Close to the Edge: One Night Group Show, Spor Klübü, Berlin

Alex Roberts

Close to the Edge: One Night Group Show, Spor Klübü, Berlin

Alex Roberts (Artist)

Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition

Abstract

Exhibition Venue: Spor Klübü, Berlin
Exhibition Dates: 29 November 2024

A one-night group show of 189 Berlin-based artists, that extended to include Aktionstag during the following weekend (07.12).

Close to the Edge’s press release makes comparisons with 1980’s decade of the Cold War, rise of neoliberalism and political uncertainty to global now. Concerns of re-elected US President Trump’s second term, European instability, potential War/ Cold War returns, and violent intimation question - will a 1980s revival be even closer to the edge?

Curated in the format of a salon hang the exhibition involves a mixture of predominantly wall mounted artworks and sound performances by "Axe" Catherine Lorent, and artist, curator and director of project space, Spor Klübü, Berlin, Matthias Mayer.

Invited British, Berlin-based artist, Alex Roberts presented Clown I, 2023 (40 x 30 cm pigment, oil and on polyester, curator selected). Fellow Berlin-based artists, curators and exhibition audiences critiqued the candid strength of Roberts’ painted probing of instability and unease via Clown I; matching the exhibition’s emphasising aims. Impacting for audience reflection, hoped for changes in views, action and or behaviour.

Aktiontag formed by Matthias Mayer’s extended the invitation, broadening the exhibition concept; highlighting solidarity in current political and financially precarious times. Aiming to create a follow up platform for exhibiting artists and wider audiences to further consult upon demonstrating actions underway as part of the outcry surrounding Berlin governments wish to approve 12% (130€m) in culture cuts. Resistance from within the sector involve many of the exhibiting artists in Close to the Edge, who participated in the opening protest marches. A City-wide campaign that begun during the day of the originating exhibition opening (29.11).

Original language	German
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	Spor Klübü Berlin
Media of output	Other
Size	40 x 30 cm
Publication status	Published - 29 Nov 2024

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

painting
group exhibition
exhibition
equality
equal opportunities
contemporary art
identity
transparency
artist collective
artist communities
international
cultural capital
cultural change
artistic sustainability
sustainable communities
activism

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Close to the Edge: One Night Group Show, Spor Klübü, Berlin

Abstract

UN SDGs

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DJCAD Research EXPO 2024: Clown I and Clown II, Paintings, L5 Galleries Matthew Building, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee

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