10 September 2018

‘Made in Dschermany’ by Slavs & Tatars at Albertinum – Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Slavs and Tatars, Alphabet Abdal, 2015, woolen yarn, 190 x 495 cm © SKD, Foto: Klemens Renner
‘Made in Dschermany’ by Slavs & Tatars at Albertinum – Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Slavs and Tatars, Alphabet Abdal, 2015, woolen yarn, 190 x 495 cm © SKD, Foto: Klemens Renner

In its research-based works, the collective Slavs and Tatars engages with traditions, customs, language, anthropology and politics in a formal, courageous manner.

Their artistic and discursive works revolve around examining belief, religion and intercultural understanding. They describe themselves as a “a faction of polemics and intimacies devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China, known as Eurasia.” Based on their approach that languages, gestures, rituals and goods have always travelled across the perceived borders between the Orient and the Occident, they research into literary and historical sources, and their humorous but always in-depth works enter into more complex levels of meaning, exploring history, interpretative authority and the performative and political nature of language and identity.

Slavs and Tatars, Gut of Gab, 2018 resin, steel, 152 × 14 × 15 cm © SKD, Foto: Klemens Renner
Slavs and Tatars, Kitab Kebab (Öko-Dschihad), 2018, books, metal skewered, 32 x 44 x 43 cm © SKD, Foto: Klemens Renner
Slavs and Tatars, Gut of Gab, 2018 resin, steel, 152 × 14 × 15 cm © SKD, Foto: Klemens Renner

Their work, which is presented extensively in the Lipsiusbau, is made up of installations, lecture performances, interventions and artists’ books. On the occassion of the exhibition a new artist book “Wripped Scripped” was co-published with the Kunstverein Hannover. It is available through Hatje Cantz.

Slavs and Tatars, Weeping Window (Morgenländer), 2017, rear windshield, acrylic paint, LED lights, 53 x 93 x 3 cm © SKD, Foto: Klemens Renner
Slavs and Tatars, Made in Dschermany, 2018. Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau © SKD, Foto: Klemens Renner
Slavs and Tatars, Love Letters No. 1, 2013, woolen yarn, 250 x 250 cm © SKD, Foto: Klemens Renner
Slavs and Tatars, Mystical Protest, 2011, luminous paint on Muharram fabric, fluorescent lights and cotton, 240 x 620 cm © SKD, Foto: Klemens Renner

 

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ArtistSlavs & Tatars
ExhibitionMade in Dschermany
Place / venueAlbertinum - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
DatesJune 2 – October 14, 2018
Curated byKathleen Reinhardt
Websitealbertinum.skd.museum/en
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