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SALON DU SALON est un projet d’exposition et une maison d’édition fondée en 2013. SALON DU SALON développe un programme en partenariat des artistes, des auteurs, des galeries, des éditeurs et des centres d’arts. Les formes dépendent des projets : résidences de recherche et de création, performances, discussions, expositions, publications, …

SALON DU SALON is a exhibition project and a publishing house founded in 2013. SALON DU SALON develops a programme in partnership with artists, authors, galleries, publishers and art institutions. Forms depend on the project: research and creative residencies, performances, discussions, exhibitions, publications and more.

Damien & The Love Guru

Christiane Blattmann, Untitled (Net II), 2022, cast silicone, pigment, dyed silk, aluminum stretcher, 85 x 45 x 5 cm /
33.46 x 17.71 x 1.97 in

Jannis Marwitz, Untitled, 2021, tempera on wood panel, 25 x 20 cm / 9.84 x 7.87 in

Jasmin Werner, Al Satwa Balikbayan (Western Union), 2022, digital print, cling film wrapping, archival card, aluminum frame, 73,5 x 42,5 cm /
28.94 x 16.73 in

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Damien & The Love Guru is excited to present works by Christiane Blattmann, Jannis Marwiz & Jasmin Werner at collaborations section together with Clages Gallery at 
Art Cologne 2022 

Find us here : hall 11.3 – booth A-216

Art Cologne 
12 – 16 November 2022 

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Christiane Blattmann is a German artist living and working between Brussels and Ham-burg. Her sculpture practice aims to dissolve clear disciplines of creation and to question the autonomy of these domains. Often departing from everyday environments, her works are not so much hybrids of art and quotidian life, but rather a body of thinking figures that are designated as art objects; a spatial strategy to suspend oppositions between con-cepts of the inside and the outside. Christiane studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, at Goldsmiths University in London and at the Universität der Kün-ste in Berlin. Recent selected exhibitions include: The Law, Damien & The Love Guru, Zurich, 2022 (solo); Look, Lightning Has Struck the Flowers, conceived by Christiane Blattmann & Jannis Marwitz, SUNDY, London, 2022; Sour Well, Nir Altman, 2022; Diananess, with Jannis Marwitz, Le Berceau, Marseille, 2021; Amour Four, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2020 (solo); The Constant Glitch, Museum Leuven, 2021; Squish, Ephremidis, Berlin, 2020; Commission Roundabout, HKW, Berlin, 2020; Un-Break My Walls, Kunsthalle Münster, 2019 (solo).

Jannis Marwitz is a German artist living and working in Brussels. Jannis’ figurative paint-ing stands out for his distinctive, challenging visual idiom. Elegiac, myth-laden motifs, often borrowed from Greco-Roman funerary reliefs, stage a disturbing feast of physicality. The Brussels based artist uses a caustic palette and a painting style that combines old techniques with contemporary appeal. Jannis studied at Städelschule in Frankfurt and at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg. He attended the program De Ateliers in Amsterdam in 2015.  Recent selected exhibitions include: La proie et l’ombre, Crève-coeur, Paris, 2022; Pooky’s Reform, Kunsthalle Fribourg, 2022; Lightning Has Struck the Flowers, conceived by Christiane Blattmann & Jannis Marwitz, SUNDY, London, 2022; Onions, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2021 (solo); Diananess, with Christiane Blat-tmann, Le Berceau, Marseille, 2021; The Raid, Barbara Weiss, Berlin, 2021 (solo); Sweet Lies, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, 2021; Kündigung, Lucas Hirsch, Dusseldorf, 2020.

Jasmin Werner is a German-Filipino artist living and working in Cologne and Berlin. In her practice she investigates historical analysis, ideologies and individual desire by creating her own system of reference and combining different cultures and epochs non-hierarchi-cal. Her sculptures explore a perception of economical, social and spiritual development based on constant growth. By this, Werner questions the modern concept of productivity with an emphasis on its gender-specificities. Werner studied at HfG Karlsruhe, Rietveld Academy Amsterdam and Städelschule Frankfurt and has since participated in various exhibitions at home and abroad, such as: there in spirit, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2022 (solo); Jahresgaben at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 2022; Schloss der Republik Burj Khalifa, Dubai Design Week, 2022, Abu Dhabi Art, 2022; Stufen zur Kunst, Kunstverein Hannover, 2022 (solo); Seniorita Latifa Sharifah, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, 2021 (solo); Unschuldsengel, Project Room of Westfälischer Kunstvere-in, Münster, 2021 (solo); Façadomy, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2020 (solo); The Wheel of Life Remise, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2020 (solo); Musée sentimentale de l’ours de Berlin, Bärenzwinger, Berlin, 2020; RAW, DuMont Kunsthalle, Cologne. Upcoming exhibitions include: BPA (Berlin Program for Artists) exhibition, KW, Berlin, 2023.

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CURRENTLY

Slow Reading Club 
13 dedications
28. October – 17. December 2022 
Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels 

Anne Fellner 
Forever Home 
30. September 2022 – 14. January 2023
Damien & The Love Guru, Zürich

UPCOMING 

Anne Fellner 
in dialogue with Julia Künzi (Kunsthalle Bern) 
Friday 25. November 2022, 6pm 
Damien & The Love Guru, Zürich

Damien & The Love Guru

Julian Irlinger
Gift

Opening Sunday 13. November 2022, 11am – 5pm
Wende Museum, Los Angeles 

13. November 2022 until 12. March 2023

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Opening alongside: Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and David Horvitz: For Ruth, The Sky in Los Angeles; (De)constructing Ideology: The Cultural Revolution and Beyond

In ‘Gift’ Julian Irlinger explores the writing of history through an institutional process by donating various documentary materials to the Wende Museum in Los Angeles, one of the largest historical archives on GDR history. Irlinger negotiates the institutional process that controls the relevance of artifacts before they enter the archive through an artistic donation of documentary materials.
The documents and photographs record the consecutive forms of ownership of a house in Schönebeck an der Elbe. The property was confiscated in 1983 from his grandmother by the German Democratic Republic, transferred back to her in 1991 by the Federal German Republic, and subsequently sold in 1992. These documents, the act of donation, and the story they tell not only describe various forms of ownership, authorship and appropriation, they also examine how art can operate as an infrastructure to address such processes. While the Wende Museum would normally not have accepted these documents as a donation in the first place, Julian Irlinger foregrounded in conversations with the museum the act of donation itself as the work of art.

Gift evolved through several different manifestations: from an exhibition at Galerie Wedding in Berlin (2020) to a volume published by Spector Books (2021), Billboards with Ideal Art Space in Leipzig and Schönebeck an der Elbe (2022) and finally becoming situated in a specific context: the Wende Museum (2022). 

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CURRENTLY

Slow Reading Club 
13 dedications
28. October – 17. December 2022 
Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels 

Anne Fellner 
Forever Home 
30. September 2022 – 14. January 2023
Damien & The Love Guru, Zürich

UPCOMING 

Christiane Blattmann
Jannis Marwitz 
Jasmin Werner
Art Cologne 
collaborations section with Clages Gallery
16. – 22. November 2022

Anne Fellner 
in dialogue with Julia Künzi (Kunsthalle Bern) 
Friday 25. November 2022, 6pm 
Damien & The Love Guru, Zürich