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Berlin\u2019s Tape Club closed its doors last month on the Heide Strasse location it has occupied for several years \u2013 an area that the club, together with a number of galleries, helped liven up. Though still somewhat of a no man\u2019s land largely referred to as \u201cthe area behind Hauptbahnhof,\u201d rumour has it that the vacant lot will soon be turned into a luxury residential area. It was therefore only fitting that Tape Club\u2019s final exhibition in their series of legendary one night art shows ensued by arty parties, Tape Modern, was centered on the theme of maturity, the city\u2019s very own coming of age serving as a backdrop. As the club already left its Heide Strasse premises, the show was held at an off-location on Moll Strasse 1 \u2013 an address that also symbolizes the city\u2019s changing landscape and histories, as it used to be the headquarters of the GDR\u2019s only news agency, the ADN. Located diagonally across from Soho House, the building will soon house Berlin’s first Standard Hotel. Sleek talked to co-curator Ana Finel Honigman inside the former ADN Newsroom turned club.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sleek: Why did you decide on \u201cmaturity\u201d as your exhibition theme?<\/strong> AFH: I\u2019ve been ruminating on the definition of adulthood for a while lately. It seems that people and communities experience the same transitional tensions between growing old and growing up. For individuals and communities, there is a real authority and power to being perceived as cool, sexy and youthful. Exchanging that for the stability, security and structure of conventional adulthood can be difficult. It can also be fraught with real self-doubt. Berlin is still internationally perceived as the perfect prelapsarian playground but it is changing. Actually, the gentrification is already so deeply entrenched that it\u2019s nostalgic to keep commenting on the new manifestations of it. Personally, I\u2019m a little heart-broken seeing the graffiti get covered in peachy paint on Torstrasse. So, I decided to curate a show that asked a group of my and Amir\u2019s favorite artists to comment on their personal definition of \u201cmaturity\u201d and its meaning.<\/p>\n

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Sleek: \u00a0How does the temporary TAPE space relate to your theme?<\/strong> AFH: It relates perfectly by embodying a cautionary caveat to everything Berlin\u2019s youthful freedom represents. We hung all the work in completely typical offices. The fluorescent lighting, textured milky white ceiling panels, white walls and dull carpet represent oppressive, numbing, stultifying office environments throughout the world. Those banal rooms could be located in Ohio, Seoul or Slough, where the UK\u2019s \u201cThe Office\u201d is based. Placing the art there makes the offices themselves almost become like a set for the work to act against. In a city with Berlin\u2019s accessible standard of living, few artists can survive without day-jobs. Many work in similar offices during their workweek and scramble to create when they can. Those types of offices are also the locations associated with the worst, repressive aspects of \u201cgrowing up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sleek: So, is the art rebelliously squatting in the offices\u2019 space?<\/strong> AFH: In a sense, it is. It\u2019s occupying it before offices like it occupy the artists\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n

Sleek: Were you surprised by the artists\u2019 takes on the theme?<\/strong> AFH: Actually, I was enormously surprised and excited by the variety of responses. I assumed that most people would address universal milestones, like parenthood or even a move abroad. But most of the artists responded more abstractly. All the work was rich and wonderful but the piece that moved me most was a trio of sculptures by the extraordinary Latvian artist, Kristine Alksne. She created subtly captivating topographical peaks from the carved pages of books placed on concrete and metal plinths. These haunting, understated sculptures will be shown in the Moscow Biennial and have already been at Riga\u2019s leading arts festival. At TAPE, I think they poetically represented the value of personal scholarship or education in shaping our identities and ability to transcend drab, alienating, depersonalized urban routines. Angela Liosi\u2019s<\/a> enchanting drawing and midnight-colored velvet sculpture express a similar sense of accumulated personal depth. The drawing is one in an extended Surrealist series, in which Liosi depicts the exposed, oddly-shaped surface of a rock located in the ocean near Greece. Each work in the series has the same beginning portrait of the rock structure but the depths beneath the water are all different. Some are whimsical, whereas others are dark and sinister. The series represents the wealth of potential psychological depth supporting our superficial selves. Both artists do a really beautiful job of representing maturity, not as a rupture between youth and age, but as a gradual and profound evolutionary process. It\u2019s the most exciting and rewarding image of maturity and its potential to keep the best aspects of ourselves fresh, while developing into interesting new identities.<\/p>\n

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Tape Modern No. 26 RIPE \u2013 the final exhibition<\/strong> Curated by Ana Finel Honigman and Amir Fattal<\/strong><\/p>\n

Participating artists: Kristine Alksne | Awst-Walther | Bram Braam | Maxime Ballesteros | Cecile B Evans | Amir Fattal | Carly Fischer | Thea Gregorius | Alison Jackson | Michelle Jezierski | Angela Liosi | Liav Mizrahi | Matthew Cyr Morrocco | Jennifer Oellerich\u00a0 | Leila Pazooki | Javier Peres | Jen Ray | Hannes Ribarits | Sameer reddy\u00a0 | Judy Ross | Victoria Roth | Maya Schweizer | Emmy Skensved | Philipp Topolovac<\/p>\n

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