— too bold, too big, to far: Unrealized artworks become visible. Artists from all over connect.
While mobility is restricted, borders and distances are clearly perceptible and existential uncertainties
are omnipresent, more artistic works than ever remain in the state of planning. Whether it fails due to
lack of time, space or money or accompanies your artistic work for years as bold dream — we are looking
for your projects, which have not (yet) made it beyond their state as an idea, concept, draft or prototype.
With this exhibition we want to open up a space and visibility in terms of concepts, sketches, drafts, plans
and photographs. These papers will be presented at the art space BLECH. in Halle, Germany.
At the same time, despite current challenges and immobility, this format allows to present
and bring international artists together. Since many things cannot take place on location and in person,
there will be an online programm additional to the exhibtion. For an exchange and encounters, the
participating artists and their work will be presented and discussed on a digital platform.
— too bold, too big, to far: Unrealized artworks become visible. Artists from all over connect.
While mobility is restricted, borders and distances are clearly perceptible and existential uncertainties
are omnipresent, more artistic works than ever remain in the state of planning. Whether it fails due to
lack of time, space or money or accompanies your artistic work for years as bold dream — we are looking
for your projects, which have not (yet) made it beyond their state as an idea, concept, draft or prototype.
With this exhibition we want to open up a space and visibility in terms of concepts, sketches, drafts, plans
and photographs. These papers will be presented at the art space BLECH. in Halle, Germany.
At the same time, despite current challenges and immobility, this format allows to present
and bring international artists together. Since many things cannot take place on location and in person,
there will be an online programm additional to the exhibtion. For an exchange and encounters, the
participating artists and their work will be presented and discussed on a digital platform.
jens kloppmann
ABOUT
Jens Kloppmann, * 1969 studied fine arts at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the academy of arts Kassel. He lives in Berlin and Leipzig and is represented by the Michaela Helfrich Gallery Berlin.
His work has been shown at Anningahof, Zwolle, ARD Hauptstadtstudio Berlin, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, Art Sloy Festival, Wolgograd, Vane Gallery, Newcastle, Survival Art Review, Wrocław, Art Market, Budapest, Art Karlsruhe or the Biennale October Salon in Belgrade.
STATEMENT
My conceptual works often have a historical, political background and vary in form, medium and size.
They deal with pictorial reality, collective memory and irritation. This can be realised in the form of concrete or plaster sculptures, photomontages, drawings or fretwork.
"Jens Kloppmann is a versatile, unpredictable artist (...) His works have something extraterrestrial about them. To me, they always seem like the attempts of aliens to inconspicuously interfere. (Sven Regener, catalogue "Das alles kommt mit - Aus dem Wohnzimmer in die Schweiz und zurück, Velvet, concert and exhibition Element of Crime, Orangery, Sarasin Park, Fondation Beyeler/Act Entertainment, Basel, 2013".
We asked ...
How does it feel for you as an artist not to be able to realize an artwork?
Do you think there are artworks that should better never be realized? Why?
There is only one other work that I have not yet realized. It was about creating a highlight for an art fair. I had the unsuspecting idea to satirize the alleged drug consumption of artists and gallery owners and wanted to ask the police if they could lend me confiscated cocaine to show - of course secured with bullet-proof glass - a "coke cube" of 1x1x1 m. A white cube as an exhibit, so to speak. You can see that I have no idea about drugs. I would have given a dubious picture with my request and would probably have been shot by the ghost of Pablo Escobar himself to get this huge amount of cocaine, if they had actually "borrowed" it from me.
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