Art is located in space. Without it art is unthinkable. Whether installed as two or three dimensional – art takes up space, creates and defines space. At the same time it is determined through space, whether formulated as environment, context or contextualisation. In order to do justice to the multifaceted state of space in contemporary art production the exhibition project Space Revised is presenting exemplary instances in four institutions.

Appropriation of space, loss of space, space displacement and social space make up the four perspectives out of which the cooperation of GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg and Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof traces the current intermediate condition of todays artistic production. Simultaneously Space Revised also takes up the subject at a conceptual level, as its distribution over four exhibition spaces in Northern Germany offers the possibility to examine various conceptions of space while travelling across space.

#2 Whereabouts Unknown**
Three dimensional space and time are necessary parameters of orientation and locomotion, which we depend on blindly. In fact there are numerous possibilities for one to find oneself back in the situation, to have lost the recognised system of references and no longer be able to locate oneself. The known spatial arrangement gets out of control. What happens when one blanks out or loses the constants of space and time? What is interesting, aside from this condition of loss is the behaviour resulting out of it. What reactions follow? Is it possible to create one’s own locating system? Whereabouts Unknown at the Künstlerhaus Bremen joins various artistic strategies closer to such a position to provoke them and to deal with them. Furthermore the New York artist duo Bob Braine and Leslie C. Reed are to mark out and highlight the circa 300 meter long footpath between GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst and Künstlerhaus Bremen as an intervention in public space.

Share With kind support of

Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Generalkonsulat der Niederlande, Bremen Marketing GmbH und Senator für Kultur Bremen, Stiftung der Sparkasse zur Förderung der Kunst, Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Lüneburg, Lüneburgischer Landschaftsverband, Theater Lüneburg und SCALA Programmkino, Lüneburg.

Many thanks to raab karcher Baustoffhandel GmbH, Bremen.