[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
August Alexander
born 2008 in New York, USA / studies and makes art in the UK
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."
Chris Bianchi
born 1977 in Malta / lives and works in London, UK
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
"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
Ella Belenky
born 1991, Vermont, USA / lives and works in London, UK
Blending In
2021
62 x 48 cm
Acrylic paint, oil paint and digital print on wooden panel with custom frame
EUR 2.800
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
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
Robert Rubbish
born in 1973 in London, UK, where he currently lives and works
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
Stephanie von Reiswitz
born 1979 in Munich, Germany / lives and works in London, UK
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
Victorin Ripert
born 1991 in Burgundy, France / lives and works in Angoulême, France
We all drink from the same pond.
Captain Beefheart