MICHAEL KREBBER
THE LIVING WEDGE
18. FEBRUAR – 30. APRIL 2017
Eröffnung: FREITAG, 17. FEBRUAR 2017, 18 Uhr
Ab 23 Uhr Musik von Justus Köhncke im Playground, Bern
Michael Krebber (*1954 in Cologne, lives in New York) has been leading a double life as a rumor for many years. He fostered this iridescence by exhibiting little or nothing. From a certain moment onward, the painter showed a bit more, but it was always about how much an artist ought to display. The scene of this critical self-staging as an actor of art was 1990s Cologne. On account of this prelude, it was for a long time difficult to distinguish Michael Krebber’s activities from what was said, purported, or speculated about him. For many young artists in Europe and the United States, Krebber offers a projection screen that can hardly be overestimated. While little known to the general public, many traits of MK, who repeatedly sheds his skin, are negotiated within the art world. People actually work things through with him in mind.
The Living Wedge, organized in cooperation with the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, presents a comprehensive selection of the artist’s works since the 1980s for the first time in Switzerland. The show is thus a culminating point of the Kunsthalle Bern’s program line that puts the meaning of painting for the present and future of art up for debate. […]
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On the occasion of this exhibition a two-volume publication will be published by Koenig Books, London edited by Kunsthalle Bern and Fundação de Serralves. Featuring texts by Manfred Hermes, Valérie Knoll/Hans-Christian Dany, and João Ribas. Graphic design: HIT, Berlin.
Works by Michael Krebber have been presented at Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2016), Galerie Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin (2015), Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2015), MUMOK, Vienna (2015), Greene Naftali, New York (2015), Maureen Paley, London (2015), Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2015), Halle für Kunst Lüneburg (2014), dépendance, Brussels (2013), CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2012), Real Fine Arts, New York (2011), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2008), Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (2007), Sammlung Grässlin, St. Georgen (2006), Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (2006), Secession, Vienna (2005), Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles (2005), The Top Room, London (2001), Kunstverein Braunschweig/Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg (2000), Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg (1998), Villa Arson, Nice (1997), Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva (1995), further exhibitions at Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Graz, Christian Nagel, Cologne, Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin und Fettstrasse 7a, Hamburg/Zurich.
Image: Michael Krebber, Untitled (Flat Finish XXXII), 2016, pencil on paper, 22×17.5cm. Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York.
PROGRAM
Lecture by Oswald Wiener (Author, Kapfenstein, Austria)
In collaboration with Robert Walser-Zentrum
WEDNESDAY, 12 APRIL, 7 pm
Public Guided Tours
SUNDAY, 19 FEBRUARY
SUNDAY, 30 APRIL
2 pm
Guided Tours with Lunch
TUESDAY, 21 FEBRUARY
TUESDAY, 25 APRIL
Tour 12.30–1 pm followed by lunch
Please register until 20 February / 24 April
Guided Tour with Coffee and Cake
WEDNESDAY, 1 MARCH, 2 pm
Étude 8
Series of events organized by students of Visual Arts and Art History in collaboration with Kunsthalle Bern
With Sarah Elser, Laura Grubenmann, Sophie Huguenin and Nina Selina Liechti.
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TUESDAY, 18 APRIL, 7 pm
Art Secret – Adventurous Expeditions for Children (6 to 11 years)
With Maja Brönimann (Dance Professional, Berne)
SATURDAY, 22 APRIL, 2–4 pm
Please register until 19 April
This exhibition is organized in collaboration with Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto.
Kunsthalle Bern would like to thank the city of Bern, the Confederation, the German Embassy Bern, as well as the Robert Walser-Zentrum for their generous support.
The exhibition was supported by the No Leftovers-Fonds.
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Öffnungszeiten
Dienstag bis Freitag 11–18 Uhr
Samstag und Sonntag 10–18 Uhr
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