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Matthias Groebel & Jean Katambayi Mukendi

Info: We are pleased to announce the opening of a two-artists-exhibition between Matthias Groebel and Jean Katambayi Mukendi, conceived in collaboration with Martin Germann. An artistic-anarchic DIY vision — as opposed to the production of art works in tightly managed studios, or the complete outsourcing of production processes to industrial methods — is at the center of New Technologies, a double exhibition that brings together new works by Matthias Groebel and Jean Katambayi Mukendi. For both artists, Open Source is the basis of their practice: the production of imaging devices and their painterly output has been Groebel’s work for over 30 years, while the utopian character of KatambayimMukendi’s work is fed by a desire to produce poetic, speculative models or frameworks. (…)