Graw Böckler: Raum für Concepción

ART OPENING

(We open on Thursday and offer a 2nd opportunity to watch the
show on Saturday.)

Donnerstag, 07.11.2024, 17.00-21.00 Uhr

Samstag, 09.11.2024, 17.00-21.00 Uhr

It sounds like an idea, sounds like – conceptual art. Yes, but no: Concepción is a city. It is located in Chile, it is not very big, butnot too small either. Ursula and Georg (Graw Böckler) had the opportunity to spend several month there, to escape the Berlin winterand to land in the Chilenean summer. They discovered the city and the surroundings of the Bio-Bio region with a camera. Graw Böckler adopted astray cat called Mimi, started boxing, spent time at the lagoon and at abandoned industrial sites. They travelled all points of the compass bypublic transport and observed from their window passers-by at a bus stop. They read alphabet soup, held workshops in Spanish and drankdelicious Chilean wine. The „Estallido Social“ protests and popular uprising, the subsequent change of government and the draft of aconstitution, were recurring themes in conversations with new acquaintances.

For the exhibition, Graw Böckler use a variety of media to approach these and other phenomena they encountered during their time in Concepción and declare a medium-sized industrial town in the south of Chile to be the navel of the world.

Partly funded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe. Incooperation with JUBG, Cologne.