sanna Helena Berger.Opening reception: Friday 3 June, 2022, 7-10 PM.
Performance : 8 PM.
Exhibition period: June 3 - 11, 2022.
Open Thu-Sat 2-6 PM and during the events of the gallery.
Ego & Orchestra by Sanna Helena Berger is a still life coming into motion. Embodying the banality of the demand to articulate an artist-persona as a marketable soft object. Sculptures assume the position of representation and navigate the maze-like egocentral economy of image. The reflexive diorama then moves into an orchestral act.
An arrangement that begins with a solo where later bodies become percussive in this score made for a ship.
The narrative subtext takes on an aerial view, breaking through the metaphorical fourth wall of these scenes where we come to cultivate our allure of the in-person-presence.
It is both a critique of and confessional submission to the tangled tropes and perpetuation of the artist-persona et al. Confusing, angry but pleasing, one wants it both ways.
Ego & Orchestra is a sculptural installation and performance by Sanna Helena Berger.
Performed by Luisa Alfonso, Veronica Bruce, Ewa Poniatowska, Gloria Regotz & Shade Théret.
Sound in collaboration with Samuel Hatchwell.
BIO :
Sanna Helena Berger is an artist who works with situation specific performance, sound, text and sculpture often culminating in installation. She works against commodification, repetition and tropes as the artist persona as idol and towards transparency of process, self and circumstance, even when failing.
Her live performances often deliver monologues as narration and commentary on the situation in which we experience her work. Berger attempts to deliver transparency of process and seeks to demystify
the practice and production of art, often patriarchal, elitist and expensive. Berger resists the need to apply a finish which hides the labour and her personal circumstance in a form of personal-post-institutional critique in a scene where the artist herself knows the sound of a mute point.
This dense and highly articulate vernacular of work is set against her own lack of academic art merits after leaving school at 15. Although her work delivers a strong and identifiable aesthetic style, Berger works against repetitive material and normative standards for contemporary cultural behaviour, thus forever poor. Her work, even when not delivering performance, is highly performative.
Sanna Helena Berger is the laureate of Hosek Contemporary Prize 2022.
www.sannahelenaberger.com
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The gallery is located at
Motor Ship HEIMATLAND
close to Fischerinsel 3
10 179 Berlin-Mitte
+49 1525 7486496
www.hosekcontemporary.com
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Hosek Contemporary, MS Heimatland / Fischerinsel,Berlin, Germany