Nathalie Grenzhaeuser, Séverine Hubard, Klara Lidén, Silke Schatz, Kateřina Šedá, Özlem Sulak, Sophia Tabatadze, Sofie Thorsen, Malte Urbschat, 5533

The international group show „Research Base Social Space“ presents research projects and their resulting concepts by international artists confronting the growing standardisation of urban and rural environments. Public parks and memorials, public transport systems, housing and commercial areas in ten countries are the subjects and sites chosen by the artists to explore possibilities for social interaction, covert collective yearnings (and anxieties).

Classificatory apparently objective and exploration methods (Sofie Thorsen) belong to contemporary strategies, as do interventions in the social structures through offensive and poetic actions (Klara Lidén,Séverine Hubard, Sophia Tabatadze) or 'incitements' to social interaction and communication (Katerina Šedá, Özlem Sulak, 5533). Artistic mapping presents a further aspect: alongside the occupation of an area through subjective experiences and historic, utopian layers (Silke Schatz) stands the recorded reappropriation of 'non-spaces' in the steps of ubiquitous surveillance services (Malte Urbschat) and a photographic search for clues (Nathalie Grenzhaeuser). All the works thus dynamise dead-locked perceptions of social spaces.