AS LONG AS IT LASTS
MIENTRAS DURE
MENTRE DURI
CHRISTIAN AWE | DARYA VON BERNER
AMIR H. FALLAH | DANIEL KNORR
LATOURELLE & WITTHOEFT
JOHN MONTEITH | JORDAN NASSAR
MARIO PFEIFER | SANTIAGO SIERRA
MICHAEL E. SMITH
ANDREAS TEMPLIN | VIA LEWANDOWSKI
CURATED BY
SARAH BELDEN
ON THE OCCASION OF
BERLIN GALLERY
WEEKEND
APRIL 28-30
2023
ART BRUNCH
SATURDAY APRIL 29
SUNDAY APRIL 30
11:30-4 PM
AND BY APPOINTMENT
Zur alten Flussbadeanstalt 4 10317 Berlin
The title of the exhibition “As Long as it Lasts” is based on a typographic text by American conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner made in 1989. “As Long as it Lasts” is a broad and open-ended statement, neither optimistic nor quite pessimistic, but rather it reminds us that one can never make assumptions about the future while we face with the myriad of current socio-political, ecological, economic and health crises.
Each artist in the exhibition addresses this in diverse and subtle ways. “As Long as it Lasts” includes paintings, prints, textiles, sculpture and video works that contend with the transformative, fragile, and fleeting nature of material objects, built environments, architecture and their histories, origins, and possible futures.
These works address the delicate balance between these complex systems at a crucial time when AI, technological innovation, and new political movements might change things for better or worse. Amidst the myriad of crises we are currently facing, “As Long as it Lasts” offers us a glimpse of where we may be going.
As Yuval Noah Harari writes in his book Homo Deus, “We are envisioning a near future with a new set of challenges…exploring the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the Twenty-first Century and beyond- from overcoming death to artificial life. How can we protect this fragile world from our own destructive power? And what does our future hold?”
-Sarah Rebecca Anne Belden
