HANS PETER KUHN MEHR LICHT 17.11.2020 – 30.11.2020

 HANS PETER KUHN

MEHR LICHT 17.11.2020 – 30.11.2020

HOUSE FOR THE END OF THE WORLD Falkensteinstraße 24 | 10997 Berlin

LIVESTREAM OPENING: 17.11.2020, 19:00 [Berlin time] via Instagram: @kwadratgalerie / @hew_berlin

HEW presents a solo exhibition by renowned artist Hans Peter Kuhn. Via – sound – video – light – print – Kuhn solitarily occupies the House. Curated by Elana Katz.

Hans Peter Kuhn, composer and artist, lives and works in Berlin and Amino (Kyoto, JP). His light and sound installations are exhibited in many museums and galleries or on public sites worldwide, among others at Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Centre Pompidou Paris, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Seattle Art Museum, Tokushima Modern Art Museum. Internationally acclaimed are Lightinstallations in public places, like: The Pier, New York 1996, A Light and Sound Transit, Leeds (UK) 2009, Vertical Lightfield, Singapore 2009, Acupuncture, Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh (US) 2016, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (DE) 2017. The installation "Memory Loss" by Robert Wilson and Hans Peter Kuhn was awarded with the Golden Lion in Venice 1993. He worked for theatre with directors like Luc Bondy, Claus Peyman, Peter Zadek, Peter Stein and is best known for the music and sound environments he created in the long term collaboration with Robert Wilson. He composed the music for dances by Laurie Booth, Dana Reitz, Suzushi Hanayagim Sasha Waltz and Junko Wada. For this he received the Bessie Award New York and the Suzukinu Hanayagi Award Osaka. Hearing and listening are the themes of his performances, that are shown worldwide. From 2012 until 2020 he was Guest professor for Sound Studies at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

HEW is a project space by Elana Katz in cooperation with Gallery KWADRAT, founded in Berlin in March 2020. HEW’s activities are reactionary creative and critical experimentation, including site-specific installations, actions, and discourse — both in the context of public events and the intimacy of studio work. Launched at the beginning of Berlin’s COVID-19 lock-down, in the context of the current pandemic HEW functions as a dystopian sanctuary created by artists in surreal and uncertain times. Founded at Falckensteinstraße 24 in Berlin Kreuzberg, HEW as a conceptual platform operates in a transitory manner. This House will thus in the future occupy different spaces, working in a site-specific manner at each location.

HOUSE FOR THE END OF THE WORLD Falkensteinstraße 24 | 10997 Berlin

HEW opening hours: Thursday- Saturday 15:00 – 19:00
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