Press Releases from White Trash Contemporary Hamburg (4 total)
Tom Schmelzer: Beautiful outside my head forever 5 November – 15 January 2010 …
A life-size baboon in a bishop’s robe that, with one hand, is gathering his brocade coat and with the other swinging a soap bubble dispenser. A machine that is gradually grinding one-and-a-half kilos of precious pearls to dust. Worms as thick as a finger winding their way on a lacquered wooden box while producing knocking sounds. The objects and installations of the Munich-based artist Tom Schmelzer have a disturbing quality…
German-Venezualien Art Exchange: The 8.th Velada Santa Lucia in Maracaibo/Venezu …
WTC and holzhauer hamburg are proud to announce their participation in VELADA SANTA LUCIA, an annual art festival taking place in Marcaibo, Venezula from March 7th to 10th 2008. As cutting edge galleries from Hamburg we were invited by the board of Velada Santa Lucia e.V., a non profit association dedicated to broaden cultural exchange between Venezuela and Germany, to curate an exhibition program for the Maracaibo art festival.
Velada Santa…
OLIVER ROSS – Hard Edge Hippie Brain, 7.Sept.-12.Okt.2007, Vernissage Fr.07.Se …
After this summer of artistic mega events and worst case senarios, at a time, when in Venice the parties of the Biennal became more important than the exhibitons, when the curators of Documenta 12 cheerfully celebrated the “art of failure” and the critics reported that contemporary art has been completely swallowed by the mainstream and therefore lost its avantgarde edge, Oliver Ross steps forward to prove us all…
Toward Zero - an expedition to the zero-point of earth
On June 11th, 2007 the artists FallerMiethStüssiWeck (FMSW) are going to mark the geographical zero-point in the Gulf of Guinea with „Nothing“.
The expedition Toward Zero is going to start in Hamburg, Germany, on May 8th, 2007. To achieve slow approximation to zero FMSW will be traveling by container ship towards the zero coordinate in perceptible speed. The geographical zero-point is the starting point of our world map…
