KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst · Maschinenhaus M2, Berlin
POLY. A Fluid Show
17 September 2023 – 25 February 2024
Mikey Woodbridge showed the full collection Latent Couture in POLY. A Fluid Show at the KINDL in Berlin, presented as a wall-scale printed grid of the AI-generated looks, and performed at both the opening and the closing of the exhibition. Curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen, the show gathered eleven international artists working transdisciplinarily outward from painting, proposing a polycentric culture set against monoculture — monogamy, minimalism, specialisation. Its subject was hustling, mixing and queering: the dissolving of boundaries between countries, genders, generations, materials, and between digital and analogue cultures.
Exhibition
- Artist
- Mikey Woodbridge
- Collection
- Latent Couture, 2023
- Venue
- Maschinenhaus M2, KINDL, Berlin
- Curator
- Solvej Helweg Ovesen
- Artists
- Eleven
- Publication
- Distanz, ed. Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Kathrin Becker
Shown alongside Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, melanie bonajo, Elolo Bosoka, Kerstin Brätsch, Raquel van Haver, Toni Mauersberg, Thomias Radin, Na Chainkua Reindorf, Lorenzo Sandoval, Emma Talbot.
Woodbridge in the programme
- 16 Sep 23OpeningPerformance, concert and live visuals
- 24 Feb 24FinissageAcoustic concert
Also in the discourse programme
- 17 Sep 23Thomias Radin: RIVÂLFilm premiere, with the dance performance The Myth of a Trinity II
- 31 Jan 24Polyphone MalereiKerstin Brätsch and Raquel van Haver in conversation, moderated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen
The exhibition ran a discourse programme across its five months of curator’s tours, screenings, performances and a book launch.
Installation views
Installation views, Maschinenhaus M2, KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin. Photos: Jens Ziehe.
Exhibition video
Press
- 29 Sep 23The Tagesspiegel read the show as a response to self-imposed limitation: in the West most people love one person and build a working life around mastering one thing, and the frequent result is monotony — a condition the exhibiting artists find irreconcilable with a globalised world.
- 21 Jan 24In artribune, Marilena Di Tursi described it as gathering artists called on to confront mixture, passage and fluid transition between countries, genres, generations, and digital and analogue cultures.
Also listed at KINDL, Berlin Art Week and Museumsportal Berlin.
Mikey Woodbridge, Latent Couture, AI fashion, 2023. © Mikey Woodbridge. POLY. A Fluid Show, 17.9.2023 – 25.2.2024, Maschinenhaus M2, KINDL, Berlin. Curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen. The exhibition corresponded with Emma Talbot. In the End, the Beginning in the KINDL Kesselhaus, and with Polychrome, Polymorph and Polyharmony at Galerie Wedding.