RHYTHM
SECTION
IM KÖŞK

3. – 13.
Juli
2025

Die Ausstellung wird von Dr. Ezgi Bakçay (Istanbul) und
Katrin Savvulidi (München) kuratiert

3. Juli
18:00
Eröffnung

4. Juli
19:00
THE BEAUTIFUL FORMULA COLLECTIVE
Live Painting Performance
Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval, Thomas Rieger, Veronika Wenger, Michael Wright

5. Juli
12:00
Artist Talk mit Kuratorinnen, Künstlerinnen und Künstler
14:00
„Rhythmus in der digitalen Malerei“
Workshop für Kinder und Jugendlichen
18:00
Performance und Ausstellung

„Nicht begrenzt werden vom Größten und dennoch eingeschlossen sein vom Geringsten“, ist eine Definition, die das Vorhaben der Künstlergruppe RHYTHM SECTION erklärt.

Der klare Umgang mit dem Rhythmus erlaubt eine unendliche Vielfalt an individuellen Variationen.

RHYTHM SECTION ist eine Plattform für Künstlerinnen und Künstler, die an einem Austausch zum Thema Rhythmus in der bildenden Kunst interessiert sind.

RHYTHM SECTION besteht nicht nur aus bildenden Künstlerinnen und Künstlern, die Installation, Zeichnung, Video, Skulptur, Malerei und digitale Kunst, um nur einige zu nennen, vertreten, sondern auch aus Kunstkritikern, Theoretikern, Philosophen und Lehrern für Rhythmus und Bewegung.

Parallel zu den Gruppenausstellungen organisiert RHYTHM SECTION Künstlergespräche, Vorträge und Symposien zum Thema Rhythmus in der bildenden Kunst.

www.rhythmsection.de

An der Ausstellung RHYTHM SECTION IM KÖŞK nehmen Künstlerinnen und Künstler aus der Ukraine, dem Iran, Armenien, der Türkei, den Niederlanden, Großbritannien und Deutschland teil.

Anet Sandra Açıkgöz
Anneke Bosma
Mehmet Çeper
Concernists
Daniel Geiger
Iemke van Dijk
Henriette van’t Hoog
Özkan Işık
Oleksiy Koval
Thomas Rieger
Riwar Collective
Veronika Wenger
Guido Winkler
Michael Wright

www.koesk-muenchen.de

The Rhythm of the Collectivities

Today, public spaces are shrinking under the pressure of neoliberal urban policies, security discourses, and commercialization. This reduction signifies not only the disappearance of physical spaces but also the limitation of freedom of expression, encounters, and shared experiences. It is at this juncture that independent cultural and artistic spaces emerge as vital breathing spaces. While attempting to sustain their existence outside the state and market forces, these spaces create the foundation for individuals and communities to think, produce, and act together. By opening space for untold stories, invisible bodies, and suppressed voices, they contribute to redefining the public sphere.

Independent spaces are not just places where art is displayed; they are also spaces where the collective rehearsal of an alternative life imagination takes place. In these spaces, communities gradually develop a shared rhythm, stretching the patterns of everyday life, establishing new relationships with urban space, and enabling new ways of experiencing time. These structures, based on solidarity, pluralism, and encounter, create a form of resistance against established norms, while also heralding the possibilities that will transform the city and social life. Therefore, independent cultural and artistic spaces are indispensable not only for artistic production but also for keeping our collective imaginative power alive.

This exhibition seeks to closely examine the community-building potential of
creative productions flourishing in independent art spaces, the transformative power of aesthetic experiences, and the possibilities for collective emancipation. By reminding us that art is not only an individual form of expression but also a practice capable of creating shared fields of perception, it invites the audience to question the ways of thinking and feeling together. In this context, the exhibition focuses on both the methods of production and the spaces where these productions emerge — independent spaces — while engaging with concepts such as visibility, voice, movement, and solidarity, tracing the path of an alternative understanding of the public sphere.

Dr. Ezgi Bakçay (Istanbul)