Marlboro, Pueblo or American Spirit. Vaping or never having touched a cigarette in your life. Coca Cola or Club Mate. Tap water, filtered spring water or BPA-softened PET-Evian. Two dirt-stained people laughing on my Volvic Sport bottle are crawling out of large tubes. It advertises a kind of urban gladiator training, and recalls the Flint water crisis in such an absurd way it hurts. 

The pioneering spirit still exists – together with the lukewarm, sweet smell of Flat White and zucchini-chia seed cake oozes it out of the new Swedish café on the corner. It grinds itself with snippets of conversation about precarity, short term rental agreements, and the reclaim of the city. Mixing with the aluminum salts of deodorants, it coalesces into a strange, explosive union. A newly awakened, maddening patriotic impulse arises everywhere. ‘The patriotic Impulse is deadly.‘ Or ‘Do you think you’re not a dick just ‘cause your head is on top of it?!’ 

(Lucie Stahl)

Programme

Workshop "Abgescannt" with Sebastian Rohrbeck
Sunday, 26 June 2016, 3-6pm
For children, teenager and and adults

Guided tour
Tuesday, 05 July 2016, 6pm

"Art and Cake"
Sunday, 17 July 2016, from 3pm

"Members guide members" with Anneliese Maaß
Wednesday, 20 July 2016, 6pm

Marionette Workshop with Hannah Behringer (10 to 15 years)
25 - 29 July 2016, 9am-2pm
For children aged 10 to 15 years

"Children guide children" & "Children's Club" (6 to 12 years)
Saturday, 06 August 2016, 11am-1pm
For children aged 6 to 12 years 

Halle für Kunst is generously supported by Land Niedersachsen, NORD/LB Kulturstiftung, Sparkassenstiftung Lüneburg, Lüneburgischer Landschaftsverband, VGH-Stiftung, Lüneburger Bürgerstiftung and Hansestadt Lüneburg.

Arbeiten von Lucie Stahl (*1977 Berlin) wurden u.a. gezeigt bei der 9. Berlin Biennale (2016), der Biennale de Lyon (2015), im Sculpture Center New York (2014), bei Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles (2014), Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt am Main (2014), Gio Marconi, Mailand (2013), What Pipeline, Detroit (2013), dépendance, Bruessel (2012), im Kölnischen Kunstverein (2011), in der Galerie Meyer Kainer, Wien (2011) im Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (2011) sowie im Kunstverein Nürnberg (2009).