DREAMERS

Opening April 11th 5 - 8pm

Madé van Krimpen presents the group exhibition DREAMERS. This exhibition embodies the unconscious and the freedom to express the depth of our hopes and visions in experimental ways. It drifts into visions, explorations, perceptions and delusions; the states in between sleep and consciousness, sleepwalking or the disorientation in the moment of waking, distortions of (imagined) memories of the past and nostalgia for youth, colliding with visions of what the future could hold; the essence of the dreamers is blending reality and daydream to a state of imagination and a timeless wonder, reverie and aspiration. The dreamers are far from careless, at its core, dreamers speak of counterculture, of being an outlier, rejecting constraints in a rebellious spirit. Dreamers live in a fearlessness to do things differently; to defy and reimagine where reality can bend and new truths can be brought to light.

While initially inspired by the iconic Bertolucci film, The Dreamers (2003), where an unconventional romantic dynamic evolves between three film students during the unrest of the 1968 student riots, the exhibition interprets its essence in today’s context; what is the importance of dreamers, when the world around us feels increasingly fragmented? How can we explore the spaces between the conscious and unconscious, a dream-like disorientation and the timelessness of perception? How can we dream together, embody counter-cultural values and unconventionality, reject norms and freely express ourselves?

Participating Artists include: Paul Barsch and Tilman Hornig, Vittoria de Franchis, Günther Förg, Paul Kooiker, Jule Kupper, Liv Liberg, Ahmad Mallah, Hsu-Che Yu, Zine “Cartoons of Imagination” Class of Ed Atkins 

Vila Malaparte (1983) by Günther Förg