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Kunstverein Hannover Sophienstraße 2 D-30159 Hannover Press T: +49(0)511.16 99 278 -12 F: +49(0)511.16 99 278 - 278 [email protected] Release www.kunstverein-hannover.de Kunstverein Hannover Sophienstraße 2 D-30159 Hannover Press T: +49(0)511.16 99 278 -12 F: +49(0)511.16 99 278 - 278 [email protected] Release www.kunstverein-hannover.de »2000 Mensch. Natur. Twipsy.« (Humankind. Nature. Twipsy.) Henrike Naumann July 13 – August 25, 2019 Henrike Naumann’s (b. 1984) artistic practice takes German-German “reunification” and its consequences as its starting point. What happened after 1989, and how has identity been shaped since then? Using furniture that sometimes “says” more than many words, Naumann creates sets of the post- reunification era with all its trashy objects and “post-post-modernist” wall units made of shiny surfaces rather than solid materials. Within these sets, the artist screens films she has made since completing her scenography studies (Potsdam 2012) showing young adults who became radicalized with right-wing attitudes in these very surroundings, so to speak – like the triad of far- right German neo-Nazi terrorists who conspired in Naumann’s hometown of Zwickau. Naumann stumbled upon the figure of Birgit Breuel and consequently Expo 2000 – the international world’s fair in which Germany as a whole was presented for the first time in the context of its theme “Humankind, Nature, Technology” – while searching for images of the “Treuhand-Abwicklung” [Treuhand agency phase-out] that involved the privatizing of industry in the former East German states. Her research eventually led her to the EXPOSEEUM, which brings together countless leftover relics from the World Expo in Hanover including guest gifts, pavilion remains, thousands of tapes of video documenting all the events that visitors more or less remember. Henrike Naumann’s politically ambitious remembrance work has struck a powerful chord with the times, earning her an impressive media and exhibition presence in recent years. The exhibition at Kunstverein Hannover is her first to bring together two long lines of research and – with an extensive new staging of the EXPOSEEUM collection at the Kunstverein – the first to blend two institutions into a single social sculpture. An artist book will be published in cooperation with the Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach. Kunstverein Hannover Sophienstraße 2 D-30159 Hannover Press T: +49(0)511.16 99 278 -12 F: +49(0)511.16 99 278 - 278 [email protected] Release www.kunstverein-hannover.de Henrike Naumann *1984 in Zwickau, lives and works in Berlin Education 2008 - 2012 Diploma, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Set Design, DE 2006 - 2008 Diploma, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Stage and Costume Design, Dresden, DE Solo Exhibitions 2019 »Henrike Naumann«, Belvedere 21, Vienna, AT(upcoming) »2000«, Kunstverein Hannover, DE (upcoming) »Urgesellschaft«, Chemnitz Open Space, DE (upcoming) »Ostalgie«, KOW, Berlin, DE 2018 »DDR Noir«, Galerie im Turm, Berlin, DE »2000«, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, DE 2016 »Intercouture«, Musée d’Art Contemporain et Multimédia, Kinshasa, CD »Aufbau Ost«, Galerie Wedding, Berlin, DE 2013 »Generation Loss«, FAK Zwickau, DE Group Exhibitions 2019 »Possesions«, Galerie Stephanie Kelly, Dresden, DE »The Way We Are 1.0«, Weserburg, Bremen, DE »For Anyone but not for Everyone – Demokratie verhandeln«, Kunstpavillon Innsbruck, DE 2018 »Because I live here«, MMK, Frankfurt, DE »Klassenverhältnisse – Phantoms of Perception«, Hamburger Kunstverein, DE »Volksfronten«, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, AT »Divided We Stand«, Busan Bienniale, KR »Eagles & Doves«, Kunsthalle Bratislava, SK »Requiem for a failed state«, Halle 14, Leipzig, DE »RIBOCA 1«, Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, LV 2017 5th Ghetto Biennale, Port-au-Prince, HT 3. Berliner Herbstsalon, Kronprinzenpalais, Berlin, DE »Gabber Nation«, Art Rotterdam, NL 2016 »wir / ihr / sie«, KV Leipzig, DE »Gabber Nation«, Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag, NL »African Futures«, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, DE 2015 Ghetto Biennale, Port-au-Prince, HT Manhattan Bridge Projection, New York City, US »WIN / WIN«, Halle 14, Leipzig, DE »taz.lab15«, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE Kunstverein Hannover Sophienstraße 2 D-30159 Hannover Press T: +49(0)511.16 99 278 -12 F: +49(0)511.16 99 278 - 278 [email protected] Release www.kunstverein-hannover.de Maroc Artist Meeting, Dar Si Said, Marrakech, MA »The Secret Self«, Nest, Den Haag, NL 2014 »Wir sind alle Berliner«, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, DE »Atmosferas Latentes«, SAPS, Mexico-City, MX »Helium – Goldrausch« Projektraum Flutgraben, Berlin, DE »Correction Lines«, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, DE 2013 Impakt Festival, Utrecht, NL Jihlava Documentary Festival, CZ »Handlungsbereitschaft 4«, Blumenthalstr. Berlin, DE »Mapping Time«, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, DE »Handlungsbereitschaft 3«, Motorenhalle Dresden, DE 2012 »Monitoring«, Dokfest Kassel, DE »Handlungsbereitschaft 2«, Kunstsæle Berlin, DE Awards / Fellowships / Residencies / Scholarships 2018 Residency scholarship, Tokyo Arts and Space, Tokyo, JP Residency scholarship, AIR Antwerpen, BE 2017 Global-Kulturaustauschstipendium, Senat Berlin, DE 2016 Projektförderung Senat Berlin, DE Residency scholarship, Goethe-Institut Kinshasa, CD Residency scholarship, Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag, NL 2015 Deutsche Botschaft, Port-au-Prince, HAT Win / Win, Kulturstiftung Sachsen, DE Step Beyond Travel Grant, European Cultural Foundation 2015 MAM – Maroc Artist Meeting, Marrakech, MA 2014 Goldrausch Künstlerinnen-projekt, Berlin, DE 2013 Audience Award, Filmfest Dresden, DE Lichter Art Award (Shortlist), Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt, DE Expanded Media Award, Filmwinter Stuttgart, DE Kunstverein Hannover Sophienstraße 2 D-30159 Hannover Press T: +49(0)511.16 99 278 -12 F: +49(0)511.16 99 278 - 278 [email protected] Release www.kunstverein-hannover.de Contact and Information Contact The exhibition is kindly supported by Olga Isaeva T +49 511.169927812 [email protected] Please feel free to visit our website for detailed information: www.kunstverein-hannover.de Kunstverein Hannover Sophienstraße 2 D-30159 Hannover Germany Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 12–7pm, Sunday 11am–7pm T +49 511 16992780 F +49 511 1699278278 [email protected] _______________ Kunstverein Hannover Sophienstraße 2 D-30159 Hannover Press T: +49(0)511.16 99 278 -12 F: +49(0)511.16 99 278 - 278 [email protected] Release www.kunstverein-hannover.de Exhibition information Henrike Naumann’s exhibition “2000 – Humankind. Nature. Twipsy.” transforms Kunstverein Hannover into an ethnological museum. In a range of different spaces (including a museum shop, for example, or a bedroom for Twipsy, the Expo 2000 mascot) Naumann examines processes of demarcation in the supposedly familiar. She puts everyday objects, furniture, and contemporary documents in relation to one another, creating spaces that sometimes say more than words ever could. The Expo 2000 in Hanover and the year 2000 serve as a historical hinge for the exhibition, associatively linking such seemingly disparate events as the effects of German-German unification, the resulting privatization of the East German economy, and the aesthetic impact of postmodernism. Naumann has brought to the Kunstverein the EXPOSEEUM, an association that has archived countless relics and merchandising products from the world exposition in Hanover. These leftover remains of Expo 2000 have been arranged into contemporary art installation at the Kunstverein inspired by the EXPOSEEUM’s design. Removed from their original context, the objects appear as mysterious signs of a recently bygone era or a remote region, as though displayed in a museum for ethnological artifacts. Naumann uses the model of a vanished city (Expo site), plush sculptures of a strange-looking being (Twipsy), and private furnishings to question how and with which metaphorical images people and nations present themselves. What is “local” and what is “foreign”? The artist combines exhibits from the EXPOSEEUM with furniture produced in West Germany in the 1990s, some of which was purchased especially for the exhibition from eBay classifieds in Hanover and the vicinity. Henrike Naumann, born in Zwickau (GDR, 1984), first studied stage design in Dresden before going on to study scenography at the Babelsberg Film Academy. Her works often draw on her aesthetic experiences of the upheaval of the 1990s. One important impetus for Naumann’s artistic activity was the self-disclosure of the so-called “National Socialist Underground” (NSU) in 2011, whose members lived undiscovered in her hometown for years. Her artistic reappraisal has gained her significant attention as one of the most promising young artists working in the area of political art, as reflected in the numerous recent and upcoming exhibitions of her work. The exhibition at Kunstverein Hannover contains mostly new, site-specific installations created especially for the show. Room 1 The first space visitors enter at the Kunstverein is a museum shop where numerous Expo 2000 brochures and advertising materials are lined up as if on a shop display. This spatial staging is an immediate glimpse at the artist’s working method. As a prelude to her exhibition, Naumann has created a careful selection of furnishings as a way of both welcoming visitors in a shop-like Kunstverein Hannover Sophienstraße 2 D-30159 Hannover Press T: +49(0)511.16 99 278 -12 F: