Frank Jimin Hopp and Jacob Ott: A Streetcar Named Desire

In the duo exhibition A Streetcar Named Desire, Kang Contemporary stages a postmodern travesty with the artists artists Frank Jimin Hopp and Jacob Ott to stage a postmodern travesty. Here, consumer fetish meets the increasing threat of environmental catastrophe.

The present is presented in its life-threatening absurdity as a place of paradox, where an aesthetically nourished consumer fetish continues against the backdrop of global doomsday scenarios: Where an increasing number of flights over melting glaciers invites you to get sentimental at 10,000 meters above sea level; where a golf tournament is played against the horizon of burning forests - despite the impeded visibility - and, where collapsing cakes are consumed with uninhibited glee in the heat.

Conceptually, Kang Contemporary thus ties in with the global phenomenon of the fatigue societysociety, which in view of ever new crises, despite the acute need for action, tends totends towards a dangerous passivity. The core of the exhibition aesthetic is to allow the paradox of the crisis and its ambivalent images to be experienced. The scene is conceived as a large-scale installation with ceramics, wood and cardboard sculptures and paintings. The thematic hub is the fire, as an ambivalent metaphor of cultural progress and decay, which, as it were, fuels the flashpoint of the catastrophe.

The vernissage will take place on 30.08.2024 from 6 pm.

Admission: free

Runtime: Fri, 30/08/2024 to Fri, 15/11/2024

Takes place here:

• Kang Contemporary