16 March 2018

‘Art Is Work’ at Krokus Gallery

Krisdy Shindler, ART WORKERS WILL KICK ASS, 2010, ART IS WORK, Krokus Gallery 2018. Photo: Peter Sit
‘Art Is Work’ at Krokus Gallery
Krisdy Shindler, ART WORKERS WILL KICK ASS, 2010, ART IS WORK, Krokus Gallery 2018. Photo: Peter Sit

Behind every exhibition opening, festival and biennale is hidden creativity and artistic labour. In the contemporary world of art and the global art market, a great deal of artistic labour remains unrecognized, eventhough the existence of the whole environment stands and falls on its tangible results.

The exhibition Art Is Work aims to establish a discussion about the underfinanced cultural sector in the Slovak art scene, in particular about the lack of financial evaluation for artists and in adequate conditions for their work.

Art Is Work, exhibition view. Photo: Peter Sit
APART Collective Zin f,or the Art Is Work exhibition, 2018. Art Is Work, exhibition view. Photo: Peter Sit
Anetta Mona Chisa a Lucia Tkáčová - Tings in Our Hands, Objects casted from melted euro coins, 2014, Art Is Work, Krokus Gallery 2018. Photo: Peter Sit16
Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkáčová, All Periods in Capital, 2007, Art Is Work, Krokus Gallery, 2018. Photo: Peter Sit22
Mohammad Salemy, ART AFTER THE MACHINES, 2015, Art Is Work, Krokus Gallery, 2018. Photo: Peter Sit
Krisdy Shindler, ART WORKERS WILL KICK ASS, 2010, Art Is Work, Krokus Gallery 2018. Photo: Peter Sit
Art Is Work, exhibition view. Photo: Peter Sit
Art Is Work, exhibition view. Photo: Peter Sit
W.A.G.E. Womanifesto, 2008, Art Is Work, Krokus Gallery, 2018. Photo: Peter Sit

Presented artworks, planned lectures and debates in various forms ask questions about the value of artistic work, point to its precarization and its relation to capitalism, and its forms and transformations in (neo) liberal society. It seems,

that in order forthe system of unfair redistribution, in which we live today, to reproduce itself, certain “work” must disappear in order for another “work” to appear. Whether it is the work of a cultural employee or artist, wage worker or artistic installation, which is a result of artistic labour. In spite of its necessity, we are not allowed to see certain”work” so that we do not see the malfunctioning of the system.

Art Is Work, exhibition view. Photo: Peter Sit
Art Is Work, exhibition view. Photo: Peter Sit
Art Is Work, exhibition view. Photo: Peter Sit
Art Is Work, exhibition view. Photo: Peter Sit
Art Is Work, exhibition view. Photo: Peter Sit
Art Is Work, exhibition view. Photo: Peter Sit

Imprint

ArtistA2 kulturní čtrnáctideník, APART collective, Feministická (umělecká) instituce, Liam Gillick, Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, Jana Kapelová, Barbora Kleinhamplová, Bojana Kunst, Nulová mzda, Mohammad Salemy, Krisdy Shindler, Jiří Skála, Tereza Stejskalová, Pavel Sterec, Raša Todosijević, Anton Vidokle, Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.)
ExhibitionArt Is Work
Place / venueKrokus Gallery, Bratislava
Curated byApart collective
PhotosPeter Sit
Websitewww.krokusgaleria.sk/en
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