In Relation

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An exhibition by Linnéa Meiners with Christof Zwiener | Berlin, 20.11. 2024 to 11.4.2025

A red light spreads through the tiled interior of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, extending as far as the outside. In between, a bluish, glazed glow shimmers. Grit runs, time slips, flowers wilt.

The exhibition In Relation (ger.: Im Verhältnis) by Linnéa Meiners and Christof Zwiener features two installations. They are based on specific objects from the foundation's direct geographical and thematic sphere: Rosa Luxemburg's herbarium, which she maintained during her imprisonment in Wrocław despite the high walls that surrounded her, as well as a block-shaped bottle repurposed as a glass brick, which was found on the nearby construction site of the old Postbahnhof at Ostbahnhof.

The exhibition In Relation opens at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung on 20 November at 6 pm.

Which relations unfold between these two objects? With great care and precision, Meiners and Zwiener explore and create the apparent infinity in between their two points of departure. In doing so, they devote themselves to questions about the capitalistic valorization of time and labor, the increasing distance between humans and the vegetation surrounding them, the alleged limitlessness of natural resources and the erosion of collective memory through (dis)visibility.

Both artists continually pour connections of time, substance and space into new and complex interrelationships. At times, it seems possible to capture them as a whole, while in the next moment, everything just bursts into a multitude of tiny fragments.

Image for the exhibition “In Relation”, 21.11.24 - 11.4.25: Chronic Fiction
Chronic Fiction Still: Film group Schneider-Meiners

Team:

  • Curator: Helen-Sophie Mayr 
  • Artistic assistance: Kim Stolfik
  • Graphic design: Janika Naja Wetzig
  • Easy language translation: Helen-Sophie Mayr
  • English translation: Kim Stolfik, Linnéa Meiners, Helen-Sophie Mayr
  • Production: Media Service
  • A project of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung's working group for exhibitions

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  • Kapitel 01: Willkommen und Beschreibung der Ausgangssituation 0:10
  • Kapitel 02: Kurzzusammenfassung 3:00
  • Kapitel 03: Das Team 3:37
  • Kapitel 04: Beschreibung Eingangsbereich 4:12
  • Kapitel 05: Ausstellungstext von der Kuratorin Helen-Sophie Mayr 5:18
  • Kapitel 06: Beschreibung der Installation Chronic Fiction 7:09
  • Kapitel 07: Beschreibung Station 1: Installation Chronic Fiction (Element Wand aus Glasbausteinen) 7:38
  • Kapitel 08: Inhalt Station 1: Installation Chronic Fiction (Element Wand aus Glasbausteinen) 9:08
  • Kapitel 09: Beschreibung Station 2: Installation Chronic Fiction (Element Videoarbeit Chronic Fiction - Zeit, Ware, Wert) 9:43
  • Kapitel 10: Inhalt Station 2: Installation Chronic Fiction (Element Videoarbeit Chronic Fiction - Zeit, Ware, Wert) 11:03
  • Kapitel 11: Beschreibung Station 3: Installation Chronic Fiction (Element Acrylglas Skulptur Delaunay-Diagramm) 12:50
  • Kapitel 12: Inhalt Station 3: Installation Chronic Fiction (Element Acrylglas Skulptur Delaunay-Diagramm) 14:07
  • Kapitel 13: Beschreibung Station 4: Installation Chronic Fiction (Element Acrylglas Skulptur Voronoi-Diagramm) 15:00
  • Kapitel 14: Inhalt Station 4: Installation Chronic Fiction (Element Acrylglas Skulptur Voronoi-Diagramm) 15:44
  • Kapitel 15: Beschreibung Station 5: Installation Rotverschiebung im Mikrokosmos 16:37
  • Kapitel 16: Inhalt Station 5: Installation Rotverschiebung im Mikrokosmos 17:41
  • Kapitel 17: Beschreibung Station 6 bis 7: Installation Chronic Fiction (Element Acrylglas-Skulpturen) 18:46
  • Kapitel 18: Inhalt Station 6 bis 7: Installation Chronic Fiction (Element Acrylglas-Skulpturen) 20:28
  • Kapitel 19: Ende der Ausstellung und Verabschiedung 21:13

Artists:

  • Linnéa Meiners is a Berlin-based artist, filmmaker and curator.

    Her art work encompasses a variety of transformational themes, which she explores through artistic and curatorial practices.

    In her artistic work, she investigates narrative transformations of revolution, art/work and climate justice. Her focus lays on the aesthetics of resistance within the moving image. She examines dynamics of change and uses the moving image as a means to critically reflect on the material forces that shape our world. Her practice evolves from a precise research of landscapes - both material and metaphorical ones. Meiners opens up spaces in which a critique of capitalist-motivated interventions in nature and speculative imagination intersect. The moving image is not only treated as a cinematic format, but also as an element that interacts with the spaces it is streamed in - whether analogue or digital. In doing so, the artist carefully questions notions of time and corporeality. Her interest lies in highlighting possibilities for socially just, sustainable and accessible futures.

    Most recently, her works have been exhibited under various (collective) names in urban spaces, on highway signs, at the 6th Athens Biennale ANTI and at the kub Galerie Leipzig.
  • Christof Zwiener studied Interdisciplinary Sculpture at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig. He works with specific aspects of public space such as transformation, displacement, densification, gentrification and the social and political influences on its perception. In doing so, he repeatedly employs the concept of layering time. For him, the past, present and future are directly linked to an object, a situation, a building or a place. Generally speaking, temporary situations in public space possess a particular mood or aura to Zwiener.

    His artistic practice includes curating projects with and in public space, such as the Berlin Britzenale or his current project BETON Berlin. After in-depth research oftentimes in collaboration with other artists, Zwiener picks spaces, sites, locations and niches for his projects. They mostly have vanished from public perception or seem to have become culturally invisible.

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