FAMED

FAMED was established in 2003. Recent solo exhibitions include Gelegenheit zum Irrtum at Steinle Contemporary in Munich, Germany (2011); Vor den Dingen, nach dem Affekt at Kunstmuseum St.Gallen / Lokremise, Switzerland (2011); Exil des Möglichen at Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany (2010); Allegorie und Versprechen at Columbus Art Foundation Leipzig, Germany (2010); Nachtblende at Brigitte March Stuttgart, Germany (2010); Out of Place at ASPN Gallery, Germany (2009) and Leur art et leur temps at o.T. Raum für aktuelle Kunst in Lucerne, Switzerland (2008).

Selected group exhibitions include This is Happening II at Georg Kargl Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria (2011); 37 Manifestos at Forum Factory in Berlin, Germany (2011); Untitled (ohne Titel) at Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst in Berlin, Germany (2010); Anabasis. On Rituals of Homecoming at Ludwik Grohman Villa in Lodz, Poland (2009); Weak Signals, Wild Cards at De Appel in Amsterdam, Netherlands (2009); Principle Hope at Manifesta 7 in Rovereto, Italy (2008) and Reading Back And Forth at Steirischer Herbst/ Stadtmuseum in Graz, Austria (2007). FAMED currently live and work in Leipzig.

"The artist collective FAMED produces site-specific interventions that can be seen as anti-architectural hybrids of installation, sculpture, performance, objects and video, all arranged in a quasi-theatrical setting. They investigate the construction and meaning of institutional spaces. Their work ironically penetrates the mechanisms of art institutions, ranging from self-reflective discourses on the status of the artist, the critique of pervasiveness of old-fashioned, white-cube paradigms, the perception and reception of an artwork and questioning the regime of exchange within the art-market. FAMED deconstructs the usual vocabulary of institutional art from within, mocking the heroic qualities of art production, often focusing—in an absurd way reminiscent of Beckett—on moments of dysfunction, impotence and failure." —Adam Budak

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