Take Place, 210 artists in a white cube
Take Place invites 210 Berlin-based artists to come into an empty gallery space and their presence becomes part of the work. It aims to go beyond the usual bound that separates the artist and the performer from the public, and invite the public to participate in the artist’s experience and to the artist’s point of view.
As a response to Institut für Alles Mögliche, Take Place Ⅰ fills the 20 square meter gallery space with artists. Presented through the window wall towards the street, the work consists of live encounters between people, while the material is the artists or the artists’ presence. During the opening hours, street passengers and visitors are welcome to come into the gallery. Once they enter the gallery, the audiences become parts of the work. With artists standing, sitting and chatting in the space, the work erases the difference between the artists and visitors, and questions the general expectations towards an exhibition. It exists as a performance, an interaction, and an immaterial experience.
In Take Place ⅠⅠ, a group of artists sit on three rows of stadium seats inside the gallery facing the window, and stare at the street through the entire opening hours. Rather than being observed, the work is observing whatever is happening outside the gallery and creating an unfamiliar situation for both the artists and the viewers. And the work itself is held in the moments of these encounters. Through these encounters, the work challenges the viewers’ as well as the artists’ roles and participations in a work and in an exhibition, blurring the lines between the making, presenting, and experiencing of an art piece.
Project Director: Ming Lu
Graphic Design: Olya Bychkova
Participating Artists:
Abdulsalam Ajaj
Adrian Mcintosh
Alexander Kokx
Alina Kharchik
All Black Series
Alungoo Nyamsuren
Amanda Cavalcanti Lima
Amelia Emma Forrest
Amuleto Manuela
Anastasiia Belousova
Andreea Cioran
Andreea Hriscu
Andy Berry
Angela Arsinkey
Anitra Bohman-Penttinen
Anna Barth
Anna Benner
Anna Diricheva
Anneliese Greve
Anto Marinov
Archan Nair
Astra Pentaxia
Aurora Del Rio
Bel Resnik
Boris Eldagsen
Carmen Mach
Caspar de Gelmini
Catherine MaVa
Cau Silva
Célia Mh
Celia Weng Ian Loi
Christian David Aragon
Christian Niccoli
Christina Themeli
Christopher Sage
Ciara-Angela Engelhardt
Cihangir Guemuestuerkmen
Crisalide D’aria
Crista Siglin
Cristina Maria
Daiane Domingues
Daiane Rafaela
Daniel Schaal
Daniela Maria Geraci
Danielle Benvenuto
Daria Belous
David Voigt
Despoina Filippidou
Dimitra Thomaidou
DoroTa K. Samborski
Dragos Hioara
Ebele OKoye
Elif Okay
Elisa Jule Braun
Elisa Duca
Elisa Vidalis
Elly Kahn
Eric Alonzo
Eva Maria Kaack
Evgenia Chetvertkova
Fabifa
Faranak Zaboli
Felix Pensel
Flavius Augustin
Francesca Melotti
Friederike Ruff
Gabija Razanskaite
Gabriela Matuszewska
Gabriella Forzelius
Gawie Joubert
Gene Kittchen
Genesis Victoria
Giulia Valenti
Giulia Bertoni
Golden Diskó Ship
Greg Kappes
Hadas Amster
Hans Zatocil
Horia Savescu
Hyejin Lee
Iana Gorokhova
Irma van Doornmalen
Iro Karavela
Ishay Yankovich
Ivan Paniotov
Ivana Jecmenica
IZZY AMUW
James Patock
Jane Hwang
Jannis Eggelsmann
Jb.Lyonga
Jenny Dam
Jessica Roes
Jie-Liang Lin
Jimmie James
Joanna Chwiłkowska
Joanna Kawicka
Julija Kaulinytė
Kaistheguy
Karin Knutsson
Karmen Kraft
Katarzyna Mazur
Kate Leismer
Kelly Moorosi
Kelsey Linder
Kika Jonsson
Kimberly Meenan
Kinna Larsen
La Le
Laura Baader
Laurence Alatrash
Lei Tzeshi
Lena Haberberger
Leslie Atkins
Liat Peled
Linda Paganelli
Linda Schäffler
Lukas Hanus
Lyndsey Walsh
Machig de Valence
Machito Timotheo José Sánchez
Malavasi Samanta
Manzur Kargar
Marcus Ahlers
Marina Aizome
Maria Dava
Maria Leibnitz
Marianna Vesku
Marina Belikova
Markella Davu
Markusen
Mathias Roloff
Melody Sky Ban
Mia Stark
Micaela Dans
Min Kim
Miriam Glinka
Mirthe van Popering
Mohamed Farahat
Mojca Hadela
Myao
Natalia Irina Roman
Natalya Gimson
Nathalie Poets
Neïtah Janzing
Nicol Rivera
Niklas Soestmeyer
Niko Mitsuko
Nora Novak
Nose of Wax
Nusha Shishi
Olena Maximow
Olya Bychkova
Oumou Nasri
Pamela Moraga Mellado
Pavel Fernandez
Pawel Jankiewicz
Peppy Cheng
Philipp Kay
Pierluigi Muscolino
Rebeca Domiciano
Rhea Ramjohn
Rocio Garrido
Ronald Rose
Sabrina Huth
Sabrina Jeblaoui
Sanja Star
Sara Gambini
Sara Valentino
Sarah Duah
Sarah Teichmann
Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt
Sebastian Kurth
Seweryn Jański
Shannon Sea
Silvestre Natalia
Silvia Camagni
Silvia Trebbi
Simone Brühl
Sinéad Butler-Aldridge
Siri Zetterman
Sonia Noya
Souhir Neumeister
Stella Tsompanopoulou
Stephanie Mohun
Svenja Schaefer
Sylvia Rybak
Teodora Vio
Thomas Tirel
Tomoya Kawamura
Valeria Aleksic
Vao Kumitz
Veronica Parlagreco
Veronika Ban
Vicky Heinlein
Vincenzo Suscetta
Violetta De Saga
Wanqian Lin
Wolfgang Busch
Xiaoer Liu
Xiaofu Wang
Yassin Siouda
York Berlin
Yun Ju Chen
Yuval Galili
Zahra Banzi
ZAVOLOKA
Zavoloka Kvitnu
Zazaa Ganbold
Zhenja Ba
Zi Gattina