The Kunstverein Bielefeld is delighted to present Don’t Say I Didn’t Say So, an exhibition featuring the work of the artists Cudelice Brazelton IV, Irina Lotarevich, Pierre Allain, Timothée Calame, Toni Schmale, and Yeşim Akdeniz. The group exhibition focuses on the question: What is the inherent connection between modern aesthetics and the disciplinary society? The disciplinary system emerged in the eighteenth century, at the same time as the field of aesthetics. Its focus is on forming the body, increasing its powers and thus its economic utility. Contemporary societies may be "societies of control" (Gilles Deleuze) but they continue to maintain disciplinary processes. In fact, the body is more contested than ever as a site of competing political and economic interests. But what does this mean for contemporary social practices? What potential for resistance do they possess?
The exhibition’s title should be understood in the context of this discussion. Don't Say I Didn't Say So refers to an installation of that name by Marcel Broodthaers: Ne dites pas que je ne l'ai pas dit—Le Perroquet (1974). A central element of that installation was a parrot, a body inhabited by the voices of others, which imitates language and repeats words tautologically. Coming from a parrot, however, the phrase “Don't say I didn't say so” is changed radically, becoming a question about one’s own social role and about conditions of speaking. It thus becomes a question about the conditions under which autonomous individual action is possible.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive program of talks, workshops, and a varied series of guided tours.
A reprint of the publication Parrot by Karl Larsson is published.
You can download the exhibition booklet digitally and free of charge HERE.
KUNSTVEREIN BIELEFELD
Welle 61
33602 Bielefeld
Thu - So 12:00 – 18:00
Mo-Wed, by appointment
Closed on public holidays
Winter break 26.12.2024 - 02.01.2025
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Irina Lotarevich, Housing Anxiety 3, 2022, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Yeşim Akdeniz, selfportrait as orientalist carpet 19, 2022, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Cudelice Brazelton IV, Undergird, 2019, Gauged, 2020, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Cudelice Brazelton IV, Gauged, 2020, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Pierre Allain, Emotional Curative Maintenance, 2022, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Pierre Allain, Healing Machine, 2022, Emotional Curative Maintenance, 2022, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Yeşim Akdeniz, selfportrait as orientalist carpet 18, 2022, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Irina Lotarevich, Fallopian Bridge Structure, 2022, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Irina Lotarevich, Overtime, 2021, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Toni Schmale, fury #2, 2022, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Karl Larsson, Parrot, Nachdruck, 2022, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Timothée Calame, Mobilier/Documentaire #1, Mobilier/Documentaire #2, Mobilier/Documentaire #3, 2020/2022, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Events:
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01.04.2022, 19:00
Opening
Don't Say I Didn't Say So
Speakers: Nora Höglinger (Stiftung Kunstfonds), Andreas Wannenmacher (Chair), Nadine Droste (Director) -
02.04.2022, 12:00
Artists' Talk
in the presence of the artists
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03.04.2022, 17:00
Curator's Tour
with Nadine Droste
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09.04.2022, 10:00
Children's Activity
with Klaus Braun
Contribution (donations welcome) min. 15 € / child
Please register at vermittlung@kunstverein-bielefeld.de
CANCELED -
22.04.2022, 19:00
Reading
Das schlafende Krokodil (The sleeping crocodile) (Novel, Muenster: Kleinheinrich, 2021) by Elisabeth Masé (Artist, Berlin)
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26.04.2022, 19:00
Members' General Meeting
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30.04.2022, 18:00
Nachtansichten
Walpurgis Night at the Kunstverein: With an open art mediation program, dance performances by DansArt ACADEMY, music by Giorgio MacKaye and Stornoschlüssel, and Kampmann Catering. In cooperation with Bielefeld Marketing
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03.05.2022, 18:00
Members' Event
Studio visit with Irina Valkova (Artist, Bielefeld)
Please register at mitglieder@kunstverein-bielefeld.de -
17.04.2022, 17:00
Guided Tour
through the exhibition Don't Say I Didn't Say So with Nicola V. Manitta
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18.05.2022, 19:00
Members' Event
Wine tasting for members' with Philipp Geymüller (Abothek, Krems / Donau, Austria)
The cost contribution is 30 € per person.
Please register at mitglieder@kunstverein-bielefeld.de -
21.05.2022, 20:00
Jazz im Waldhof
With A.R.K.: »Music By Endangered Species
In cooperation with the Kulturamt Bielefeld and Bunker Ulmenwall -
22.05.2022, 17:00
Curator's Tour
with Nadine Droste
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11.06.2022, 20:00
Jazz im Waldhof
With Wir hatten was mit Björn
In cooperation with the Kulturamt Bielefeld and Bunker Ulmenwall -
18.06.2022, 10:00
Children's Activitiy
with Klaus Braun
Contribution (donations welcome) min. 15 € / child
Please register at vermittlung@kunstverein-bielefeld.de -
03.07.2022, 17:00
Curator's Tour
with Nadine Droste
