Galerie – Galerie is an immaterial art gallery dealing exclusively with immaterial artworks. Galerie represents artistic practices that mainly manifest through performative formats. The mission of Galerie is to support and promote immaterial objecthood: works that cannot be reduced to material objects or to the documentation of an action. Galerie circulates artworks by representing them as well as offering them for sale.

Animal Companion

A work by Hana Lee Erdman

This performance of companionship applies principles of interspecies relations through choreography and image making in order to expand a possible repertoire of human relations. The work proposes the exhibition space as a social art space, …

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outis · November 16, 2020February 10, 2021

Timing: On the Temporal Dimension of Exhibiting

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Eds. Beatrice von Bismarck, Rike Frank, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer, Jörn Schafaff, Thomas Weski

“Processuality and performativity, and more recently dramaturgy and choreography, are terms often used in analyses of exhibitions and other curatorial formats. These attributions reflect the changes curatorial practice has undergone over the past twenty years …

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galerie · March 10, 2021April 6, 2021

The Death of the Audience

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Conversation between Elisabeth Lebovici and Pierre Bal-Blanc

Elisabeth Lebovici: I would like to begin with the title of the exhibition you curated at the Secession in Vienna in summer 2009, as it was what first enticed me to conduct this conversation with …

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galerie · March 10, 2021March 10, 2021

Apropos Appropriation: Why stealing images today feels different

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An essay by Jan Verwoert

Appropriation, first of all, is a common technique. People appropriate when they make things their own and integrate them into their way of life, by buying or stealing commodities, acquiring knowledge, claiming places as theirs …

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galerie · March 10, 2021March 10, 2021

Art as Occupation: Claims for an Autonomy of Life

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An essay by Hito Steyerl

Lets start with a simple proposition: what used to be work has increasingly been turned into occupation. This change in terminology may look trivial. In fact, almost everything changes on the way from work to …

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galerie · March 10, 2021

Activities 2015 – 2020

- Project by Galerie

A Curriculum

Solo Show by Krõõt Juurak Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna 11-15 June 2019 tqw.at/en/event/an-immaterial-gallery-for-immaterial-artworks/ Group Show ’It’s Takes All The Fucking Time’ Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich 8 June 2019 Group Show Oslo Internasjonale Teaterfestival Black Box teater, Oslo …

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galerie · March 10, 2021March 10, 2021

Welcome to this Situation

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An essay by Jörg Heiser

“In 2009 I went to Brussels to see a Tino Sehgal show at Galerie Jan Mot. It was not long after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and everything was being read as an expression of …

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galerie · March 10, 2021

Zombies Of Immaterial Labour: The Modern Monster And The Death Of Death

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An essay by Lars Bang Larsen

“My proposal, perverse or braindead as it may be, is that the zombie begs a materialist analysis with a view to contemporary culture. Such an analysis is necessarily double-edged. The zombie is pure need without …

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galerie · March 10, 2021April 6, 2021

Galerie’s Booth

- Project by Galerie

Poppositions art fair, 2015
Empty artfair booth representing works by Krõõt Juurak, Mårten Spångberg, Valentina Desideri, Alex Bailey, Jan Ritsema and Audrey Cottin, using their respective means

2015/04/24 to 2015/04/27 Bruxelles Price list Works: Bad Mood, Krõõt Juurak Performative state Not documentable. Not resellable. Condition of activation: it has to be announced Internal Conflict, Krõõt Juurak, 2014- Edition of 5 numbered conflicts, each different …

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galerie · January 23, 2021April 6, 2021

Conversation between Seth Siegelaub and Hans Ulrich Obrist

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Published In TRANS> #6, 1999

HANS ULRICH OBRIST: My first question concerns your most recent activity. Could you tell me about this special issue of Art Press called the “The Context of Art/The Art of Context” published in October 1996? …

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galerie · March 10, 2021

forms of life

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A research by Franck Leibovici

(forms of life) when looking at an artwork, i often ask myself what form of life is behind it. in other words, i wonder what form of life the author has implemented to make the …

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galerie · March 10, 2021

KRÕÕT JUURAK, FAMILY, BAD MOOD AUDIENCE, SLEEPING BAD MOOD

- News, Text

Publication by Galerie

The first comprehensive monograph on the work of Krõõt Juurak edited and published by Galerie ISBN: 9788797259405 Get your copy !

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outis · November 30, 2020April 6, 2021

Group Show @Jan Mot, Brussels

- Project by Galerie

An exhibition in the format of a performance, curated and performed by Galerie
With works by Angela Goh, Dora Garcia, Adriana Lara, Jennifer Lacey, Mårten Spångberg, Audrey Cottin, Krõõt Juurak and Alex Bailey

exhibition sheet with introduction by Tom Engels Group Show part of another name, spoken curated by Tom Engels Jan Mot, Bruxelles Jan 21 17:00-19:00 / Jan 22 15:00-17:00 List of works Opening Hours, Adriana Lara, …

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galerie · January 7, 2021April 6, 2021

Live Forever: Collecting Live Art

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Edited by Teresa Calonje

“The book now in your hands is itself a kind of collection, a gathering of the voices of some catalysts of contemporary performance: artists, cultural engineers, curators, collectors, set alongside critical meditations on the aesthetic, …

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galerie · March 10, 2021April 6, 2021

Art for Animal Audiences

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Prof. Jessica Ulrich

A conversation on Performances for Pets on the occasion of Animal Forms & Formulas – On the human-animal-relation in contemporary performance, Presented at Sophiensaele, Berlin Krõõt Juurak and Alex Bailey have been performing for pets …

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galerie · March 10, 2021March 10, 2021

Pour la fin du Temps

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A work by Jan Ristema

Jan Ritsema dances solo on live music performed by Takashi Yamane, Yutaka Oya, Geert Bièvre and George van Dam. The starting point was the quartet Quatuor pour la fin du temps by Olivier Messiaen. This …

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galerie · December 2, 2020February 10, 2021

Performances for Pets

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A work by Alex Bailey and Krõõt Juurak

2014 Performance for pets variable duration according to the pet. Documentable. Resellable. Conditions for activation: It is activated in the domicile of the pet with or without the presence of the owner. Pets surround us, …

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galerie · December 2, 2020January 23, 2021

Political Therapy

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A work by Valentina Desideri

“Political Therapy” is a practice originally invented by Valentina Desideri, which she has spread to various public and private contexts over the past years, alongside with “Fake Therapy”. Both Political and Fake Therapy play with …

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galerie · December 2, 2020February 10, 2021

The Hypnotic Show

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Curated by Raimundas Malašauskas, hypnotised by Marcos Lutyens

HYPNOTIC SHOW FAQ: Q: What is Hypnotic Show? A: A temporary social structure of engaging into creative cognitive acts through shared practices of art and hypnosis. Q: What is the relationship between art and hypnosis? …

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galerie · March 10, 2021March 10, 2021

BMW Tate Live: The Future of Live

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A conversation between Charles Aubin, Defne Ayas, Barbara Clausen and Catherine Wood

This final public event in the Talks series reflects on the year’s BMW Tate Live programme. It addresses some of the central thoughts and observations emerging from the inter-disciplinary debates around the nature of the …

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galerie · March 10, 2021March 10, 2021

Artificial Hells by Claire Bishop as audiobook by Galerie

- Project by Galerie

Shedhalle commission

Invited by Shedhalle curator Michelangelo Miccolis to reflect on the current state of so-called ‘immaterial practices’, we propose to start with remembering a book–Claire Bishop’s Artificial Hells. Back in 2012, this essay proposed a historical …

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galerie_admin · December 15, 2022December 16, 2022

The Living Currency (La Monnaie Vivante)

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Curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc

The Living Currency (La Monnaie Vivante) is a two-day exhibition, in which historical and more recent approaches to the body as a focus of performance in the visual arts are placed in confrontation with the …

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galerie · March 10, 2021March 10, 2021

Internal Conflict

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A work by Krõõt Juurak

Internal Conflict” is an ongoing improvisational intra-institutional performance, manifesting as signs of internal conflict within a team. The aim is to give a random bystander, the public or media the impression of inner tensions and …

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galerie · December 2, 2020January 23, 2021

Powered by Emotion

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A work by Mårten Spångberg

“Powered by Emotion” is a full night solo created and performed by Mårten Spångberg originating from a desire to dance and sing without having access to skill and technical capacity in relationship to the production …

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galerie · December 2, 2020February 10, 2021

Spangbergianism

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An essay by Mårten Spångberg

“This book is a performance. It was put together over sixty-four days as a sort of rehearsal, during which every day resulted in a showing [forbid them] in the shape of a blog-post. It’s material, …

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galerie · March 10, 2021April 6, 2021

Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972

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By Lucy Lippard

“Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972: a cross-reference book of information on esthetic boundaries:consisting of a bibliography in which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and …

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galerie · March 10, 2021April 6, 2021

Delegated Performance: Outsourcing Authenticity

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An essay by Claire Bishop

This essay is presented on delegated performance in which nonprofessionals are hired to perform at a particular time on behalf of the artist on his or her instructions. The author stated that this social turn …

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galerie · March 10, 2021April 6, 2021

Esthetic Entities

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An essay by Floring Flueras

Retroactive self-referentiality In the last 10 years entities with a complex esthetic operativity emerged in the zones of dance and visual arts of Bucharest. Attempts of understanding them are mostly made by insiders, as is …

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galerie · March 10, 2021

Law Facing up to the Dematerialisation of the Work of Art

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An essay by Judith Ickowicz

“This text is an abstract of a PhD in private law submitted in 2009 at Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. We are publishing it not only because it adresses the legal understanding of the dematerialisation of the …

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galerie · March 10, 2021

La Piscine

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A work by Myriam Lefkowitz

Wishing to associate different artistic practices that broach related questions, she opened her reflection to others and came up with La Piscine. During six straight days, seven artists – Jean-Philippe Derail, Valentina Desideri, Ben Evans, …

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galerie · March 10, 2021

Il Tempo del Postino

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Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno

“Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno as a group show that would occupy time rather than space, “Il Tempo del Postino” (Postman Time) presents a sequential display of time-based art on the theatre …

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galerie · March 10, 2021

The Publication

- Project by Galerie

A container and meeting point on the state of immaterial practices, curated by Galerie

Table of contents 21.11.2017 (13—17) • Welcome by the editors, Galerie Presentation, a few words 13:00 • Introduction and Chapter One of Catherine Malabou’s ‘Ontology of the Accident, An Essay on Destructive Plasticity’, Galerie Reading …

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galerie · December 2, 2020February 10, 2021

Council

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A laboratory for artistic research

Council brings together a laboratory for artistic research (the inquiries), a program for the production of artworks, and a fellowship. These activities construct a network of people and institutions linked to the arts, the sciences …

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galerie · March 10, 2021March 10, 2021

Bringing Us Close at A Distance

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An essay by Nina Djekić

Prologue Objects can form a reflective surface through which we look at each other indirectly. As an interface they can offer us a way to affect each other, without needing to express an intention directly. …

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galerie · March 10, 2021

Intangible Economies

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Ed. by Antonia Hirsch, Filiip, Vacouvert (2012)

Treating the idea of an economy as a general system of exchange, Intangible Economies advances the idea that personal relationships are produced by economic activity and that desire generates economic transactions. Intangible Economies speculatively investigates …

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galerie · March 10, 2021April 6, 2021

It’s About Time

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A conversation between Jennifer Allen, Peter Osborne, Elena Filipovic and Carsten Höller

Chaired by Jennifer Allen (Writer and Critic), this discussion explored the recent emphasis on temporality in art exhibitions. While considering historical and philosophical precedents, the panel looked at how and why time has become a …

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galerie · March 10, 2021

Bad Mood

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A work by Krõõt Juurak

Bad Mood is an artwork in the format of a performative condition, in other words a mood. Since a mood can be more or less contageous, Bad Mood can spread to include anyone and become …

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galerie · December 2, 2020April 6, 2021

Squatting*

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Pontus Petterson

Pontus Pettersson proposes a continuous work in which Squatting is a temporal visit and an expression. Every squat takes the name of its temporal ”home” as well as making it the site of the performance, …

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outis · March 16, 2020February 10, 2021

Care Of Editions

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A label that explores new approaches to distributing music

Care Of Editions is a label that pays people to download the music we release with profits made from selling the same albums on vinyl. As more records sell, more downloads become available, and for …

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galerie · March 10, 2021

The collection that didn’t exist

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On collector Herman Daled, produced by produced by Joachim Olender

Documentary dedicated to Herman Daled, one of the major collectors of Conceptual art: on a journey from Brussels to New York, the Belgian collector looks back on his past and that of an aesthetic movement …

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galerie · March 10, 2021March 10, 2021

The Terror of Total Dasein, Economies of Presence in the Art Field

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An essay by Hito Steyerl

“The International Artists’ Strike in 1979 was a “protest against the ongoing repression of the art system and the alienation of artists from the results of their work.” Djordjevic mailed invitations to numerous artists around …

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galerie · March 10, 2021April 6, 2021

Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

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A collection of writings by Allan Kaprow

Kaprow’s Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life (1993) is a collection of pieces written over four decades, that has made his theories about the practice of art in the present day available to …

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galerie · November 24, 2020March 10, 2021

Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive?

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Para Site International Conference 2014

The new performance turn, its histories and its institutions, “Para Site is proud to present “Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive? The new performance turn, its histories and its institutions.” The 2014 …

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galerie · March 10, 2021April 6, 2021

Humorology

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A work by Alex Bailey

Humourology is the study of humour related communications and the occult manner in which it reflects certain aptitudes and character tendencies. By integrating our physical artistes into the cosmic plan of humourolgy the value derived …

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outis · February 19, 2020February 10, 2021

Galerie in conversation with Galerie

- Project by Galerie

Text commissioned for Koreografi 2018

Galerie in conversation with Galerie, eds. Ann-Christin Kongsness, Solveig Styve Holte and Venke Marie Sortland

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galerie_admin · April 6, 2021April 6, 2021

O.T. Opertaing Theatre

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A work by Audrey Cottin

In Antiquity, an operating theatre was a non-sterilized amphitheater where students and curious spectators could observe doctors work on chirurgical procedures. Nowadays, communication technologies allow doctors and scientists anywhere in the world to conduct operations …

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outis · January 19, 2020February 10, 2021

Number Shows, Process of attrition

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Lucy R. Lippard in conversation with Antony Hudek

Lucy R. Lippard’s first numbered show was “557,087” at Seattle’s World’s Fair Pavilion in September 1969, followed a few months later by an expanded version of the same show entitled “955,000” at the Vancouver Art …

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galerie · March 10, 2021