Viewing Room

[RE] GENERATION

Ludwigstrasse 7
Pop-up: 2.7. - 7.7.
Online: 2.7. - 2.10.
2021

[RE] GENERATION showcases a new wave of diverse artists from around the world. This two-space exhibition will be showing in parallel at Knust Kunz Editions and Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich. Organized by Hans Kern, founder of the [Re]generator, this collaboration premieres not only inspiring art, but also a new idea for organizing community around creative problem-solving. The [Re]generator is a new project that plans to build a network of physical spaces (also individually named “[Re]generators”), that will facilitate and harness the creative power of artists to help fix the biggest challenges of our time: ecological degradation, climate change, plastic pollution, loss of community and political polarization.

Proceeds from the exhibition will go to support the creation of the first physical [Re]generator, hopefully in Kamikatsu, Japan. Kamikatsu is known as Japan’s “zero waste town”. The hope is that such a space will serve as a model to other towns around the world, to adopt similar approaches to local ecological and social challenges. The “creative citizen’s assembly” problem-solving model applies new insights from deliberative democratic practice emerging around the world. Through this creative space, it is hoped that new creative engagements, reciprocities and ecologies between humans and their environment can emerge. In this way, the [Re]generator could inspire a new circular ecology of regenerative art and artistic regeneration.

The organisers of [RE] GENERATION believe that social, political and ecological healing, must begin with the imagination. By bringing a diversity of dynamic creative perspectives into one space, we wish to inspire the public to join us on a journey of discovering alternative visions of the possibilities for life on our green Earth. The exhibition has been curated with the help of Valeria Diaz Granada.

[RE] GENERATION will be opening on July 2nd at Knust Kunz, Ludwigstrasse 7 and at Galerie Daniel Blau, Maximilianstrasse 26.

Two of the artists from [RE] GENERATION, China Marks and Chris Bianchi, will be exhibiting in a parallel two-person show, BONKERZ GARDEN, at KNUSTxKUNZ+ on Theresienstrasse 48.

Artists:

Amanda Lees, August Alexander, China Marks, Chris Bianchi, Clara, David Sater, Duy Hoàng, Ella Belenky, Lara Schnitger, Hans Kern, Neal Fox, Robert Rubbish, Satch Hoyt, Stephanie von Reiswitz, Thad Higa, Victorin Ripert

Amanda Lees

born 1991 in Boston, USA / lives and works in Athens, NY, USA

My Bedroom, From The Street

2020
23 x 14 x 7 cm
Mixed media with battery-powered internal illumination
EUR 1.200

Anxiety

2019
40 x 28 x 5 cm
Mixed media

August Alexander

born 2008 in New York, USA / studies and makes art in the UK

Devil Drinking Coffee

2020
18,5 x 9,5 x 9,5 cm
Wooden box and cardboard
EUR 980

Self-Portraits

2021
Ø 3 cm
Ink on wooden marble
Not for sale

All art is box.
Thad Higa

China Marks

born 1942, Kansas City, USA / lives and works in Long Island City, USA

Coming up roses

2019
91 x 69 cm
Fabric, thread, lacquer, screen-printing ink,
Jade glue, colored stones,
fusible adhesive on a contemporary tapestry
copy of "The Soul of the Rose by John William Waterhouse."

In the Cloud Chamber

2016
30 x 64 cm
Fabric, thread, fusible adhesive, button

Chris Bianchi

born 1977 in Malta / lives and works in London, UK

Bonkerz Garden A19

2019
29,7 x 21 cm
Ink on A4 Paper
EUR 800

Bonkerz Garden A9

2019
29,7 x 21 cm
Ink on A4 Paper
EUR 800

Clara

born 1988 in Munich / lives and works in London, UK

Heimat

2021
11:23 min
HD-Video with sound, Edition of 3
Sold in a custom SD-Card Box Set
EUR 1.000

David Sater

born 1991 in New York, USA / lives and works in Upstate New York, USA

Stigmata and the Living Map

2020
18 x 12 cm
intaglio etchings on copper
made with tusche & stop-out varnish
EUR 450

Insect Mother on Table

2020
12,5 x 16,5 cm
intaglio etchings on copper
made with tusche & stop-out varnish
EUR 600

"The earth is a museum of humanity,
traveling through the universe." 

Nikolai Fyodorov

Duy Hoàng

born 1989 in Vietnam / currently lives in New York City, USA

Her Traveling Garden #1

2021
28 x 21,5 cm
No. 1 in a series of 5
Graphite and collage on graph paper, ink stamp
EUR 900

Her Traveling Garden # 2

2021
28 x 21,5 cm
No. 2 in a series of 5
Graphite and collage on graph paper, ink stamp
EUR 900

Ella Belenky

born 1991, Vermont, USA / lives and works in London, UK

Becoming Bird

2020
29,7 x 21 cm
Oil pastel and pen on paper
EUR 1.000

Blending In

2021
62 x 48 cm
Acrylic paint, oil paint and digital print on wooden panel with custom frame
EUR 2.800

The Start of a Story

2021
76 x 57 cm
Acrylic and oil paint on paper
EUR 2.200

Smaller Species of Saturniids

2021
50 x 40 cm
Oil paint on velvet sewn on metal frame
EUR 2.400

"If you dream alone, it’s just a dream.
If you dream together, it’s reality."
Brazillian Folk Song

Hans Kern

born 1990 in Munich, Germany, where he currently lives and works

The 12 Stages of [Re]generation

2021
42 x 29,7 cm
Giclee printed poster
edition of 50, includes manual with further infographics and explanations on the 12 stage process and free pdf of the [Re]cyclopaedia
EUR 50

Global Swarming

2021
each 6.5 x 5 cm (stacks to 5cm high)
Deck of 72 cards hand-drawn to illustrate the most promising strategies for [re]versing climate change and [re]greening the planet, as shown and explained in the book Global Swarming
EUR 5.000

Lara Schnitger

born 1969 in Haarlem, NL / lives and works in Los Angeles, USA

Brick in the Wall

2017
75 x 68 cm
Quilt, bleach on fabric

Green Not Greed

2017
178 x 173 cm
Quilt, beach on fabric
EUR 19.000

Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Neal Fox

born 1981 in London, UK / lives and works on Amorgos, GR

Booglarized at Pearblossom

2011
122 x 151,5 cm
China ink on paper
EUR 8.000

Man is Condemned to be Free

2011
60,5 x 118,7 cm
China ink on paper
EUR 4.200

Robert Rubbish

born in 1973 in London, UK, where he currently lives and works

Remix 57

2020
29,7 x 21 cm
Pen, ink and watercolor on paper
EUR 800

Remix 78

2020
29,7 x 21 cm
Pen, ink and watercolor on paper
EUR 800

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.
Max Ernst

Satch Hoyt

born 1957 in London, UK / lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Rulers 1

2016 - 2021
200 x 190 cm
Wooden rulers, magnets and steel

Rulers 8

2016 - 2021
200 x 190 cm
Wooden rulers, magnets and steel
EUR 34.000

Stephanie von Reiswitz

born 1979 in Munich, Germany / lives and works in London, UK

In the Afternoon

2010
100 x 70,5 cm
Indian ink on paper
EUR 1.800

Woman with Birds

2010
100 x 70,5 cm
Indian ink on paper
Sold

My passion to make is not a motivation, but a way of living, in the sense that I must create to live.
August Alexander

Thad Higa

born 1989 in San Jose, USA / lives and works in Honolulu, USA

Portable Library 12

2021
7 x 20,5 x 20 cm
Cardboard, typewritten scroll, wood and mini-zines
EUR 2.200

Portable Library 13

2021
8 x 48 x 8 cm
Cardboard, typewritten scroll, wood and mini-zines
EUR 3.200

Victorin Ripert

born 1991 in Burgundy, France / lives and works in Angoulême, France

Going to the Marae

2017
29,7 x 21 cm
Watercolor and gouache on paper
EUR 800

Black Swamp

2017
29,7 x 21 cm
Watercolor and gouache on paper
EUR 800

We all drink from the same pond.
Captain Beefheart