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Souterrain: Christopher Williams : Kochgeschirr (Adapted for Use)

Past exhibition
28 April - 17 July 2021
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Christopher Williams, MODEL, 2019 © the artist
Christopher Williams, MODEL, 2019 © the artist

Christopher Williams’ (b. 1956 in Los Angeles, CA) exhibition in the lower exhibition space of the gallery brings together several threads of work that the artist has developed over the years, reflecting his preoccupation with the static, material, and physical, as an antithesis to the information-saturated and virtual age recently accelerated by the pandemic. Williams’ practice, which has continually investigated the methods of production and contexts of display of images and objects, has always extended beyond art objects to their construction and presentation, often foregrounding the “secondary materials” of exhibitions and artworks, such as publications and promotional material. This exhibition, in the absence of his photographic works, foregrounds printed matter, archival material, and film.

 

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Continuing Williams’ interest in utilizing existing works as models for new production, the exhibition adapts and reuses the presentational vocabulary of recent installations, including his 2019 exhibition at C/O Berlin, adapting elements such as hand-painted signage, Hantarex monitors, Franz West sofas, Rauhfaser wallpaper, and six vitrines designed by Leone Pancaldi, initially used by Williams for his 2007 exhibition at Galleria d’Arte Moderna Bologna. Additionally, a new film work focuses on a page torn from the catalog Volume 54: Michael Oppitz. Mythical Landscapes (Kolumba, 2018), featuring a photograph by Candida Höfer.

 

The six vitrines on show feature archival materials from two projects produced in Zürich over the past two decades that elaborate Williams’ interest in the conditions of production. This includes an annual report he produced in 2003 for the Swiss publishing house Ringier AG, along with a video and production documents for Supplement 2003, a cooking show made by using the existing production apparatus of Ringier’s television studio, whose primary product was a popular Swiss cooking show. Williams used the program’s shot list as a model for his version, with one shift: the duration of twelve of the shots was extended to correspond to the actual preparation time of the food, grafting the durational logic of the cooking process onto the logic of production, stretching the show’s running time from 50 to 332 minutes. Alongside the annual report, and related production documents, Williams presents spreads from the publication for his 2007 exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich, which uses the advertising space historically used in exhibition catalogues, to highlight the economies of collaboration and sponsorship usually kept in the background of an exhibition’s presentation and reception.

 

Williams has exhibited extensively worldwide, with recent solo exhibitions at C/O Berlin; Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover; La Triennale di Milano; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva; Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle; Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; Kunsthalle Zürich; Secession, Vienna among many others. His work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, all in New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; The Art Institute of Chicago, and more. Since 2008, Williams has been a professor of photography at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

This exhibition is closely interwoven in content and form with the simultaneous presentation at the haubrok foundation, which takes place across the street at Strausberger Platz, and is complemented by a film screening at Kino International.

 

This exhibition is closely interwoven in content and form with the simultaneous presentation at the haubrok foundation, which takes place across the street at Strausberger Platz. To arrange a visit to haubrok foundation, please contact or approach us directly. The exhibition is further complemented by a film screening at Kino International. 

 

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Works
  • Christopher Williams MODEL, 2019 Aluminum, glass, felt, paper, and paint 56.5 x 152.7 cm 22.3 x 60.1 inches Edition of 6
    Christopher Williams
    MODEL, 2019
    Aluminum, glass, felt, paper, and paint
    56.5 x 152.7 cm
    22.3 x 60.1 inches
    Edition of 6
  • Christopher Williams Untitled (Provisional Prop), 2021 Enamel paint, glass, aluminum, and felt Three parts 57 x 57 cm 22.5 x 22.5 inches Edition of 6
    Christopher Williams
    Untitled (Provisional Prop), 2021
    Enamel paint, glass, aluminum, and felt
    Three parts
    57 x 57 cm
    22.5 x 22.5 inches
    Edition of 6
  • Christopher Williams Pedagogical Prop: Frühstück Rodenkirchen 1973 Cruse Scan LTLA (Texture), 2019 8K UHD Video 4:3 Aspect ratio 31MIN 30SEC Edition of 10
    Christopher Williams
    Pedagogical Prop: Frühstück Rodenkirchen 1973 Cruse Scan LTLA (Texture), 2019
    8K UHD Video
    4:3 Aspect ratio
    31MIN 30SEC
    Edition of 10
  • Christopher Williams Supplement 04 Ringier Jahresbericht 2003, 2004 Book, silkscreened poster, offset card, DVD Gmund Colors 19, light brown matt, 100/qm wood-free/chlorine-free Producer: Ringier AG, Unternehmenskommunikation, Zürich Film of 332 MIN 17 SEC
    Christopher Williams
    Supplement 04 Ringier Jahresbericht 2003, 2004
    Book, silkscreened poster, offset card, DVD
    Gmund Colors 19, light brown matt, 100/qm wood-free/chlorine-free
    Producer: Ringier AG, Unternehmenskommunikation, Zürich
    Film of 332 MIN 17 SEC
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Installation Views
  • Installation view: Souterrain, Christopher Williams, Kochgeschirr (Adapted for Use), Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2021 Ph: Jens Ziehe
    Installation view: Souterrain, Christopher Williams, Kochgeschirr (Adapted for Use), Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2021
    Ph: Jens Ziehe
  • Installation view: Souterrain, Christopher Williams, Kochgeschirr (Adapted for Use), Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2021

    Installation view: Souterrain, Christopher Williams, Kochgeschirr (Adapted for Use), Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2021

  • Installation view: Souterrain, Christopher Williams, Kochgeschirr (Adapted for Use), Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2021 Ph: Jens Ziehe
    Installation view: Souterrain, Christopher Williams, Kochgeschirr (Adapted for Use), Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2021
    Ph: Jens Ziehe
  • Installation view: Souterrain, Christopher Williams, Kochgeschirr (Adapted for Use), Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2021 Ph: Jens Ziehe
    Installation view: Souterrain, Christopher Williams, Kochgeschirr (Adapted for Use), Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2021
    Ph: Jens Ziehe
  • Installation view: Souterrain, Christopher Williams, Kochgeschirr (Adapted for Use), Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2021 Ph: Jens Ziehe
    Installation view: Souterrain, Christopher Williams, Kochgeschirr (Adapted for Use), Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2021
    Ph: Jens Ziehe
  • Installation view: Souterrain, Christopher Williams, Kochgeschirr (Adapted for Use), Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2021 Ph: Jens Ziehe
    Installation view: Souterrain, Christopher Williams, Kochgeschirr (Adapted for Use), Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2021
    Ph: Jens Ziehe
  • Installation view: Souterrain, Christopher Williams, Kochgeschirr (Adapted for Use), Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2021 Ph: Jens Ziehe
    Installation view: Souterrain, Christopher Williams, Kochgeschirr (Adapted for Use), Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2021
    Ph: Jens Ziehe
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