'BE NICE, SHARE EVERYTHING, HAVE FUN' A PUBLICATION OF FOUR YEARS OF EXHIBITIONS AT KUNSTVEREIN MUNICH BY STEFAN KALMAR AND DANIEL PIES

General Idea


An American Family


Gerard Byrne


take away text inserts (text by Jan Verhovet)


The facade of Gilardi House by Luis Barragan being repainted


Hillary Lloyd


Princes Julia photographed by Wolfgang Tillmans in the 1980s


Jean Michel Wicker's photocopy inserts


Jeremy Deller


Wolfgang Tillmans



'Munich Guide', special insert of pablo internacional magazine


BE NICE SHARE EVERYTHING HAVE FUN

Editors Stefan Kalmár & Daniel Pies for Kunstverein München
Managing Editor Julia Maier
Graphic Design Scott King, Régis Tosetti & Simon Palmieri
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2009

Words by Michael Bracewell, Hans-Christian Dany, John Giorno, Ang Lee, Alan Moore, Andreas Neumeister, Jan Verwoert, Brigitte Weingart, Ian White.

Images by Nevin Aladag, Allora & Calzadilla, An American Family, An Architektur, Lutz Bacher, Stuart Bailey/DotDotDot, Cyril Blažo, Bodymap, Ayzit Bostan, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Carol Bove, Leigh Bowery, Kaucyila Brooke, Victor Burgin, Tom Burr, William S. Burroughs, Gerard Byrne, Duncan Campbell, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Michael Clark, Jeremy Deller, Stephan Dillemuth, Peter Doig, Brian Eno, Yusuf Etimann, Cerith Wyn Evans, Charles Henri Ford, Luca Frei, General Idea, Gilbert and George, Liam Gillick, John Giorno, Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt, Brion Gysin, Richard Hamilton, Florian Hecker, Homotopia, General Idea, ifau + Jesko Fezer, Jim Isermann, Derek Jarman, Ray Johnson, Scott King, Zoe Leonard, Simon Leung, Linder, Hilary Lloyd, Dorit Margreiter, Michaela Melián, Ariane Müller, Christian Philipp Müller, The Neo Naturists, Andreas Neumeister, Henrik Olesen, pablo internacional magazine, Stephen Prina, Yvonne Rainer, Arthur Russell, Jon Savage, Peter Saville, Jeremy Shaw, Mark E. Smith, Sean Snyder, John Stezaker, Wolfgang Tillmans, Philippe Thomas, Trojan, Danh Vo, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, Jean-Michel Wicker, T.J. Wilcox, Stephen Willats, David Wojnarowicz, Akram Zaatari.

LUDLOW 38: KUNSTVEREIN MUNICH OPENS IN NEW YORK WITH PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED

Ludlow 38 – publish and be damned
Gallery Launch + Exhibition
2/09/08-03/23/08
Gallery Hours: Thursday, Friday, & Saturday, 12–8pm

Ludlow 38
38 Ludlow St. (between Grand and Hester Sts.)
New York, NY 10002
Free Admission

The Goethe-Institut New York is pleased to announce the opening of Ludlow 38, a new downtown satellite space for innovative contemporary art. Sponsored by MINI, Ludlow 38 will be programmed exclusively by Kunstverein München for its first year. Ludlow 38, designed by artists Ethan Breckenridge and Liam Gillick, is located a short walk from the New Museum and at the center of the emerging gallery scene on the Lower East Side and in Chinatown.

The inaugural exhibition, publish and be damned is a public library consisting of over 300 international publications, assembled since 2004 by the British curators Emily Pethick (Director Showroom, London), Kit Hammonds (Curator, South London Gallery), and Sarah McCrory (curator). This archive of contemporary DIY fanzines is probably the largest of its kind in the world, containing fanzines such as: Ziggy, Zowie, Blondiak, Dark Star, Useless; magazines such as Control, Pablo internacional, Inventory; critical journals like Dot Dot Dot, Copenhagen Free University/Infopool, Metronome, Anarchitektur, Fucking Good Art; plus glossy periodicals such as CRASH!, Re-Magazine and video and cassette editions including Audio Theory and Audio Arts; radio plays and Independent Record Labels such as Another Album and Junior Aspirin.

These fanzines, all of which operate more or less outside the commercial and institutional mainstream, have been brought together in this archive to document their individual and experimental approach in production and distribution. The library comprises self-published works by authors, musicians and theorists as well as artists such as Jeremy Deller, Scott King, Pablo Bronstein, Raymond Pettibon, Spartacus Chetwynd, Nils Norman, Stephan Dillemuth, Stephan Willats, Cathy Lomax, Eleanor Brown, Aline Bouvy, Sonia Dermience, Meeuw Muzak and many others. publish and be damned is also the title of this year’s 4th international fair of self-publishers happening in London this summer.

OH GIRL, IT'S A BOY!

Pimpernel Munich (interior), part of Pablo Internacional Magazines Munich guide, (upcoming)

Oh Girl, It’s a Boy!
Kunstverein München e.V.
Galeriestraße 4
80539 München
Germany

Tel: ++ 49-(0)89-221 152
Fax: ++ 49-(0)89-229 352
info(at)kunstverein-muenchen.de

Opening Hours:
Tuesday to Friday: 12 bis 19 Uhr
Saturday and Sunday: 11 bis 18 Uhr

with Kaucyila Brooke, Tom Burr, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Cerith Wyn Evans, Charles Henri Ford, Antonello Faretta/John Giorno, Brion Gysin, Richard Hawkins, Homotopia, Ray Johnson, Zoe Leonard, Simon Leung, Renate Lorenz & Pauline Boudry, Dorit Margreiter, Ariane Müller, Henrik Olesen, Stephen Prina, Danh Vo, Jean-Michel Wicker, Stephen Willats, Akram Zaatari, basso, Clit, Dyke Action Machine, pablo internacional, Straight to Hell.
Co-curated by Henrik Olesen.

Opening: 19 October 2007, 8 pm
Djs Riot not Diet! Djane-Team (Rote Sonne, Munich)
& Lovely Jonjo ( The George & Dragon Public House, London)
Duration: 20 October - 25 November 2007
12 January – 10 February

Oh Girl, It’s a Boy! plays with the title of a former exhibition presented at Kunstverein München in 1994: Oh Boy, It's a Girl! This exhibition paved the way for a newly emerging debate on gender politics in contemporary art in Germany by amending the traditional frame of feminist criticism of social gender hierarchies and representations with a general perspective on the performative ‘nature’ of sexualized identities and social norms. In other words, the Oh Boy, It’s a Girl! did not only deal with ‘feminisms in art’, but also with a ‘feminism without women’ (Leo Bersani), which was thrown into relief through gender-travesties, gay politics and the deconstruction of normative structures of desire.

Almost 15 years later, the exhibition Oh Girl, It’s a Boy! attempts to reconsider, question and reevaluate the central aspects of the then underlying debates on ’gender politics’ and ’gender studies’ in the face of a changed and changing political present. Central for the re-staging of these debates in Oh Girl, It's a Boy! is the conflict between the fight for recognition and integration, on one hand, and the protection of ’identitary difference’ on the other. This
set of political problems is also reflected on the level of aesthetic rhetorics. Has the successful struggle for recognition and integration displaced difference as a value? Or has the category of the deviation as a political instrument become obsolete, not to the least because it has turned out to be an indispensable marketing-tool of the present lifestyle-economies? What political value could then a new notion of ’queerness’ have as a ’political metaphor without a stable referent’ (David L. Eng)?

The exhibition Oh Girl, It’s a Boy! attempts to polemicize and problematize between achievement and loss: How can difference be articulated, if the position from which it could be practised has long ago been incorporated into the social mainstream? In what way could such a position be re-imagined in the context of current conditions? What vocabularies of articulation could thus resist today’s omnipresent dynamics of integration as an expression of incommensurable desire? Oh Girl, It’s a Boy! will move within the tension between opacity and transparency, refusal and mediation, the struggle for difference and the fight for recognition, in order understand and question the shifts and repositionings of contemporary gender politics.

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