With Whiteface, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden presents a focused solo exhibition by South African artist Candice Breitz. Two video-based installations from the artist’s long-standing oeuvre—Whiteface (2022) and Extra (2011)—are juxtaposed to stimulate conversations around race, privilege and the asymmetrical politics of representation within cultures that have been shaped by white suprematist ideology.

with artworks and archive material by

Yael Bartana, Tracey Emin, Rebecca Horn, Stephan von Huene with Yasuhiro Sakamoto, Jürgen Klauke, Eva Koťátková, Oleg Kulik, and Emeka Ogboh

About the exhibition

The archive presentation An Imaginary Audience, part of the exhibition series SYNCH, is based on a comprehensive research for investigating the exhibition history of Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden through performance art. This endeavor includes performativity as an artistic tool and the transition of the audience from a receiver into a user, performer, and participant in the digital age.

Space Synthesis

On May 5, Space Synthesis, the first solo exhibition by artist and composer Jan St. Werner and also the first major sound exhibition by a solo artist in Baden-Württemberg, opens at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. With Space Synthesis, Werner, best known as a member of the duo Mouse on Mars, transforms the Kunsthalle into a sound space, a single large instrument. The exhibition embarks on a dynamic investigation of human thought about sound by assuming that each of us perceives sounds differently. Between different sound sources and sound-reflecting surfaces, a stage – continuously changing in size and shape – is created. Sounds, shadows, walls, performers, and listeners become part of a moving, multi-perspective scenario.

HELLZAPOPPIN’: What about the bees?

Concept and direction: Yvonne Rainer, aided by research and inputs from the dancers. Assistant director: Pat Catterson. Performed by Emily Coates, Brittany Bailey, Brittany Engel-Adams, Patricia Hoffbauer, Vincent McCloskey, Emmanuèle Phuon, David Thomson, and Timothy Ward. Guest performer: Kathleen Chalfant.

About the project

“HELLZAPOPPIN’: What about the bees?”, a new work by dance and film pioneer Yvonne Rainer will have its European premiere at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden on January 27, 2023. It represents the culmination of sixty years of an oeuvre encompassing in choreography, filmmaking, writing, and teaching – an iconic body of work that has had a transformative impact on several generations of artists across the world.

All dressed up and nowhere to go

“All dressed up and nowhere to go” is a major solo exhibition by Guadeloupe-born French artist Jimmy Robert (*1975). Through a chronology of early to recent performance, video and film works, the exhibition presents the artist’s multimedia oeuvre of the last 20 years.

Artists

Michael Akstaller, Cansu Çakar, Karin Cerny, Olga Chernysheva, Egemen Demirci, Ipek Duben, Alia Farid, Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman, Will Fredo, Malina Heinemann, Nicole L’Huillier, Joseph Kadow, Stelios Kallinikou, Kavachi, Grada Kilomba, Robert Lippok, Nicholas Mangan, Mateja Meded, Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, Hani Mojtahedy, Ersan Mondtag, Murat Önen, Manuel Rossner, Christoph Schäfer, Muhannad Shono, Sorawit Songsataya, Ayman Zedani, a.o.

About the exhibition

From climate change to drought, isolation politics to recession, armed conflicts to authoritarian regimes, many of our existential questions, planetary problems and global crises can be formulated only in reference to these two terms; nature and state. The investigation of continuity and disobedience, possible forms of transformation of the state and the genealogical relationships between future and past are at the center of this project.