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Charlotte Arnhold, Oliver Bulas, Vivian Caccuri, Loretta Fahrenholz, Jeanne Faust, Julia Horstmann, Daniela Mattos, Michaela Melian, Marianna Meneguetti, artist group OPAVIVARÁ!i, artist group Jochen Schmith, Caroline Valansi, Aleta Valente, Andrea Winkler
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An exhibition which took place during one week in a hotel room at the Ipanema Inn in Rio de Janeiro.

Opening: March 17th, 17h
Exhibition: March 18th - 22nd 2018, 10h - 19h

In the case of hotel rooms the question of hospitality is moving into the spotlight, which is at the same time also the theme of the exhibition. Additionally, the approach of hotel room exhibitions puts emphasis on the process through its ephemeral form. We are interested in the idea of 'exhibition as assertion', as well as the question of ubiquitous mobility. At the same time a hotel room is a very impersonal location, which enables us
to organize exhibitions as interventions with a relatively small budget also at distant locations.
In the exhibition of "WCW-nine" we would like to present an extract of German context and to confront it at the same time with an equal number of Brazilian artists. Among other things, the resulting group exhibition is an attempt to learn more about the differences and mutualities of both spheres - as a snapshot of contemporary art production.
We invited the participating artists to look into the situational conditions at the spot. One aspect is the precarious and transient form of presentation in a hotel room and the theme of hospitality (or what it means to be guest / host) that it implies.
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Jacques Derrida wrote that a situation of hospitality comes into being when the guest acts to some extend as the host for the one who welcomed him. On the other hand the thought somewhat suggests itself for the invited artists to take into consideration the specific social, historical and cultural conditions of Rio in the course of their work.

As a result of a conflict inside the former "WCW-Gallery" we were forced to move to the "underground" and since then we call ourselves "WCW-nine". WCW-nine became homeless and started moving around aimlessly and now presents itself here and there (for example in hotel rooms).
We conceived the WCW-nine exhibition in a critical distance from the WCW-Gallery's past exhibitions. They are a result of our critical reflection on the fact that the past exhibition program was male-dominated, very European, white and exclusive because of the prerequisites of the white-cube presentation format.

Nevertheless, the exhibition series should also draw from the network of the former WCW-Gallery and exhibit its positive elements.
This way we also hope to stimulate exchange between Brazilian and German artists and to animate discussion.

The performance continues the elaboration of ancestor-feminine-feminist issues that I have been developing throughout my artistic trajectory. In Afro-Brazilian religions, Oferenda is a gift offered to the spiritual entities, word and meaning are dear to the performance that I perform in the WCW-nine project.
I will be in a place to be defined in the space of the exhibition, with objects related to the symbology of the female entity Oxum (which in Umbanda is also represented by Our Lady of Conception). During the action I will sing a capela the song Gogóia Fruit (part of the popular northeastern repertoire, already recorded by Gal Costa in the 1970s), which will be repeated for about an hour, and I will be blindfolded.
The relationship between time in silence and time sung will be defined by the sensations of approaching and distancing of the visitors of the exhibition in relation to the performer.

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Daniela Mattos
Oferenda (La Libertad),
2017-2018

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Do you have the Richard Prince work? That one is titled:
Richard, I owe you one
The other is called "Gold".
There is no year of creation, concerning the Richard work, or at least I don't know. Maybe you can write down "whenever", or leave it discreetly? Gold is from 2008.
Best regards and have fun in Rio!

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Jeanne Faust
Richard, I owe you one

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The mural is made of paper drawings distributed on the wall, influenced by cave paintings, creating a past-present panorama of a patriarchal state and its consequences, in order to reach a Brazilian feminism with its repercussions and openings.
A mural made to educate (and deceive) the looks that restrict and reject.
Almost childish, palatable language and colors that attract the unsuspecting spectator bring poignant themes and subjects that do not escape a second glance. To seduce those who approach them to engage in a deeper discussion about the control of women's bodies, the aggressions suffered, the restriction of rights, but also on the achievements of a movement that is broad and diverse.
In a moment of censorship, as we live in, a strategy is necessary to find cracks, to camouflage and to invade spaces in which these subjects are interdicted. Those who do not want to see the changes and silence feminism, these are precisely those who are afraid of its transforming character and must see it. In addition, the images evoke the struggle of the women to whom I dedicate this work.

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Caroline Valansi
Revulvações!, 2018

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Shot in the East New York section of Brooklyn around the time of Hurricane Sandy, Ditch Plains (HDV, 30 mins) is a dystopian sci-fi street dance film featuring members of Ringmasters Crew.
Like avatars running the levels of an apocalyptic video game, Ringmasters Corey, Jay Donn and Marty McFly hallucinate the city and its networks as a space of terror, mutation and magic. "Flexing," "bone breaking," "pauzing" and "connecting" in nighttime streets, hotel hallways and a posh Park Avenue apartment, the dancers improvise dream-like scenes suggesting digital death matches, stop-and-frisk situations and catastrophic man-machine interfaces. Meanwhile, documentary shots of Far Rockaway show the city's attempt to manage disaster in real life: police patrol the shattered flood zone as citizens line up with jerry cans. Scenes on iPhone screens play like Vine transmissions in a blacked-out world where no survivors or friends can receive them. Referencing contemporary pop spectacles such as Step Up Revolution, as well as Jean Rouch's The Mad Masters, Ditch Plains imagines a sort of End of Days street party while free-styling an abstract narrative about the fatal coupling of subjects and systems under conditions of permanent crisis.

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Loretta Fahrenholz
Ditch Plains,
2013

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In this performance, Vivian sings Airplane Samba, a song written by the bossa-nova composer Tom Jobim, that describes the sight and feeling of looking at Rio's landscape from an airplane.
Each phrase is sang and played in reverse mode. Vivian listens to the recording of the reversed phrase and tries to sing it that way. She then records herself singing backwards and reverses it once more and plays the new version. This process deteriorates two important bossa-nova materials: breathing and the Brazilian Portuguese accent. Vivian was followed by the artist Maíra das Neves who listened to her words and tried to write them down.

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Vivian Caccuri
Dissimulado,
2009

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Crime scenes are cordoned off by police stanchions guide patrons through banks; and screens block the scene of an accident – these are all methods to deter us from getting closer to things, places or valuable goods. Andrea Winkler stages appropriated re-enactments of this security-minded order to suggest a rapidly destabilizing world. She transfers these blocking devices very precisely into complex three-dimensional and accessible collages that, at the same time, always transform the surrounding architecture and the exhibition situation into a precarious and provocative scenario. The fact that the motif-constellations themselves represent deviations from the norm in relation to accidents, underlines the artist's strategy. Andrea Winkler constructs a double-bind: on the one hand, the situations appear as a mere image or mimetic model of reality, which as art lacks any actual function; on the other hand, the works point to a real aesthetic system that creates a place with actual social regulations.

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Andrea Winkler
BAGS (Global Traveler),
2018

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A central element of Charlotte Arnhold's practice is playing with identity and the deconstruction of gender ideology.
Creating surreal, dream-like aesthetics, blurring the lines between reality and imagination, she opens space for the doubt and confusion of existing social beliefs and practices.

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Charlotte Arnhold
Making History Series - Pt 1,
2018

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The structures both refer to my old apartment, the very same floor plan. In the picture on the left there are extended stages, which treat the structure as a memory palace, detaching itself from the structures of living. On the right, the drawing refers both to the dynamics of movement in the rooms and to the fact that the spaces are also described by symbols.

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Julia Horstmann
Untitled (Eichkamp/Oderberger Strasse10 /#5),
2017

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A central element of Charlotte Arnhold's practice is playing with identity and the deconstruction of gender ideology.
Creating surreal, dream-like aesthetics, blurring the lines between reality and imagination, she opens space for the doubt and confusion of existing social beliefs and practices.

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Charlotte Arnhold
Lonely Blue Girl feat. Shaun Kieran McMillan,
2017

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Inspired by the street demonstrations that took place in Brazil in 2013, demanding better public services, ending corruption and positioning itself against the exorbitant expenses with the mega events that are to happen in the country and resulting abuses against the population, OPAVIVARÁ! takes phrases of protest and reflection to the beach cangas (Brazilian type of beach towels).
The beaches have always been related only as spaces of alienation, leisure and rest. However, its power to gather people from all geographical areas, social classes and religions transforms this space into a huge agora of sand, salt and sun, capable of promoting meetings and generating conversations and discussions. Usually the beach cangas bring images of a colorful, vibrant country with its lush landscapes. Undoubtedly these are important Brazilian characteristics. But by adding to all this a layer of protest and thought, we activated the beach space, generating other relationships, just as the demonstrations did in 2013, invading the streets with the transgressive power of the carnival, adding to it cries of propositional protests, creating an environment of party and politics, that, even though being violently repressed, continue their path.

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Opavivará!
Cangaço,
2018

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For the expansive work Lunapark (2012) made of glass, light and music Michaela Melián arranges glass objects on a table, which are illuminated in a dark room by a slide projector. Day-to-day everyday utensils such as bottles, lamps, cups, vases or CD covers can be found here, as well as precious glasses or handmade prisms, made especially for the installation and shredded in geometric shapes.
The different objects on the table are connected by broken beams of light to ever new constructivist constellations. The original contours dissolve into an abstract urban silhouette in a continuous flow.
The associative aesthetic of the fragile oscillating projection between light and darkness acquires an acoustic component in Lunapark while playing simultaneously a song produced by the artist using glass cups. In the case of the turntable and the slide projector, the artist deliberately uses analogue technical devices, which, as objects, become part of the installation. The use of glass alludes to utopian glass architecture ideas as used in the architectural views of Paul Scheerbart, Bruno Taut and the "Glass Chain" emerging at the beginning of the 20th century. Scheerbart called for the opening of architecture with the help of glass, from which he expected synergies for the development of culture. The utopian idea of ​​the changing social space also echoes in the "Luna Park" by Melián.

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Michaela Melián
Lunapark,
2012

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In its multi-media works, which take a critical approach to institutions, the artist collective Jochen Schmith illustrates the role of the artist and other protagonists in the art market. Against the backdrop of the conversation piece genre, which became popular in England in the 18th century, showing a group of middle class family members or friends as an informal group portrait in their domestic environment, Jochen Schmith uses subtle, site-specific interventions to question the relationship between private and public space at the hotel room exhibition, between art and commercialisation, between authorship, the appropriation of artistic identity and the luxury consumer goods industry. The result initiates an exciting dialogue between the work of Jochen Schmith and the semi-private interior if the hotel room, thereby leaving diverse traces and awakening very different associations with the "art business" in the viewer.

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Jochen Schmith
untitled (Cashmere),
2017

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Inspired by the street demonstrations that took place in Brazil in 2013, demanding better public services, ending corruption and positioning itself against the exorbitant expenses with the mega events that are to happen in the country and resulting abuses against the population, OPAVIVARÁ! takes phrases of protest and reflection to the beach cangas (Brazilian type of beach towels).
The beaches have always been related only as spaces of alienation, leisure and rest. However, its power to gather people from all geographical areas, social classes and religions transforms this space into a huge agora of sand, salt and sun, capable of promoting meetings and generating conversations and discussions. Usually the beach cangas bring images of a colorful, vibrant country with its lush landscapes. Undoubtedly these are important Brazilian characteristics. But by adding to all this a layer of protest and thought, we activated the beach space, generating other relationships, just as the demonstrations did in 2013, invading the streets with the transgressive power of the carnival, adding to it cries of propositional protests, creating an environment of party and politics, that, even though being violently repressed, continue their path.

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Opavivará!
Cangaço,
2018

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The structures both refer to my old apartment, the very same floor plan. In the picture on the left there are extended stages, which treat the structure as a memory palace, detaching itself from the structures of living. On the right, the drawing refers both to the dynamics of movement in the rooms and to the fact that the spaces are also described by symbols.

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Julia Horstmann
Untitled (Eichkamp/Oderberger Strasse10 /#6),
2017

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Charlotte Arnhold
(b. 1984 in Hamburg, German), lives and works in Glasgow, UK. Arnhold works with performance, sculpture, video and music.

Solo/two-person shows include: Papageien und die sinnlose Vorstellung, exhibition with Arron Sands, HfbK Gallery, Hamburg, Germany (2015); Ouvre La Porte, exhibition with Silvia Berger, Gallery Hinterconti, Hamburg, Germany (2011).

Group shows include: Dreams & Perfume, a collaboration with Beth Shapeero and Estelle Fournier, Glasgow Open House Festival 2017, Glasgow, UK (2017); Hiscox Art Prize nominee exhibition, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany (2015);

Journeys are made by the people you travel with, University of Goldsmiths, London, UK (2014); A Line – Working, Weaving, Exhibition with Yael Davids and HfbK students, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany (2013).
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Oliver Bulas
(b. 1981 in Hamburg, GER), lives and works in Berlin.
Oliver Bulas invites visitors to dive into "constructed situations" (scenes), which he creates. For that matter he is interested in how social space is constituted. How can one produce this space in times, in which capitalism and its division of labour result in endless division of space, simultaneously making everything interchangeable? His exhibitions are propositions, in certain circumstances also deceptions. He is not conceiving them as rigid constructions, instead they are emerging in the presence of the audience.

Oliver Bulas studied at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg (2005-2012) and at SFAI in San Francisco. He was a postgraduate researcher at Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL.
Solo exhibitions (selection): M.1 Arthur Boskamp Stiftung Hohenlockstedt, GER (2013); [MAKNETE] (Galerie für Landschaftskunst), Hamburg, GER (2012); Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, GER (2008).

Group exhibitions (selection): Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, GER (2013); basis Frankfurt e.V., Frankfurt, GER (2013); Swell Gallery, San Francisco, US (2011); Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, US (2007); Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, FR (2003).
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Loretta Fahrenholz
Lives and works in Berlin.

EDUCATION
2011 Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, USA
2010 Postgraduate Studies, Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, Germany
2007 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
2005 Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, Germany

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Kuntzhalle, Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
The Dross of It All & The Loss of It All, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
2014 Implosion, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland

Ditch Plains – A film by Loretta Fahrenholz, The Gardens, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 My Throat – My Air, Ludlow 38, New York, NY
Ditch Plains, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, NY
Ditch Plains, Project Native Informant, London, UK Halle fur Huntz, Luneburg, Germany
2011 Europa, Sotoso, Brussels, Belgium

EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2015 Welcome to the Jungle – Kunst-Werke Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
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Jeanne Faust
(b. 25. November 1968 in Wiesbaden, Germany)
Faust studied from 1993 to 1998 at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg with a focus on photography, film and video. In 1999 she was awarded the Hamburger Arbeitsstipendium for Fine Arts and in 2004 the scholarship of the Lichtwark Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. In 2007 she was nominated for the National Gallery Prize for Young Art in Berlin. In 2012 she was a scholarship holder of the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo.
In November 2006 she started a professorship for intermedial Photography at the University of the Arts Bremen.

Since 2009 she has been professor for mixed media specialization in time-related mediadepartment at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg.
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Julia Horstmann
(b. born 1974 in Hamburg, Germany)
Lives and works in Berlin.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 "Erase/Rewind 2′′, mit/with Tina Roeder, Berlin.
"Allegro School Frieze. Julia Horstmann / Tina Roeder", (part of exhibition "Something From Nothing", KAOS, Berlin), Allegro Grundschule Berlin.
2015
"Through", Studio, Berlin.
2012
"Wallwork # 6′′, L40, Verein zur Förderung von Kunst und Kultur am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V., Berlin.
"ERASE/REWIND", Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
"Salon – HLOS" (Projektseite: www.hiddenlinesofspace.org), Verein zur Förderung von Kunst und Kultur am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin.
2016
"structural movement", Feuerwache, Berlin.
"One Percent of Art", State of Design 2016, Berlin.
2014
"Räume mit der Schere gezeichnet", Kulturstiftung Schloss Agathenburg, Agathenburg.
2013
"Nur hier. Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Ankäufe von 2007 bis 2011′′, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn.
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Daniela Mattos
is a visual artist, educator and independent curator. She develops her practice in the contemporary art field since the 2000's and works mostly with performance, photography, videoart and text-based art. She holds a Post-PHD degree in Visual Arts.
Some of her solo shows are: A room of my own (MAC-Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, 2014/2015) and Make Over (Museu de Arte Moderna Aluisio de Magalhães, Recife, 2007).
Selected collective exhibitions are: Das virgens em cardumes e da cor das auras (Museu Bispo do Rosário, Rio de Janeiro, 2016),7ª Bienal do Mercosul (Radiovisual, Porto Alegre, 2009), Video links Brazil: an anthology of Brazilian video art (Tate Modern, Londres, 2007).

As a independent curator her selected projects are: Partir de Paula Parisot (EAV-Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, 2014) A Performance da Curadoria (Paço das Artes, São Paulo, 2011), Performati(vídeo)dade (Festival de Performance Arte Brasil – MAM-RJ, 2011 / CineLage – EAV-Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, 2009). As an educator she has been teaching at art schools and the university, such as: Colégio de Aplicação da Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (2014/2015), Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (between 2006 and 2011), SESC-Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (2008-2009). As a resident artist, she elaborated collective performances and workshops on École d'art d'Avignon (França, 2005), University of Chicago – Art Department (EUA, 2013) and CAIXA Cultural – Rio de Janeiro (2017).
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