The Rhythm of the Collectivities<\/strong><\/p>\nToday, 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
This exhibition seeks to closely examine the community-building potential of
\ncreative 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 \u2014 independent spaces \u2014 while engaging with concepts such as visibility, voice, movement, and solidarity, tracing the path of an alternative understanding of the public sphere.<\/p>\n
Dr. Ezgi Bak\u00e7ay (Istanbul)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RHYTHM SECTION IM K\u00d6\u015eK 3. – 13. Juli 2025 Die Ausstellung wird von Dr. Ezgi Bak\u00e7ay (Istanbul) und Katrin Savvulidi (M\u00fcnchen) kuratiert 3. Juli 18:00 Er\u00f6ffnung 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, K\u00fcnstlerinnen und […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[279,2],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-rhythm-section-im-kosk","tag-veronika-wenger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veronikawenger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veronikawenger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veronikawenger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veronikawenger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veronikawenger.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/veronikawenger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/veronikawenger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veronikawenger.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veronikawenger.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veronikawenger.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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