The Haus am Lützowplatz (HaL) is showing a solo exhibition by the American artist Tracey Snelling (*1970 in Oakland, CA).
Image above: Tracey Snelling, Killer and Me, 2022, photograph, courtesy of the artist and Studio la Città, Verona
In her model-like replicas of existing buildings, the artist examines the social relationships of the individuals living in them. The sculptures are often staged with light and sound effects while video clips are shown on built-in monitors. Tracey Snelling’s objects and installations refer to the complexity of a world in which images are omnipresent and interchangeable and in which fictions increasingly overlap and merge with reality.
A unifying element of the sculptures in the “How We Live” exhibition is the theme of social housing, i.e. state-subsidised construction projects and the associated social issues. For the “Haus am Lützowplatz” art association, the “How We Live” project is directly linked to a social housing project on the site of the former car park, which will be realised from spring 2025 after a planning phase lasting several years. A permanent exhibition was set up in the studio gallery in February 2024.
About the artist
Tracey Snelling has lived and worked in Berlin since 2016. In 2017 she was awarded a residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien and in 2022 she received a working grant from the Stiftung Kunstfonds. Her works have recently been shown as part of the following exhibitions: “Suddenly Wonderful: Future Ideas for Large West Berlin Buildings of the 1970s”, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (25 May – 18 September, 2023); “Contemporaneo Non-Stop”, Museo di Arte Contemporanea Palazzo Forti, Verona (7 October 2023 – January 2025). October 2023 – January 2025); “About Us, an installation by Tracey Snelling”, The Human Safety Net with Generali, Procuratie Vecchie, Piazza San Marco, Venice (13 April 2024 – 28 April 2025); “Profitopolis: oder der Zustand der Stadt”, Museum der Dinge, Berlin (23 May 2024 – 28 February 2025).
The project at HaL is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the widely travelled and internationally renowned artist in her adopted home city and reflects her residencies in New Orleans (2018), Shanghai (2018-19), Paris (2020), Ann Arbor/Michigan (2022) and Tokyo (2022).
WHEN?
Opening: Wednesday, 11. September 2024, 7 pm.
Exhibition dates: Thursday, 12. September 2024 bis until Sunday, 02. February 2024
WHERE?
Haus am Lützowplatz
Lützowplatz 9
10785 Berlin
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