Ghosts and otherworldly apparitions are often associated with the idea of being taken or spirited away. Encountering one of these curious beings is an exercise on how to remain sensible in the face of danger. A cold breeze blowing through an open window, cracked up rocks fostering soulful little spooks, the season’s change and the transition from winter to spring, all are events that sometimes bridge the world of knowledge with one about poetry, mystics and emotions. In some cases, ghosts, also known with the term Phantasma, leave traces behind in an attempt to lure their precious victims and help them find their way.

Phantom includes works by Christoph Kilian, Delia Jürgens &Tarik Kentouche, in collaboration with Carlotta Drinkewitz and Lorenz Liebig, Laura Dechenaud. Presented in the context of a group exhibition the works lean on the lineage of minimalism, relational aesthetics and appropriation, here more in the sense of a borrowing and less through the specter of mass-media influx. Inhabiting the space, infiltrating the void and gradually making an appearance, the works allude to the emergence of a presence or the trace of one.

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The works presented within the context of the exhibition could be viewed in a flexible timemanner. There were no dictated visiting hours, and visitors dropped by even late at night or in the early hours of the morning as a direct result of the measures implemented by art spaces worldwide in the face of the current global pandemic. The encounters that were created through this timetable differ from a conventional commercialized art space that’s bound to visiting and office hours and contribute to a different sensory experience. The doors are closed for now, the ghosts are hiding inside their closets, the cracks begin to show.

Haris Giannouras

PHANTOM   Exhibition views

Ghosts and otherworldly apparitions are often associated with the idea of being taken or spirited away. Encountering one of these curious beings is an exercise on how to remain sensible in the face of danger. A cold breeze blowing through an open window, cracked up rocks fostering soulful little spooks, the season’s change and the transition from winter to spring, all are events that sometimes bridge the world of knowledge with one about poetry, mystics and emotions. In some cases, ghosts, also known with the term Phantasma, leave traces behind in an attempt to lure their precious victims and help them find their way.

Phantom includes works by Christoph Kilian, Delia Jürgens &Tarik Kentouche, in collaboration with Carlotta Drinkewitz and Lorenz Liebig, Laura Dechenaud. Presented in the context of a group exhibition the works lean on the lineage of minimalism, relational aesthetics and appropriation, here more in the sense of a borrowing and less through the specter of mass-media influx. Inhabiting the space, infiltrating the void and gradually making an appearance, the works allude to the emergence of a presence or the trace of one.

(...)

The works presented within the context of the exhibition could be viewed in a flexible timemanner. There were no dictated visiting hours, and visitors dropped by even late at night or in the early hours of the morning as a direct result of the measures implemented by art spaces worldwide in the face of the current global pandemic. The encounters that were created through this timetable differ from a conventional commercialized art space that’s bound to visiting and office hours and contribute to a different sensory experience. The doors are closed for now, the ghosts are hiding inside their closets, the cracks begin to show.

Haris Giannouras