Karl Holmqvist / Klara Lidén
ICHBRAUCHEMASSPACE




Gaga is pleased to announce ICHBRAUCHEMASSPACE, Karl Holmqvist’s third show at the gallery (Entrevista con el vampiro 2009 y The hours of this watch is numbered 2012) this time together with Klara Lidén in a two person exhibition.

Both artists share a long and close friendship and have collaborated several times. For ICHBRAUCHEMASSPACE Lidén created a series of benches with new and recycled material as well as a motorized mobile using cardboard boxes with the words ON and/or NO graffitied in pink, produced for the first time for NEW THEATER in Berlin and used as part of the stage design for Holmqvist’s play The Rant. Karl is presenting a set of twelve new paintings using texts from diverse references, word and visual plays, and two Lettriste sculptures made in stainless steel and fluorescent lights that read TUFF and SHIT. As well for this show both artists collaborated in a new dance video titled Nhite Woise.

Again we can observe throughout the show the elements usually portrayed by the artists such as their interest for language, architecture, the utilitarian, the decorative, the public and the private, and the in and out references of each of them.

The pieces in the show reveal an intimate relation between each other, one says YES, the other one NO, one piece is on the floor the other on the wall, and all around we can read in repeated occasions how one is no one and how we need each other mutually, always, although it often seems impossible...






Gaga se complace en presentar la muestra ICHBRAUCHEMASSPACE, la tercera presentación de Karl Holmqvist en la galería (Entrevista con el vampiro 2009 y The hours of this watch is numbered 2012) en esta ocasión de la mano de Klara Lidén en una exposición en conjunto. Los artistas comparten una larga y estrecha amistad y han trabajado juntos en varias ocasiones. Para ICHBRAUCHEMASSPACE Liden realizó una serie de bancas con material nuevo y de reciclaje así como un móvil motorizado con cajas de cartón, con la leyenda ON y/o NO escrita en graffiti rosa, presentadas por primera vez en el NEW THEATER en Berlin como escenografía para la obra The Rant de Holmqvist. Karl presenta 12 pinturas nuevas con textos tomados de diversas referencias, juegos visuales y de lenguaje, y dos Lettriste Sculptures fluorescentes en acero que leen TUFF y SHIT. A su vez, como colaboración, los artistas presentan el nuevo video de danza titulado Nhite Woise. De nuevo, a lo largo de la muestra podemos observar los elementos que caracterizan la práctica de ambos artistas, su interés por el lenguaje, la arquitectura, lo utilitario, lo decorativo, lo público y lo privado y las referencias hacia afuera y adentro de sus universos. Las piezas muestran una relación íntima entre si, uno dice YES, otro NO, uno va al piso otro a la pared y a lo largo de la exposición leemos en repetidas ocasiones como uno no es ninguno y como nos necesitamos siempre mutuamente, sin embargo, como pareciera en la mayoría de los casos, una empresa casi imposible.






Installation views

Works / Karl Holmqvist

Works / Klara Lidén

Video stills / Nhite Woise (Klara Lidén & Karl Holmqvist)









Installation views









Works / Karl Holmqvist

Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (LICKMYLEGS), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas 70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (NUFFUN), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas 70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (#WATCHMEDANCE), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas 70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (GOOD4YOU4GOOD), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas 70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (UNONOESNINGUNO), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas 70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (ICHBRAUCHEMASSPACE), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas
70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (#WATCHMEDANCELICK), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas 70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (ONEONEISNOONE), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas 70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (ONEISNOONE), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas 70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (YESEYES), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas 70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (IFFYIFFYEYESEYES), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas 70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (IFFYIFFY), 2015
HP UV print on ultra ex true canvas 70.87 x 70.87 x 1.5 inches
180 x 180 x 3.8 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (SHIT), 2015
Stainless steel and fuorescent lamps 50.98 x 34.65 x 34.65 inches
129.5 x 88 x 88 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (SHIT), 2015
Stainless steel and fuorescent lamps 50.98 x 34.65 x 34.65 inches
129.5 x 88 x 88 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (SHIT), 2015
Stainless steel and fuorescent lamps 50.98 x 34.65 x 34.65 inches
129.5 x 88 x 88 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (SHIT), 2015
Stainless steel and fuorescent lamps 50.98 x 34.65 x 34.65 inches
129.5 x 88 x 88 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (TUFF), 2015
Stainless steel and fuorescent lamps 50.98 x 34.65 x 34.65 inches
129.5 x 88 x 88 cm
Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (TUFF), 2015
Stainless steel and fuorescent lamps 50.98 x 34.65 x 34.65 inches
129.5 x 88 x 88 cm








Works / Klara Lidén

Klara Lidén
Untitled, 2015
Wood, recycled cardboard and metal 17.72 x 72.83 x 29.53 inches
45 x 185 x 75 cm
Klara Lidén
Untitled, 2015
Wood, recycled cardboard and metal 17.72 x 72.83 x 29.53 inches
45 x 185 x 75 cm
Klara Lidén
Untitled, 2015
Wood, recycled cardboard and metal 17.72 x 72.83 x 29.53 inches
45 x 185 x 75 cm
Klara Lidén
Untitled, 2015
Wood, recycled cardboard and metal 17.52 x 71.26 x 27.76 inches
44.5 x 181 x 70.5 cm
Klara Lidén
Untitled, 2015
Wood, recycled cardboard and metal 17.52 x 71.26 x 27.76 inches
44.5 x 181 x 70.5 cm
Klara Lidén
Untitled, 2015
Wood, recycled cardboard and metal 17.52 x 71.26 x 27.76 inches
44.5 x 181 x 70.5 cm
Klara Lidén
Untitled, 2015
Wood, recycled cardboard and metal 17.72 x 64.96 x 22.83 inches
45 x 165 x 58 cm
Klara Lidén
Untitled, 2015
Wood, recycled cardboard and metal 17.72 x 64.96 x 22.83 inches
45 x 165 x 58 cm
Klara Lidén
Untitled, 2015
Wood, recycled cardboard and metal 17.72 x 64.96 x 22.83 inches
45 x 165 x 58 cm
Klara Lidén
Untitled, 2015
Wood, recycled cardboard and metal 17.72 x 63.78 x 23.82 inches
45 x 162 x 60.5 cm
Klara Lidén
Untitled, 2015
Wood, recycled cardboard and metal 17.72 x 63.78 x 23.82 inches
45 x 162 x 60.5 cm
Klara Lidén
Untitled, 2015
Wood, recycled cardboard and metal 17.72 x 63.78 x 23.82 inches
45 x 162 x 60.5 cm
Klara Lidén
Untitled, 2015
Cardboard boxes, motors, white rope and graffiti
Dimensions variable








Video stills / Nhite Woise


Klara Lidén / Karl Holmqvist
Nhite Woise,2015
HD video 00:04:17