Reproductive Matters

15.06.–18.08.24

Lucy Beech, Zuzanna Czebatul, Julia Lübbecke, Ana Navas, Daniel Poller

Exhibition view Reproductive Matters KH Künstler:innenhaus Bremen, 2024. Photo: Fred Dott

Exhibition view Reproductive Matters KH Künstler:innenhaus Bremen, 2024. Photo: Fred Dott

Zuzanna Czebatul A Trillion Threads Still Weaving (Red Sock), 2023, Installation view Reproductive Matters KH Künstler:innenhaus Bremen 2024,
Courtesy Zuzanna Czebatul and sans titre, Paris. Photo: Fred Dott

Daniel Poller Frankfurter Kopien, 2022, Installationsansicht Reproductive Matters
KH Künstler:innenhaus Bremen 2024, Courtesy Daniel Poller, VG Bildkunst Bonn 2024. Foto: Fred Dott

Ana Navas Mozo con smoking, 2022, Installation view “Reproductive Matters” KH Künstler:innenhaus Bremen 2024
Courtesy Ana Navas and Sperling, München. Photo: Fred Dott

Julia Lübbecke I just don’t want to become a capitalist, 2023, from the series “Kleber und Falten”, Installation view “Reproductive Matters”
KH Künstler:innenhaus Bremen 2024, VG Bildkunst Bonn 2024. Photo: Fred Dott

Julia Lübbecke Kleber und Falten, 2023, Installation view “Reproductive Matters” KH Künstler:innenhaus Bremen 2024, VG Bildkunst Bonn 2024. Photo: Fred Dott

Exhibition view “Reproductive Matters” KH Künstler:innenhaus Bremen 2024. Photo: Fred Dott

Lucy Beech Reproductive Exile (Filmstill), 2018-2023, Installation view “Reproductive Matters” KH Künstler:innenhaus Bremen 2024. Photo: Fred Dott

Courtesy Lucy Beech, De La Warr Pavilion, Tramway Glasgow and The Liverpool Biennial.

Exhibition view “Reproductive Matters” KH Künstler:innenhaus Bremen 2024. Photo: Fred Dott

Lucy Beech, Reproductive Exile (still), 2018-2023
4K video, 30 min with stereo sound

Courtesy the artist Lucy Beech, De La Warr Pavilion, Tramway Glasgow and The Liverpool Biennial

Opening: Friday, 14.06., 7 pm
The group show Reproductive Matters takes the concept of reproduction as a starting point to reflect on its multiple meanings and their intersections through five artistic positions.
In her sculptures, Ana Navas explores the history of the creation and development of design and art objects based on ideas of accessibility, commodification, imitation and appropriation. In Zuzanna Czebatul’s tapestries the artist has reproduced excerpts from historical tapestries from images found in books or on the Internet. The excerpts refer to the hidden meanings of cultural symbols. Daniel Poller’s photographic practice reflects moments of historiography in public space with a particular focus on the reconstruction of historical buildings. In her installation Kleber und Falten (2023), Julia Lübbecke focuses on the material qualities of political archives. Do the archives reproduce the conditions they represent? Lucy Beech’s film explores the user experience of biomedical pharmaceuticals in the commercial surrogacy industry opening up themes of intimacy, multi-species pharmaceuticals and the redistribution of reproductive labour.
The selected works shed light on various aspects of reproduction – be it the relationship between original and copy with its implicit attributions of value, or the means of human and social reproduction.

Curated by Nadja Quante
The exhibition was developed in dialogue with Anna Voswinckel.

Accompanying Program Share With kind support of
hollweg_zeichenflache-1-1