You Can‘t Put the Golden Spiral on Everything

22. - 25. February, 2024, Culterim | Veterinary | Prenzlauer Berg

Opening: 22.02.2024, 6pm

A beautifully balanced rectangle.

Aggressively divided harmony.

It sucks me right into its frame.

Stop me from spiraling.

“You Can’t Put The Golden Spiral On Everything” is dedicated to our everyday habitual way of dealing with objects and questions this by means of artistic exploration. As designers, we infuse objects with a soul by recognizing them as active participants in our environment. We are interested in their surfaces as a fictitious and ambiguous substance. By creatively engaging with the individual qualities of objects, emphasizing or completely changing their materiality or form, we appropriate the taken for granted and make the objects become unpredictably autonomous. Our attention is not centered on what we are used to, what we do not question, but on what we are actually looking at. In the process, the norm is emphasized through visual difference - thus highlighting the character of the object without completely alienating it.

It is a homage to the power of metaphor and myth, which gives objects an expanded meaning and allows them to be linked to new interpretations. Imagination becomes a key tool for shaping a multitude of realities.

The artworks in this exhibition explore the semantics and character-building potential of aesthetic analysis. The intersection of art, design and craft yields objects and constellations that are empowered to question their relationship to us. Both the artefacts and the viewers are challenged to explore themselves, to overcome the boundaries of the familiar and to constantly redefine themselves.

Opening Days:

22.02 - 6pm - 10pm

23.02 - 12pm - 6pm

24.02 - 12pm - 6pm

25.02 - 12pm - 4pm

With artworks by:

Anaïs Nyffeler

Arvid Jansen

Bill Hartenstein / Global

Dara Brexendorf

Ernst August Graefe

Eszter Szoke

Jil Schuberth

Johannes Thiel

Jonas Morgenthaler

Lee Jiwoo

Lukas Winter

Marlon Nicolaisen

Oscar Tulloch

Philippe Hansen

Samuel Ellinghoven

Selina Hammer

Steen Sperling

Sophia Nimue

Sophie Thomas

Tessa Meyer

Zoe Spehr

Curated by:

Anaïs Nyffeler

Jil Schuberth

Location:

Culterim | Veterinary | Prenzlauer Berg

Erich-Weinert-Straße 135, 10409 Berlin

Near S-Bahnhof Greifswalderstraße