Curatorial Statement

Those who perceive the current situation in art seriously, understand that art is more noticeably guided by social communicative correlations than it used to be, and the latter are not weakened by pseudo offers of service. At the same time, it does not necessarily mean that art is displaced, for example, by a picture of relevance to an object. The awareness of the fact that inventions in art are realized only at the level of technical instruments simultaneously provokes a growing interest to its content.

A curator himself should not juggle with ideas. He should not surprise us by an exchange process of the so called innovation or offer us a theory explaining an aesthetic construction. Why? Because the share of astonishment contained in every exhibition/project is located at an easily reachable level of dialogue with pictured ideas that all spin around fragmented reflections of our existence, broken away from the coordinates. So the curator should not be ahead of art. It is enough if he stays in its shadow.

Christoph Tannert
Christoph Tannert
Born in 1955

head of Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH, curator, expert in contemporary art
Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH
Berlin, Germany