Supported by the Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Department
The exhibition will be followed by a workshop given by the artists.
The Jack Hanley Gallery presents Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser's installation, Postautomobilzeitalter. The exhibition includes structures and ideas that re... Read more
Supported by the Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Department
The exhibition will be followed by a workshop given by the artists.
The Jack Hanley Gallery presents Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser’s installation, Postautomobilzeitalter. The exhibition includes structures and ideas that resulted from one of the recent public projects of urban intervention staged by the Berlin artists.
In the spring of 2010, Köbberling and Kaltwasser together with students of the Art Center College of Art and Design transformed cars into bicycles. The artists and students occupied several parking spaces at Bergamont station in Santa Monica, California and temporarily turned the parking lot into a car dismantling/bicycle building workshop. In a matter of 500 hours, they converted a Saab 900 turbo into two fully operational bikes. The two bicycles constructed during the project will now stand as catalytic objects in the space of the gallery. The carnage of the transformed Saab will also be on view as testimony to the endless potential of our waste.
As part of their exhibition, Köbberling and Kaltwasser will host a workshop on January 8th from 4 to 6pm to discuss a post car production future. What alternatives do we have, could we imagine a continent without individual motorized transportation? The artists will speak from their year long experience as a family living in Los Angeles without a car. Participants will be encouraged to join the discussion by drawing their ideas on the gallery walls. The result will be a collaborative work that proposes what a future without individual motorized transportation might look like and how it might affect our urban landscape.
