POST NORMAL is an exhibition of works by the five artists who have participated in the Prater Gallery’s digital residency programme. The Prater Gallery has invited artists to explore the challenges of a digital exhibition space, and to try out their own work in the Prater Digital rooms. Taking their own artistic works as a basis, the artists have discovered different ways of approaching the digital gallery space.
The exhibition title POST NORMAL is borrowed from the work by Sharon Paz. It refers to the concept of ‘postnormal times’ (PNT) developed by Ziauddin Sardar. In 2010, Sardar described the present day as an interim phase during which old orthodoxies would die out while new ones were still to be born – a phase during which very little would appear to make sense. The digital space permits the playful abolition of the boundaries imposed in physical space. After all, who can make objects float in mid-air in the physical space, as Juliane Tübke does in her piece? Or deconstruct architecture entirely, like Michelle-Marie Letelier in her work, in which the digital gallery space is continually and increasingly disrupted? Starting from our bodily experiences and the limitations imposed in the physical space, we must still learn to move anew in the digital space. As a municipal gallery, we are investigating ways to operate in the digital space. It is with the aim of exploring this together with artists and the public that we have set up the digital residencies whose results we present in this exhibition.
EXHIBITION OPENING HOURS AND PROGRAM
The exhibition is supervised Mon. – Thu. from 1 – 4 pm, if you have any problems or questions, call us at: 030 90295-3812
Prater Digital on the Road
Exhibition tour with VR goggles
08/09/2022 4–8 pm
as part of the summer festival at Ernst-Thälmann Park
WABE
Danziger Straße 101
10405 Berlin
08/09/2022 3–8 pm
Current: Due to the weather forecast, the VR event will be moved to a dry location. The Prater Galerie will be showing POST NORMAL | VR as a guest of MADAMEZORRO.
MADAMEZORRO
Kastanienallee 40
10119 Berlin
Online Event
21.09. | 1.10. | 14.12. 6 – 7 pm each
Exhibition tour with Katharina v. Hagenow
30.11.2022 6 – 7 pm
Evening Conversation with Zsófia Puszt on her project Democracy and Me at Prater Digital.
Registration at: anmeldung@prater.digital
TEAM
Curator: Katharina von Hagenow
Coding and Design Mozilla Hubs galery room: Studio für unendliche Möglichkeiten (Gloria Schulz (Lead), Julian Kamphausen, Konstantin Andörfer, Vadim Smakthin)
Technical support and documentation of residencies: Abdulsalam Ajaj
Prater Galerie: Tereza Havlíková, Lena Prents und Julie Rüter
