INTERNATIONAL TOPSELLERS - human product

INTERNATIONAL TOPSELLERS - human product
22.6. – 24.06.2017

Opening: 21.6.2017 at 7 pm / Live-Event from 8 pm
Guided tour: Friday 23.6.2017 at 5 pm

TO HONOR AND VALUE MOMENTS RIGHTLY WE MUST NAME THEM. SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE WANT. SOMETHING MATERIAL, THAT MAY BE PERCEIVED BY THE SENSES. SOMETHING THAT WHEN VIEWED STIRS PARTICULAR EMOTION.
SOMETHING MENTAL OR PHYSICAL TOWARD WHICH THOUGHT, FEELING OR ACTION IS DIRECTED. 

INTERNATIONAL TOPSELLERS merges social practice in a walk-in art installation. Specifically designed for Vienna / Kunsthalle Exnergasse human product will present (wearable) artworks at the intersection of contemporary art, fashion, theory and consumer culture in an audio-visually enhanced art fashion show. 

The third edition of INTERNATIONAL TOPSELLERS - human product is a collective project by artists of the Dresden-based artspaces C. Rockefeller Center for the contemporary Art and STORE contemporary that collaborated with international artists and art collectives from Leipzig (Gallery Fist / BSMNT), Vienna and beyond.

Some Things make a great appearance. It is you, it is us and the holes in the world. this is so contemporary. It is radically why-not. Don`t forget, it is all completely made up and doesn`t help anyone! just like any other thing: MAY OR MAY NOT BE A THING.

Participating artists: Eric Winkler, Tony Franz, Paul Waak, Tilman Hornig, Alexander Endrullat, Sascha Hundorf, Aram Bartholl, Thomas Judisch, Alexander Gehrke, Ronny Szillo, Lucie Freynhagen, Andreas Ullrich, Hermes Villena, Raik Zimmermann, Holger Jenss, Paul Barsch, Philipp Wagenknecht, Clemens Reinecke, Svenja Wichmann, Ernst Markus Stein, Amanda Pina, Elisabeth Rosenthal, Cyril Baldy, Josh Johnson, Valerie Ebuwa, …  

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Project initiators: 

Paul Barsch (*1982), artist / graduated from Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden / lives and works in Berlin and Dresden projects: S T O R E Contemporary, non-profit artspace in Dresden, Germany / New Scenario, a dynamic platform for conceptual, time based and performative exhibition formats (Collaboration with Tilman Hornig) / Official Office concurrent 24h live videoinstallation (Collaboration with RECESS / NYC 2013-2015)

Lucie Freynhagen (*1983), artist and curator / graduated from Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden / founding member of C. Rockefeller Center for the contemporary arts, lives and works in Dresden, Germany. / Instigator of DRESDEN PUBLIC ART VIEW (2014), OFFM Public Art Panels (2015) Frankfurt am Main, HIDDEN VOICES (2015), Dresden International Topsellers (2016) artevent @ Art fair Dresden + Dresden International Topsellers - real time systems (2017) Los Angeles, DISPLA(Y)CED (2017)

Svenja Wichmann (*1987), artist / graduated from Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden / current studies at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne / Member of C. Rockefeller Center for the contemporary arts, Dresden / Board member of Neuer Kunstvereins Wuppertal / lives and works in Cologne, Germany / Instigator of DRESDEN PUBLIC ART VIEW (2014) Dresden