The Brutality of Spring

Anna Łuczak, Sophie Schmidt

14.12.2024-2.02.2025

Opening: 13.12.2024, 6-9 pm

In Poland every year in spring, school children gather together at the banks of frozen rivers to drown the Marzanna. I remember throwing stones at the doll to make her sink faster. We then walked home without looking back.
Salmon swim upstream to lay their eggs in their home river. They die and their decomposing bodies help fertilise the water.
Everyone helps the rogue in the Dicken’s novel as he lays dying in Miss Abbey’s first-floor bedroom. But as he grows warm – “Did that eyelid tremble? Did that nostril twitch?” – the doctor and the four men cool and “their faces and their hearts harden to him.”

These occasions recognise what for Deleuze is not reducible to experience, but which nevertheless can be confronted: a life. Not the lived, individual life, so full of things that need to be done, but a life, singular and impersonal, indefinite; a life with no moments, but only the in-between, a passage, a becoming, of events yet to come that have already happened. “Pure power and bliss” Deleuze writes. Just life, only life, a life.

In “The Brutality of Spring” Anna Łuczak and Sophia Schmidt collaborate together in homage to a recently deceased mutual friend to produce a multimedia installation, a vanitas-type project, founded equally in the transience of domestic sphere and the fragility of the human body.

Throw of the dice

Lukas Hoffmann, Sophia Mainka

29.06 – 3.08. 2024

Kindly invited by Sperling Munich, Regerplatz 9, 81541 München

Credit: William Blake, Gay’s Fables: Pan and Fortune, 1793, engraving, 25.5 × 15 cm (10 1/16 × 5 7/8 in)

GiG Munich will be collaborating with Sperling Munich to curate the two-person show at the Sperling gallery space. Opening on Friday, June 28, 6–9 pm.

From Animal to Mineral

Judith Adelmann, Rachel Fäth, Sophia Mainka, Hannah Mitterwallner, Jonathan Penca, Maria VMier

15.12. 2023 – 18.02.2024

Lothringer Halle, Lothringer Str. 13, 81667 München

From Animal to Mineral, 2023, installation view. Photo: Thomas Splett

Maria VMier, Noch o.T. [ZINNOBER-SCHWEFEL],2023, Ink, pigment, tempera, pencil, chalk and charcoal on perforated paper. Photo: Thomas Splett.

Maria VMier, Noch o.T. [ZINNOBER-SCHWEFEL],2023, Ink, pigment, tempera, pencil, chalk and charcoal on perforated paper (detail) Photo: Thomas Splett

Hannah Mitterwallner, Mis-play, 2023, plaster, wood, sugar, installation view. Photo: Thomas Splett

Hannah Mitterwallner, Mis-play, 2023, plaster, wood, sugar, detail. Photo: Thomas Splett

Hannah Mitterwallner, Mis-play, 2023, plaster, wood, sugar (detail). Photo: Hannah Mitterwallner

Judith Adelmann, I like your curvy waves, 2023, glazed ceramic, steel, plastic, installation view. Photo: Thomas Splett

Judith Adelmann, I like your curvy waves, 2023, glazed ceramic, steel, installation view. Photo: Thomas Splett

Judith Adelmann, I like your curvy waves, 2023, glazed ceramic, steel (detail). Photo: Thomas Splett

Hannah Mitterwallner, Mis-play, 2023, plaster, wood, sugar (detail).

Judith Adelmann, I like your curvy waves, 2023, glazed ceramic, metal, readymades (detail). Photo: Thomas Splett

From Animal to Mineral, 2023, installation view

Sophia Mainka, Habit Loss, 2023, Metal, fabric, wood, leather imitate, plastics, glazed ceramics, video. Photo: Thomas Splett

Sophia Mainka, Habit Loss, 2023, Metal, fabric, wood, leather imitate, plastics, glazed ceramics, video (detail).

Jonathan Penca with Jakob Penca, Field Plots, 2023, animation film, 14 min, installation view. Photo: Thomas Splett.

Rachel Fäth, Passage, 2022, Glass, steel, screws and nuts. Photo: Thomas Splett.

Texts included in the exhibition:

the-sorcerers-explanation Download

mineral-bound-Download

what-happened Download

The Flamekeepers

Lilian Robl

13.07. – 20.08.2023

Lothringer Studio, Lothringer Str. 13, 81667 München

Emma Hauck. Ingeborg Bachmann. Rabe Perplexum. Not points but lines. Lines which do not connect points but travel swiftly in between. The archive, history, memory are collections of points tied to one central point: Man, defined as white, male and rational. In her exhibition with GiG Munich, “The Flamekeepers” Lilian Robl seeks ways of remembering without memory, recording without constructing an archive. Just lines. Only lines.

Lilian Robl (*1990) studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and at the Ecole de recherche graphique, Brussels, graduating as a master student of Prof. Alexandra Bircken in 2019. Her work was shown in numerous exhibitions: Top Space, Berlin (DE); Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin (DE); fructa, Munich (DE); Wienwoche (AT); Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (CH); Kunstverein Marburg (DE) as well as at film festivals: Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille (FR); Barcelona International Short Film Festival (ES); GRRL Haus Cinema, Berlin (DE); FILE, São Paulo (BR); Women’s Voices Now, Los Angeles (US); Non- syntax, Tokyo (JP); International Moving Film Festival (IR); Light Mattter Film Festival (US). She has received residencies at the Cité Paris (FR), among others.

Emma Hauck. Ingeborg Bachmann. Rabe Perplexum. Nicht Punkte, sondern Linien. Linien, die keine Punkte verbinden, sondern sich schnell dazwischen bewegen. Das Archiv, die Geschichte, die Erinnerung sind Ansammlungen von Punkten, die mit einem zentralen Punkt verbunden sind: Der Mensch, definiert als weiß, männlich und rational. In ihrer Ausstellung “The Flamekeepers” im GiG Munich sucht Lilian Robl nach Wegen des Erinnerns ohne Gedächtnis, des Aufzeichnens ohne Aufbau eines Archivs. Gerechte Linien. Nur Linien.

Lilian Robl (*1990) hat Freie Kunst an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste München und an der Ecole de Recherche graphique Brüssel studiert und 2019 als Meisterschülerin von Prof. Alexandra Bircken abgeschlossen. Ihre Arbeiten werden in Ausstellungen, z.B. Top Space, Berlin (DE); Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin (DE); fructa, München (DE); Wienwoche (AT); Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich (CH) sowie auf Filmfestivals, z.B. Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille (FR); Barcelona International Short Film Festival (ES); GRRL Haus Cinema, Berlin (DE); FILE, São Paulo (BR); Women’s Voices Now, Los Angeles (US); Non- syntax, Tokyo (JP); International Moving Film Festival (IR); Light Mattter Film Festival (US). Sie erhielt Residenzstipendien unter anderem an der Cité Paris (FR).