Out of the box - MC Krell

Curator

KLUB SOLITAER e.V. was founded in 2010 and operates an independent project space for contemporary art in Chemnitz, called Galerie HINTEN.
For the OUT OF THE BOX project, two transport boxes with the standardized dimensions of the Euro pallet were prepared for an art transport and sent from Chemnitz to curators in Eastern and Western Europe. There the boxes are filled with artworks and sent back. These works will be unpacked by the team on site at KLUB SOLITAER – accompanied by unboxing videos on Facebook and Instagram - and prepared for an exhibition that will be on view from 17.04. - 26.05.2021 in Chemnitz.

FROM THE CENTER OF THE PERIPHERY
Augustusburger Straße 102, 09126 Chemnitz — 17. April - 26. Mai 2021

KLUB SOLITAER invited me for the exhibition OUT OF THE BOX to put together a curatorial contribution from Western Europe - FROM THE CENTER OF THE PERIPHERY - and send it to Chemnitz in a transport box with the standardized dimensions of the Euro pallet. There my contribution will be juxtaposed with a curatorial position from Eastern Europe, compiled by the IP Group collective from Wroclaw, PL.

OUT OF THE BOX - FROM THE CENTER OF THE PERIPHERY - Image.JPG

A box travels from the center of the periphery to Chemnitz. Its content is several kilograms of art from the Meuse-Rhine Euregion, the border region between Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.

Here in the Euregion I often notice how much the knowledge of its respective cultures, as well as its art scenes, breaks on the border between the Rheinland, Zuid-Limburg and Bruxelles, while this region also offers the advantage of being able to travel regularly to all three countries. Therefore I have invited ten artists from my circle of friends and family, that are or were professionally active in these three different art scenes, for my contribution to OUT OF THE BOX – FROM THE CENTER OF THE PERIPHERY.

Since Europe is lived here on a small scale, the selected works thematize identity and decision-making processes; hence location, time and power. The 10 selected artistic positions point at issues about who makes which decisions, for what reasons structures are set in place and whether these systems should, can or must continue to exist.

The concept of sending local art in boxes to other (European) regions is also worth being thought about in a larger context. Buses that carried true-to-original replicas of famous works of art across villages existed already 100 years ago. Today this possibility of cultural participation is mainly used by natural history and scientific museums. Transport boxes filled with curatorial positions traveling across Europe in order to juxtapose contemporary art of the East and the West is the logical and due to COVID momentarily the only option.

OUT OF THE BOX – 17.04. - 26.05.2021

ARTISTS – FROM THE CENTER OF THE PERIPHERY
Charlotte Lagro (@charlottelagro/NL)
Eleni Kamma (@elenikamma/GR/NL)
Evamaria Schaller (@evamariaschaller/AU/DE)
Giulio Squillacciotti (@giuliosq/IT)
Johanna Roderburg (@roderburg.johanna/DE)
Joséphine Kaeppelin (@josephine_kaeppelin/FR/NL)
Sanne Vaassen (@sannevaassen/NL)
Sophie Langohr (@sophielangohr/BE)
Susanne Krell (@susannekrellstudio/DE)
Vera Gulikers (@v_e_r_a_g_e_l_u_c_k/NL)
– curated by Marie-Claire Krell (@poweredbymc/DE/NL/BE)