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Charim Wien - art berlin contemporary 2016 - Lisl Ponger
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Charim Wien - art berlin contemporary 2016 - Lisl Ponger

Lisl Ponger explores in her artistic work the construction of identity, ideas about images of the “Other” and the associated questions of visual representation. In a recent project she designed a fictional “Ethnological-Museum” in the Viennese Secession’s main hall in which she showed the exhibition “The Vanishing Middle Class“. There she treated the Western middle class and its relation to democracy and neoliberal politics as an object of study. She installed the exhibits according to ethnological museum practices. The installation as well as her photographs question issues of political and social relevance, reflecting also the mechanism of a critical engagement as an artistic practice.
 
Our project for abc 2016 consists of a focused selection of staged analogue photographs presented in four light boxes. The four images are concerned with issues of ethnology in the broadest sense: with travel, the influence of extra-European objects on the art of modernity, with collecting per se and ethnologists themselves. These aspects should all be seen in the context of the present worldwide discourse on the re-positioning of ethnological museums and the question that raises as to whether contemporary art, on its own, is a suitable tool with which to re-examine and critique existing ethnological (colonial) collections.
 

 

Solo Show

Lisl Ponger

abc - art berlin contemporary 2016



Opening, Thursday, Sep 15th, 2016, 4 - 8 pm
Sep 15th - Sep 18th, 2016 at Station Berlin
Luckenwalder Str. 4 - 6, 10963 Berlin
http://www.artberlincontemporary.com/de/