Than Hussein-Clark

Who Are You? + Club Univers @ SALTS, Nov 26 – Jan 17

24 November 2016

The Who Are You? and Club Univers group exhibitions are on at Birsfelden’s SALTS, opening November 26 and running to January 17, 2017.

Who Are You? looks at the paradox of publicly concealing your identity through artists working with ideas of the “alter ego, collective identity, meta-artist, improved or lessen versions of oneself”. Featuring Olivier Castel, Dorota Gaweda & Eglé Kulbokaité, Selina Grüter & Michele Graf, Than Hussein Clark and Martin Soto Climent, the show examines these perceptions and iterations of ‘unstable’ realities as a response to a global climate of “austerity and fear”. 

Club Univers — curated by Chus Martinez with assistant curator Eveline Wüthrich — features a group of bachelor students from Institut Kunst and explores the unexplained phenomena of tickling, through dreams. ‘Part I: Even in your dreams, you can’t tickle yourself’ is inspired by neuroscientist and researcher Jennifer Windt who worked with a group of expert lucid dreamers to see if they could tickle themselves, which they couldn’t.

The opening of the exhibitions will also include the launch of a new issue of London-based Next Level magazine, covering the Swiss art scenes of Lausanne and Basel, as well as the Club Univers publication, published via Sternberg Press.

See the SALTS website for details.**

Agatha Valkyrie Ice (Dorota Gaweda, Egle Kulbokaite, Clémence de La Tour du Pin) Agatha 1.2.0.1 @ Hilton (10) 2015 Courtesy of the artists With the support of International Flavors & Fragrances and Adrien Figeac (Coty Inc) Photography: Luis Artemio De Los Santos
Agatha Valkyrie Ice (Dorota Gaweda, Egle Kulbokaite, Clémence de La Tour du Pin) Agatha 1.2.0.1 @ Hilton (10) 2015 Courtesy of the artists With the support of International Flavors & Fragrances and Adrien Figeac (Coty Inc) Photography: Luis Artemio De Los Santos
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Than Hussein Clark @ Galerie Karin Guenther, Sep 9 – Nov 5

7 September 2016

Than Hussein Clark is presenting solo exhibition A Month In The Country at Hamburg’s Galerie Karin Guenther, opening September 9 running through November 5.

The press release states that the exhibition will “begin with Konstantin Stanislavki’s nervous breakdown and his subsequent production of Turgenev’s classic romance as well as Thomas Mann’s periods of rest at the shores of Lake Garda”.

It features new works in ceramic, glass, and photography by the artists, who founded Villa Design Group, is on the editorial board of Montez Press and recently took part in Emalin’s FOLLY exhibition in the UK’s Stirling.  The work in A Month In The Country was produced during the artist’s time at the Thun Ceramic Residency in Bolzano, Italy.

See the Galerie Karin Guenther website for more details.**

Than Hussein Clark @ Galerie Karin Guenther, 9 Sep - 5 Nov

Than Hussein Clark, Courtesy Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg.

 

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FOLLY @ Emalin, Mar 26 – 28

25 March 2016

Itinerant exhibition series, Emalin, is presenting the FOLLY group show at an as yet undisclosed location in Stirling, opening March 26 and running to March 28.

Organised by Leopold Thun and Jasmine Picot-Chapman, the Emalin project most recently presented work by Stefania Batoeva and Adriano Costa, titled Tia Deth, where the two artists transferred collaborative work developed at Swiss artist Fabian Marti’s TwoHotel artist guesthouse in Piracanga ecovillage to a garage in London’s Camden.

Meanwhile, there’s little information given on the FOLLY show itself, aside from an email and phone number to contact for details on the exact location (info@emalin.co.uk or +44 (0) 77 9464 5380) and a list of artists, including Batoeva, with Gabriele Beveridge, Charlie Billingham, Than Hussein-Clark, Jonas Lipps, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Cary Kwok and many more.

An essay by writer and critic James Cahill with illustrations by Issy Wood will also be published to accompany the exhibition.

See the FB event page for details.**

Than Hussein Clark @ Condo (2016). Courtesy The artist, Mathew New York.
Than Hussein Clark @ Condo (2016). Courtesy the artist + Mathew, New York.
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