Frederic Amat, Eleanna Anagnos, Tom Anholt, Pau Atela, Robert Barry, Christopher Beckman, Amy Bessone, James Bloom, William Bradley, Mary Beth Brooker, Michael Bühler-Rose, Jesse Farber, Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Luis Frangella, Max Frintrop, Luc Fuller, Chitra Ganesh, Baris Gokturk, Joanne Greenbaum, Keith Haring, Ona Jaan, Jasmine Justice, Tamara K.E., Emma Kohlmann, Mitja Konic, Alexander Kroll, Micha Laury, Luciana Levinton, Matt Lifson, Brooke Werhane Maples, Roy McDowell, Mira O’Brien, Christian Pilz, Richard Prince, Jon Pylypchuk, Marco Reichert, Allison Schulnik, Tim Schwartz, Lui Shtini, Brian Sharp, Smash 137/ Adrian Falkner, Peter Stankiewicz, Karl-Fredrik Stenhaug, Ryan Blair Sullivan, Kev Tobin, Feodor Voronov, Kandis Williams, Michael Wutz
“Person, Place or Thing “is an exhibition of works on paper by emerging and established artists selected by Quang Bao, the new artistic director for 68projects in Berlin. Using paper as the basis for the group exhibition allows for a diverse range of artworks and participating artists, tightened by asking each artist to make a work that falls into one of the three categories in a standard guessing-game prompt. Most of the artworks are presented as finished works on paper through a few illustrate the artistic practices of sculptors, film/video makers and performance artists.
“I have always loved the intimacy, evident handiwork and reinvention contained on a single sheet of paper,” Bao said. “I wanted to celebrate the generative power of human imagination.”
For its second exhibition in the new artist space, 68projects presents an international and eclectic lineup of artists in a vibrant exhibition of works on paper.
A blank sheet of paper, four white walls, an empty black-box theatre—you can do anything you want. Yet nothing is more daunting for an artist than the simple act of beginning. Even preparing to start can develop into enduring and eccentric rituals.
When an artist finishes the wind-up, what often awaits is not infinite possibility but the low-grade anxiety that all that has been done may already be enough. If seeing Velázquez’s Las Meninas once prompted painters to abandon painting altogether, what motivates artists today to attempt making work worthy of standing alongside the greatest artworks of all time? The simple answer is that trying still counts—and new ideas can still matter.
“Person, Place or Thing” is a group exhibition of works on paper by emerging and established artists, selected by Quang Bao, the artistic director of 68projects in Berlin. Using paper as the common medium allows for a broad range of artistic approaches, unified by a simple prompt: each artist was asked to create a work that fits into one of three categories—person, place or thing.
Most works are presented as finished works on paper, while a small number reflect the practices of sculptors, filmmakers, video artists and performance artists.
“I have always loved the intimacy, evident handiwork and reinvention contained on a single sheet of paper,”
Quang Bao said. “I wanted to celebrate the generative power of human imagination.”
Participating Artists
Frederic Amat, Eleanna Anagnos, Tom Anholt, Pau Atela, Robert Barry, Christopher Beckman, Amy Bessone, James Bloom, William Bradley, Mary Beth Brooker, Michael Bühler-Rose, Jesse Farber, Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Luis Frangella, Max Frintrop, Luc Fuller, Chitra Ganesh, Baris Gokturk, Joanne Greenbaum, Keith Haring, Ona Jaan, Jasmine Justice, Tamara K.E., Emma Kohlmann, Mitja Konić, Alexander Kroll, Micha Laury, Luciana Levinton, Matt Lifson, Brooke Werhane Maples, Roy McDowell, Mira O’Brien, Christian Pilz, Richard Prince, Jon Pylypchuk, Marco Reichert, Allison Schulnik, Tim Schwartz, Lui Shtini, Brian Sharp, Smash 137 / Adrian Falkner, Peter Stankiewicz, Karl-Fredrik Stenhaug, Ryan Blair Sullivan, Kev Tobin, Feodor Voronov, Kandis Williams, Michael Wutz, Anonymous (3)
