CRACK UP
TSALA x HilbertRaum
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Address
1206 Maple Avenue
#523
Los Angeles CA 90015
Opening hours
July 9th
7-10 pm
On view
July 9-24
Sat + Sun: noon-5pm
Contact
losangeles@tigerstrikesasteroid.com
info@hilbertraum.org
About
Tiger Strikes Asteroid LA is proud to present CRACK UP, a group exhibition featuring Carl Baratta, Niina Lehtonen Braun, Eli Cornejo, Mathias Deutsch, JOKAklubi (performance group with Niina Lehtonen Braun, Mirka Raita, Tellervo Kalleinen), Liz Nurenberg, Jackie Rhines, Eva Schwab, Katya Usvitsky, Daniel Wiesenfeld, and Clemens Wilhelm.
All is not well on the mothership, things are getting out of hand, moving closer to multiple system failure, on the verge of a complete breakdown.
Meanwhile, there is still fun to be had in these times of crisis, right?
So let’s crack up while the world is cracking up!
The artist collectives HilbertRaum, Berlin and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, LA are reunited once again since B-LA CONNECT first took place 2019 in Berlin. Did anyone mention the pandemic? The works presented by the artists in CRACK UP are highly personal and subjective takes on the current state of affairs. The media and aesthetic approaches are extremely varied and diverse, yet or maybe because of this they interact and communicate with each other to create new levels of meaning.
TSALA
Tiger Strikes Asteroid is a 501c3 non-profit network of independently programmed, artist-run exhibition spaces with locations in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Greenville, SC. Our goal is to collectively bring people together, expand connections and create community through artist-initiated exhibitions, projects, and curatorial opportunities. We seek to build an ethos of cooperative achievement in the visual arts, creating the physical and emotional space for artists to show their work and exchange ideas on their own terms. Our artist-run model expands the artist’s role beyond that of studio practitioner to include the roles of curator, critic, and community developer and provides an alternate model to the conventions of the current commercial art market.
The core of our mission is our exhibition program at our five locations. Each site curates independently; at the same time, the network functions collectively through programming exchanges and the sharing of resources, connections and governing structure. While our unique, grassroots organization of spaces in multiple locations allows us to curate exhibitions that are sensitive to the needs and interests of their respective cities, our geographic reach also offers opportunities to connect local artists to a national conversation. Through a model of horizontal, rather than vertical growth, we are trying to rethink the way an arts institution can work, providing more space and opportunities rather than consolidating time and resources into a single space or vision. We want to create a true network of artists, a dynamic exchange of ideas between cities and an enriched dialogue at each space.
We strive to foster relationships between artists from all career stages, lifting up underrepresented work and voices, and offering new contexts for the work of mid-career and established artists. Since the founding of our Philadelphia space in 2009, we have shown almost 1000 artists in about 250 exhibitions and projects. Our exhibitions and projects have been featured in numerous print and online publications including The New York Times, ArtForum, Art F City, Hyperallergic, The Huffington Post, The New Yorker, The Brooklyn Rail, Whitehot Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the artblog, WHYY, Sculpture Magazine, Sixty Inches From Center, Chicago Gallery News, LA Weekly, Two Coats of Paint, Artinfo, and Artnet News.
HilbertRaum
HilbertRaum opened in January 2015 in the middle of Reuterkiez in the heart of Berlin-Neukölln. Behind HilbertRaum is a group of 18 Berlin-based artists, who take turns curating and organizing two-week exhibitions throughout the entire year. Our projects cover a broad range of art, from painting, photography, sculpture, video, installation, screenings, lectures to performance. HilbertRaum is named after the infinitely dimensioned Hilbert space, a concept developed by the mathematician David Hilbert. To us, it represents an open, undetermined and evolving structure of self-organization with the expectation of the unexpected.