Julian-Jakob Kneer presented group exhibition Jugend ist Trunkenheit ohne Wein at Basel’s Bikini Space running January 26 to February 10, 2018.
Alongside a New Noveta performance which took place on the opening night, the show featured work by over 20 artists including Bora Akinciturk, Kamilla Bischof and Laura Welker, Tobias Madison, Adam Cruces and Louisa Gagliardi, Yves Scherer, Amalia Ulman and Marie Lea Lund among others.
Put together by Berlin-based artist Kneer, the exhibition is framed by the title (which roughly translates to ‘Youth is drunkenness without wine’) as well as a text he wrote that moves erratically between emotions and mood swings from the perspective of a pubescent experience, “rising from the ashes like a phoenix, an all-star, an eye-sore, a total fucking loser, leaking, dripping, until end times, a liferuiner.”**
