The Kunstverein Bielefeld is delighted to present Don’t Say I Didn’t Say So, an exhibition featuring the work of the artists Cudelice Brazelton IV, Irina Lotarevich, Pierre Allain, Timothée Calame, Toni Schmale, and Yeşim Akdeniz. The group exhibition focuses on the question: What is the inherent connection between modern aesthetics and the disciplinary society? The disciplinary system emerged in the eighteenth century, at the same time as the field of aesthetics. Its focus is on forming the body, increasing its powers and thus its economic utility. Contemporary societies may be "societies of control" (Gilles Deleuze) but they continue to maintain disciplinary processes. In fact, the body is more contested than ever as a site of competing political and economic interests. But what does this mean for contemporary social practices? What potential for resistance do they possess?
The exhibition’s title should be understood in the context of this discussion. Don't Say I Didn't Say So refers to an installation of that name by Marcel Broodthaers: Ne dites pas que je ne l'ai pas dit—Le Perroquet (1974). A central element of that installation was a parrot, a body inhabited by the voices of others, which imitates language and repeats words tautologically. Coming from a parrot, however, the phrase “Don't say I didn't say so” is changed radically, becoming a question about one’s own social role and about conditions of speaking. It thus becomes a question about the conditions under which autonomous individual action is possible.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive program of talks, workshops, and a varied series of guided tours.
A reprint of the publication Parrot by Karl Larsson is published.
Curated by Nadine Droste
KUNSTVEREIN BIELEFELD
Welle 61
33602 Bielefeld
Thu–Sun, 12:00 – 18:00
Mo-Wed, by appointment
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Irina Lotarevich, Housing Anxiety 3, 2022, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Yeşim Akdeniz, selfportrait as orientalist carpet 19, 2022, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Cudelice Brazelton IV, Undergird, 2019, Gauged, 2020, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Cudelice Brazelton IV, Gauged, 2020, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Pierre Allain, Emotional Curative Maintenance, 2022, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Pierre Allain, Healing Machine, 2022, Emotional Curative Maintenance, 2022, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Yeşim Akdeniz, selfportrait as orientalist carpet 18, 2022, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Irina Lotarevich, Fallopian Bridge Structure, 2022, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Irina Lotarevich, Overtime, 2021, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Toni Schmale, fury #2, 2022, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Karl Larsson, Parrot, Reprint, 2022, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Fred Dott
Timothée Calame, Mobilier/Documentaire #1, Mobilier/Documentaire #2, Mobilier/Documentaire #3, 2020/2022, Exhibition view Don't Say I Didn’t Say So, Kunstverein Bielefeld 2022. Photo: Malte B. Oing
You can download the exhibition booklet digitally and free of charge HERE.
Press information
Events:
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01.04.2022, 19:00
Opening
Don't Say I Didn't Say So
Speakers: Nora Höglinger (Stiftung Kunstfonds), Andreas Wannenmacher (Chair), Nadine Droste (Director) -
02.04.2022, 12:00
Artists' Talk
in the presence of the artists
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03.04.2022, 17:00
Curator's Tour
with Nadine Droste
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09.04.2022, 10:00
Children's Activity
with Klaus Braun
Contribution (donations welcome) min. 15 € / child
Please register at vermittlung@kunstverein-bielefeld.de
CANCELED -
17.04.2022, 17:00
Guided Tour
through the exhibition Don't Say I Didn't Say So with Nicola V. Manitta
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22.04.2022, 19:00
Reading
Das schlafende Krokodil (The sleeping crocodile) (Novel, Muenster: Kleinheinrich, 2021) by Elisabeth Masé (Artist, Berlin)
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26.04.2022, 19:00
Members' General Meeting
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30.04.2022, 18:00
Nachtansichten
Walpurgis Night at the Kunstverein: With an open art mediation program, dance performances by DansArt ACADEMY, music by Giorgio MacKaye and Stornoschlüssel, and Kampmann Catering. In cooperation with Bielefeld Marketing
"Kultur ohne Haus" (Culture without a home) guests in the vault: Serafima Rayskina, Janice Jensen and Lena Schäfferling from Naturtrüb Kollektiv -
01.05.2022, 17:00
Guided Tour
through the exhibition Don't Say I Didn't Say So with Leonore Spemann
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03.05.2022, 18:00
Members' Event
Studio visit with Irina Valkova (Artist, Bielefeld)
Please register at mitglieder@kunstverein-bielefeld.de -
08.05.2022, 17:00
Guided Tour
through the exhibition Don't Say I Didn't Say So with Katharina Götz
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15.05.2022, 11:00
Museums-Rally on the International Museums Day
11:00 - 18:00
Six Bielefeld museums, along with the association Bielefelder Konsens - Pro BI, invite you to guess and to win. In cooperation with Bielefeld Historical Museum, Kunstforum Hermann Stenner, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Museum Huelsmann and Museum of Natural History -
18.05.2022, 19:00
Members' Event
Wine tasting with Philipp Geymüller (Abothek, Krems / Donau, Austria)
The cost contribution is 30 € per person.
Please register at mitglieder@kunstverein-bielefeld.de -
21.05.2022, 20:00
Jazz im Waldhof
With A.R.K.: »Music By Endangered Species«
In cooperation with the Kulturamt Bielefeld and Bunker Ulmenwall
In case of rain the concert will take place at Bunker Ulmenwall. -
22.05.2022, 16:00
Museums-Rally award ceremony
at the courtyard of the Kunstverein
The winners of the museum rally will be announced in cooperation with the association Bielefelder Konsens - Pro BI. In cooperation with the Historisches Museum, Kunstforum Hermann Stenner, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Museum Huelsmann and the Museum of Natural History. -
22.05.2022, 17:00
Curator's Tour
with Nadine Droste
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29.05.2022, 17:00
Guided Tour
through the exhibition Don't Say I Didn't Say So with Valerie Kurbakov
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05.06.2022, 17:00
Guided Tour
through the exhibition Don't Say I Didn't Say So with Carsten Gude
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11.06.2022, 20:00
Jazz im Waldhof
With Wir hatten was mit Björn
In cooperation with the Kulturamt Bielefeld and Bunker Ulmenwall -
12.06.2022, 17:00
Guided Tour
through the exhibition Don't Say I Didn't Say So with Carsten Gude
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18.06.2022, 10:00
Children's Activitiy
with Klaus Braun
Contribution (donations welcome) min. 15 € / child -
19.06.2022, 17:00
Guided Tour
through the exhibition Don't Say I Didn't Say So with Carsten Gude
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26.06.2022, 17:00
Guided Tour
through the exhibition Don't Say I Didn't Say So with Leonore Spemann
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01.07.2022, 19:00
TALK
with Thomas Boutoux (Editor, writer, curator and co-founder of Paraguay Press, Paris).
POSTPONED - NEW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY. -
03.07.2022, 17:00
Guided tour
with Valerie Kurbakov
