DAM GALLERY shows the first solo exhibition of Berlin based artist Aram Bartholl (*1972, Bremen), whose works are engaged in a tension-filled dialogue between virtual and real life. In 2011 Bartholl participated in exhibitions at MoMA, New York, at the Pace Gallery, New York and at DAM GALLERY, Cologne.

His works reflect the pulse of the time, they are not based on simple observation of an artistic object, but are characterized by thought-provoking impulses stimulated by Aram and by the subsequent independent existence that his projects develop through the participation of the audience. His interventions in public space, his installations and sculptures in the tradition of ready mades are based on a DIY-culture – not in the sense of dilettantism but of individual creation and individual responsibility – as well as on the popular emblems of the internet, that Bartholl surprisingly confronts us with in reality.

Opening + Book Release: 27 Januar, 7 – 9 pm, Aram Bartholl – The Speed Book, Gestalten-Verlag, 2012

7.30 pm: Performance How to Vacuum Form by Aram Bartholl, + Book Presentation by Domenico Quaranta (author and curator)

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