Alina Schmuch – The Inner Office

16 September – 18 November 2018
Opening: Sa., 15 September 2018, 7 pm

Welcome: Nicole Nowak, Executive director
Introduction: Nadja Quante, Artistic director

With "The Inner Office" Alina Schmuch presents a new video work which explores the design of internal and external processes in new work environments. How do holistic approaches to work, which are centered around personal development and individuality, manifest themselves in architecture, language and design? With her subtle, distanced view, Schmuch films workspaces in headquarters of companies from the creative and high-tech industries, coworking spaces, as well as workshops and seminars on leadership, storytelling and the future of work. The artist shows visual, architectural and linguistic structures that embrace holistic thinking, spirituality, and concepts of empathy and mindfulness, which the globalized economy has appropriated from the cultural sphere and the countercultures of the 1960s and 70s. Schmuch’s work reflects the structures that serve to optimize work processes while the work itself becomes increasingly invisible. In the exhibition, the artist transfers new film footage from her extensive research in Germany, California and the Philippines together with photographic and architectural elements into a spatial installation.

Based on photography and its expansion in the medium of film, Alina Schmuch’s work investigates the interaction between image media and reality. What can we see through the camera's eye, which otherwise remains hidden? The exhibition is the artist's first institutional solo exhibition.

Accompanying Program

Sunday, 16 September, 3-5 pm Heute: Mein Arbeitsplatz für morgen – Workshop for children and adults with Jana Katschke and Mara Ryser (DE)
Wednesday, 10 October, 6 pm Guided tour with Undine van Elsberg (DE)
Wednesday, 31 October
6 pm Curator’s tour with Nadja Quante
7 pm Reading by Timo Hinze: Die flüssige Fabrik (DE)
Wednesday, 7 November, 7 pm Zeitgenoss*innen – Gespräche zur aktuellen Kunst (DE) Tour through the exhibition with Julia Bulk (Wilhelm Wagenfeld Stiftung), Janneke de Vries (Weserburg) and Nadja Quante (Künstlerhaus Bremen) (DE)
Wednesday, 14 November, 7 pm Artist’s Talk with Alina Schmuch (DE)