Artists in Galerie Baer
1996 founded by Henrik Mayer (born 1971 in Freiberg) und Martin Keil (born 1968 in Schlema)
2007 scholarship of Kunstfonds Bonn; scholarship of Kulturstiftung Sachsen in New York ISCP 2006 Arraspreis2004 Aufenthaltsstipendium Landkreis Lüneburg, Künstlerstätte Bleckede 2002 Aufenthaltsstipendium of Saxonia in Columbus/Ohio 2001 Marion Ermer Preis
exhibitions and participations (selection):2007»THE SOCIAL ENGINE« with Miklós Erhardt in cooperation with ACC Galerie Weimar and Studio of Young Artists Association, Budapest, during Bipolar - german/hungarien cultur projects »Body and Consumerism« Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems; »Private Dancers« O3one Gallery Belgrad, during art-e-conomy, international cooperation project; »The Molsberger Files« Neuer Sächsischer Kunstverein, Dresden; »GASTARBEID GASTFREUND ARBEITSGAST GASTHEER« a constructive process at Netwerk / center for contemporary art, Aalst Belgium; 2006 »bin beschäftigt«, Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst Bremen, »Geld ist Zeit«, galerie baer | raum für aktuelle kunst, Dresden, »Wildes Kapital«, Kunsthaus Dresden, »Varna Festival for Contemporary Art«, Bulgaria 2005 Autonom ist noch nicht einmal der Mond Lothringer Str. 13 München; Westendprojekt Leipzig Plagwitz; 2004 Arbeite mit, plane mit, regiere mit! Kunstverein Kassel; work life balance galerie baer Dresden; Autonom ist noch nicht einmal der Mond ACC Galerie Weimar; Permanent Produktiv Kunsthalle Exnergasse Wien; Nomad Job Casting Hinterconti Hamburg; SparwasserHQ at Platform Istanbul; Berlin North Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin 2003 Prague Biennial peripheries become the center; Dresden Postplatz Autobahnbeobachtung; Freie Fahrt für... Goethe Institut Prag; Strike Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster; Nomad Job Sparwasser HQ Berlin; Studio Gallery Budapest Gallery by night; Balkan Konsulat, „Prague“ at , Graz; Erst die Arbeit… ACC Galerie Weimar (mit Henrik Schrat) 2002 Split Points, contemporary art from Dresden at the National Gallery Prague; Wahlhilfe Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin; Big Torino, International Biennial of Art, Turin 2001 Business Art School Berlin; Lothringer Straße 13/Laden, München; Get The Message Neues Museum, Weimar; SUCCESS Kunst Haus Dresden; HEIMATEN Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig 2000 DynamoEintracht Frankfurt/Main, Dresden; Neues Leben Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig; Real Places? Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster
With their project „Work Life Balance“, Reinigungsgesellschaft (RG) shows in what way human life integrates itself into efficiency oriented and flexible structures. They investigate what living spaces exist beyond economic pragmatism. At the same time, traces of civilian life added to standardized anthropospheres are visualized. For this, RG has developed a series of photographs that look into the conflict between wishful thinking and reality. The presented photographs act as a visualized classification of the living space as well as the workspace.
By confronting them, precarious social fields of acting and existing protest potential, for example, are picked out as a central theme. That way, the viewer faces a documentary realness.
In a video installation RG deals with the virtualization of operating processes. For this, takings of automated motion sequences in production plants and service enterprises were made. The worker’s physical motional capability gets displaced to the leisure time sector. The topic of adding value is being discussed in a new context.