The Palliative Turn

09.07.–03.10.22

with Carla Åhlander, Louise Ashcroft, Simon Blanck, Christoph Draeger, Kasia Fudakowski, Annemarie Goldschmidt, Teal Griffin, Harry Haddon, Ethan Hayes-Chute, Hjertström-Lappalainen, Per Hüttner, Nina Katchadourian, Alex Kwartler, Karin Kytökangas, Keith Larson, Mathias Lempart, Dafna Maimon, Marit Neeb, Laura Pientka, Sascia Reibel, John-Luke Roberts, Xavier Robles de Medina, Lydia Röder, Ruth Rubers, Maxwell Stephens, Jana Thiel, Olav Westphalen, Gernot Wieland

The Palliative Turn, Exhibition view, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, Photo: Fred Dott

Kasia Fudakowski, Palliative Assessment of Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2022, 2022, Installationsansicht, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, Foto: Fred Dott

The Palliative Turn, Ausstellungsansicht, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, Foto: Fred Dott

Jana Thiel und Volker Grahmann, THANATOLOGIE MEDITERRANEUM – Untersuchungen zum palliativen „Tischleindeckdich“, 2022, Detail, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, Foto: Fred Dott

Dafina Maimon & Ethan Hayes-Chute, Camp Solong: Sheltered Hangups, 2022, Installation view, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, Photo: Fred Dott

The Palliative Turn, exhibition view, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, Photo: Fred Dott

The Palliative Turn, exhibition view, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, Photo: Fred Dott

APT, Auszug aus dem APT Manifesto (Wandarbeit), installation view, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, Photo: Fred Dott

Alex Kwartler, Non-Curo, 2021, Installation view, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, Photo: Fred Dott

Mathias Lempart, Rätsel, 2021, installation view, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, Photo: Fred Dott

The Palliative Turn is a project that spans across an exhibition, a program of events and a magazine. The project brings together contributions from artists, designers, a kinesiologist, a philosopher, a comedian, a grief and death counsellor, and a climate scientist, who have entered into an exchange within the framework of the Association for the Palliative Turn (APT). Founded in 2020, APT is an open-ended collaboration dedicated to discussing and promoting a palliative approach to, and in the arts. With an experimental, speculative and humorous approach, APT applies the concepts and approaches of palliative care to the current crises of civilization, viewing the period before systemic collapse as a time of insight, growth, and profound joy in all that is left. APT proposes no solutions, but an acceptance of the finitude of life and the limits of our remaining possibilities.
Curated by Nadja Quante in close collaboration with Kasia Fudakowski and Olav Westphalen

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