BÉLA PABLO JANSSEN
ANARCHIVE/ 103 posters/ 2023–2013

Opening
01 Sept 2023, 4 – 7 pm

Exhibition
02 Sept – 14 Oct 2023

LRRH_BPJ/ ANARCHIVE is published as an edition of 35 unisex t-shirts on a transparent fabric and presented during DC Open 2023 at LRRH_AERIAL.

On the occasion of the show by the same name as part of the IM FOYER series at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (24.6.–17.9.2023), the exhibition and LRRH_ ART EDITION BY is accompanied by a book published by Sorry Press ANARCHIVE by Béla Pablo Janssen, 236 pages, including a holistic poster of all motifs and introduced by Alicia Holthausen and Gregor Jansen.

The ANARCHIVE series comprises 103 posters, which Béla Pablo Janssen has collected between 2013 and 2023. BPJ sprays over the posters uniformly: The text part is blotted out with coloured, white, or black spray paint that matches the colour of the original text, creating “clouds” or “bars” on each poster where the information about the exhibitions was once legible.

Book ANARCHIVE

Sorry Press, 232 pages sw offset print, 1 poster cmyk/ duplex print and cover, 18.5 x 11.5 cm, Edition of 500

Installations by Alexandra Hopf generate a feeling of dejà vu. This also applies to Musée des Chemises that – not just coincidentally – recalls Marcel Broodthaers’ mise-en-scènes. A lettering of the exhibition’s title and a painted monochrome surface with irregular outlines embellish the wall. Lined with potted palm trees a folding-screen, made of grained wood panels, cuts across the room. The panels display transparent reverse glass paintings, which visualize a cycle of disembodied images. They in turn bear likenesses, mounted on the panels like film sequences. The beginning was the original of a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Broodthaers, also a master of reference, captured the drawings in a 1964 film essay entitled Bruegel et Goya, journalistes. The stills from this film reproduced in his publication Cinéma served as templates for Alexandra Hopf´s reproductions on glass. The respective interpretations through the ages overlap and create something original again.

FRZNTE x Starstyling

02 June 2023, 5 pm

Performance

Fashion_ STARSTYLING
Video_ Hugo Holger Schneider

FRZNTE is an East Berlin-born dj, pole performer and cultural producer. She has worked with Transmoderna and Peaches, among others, and occasionally tours with Apex Anima. In her pole performances she combines performative, choreographic and sculptural elements, often referring to the architectural context.
FRZNTE would like to be announced with this quote from Audre Lorde’s The Use of Eroticism: Eroticism as Power: “Recognizing the power of the erotic within our lives can give us the energy to pursue genuine change within our world, rather than merely settling for a shift of characters in the same weary drama. For not only do we touch our most profoundly creative source, but we do that which is female and self-affirming in the face of a racist, patriarchal, and anti-erotic society.”