Jonathan Monk
Name Used To Fill Space
The name used to fill the space of MÉLANGE is not only a title but also a quite literate expression in case of Jonathan Monks solo show. Monk, who is known for his constant spin-off of contemporary art works and already “historic” pieces of conceptual art, loves to play with the pre-sets introduced by other...
Paul Czerlitzki & Eva Vuillemin
Liaison
Let me try start with not to set an artificial mood or defining the word “liaison”. Let us just take in the show for a moment. Breath in. Breath out. Continue. Step back. Close your eyes. I originally wanted to start of with a Friday afternoon in a remote and rather sad café, close to...
Secession
Book Launch & Performance Night
Book Launch & Performance night @King Georg with Ani Schulze, Inga Danysz, Alfons Knogl, Arjan Jarry & Tammo Lünemann Program: 9 pm Reading by Ani Schulze & Inga Danysz 9.30 pm Reading by Tammo Lünemann 10 pm Lecture lecture and performance performance by Arjan Jarry 10.30 pm Performance by Alfons Knogl with Mia Boysen &...
Mother’s Tongue and Father’s Mouth
curated by 2017, Unttld Contemporary, Vienna
with works by: Lina Hermsdorf, Karl Holmqvist, Daniel Keller, Klaus Lutz, Paul Sochacki & Raphaela Vogel Perfromances: 14.9., Lina Hermsdorf 6.10., Daniel Keller “The relation between now and tomorrow, between the present state of the world and the future state of the world is not necessary (that is, necessitated). The present does not contain the...
Joachim Coucke
Strength in Numbers
The prospect of A.I. and the many fortunes it will bring humanity, is seemingly driven by the unshakeable faith that is deeply rooted far beyond it’s Silicon Valley headquarters. Harmony and prosperity is believed to relinquish our burdens of daily routines. The possibility of choices cause distress in the terms of this techno-cult. Freedom is...
Xavier Mary & Eva L’Hoest
We have the same Scale
Is it not, that we are all somehow connected through the same… yeah, what? Thoughts? Desires? Mindsets? Beliefs? Or through our DNA? If not anything else, it is the biology of the body that somehow defines our basic nature as a whole. Yet, despite the mutual molecular structure, there is something involved that separates us,...
Daniel Koniusz / Talisa Lallai
curated by Wschód Gallery
Daniel Koniusz / Talisa Lallai Different notions of nature appear throughout the works by Koniusz and Lallai that evoke a certain atmosphere of condensed tranquility. Thru their constellation of interacting embracement a shared prospect for history becomes evident, possibly reminding of the romanticized idea of the idyll, developed in the Greek-Romanic antique. Taking place in...
Edition
BOX TWO
MÉLANGE is proud to publish its second edition box with works by 13 Artist that were part of the second year of programming. The presentation will be curated by Hard-Core. Participating Artists: ATLAS ECONOMY, Amy BALL, Alexander BORNSCHEIN, Zuzanna CZEBATUL, Christophe DE ROHAN-CHABOT, DCTHK, Henning FEHR & Philipp RÜHR, HARD-CORE, Melike KARA, Daniel KISS, Klaus...
Stefano Calligaro
U reallyWnna ClimbThStairkaseOfSUccess MuffnLicker?!
MÉLANGE is puzzled and happy to host Stefano Calligaro´s (*1976 Cividale del Friuli, Italy, based in Cluj-Napoca, Romania) first solo show in Cologne. Why do we need to make things, build things, fill our rooms with things when we have paper and pockets? I’ve always been skeptical about art: Objects piling; parasites subletting our little...
Zuzanna Czebatul
Away
Enduring this exhausting voyage over a hostile ocean, seeking what they thought to be lost forever, why was it this archipelago they arrived to? For they have left everything behind, never to return, escaping from this tremendous insanity. They only wished for a life in harmony, something that once might be called humanity again. As...
Klaus Kleine
Elephant in the Dark
Perceiving the world differently is one of the advantages