With Oriol Vilanova, Helen Mirra, Thomas Geiger, Hendrik-Jan Hunneman, Marijn van Kreij and Samuel Beckett.

Kunstverein Langenhagen is a project space that can best be described as a 'visibility institution': it wants to show; it offers artists and their work an open platform. A similar motive lies at the foundation of an artistic practice: an artist engages with the world through his/her work. Through this process of visibility, the artist and institution take a non-neutral, subjective position. 
The Extended View revolves around the politics of visibility and considers strategies of presentation and representation. What is the scope of an exhibition? How and where are normative forms destabilized? What are the positions of and relations between the various “actors” within an exhibition? And what does the “act of looking” mean for the position of the viewer?  
The Extended View can be understood as an activity, in that it will change during the exhibition period, and as works are repositioned, added, or disappear. The principle of movement forms also the core of most of the works – they are mobile, light or are subject to change. Furthermore, during the show run, artists are invited to react on it. These “actions'” - with or within the works - emphasize that an exhibition is open and mobile, and therefore meanings, like our gaze, are changeable. 

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