Currently showing FOUNTAIN by Kriz Olbricht, May 03 - 31, 2024
KAISERWACHE
Artist-run space
Kaiser-Joseph-Straße 286,
79098 Freiburg im Breisgau
Germany
Open by appointment.
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The public restroom known to Freiburg’s residents as “Kaiserwache” was due to its central location in the city and its immediacy to the banks of the Dreisam a well-frequented building. With the final decommissioning of its original purpose the question arises as to what an alternative use of the heritage-protected building might look like. A question whose relevance will only increase, especially in view of the acute lack of space in Freiburg, despite many buildings being vacant. With this in mind, the "Kaiserwache" project is planning an interim use of the space, which intends to take this problem into account by presenting forward-looking artistic perspectives. There is much we have yet to understand about precisely how the public toilet functions as a bulwark of sex binarism, a tool of gender regulation, an apparatus of class subordination, a site of heteronormative policing, an ableist institution, a place of colonial administration, and a mechanism for the production of subalternity.
Rather than simply accommodating preexisting variations among us, the dispositif of the public toilet is co-constitutive of these regimes of inequality. For a particularly instructive example, think about how the standard facility disables the bodies that do not conform to the model of its generic user. A wide range of analytical apparatuses and conceptual lenses could be used to study this site making “Kaiserwache” a fertile ground for context-oriented artistic exploration. The public toilet is remarkable as a location from which to view the production of multiple social inequalities. Attending to the interaction of multiple axes of difference in such a site can, for example, enable us to disaggregate the experiences of a group like “women” along lines of gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, and nation and, by the same token, to craft potentially coalitional models of political response. Continuing this review of possible analytics, the public-private distinction, at least when deployed in a non-dichotomous fashion, can arguably reveal some interesting aspects of the site. Among other reasons, this is because the contents and boundaries of what is configured as private and public are highly variable and remarkably fluid in the case of the public toilet.
CURRENT
Kriz Olbricht
FOUNTAIN
May 03 - May 31, 2024
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UPCOMING
Michael Mönnich
June 06 - July 07, 2024
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Sanna Helena Berger
July 12 - August 11, 2024
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Maria Tackmann
August 31 - September 29, 2024
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NEWS!
Kaiserwache will be present at Basel Social Club 2024 during Art Basel Week! Swing by to support our selection of artists!
2024
Nina Rieben
average poems sound best at midnight
March 08 - April 14, 2024
EN︎ DE︎ Plan︎ ︎ KP︎
Jeremy Palluce & Marco Spitz
FIREPLACE
February 16 - February 29, 2024
EN︎ DE︎ ︎ KP︎ R.IO︎
2023
Jana Slaby, Julius Martin-Humpert
SACRED SOIL
October 06 - November 05, 2023
EN︎ DE︎ ︎ KP︎ R.IO︎
Guest:
Shaun Motsi, Danielle Arbid
Biennale für Freiburg 2, Das Lied der Straße
June 05 - July 30, 2023
BFF2︎ BFF2︎
Lena Reckord, Judith Blodig, Emina Suljkanovic, Lilian Hengst, Elisa Peyker, Marcel Zetzsch (Macromedia University, Freiburg)
SEE ME, FEEL ME, TOUCH ME, HEAL ME
May 20 - June 01, 2023
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Andrea Lagos, Loreto Valenzuela
AWHISPEROFTHESTONES (Performance)
May 13, 2023
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Wanda Zimmermann, Arunik
untitled
April 15 - April 22, 2023
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Laurie Mlodzik
GENDER EXCRETIONS
March 11 - April 10, 2023
EN︎ DE︎ ︎ TZ︎
2022
Samuel Georgy & Culture Cafe
LAZARUS ELNADY
October 29 - December 04, 2022
EN︎ DE︎ ︎ DL︎
AVANT GARMENTS
pop up stor3
August 26, 2022
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Lou Laserstein
Fotografien aus 2021 & 2022
June 27 - August 10, 2022
Paula Santomé
HUG ME BAREFOOT
May 27 - June 24, 2022
EN︎ DE︎ ︎ KP︎
2021
Guest:
Acimo / Achim Vogel Muranyi
8 Mallets II (Soundperformance)
October 9, 2021
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Guest:
Niklas Goldbach
Biennale für Freiburg
September 9 - October 24, 2021