MUSEUM OF AUTO-ANTHROPOLOGY
By J&K (DE/DK)

24.04.09-14.05.09

The artist-group J&K has for the KBH Kunsthal created a site-specific exhibition, which takes its departure in the 7 vitrines researching the museum and the collection as a cultural historical phenomenon. The exhibition is part of a work series, which engages with aesthetics, language and power of the museological display and the mechanisms of institutional staging of truth.

This can sound as a heavy topic but in J&Ks imaginative universe the work with great curiosity, playfulness and never without humor. The exhibition Museum of Auto-anthropology is, as the title indicate, based in the groups own production and there own working process through the last 10 years. Thereby it is not only the museum and the collection as a phenomenon that is being dissected but also the group’s own works. The works are often performances where the artists stages themselves in all kind of rolls often when they travel and when they experiences other cultures, where they are letting stage role-plays with rituals, mystic and believe play an important role – sometimes in opposition to the place and sometimes in connection.

The work in the exhibition evolves around a three-folded relation established between a picture diagram on the poster, the title and the installations in the vitrines. The artists create a self-referential magical system where the title and the formality of the virines is framing the work as a museum and the work aims at exploring the gap between the systematic of the museum and the internal logics of a personal mysticism that the artists are dealing with.

J&K exists of the artists Janne Schäfer and Kristine Agergaard, who both lives and works in Berlin and Copenhagen.

The exhibition is supported by The Danish Art Council.