Members' exhibition
Photo: Theresa Tolksdorf
Joint tour of the exhibition
Exhibition Opening members exhibition, Kunstverein Langenhagen, 2025. Photo: Andre Germar.
Discussion about the KVL book archive and members bar
Mitglie*derausstellung (Memebers Exhibition), Kunstverein Langenhagen, 2025 - Photo: Andre Germar
Mitglie*derausstellung (Memebers Exhibition), Kunstverein Langenhagen, 2025 - Photo: Andre Germar
Mitglie*derausstellung (Memebers Exhibition), Kunstverein Langenhagen, 2025 - Photo: Andre Germar
Mitglie*derausstellung (Memebers Exhibition), Kunstverein Langenhagen, 2025 - Photo: Andre Germar
Cooking and talking about art spaces in the catastrophe with the release of KVL Bulletin #16
Psychoanalysis of Money by Deepfake Situations
Money releases different emotions and affects. Money is an object of fixation and projection, an everyday neurosis and a means of fulfilling desires. It determines our social interaction down to the last detail.
Psychoanalyse des Geldes - Deepfake Situations
Psychoanalyse des Geldes - Deepfake Situations
In the process of analysis, the participants delve into the deep structures of the money complex. Together as a group, we examine money as a repression of our social dependencies and confront ourselves with the unconscious of money. In speculative exercises, we ask about the origin of money and search for new forms of coming together. Money becomes a means of therapy.
For the analysis, money is provided.
Duration: 75 min Concept & performance: Felix Falczyk and Johanna Herschel
Participation is free of charge. As the number of participants is limited, please register at mail@kunstverein-langenhagen.de
The performance is a contribution to the first member exhibition at the Kunstverein Langenhagen.
Wände bauen (Build Walls)
On 14 March at 5 p.m., the exhibition Building Walls will open, featuring pictures and objects by Klaus Merkel, Nicolas Rausch, Christian Rothmaler, Stella Sieber, Peter Wächtler and Mara Wohnhaas. Many of the participating artists will be there.
Anticipateded, blusheded, bled (for Anne), 2025, from Stella Sieber (oil, latex, wood, jute, led-screen, 134 x 90 x 8 cm)
92.01.04 Gruppenausstellungsbild EXTRAS (Köln) from Klaus Merkel (1992, oil on canvas, 115 x 80 cm)
holes Hirnes (höres!) from Christian Rothmaler (2012, oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm)
Art Criticism Forum #1
Our guest on the first Forum Kunstkritik is Hans-Jürgen Hafner, critic for Spike Magazine and Die Tageszeitung (Taz), among others. This time, the discussion will focus on the exhibitions 'The Volcano Manifesto' by Cauleen Smith at the Kestnergesellschaft, the group exhibition 'Leben und Sterben in der Ruine #4' at Ruine HQ Hannover, and 'Raoul Hausmann – Vision. Provokation. Dada.' at the Berlinische Galerie.
In Forum Kunstkritik, we talk to a guest – usually a professional critic – about exhibitions.
Admittedly, the genre of exhibition criticism has a difficult standing, and it is not entirely innocent in this regard. Too often, their texts get lost in the pretentious jargon of press releases that are merely retold. And too rarely do they form their own opinions that could generate controversy, or even debate. But if we decouple exhibitions from the passion with which they can be argued about, all that remains of the viewer's happiness or unhappiness is a lonely sigh.
The Forum Kunstkritik is a place for debate! Three specific exhibitions are up for discussion per session. Two of them are current exhibitions from the region. In a playful form of live criticism, we delve through experience reports, accompanying texts and installation views. Always on the lookout for the better argument for what actually distinguishes good exhibitions from bad ones.