American artist Collier Schorr, whose multimedia practice explores appropriated identities and performance, has created a group exhibition that doubles as a self-portrait. From her position as a visual artist, critic, and teacher, Schorr possesses a uniquely intimate perspective on current art production, which she has translated into this experimental exhibition project. The title, Freeway Balconies, borrowed from 1960s poet laureate Allen Ginsberg in a move that is both reverential and mischievous, refers to the meeting place of spectacle and voyeurism in American culture.
For Freeway Balconies , Schorr juxtaposes an idiosyncratic mix of artworks in complimentary to antagonistic relationships, infused with a collaborative spirit. Her choices, arranged around selections of her own work, reveal her probing interest in slippages of identity and identification, cultural memory and forgetting, and the ways in which artistic action and production engage these issues. Referencing performance art and the cult of Hollywood, the exhibition considers how identities are constructed rather than given, as much shaped by external information and influences as emanating from within. Embracing the simultaneity of multiple, seemingly incommensurate meanings, inspired by disjunctions between form and content, and the capacity of appearances to deceive, Freeway Balconies is a roundtable discussion in exhibition form, addressing the problems that drive Schorr’s art making.
The viewer is invited to stay long and experience the slow seduction of not only the individual works but also the webs Schorr has spun among them. Loaded with visual and conceptual traps and challenges, Freeway Balconies combines frenetic energy with still observation, drawing out accumulated meanings and new possibilities in the art on view. Together, the works comprise an investigation of the performative impulse so operative in today’s innovative forms.
Curator
Collier Schorr
Location
Deutsche Guggenheim
Unter den Linden 13/15
10117 Berlin
Opening hours
Daily 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Thursdays to 10 p.m.
Including Deutsche Guggenheim SHOP and Deutsche Guggenheim CAFE
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Catalogue and Edition
On the occasion of the exhibition, the catalogue Collier Schorr: Freeway Balconies will be published in English/German (€ 21). Edition No. 44 can be purchased exclusively at the Deutsche Guggenheim Deutsche Guggenheim SHOP, (030) 20 20 93-15/-16.
Admission
| Adults | | € 4 |
| reduced | | € 3 |
| Children under 12 | | Admission free |
| School classes | | Admission free |
| School classes with guided tours | | € 25 |
| Groups up to 20 | | € 35 |
| Family Card | | € 8 |
| Mondays | | Admission free |
Guided tours
Daily Lectures: Daily 6 p.m.
Monday Lectures: Mondays 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m.
Lunch Lectures: Wednesdays, 1 p.m.
Brunch Lectures: Sundays, 11:30 a.m.
Special guided tours in German and English, as well as tours for children and school classes are available. Information and booking: (030) 20 20 93-19 or berlin.guggenheim@db.com. Ticket reservation: (030) 20 20 93-11
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Deutsche Guggenheim SHOP
700 articles: catalogues, design articles, toys, etc.
Deutsche Guggenheim SHOP
Deutsche Guggenheim CAFE
Drinks, brunch/snacks: varying menu.
Public transport to the exhibition
Subway Stadtmitte (U2) or Französische Straße (U6)
S-Bahn Unter den Linden (S1, S2) or Friedrichstraße (S3, S5, S7, S9, S75)
Bus No.100, 147, 200
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