Klartext Berlin

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The exhibition catalog (06.10.2006 – 23.12.2006) features contributions from Raimar Stange and showcases artists including Christine Würmell, Alexander Wolff, Gernot Wieland, Stefan Schuster, Olaf Nicolai, Jonathan Monk, Elke Marhöfer, Michel Majerus, Asta Gröting, Candice Breitz, Øystein Aasan, and Carla Åhlander. This event highlights the collaboration between artists from Lower Austria living in Berlin and their Berlin counterparts. Young artists Stefan Schuster and Gernot Wieland, currently based in Berlin, engage with the vibrant international art scene that has flourished since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Their conceptual works involve documenting, collecting, and researching found objects, language, and various images, blending the trivial with the significant. The exhibition “Klartext Berlin” presents artists who, like Schuster and Wieland, explore the medium of text in their art. Instead of following the current "young star hype," the exhibition features three generations of artists: emerging talents Øystein Aasan, Christine Würmell, Alexander Wolff, Elke Marhöfer, and Carla Åhlander; established figures Candice Breitz, Jonathan Monk, Michel Majerus, and Olaf Nicolai; and veteran Asta Gröting, who has been active since the 1980s. All artists share a neo-conceptual approach that incorporates language as a key aesthetic element, addressing political issues such as the erosion of social welfare and aggressive U.