LOCKERS V2
FINA ANJOU | GWENNETH BOELENS | ALAN BOLUMAR | NIKLAS BÜSCHER | JUNE CRESPO | ANNA DOT | ZOË ENFELD | DENIZ EROGLU | PRISCILA FERNANDES | CARLOS FERNANDEZ - PELLO | JASON FILE | CRISTINA GARRIDO | INDRIĶIS GELZIS | RUBÉN GRILO | DIEUWERTJE HEHEWERTH | FEMKE HERREGRAVEN | LARS TFC HOLDHUS | CARLOS IRIJALBA | NATALIA JORDANOVA | MARIA NOLLA | DAVID OSTROWSKI | IAN WAELDER
Friday, May 12 at 5:00 PM
Stedelijk
Museumplein 10
1071 DJ Amsterdam
Netherlands
Lockers is a collective project that borns as a question towards the public and private space and how to deal with it. Playing with the institution as the weapon that legitimizes the artist, with Lockers, we will be exhibiting IN the institution but not UNDER the terms of the institution.
The idea is to temporary appropriate the simplest and easiest space that the museum offers in this dichotomy between the public and the private: the lockers, and by this action, use a “public” place, as the museum is supposed to be (In the case of the Stedelijk, the authorities’ own efforts to adopt an arm’s-length approach led the city council to privatise the museum in 2006) , to do a private exhibition of a very subjective selection of artists. By this action the aim is to question the power of those big institutions and how the context where you read the work might completely change the reading of itself, since even it is in a museum the work will be in a locker; but maybe, if you are capable to abstract yourself enough, you will be able to read the locker as a white cube, being the work again contextualized different and being on what it might be it’s “perfect space”
Each artist will have a different locker that will be opened by the visitors on request for the key. This second volume of the project is held in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in after a first edition at MNCARS (Madrid, Spain) in January 2017 and has the intention to be a format that can be repeated again in different cities and museums around the world. Documentation from the first edition can be found here:
http://www.diegodiezp.com/lockersv1
