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Solo exhibition at Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst – GAK Bremen
Bremen, Germany
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“Zungen”
2026Solo exhibition at Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst – GAK Bremen
Bremen, Germany
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The exhibition Zungen by Ian Waelder is the third in the series for fear of continuity problems, which explores the notion of memory in parts of GAK’s indoor space and in the poster frames outside.
The conversation around Waelder’s exhibition started with the image of a child standing before a family bookshelf. Still very small, the child could only reach the books on the lower shelves, but over the years and as they became taller, more shelves and different books could be accessed. This access, reaching up or bending down is something one regularly performs in front of books. Accordingly, knowledge and memory are also connected to reach. Just as the body and language are intertwined.
Within the exhibition at GAK sits a space with a low ceiling, a sort of box, which you are invited to enter. If you are quite tall, you will have to crouch down inside. There you will find a series of photographs documenting a plant and its growth over the years. The photographs capture time as being intimately connected to the artist himself — the plant was given to Waelder’s mother on the day of his birth and since then grows alongside him.
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The conversation around Waelder’s exhibition started with the image of a child standing before a family bookshelf. Still very small, the child could only reach the books on the lower shelves, but over the years and as they became taller, more shelves and different books could be accessed. This access, reaching up or bending down is something one regularly performs in front of books. Accordingly, knowledge and memory are also connected to reach. Just as the body and language are intertwined.
Within the exhibition at GAK sits a space with a low ceiling, a sort of box, which you are invited to enter. If you are quite tall, you will have to crouch down inside. There you will find a series of photographs documenting a plant and its growth over the years. The photographs capture time as being intimately connected to the artist himself — the plant was given to Waelder’s mother on the day of his birth and since then grows alongside him.
[Read more]