The Nominal Value

“Nominal Value” is about transactional voting, fake promises, sour propaganda that was sold as sugar but turns bad once you have tasted it and it didn’t meet at all the expectations that were dangled in front of you. 

Idea:

Longing for Trust presents a curated selection of works by international contemporary artists from the late 1950s to the present (Abramović & Ulay, Alice Creischer, Thomas Demand, Gauri Gill, Hans Haacke, Martin Kippenberger, Koizumi Meiro, Lee Mingle, Cristiana Cott Negoescu, Yoko Ono, Trevor Paglen, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Julia Scher, Shimabuku, Andreas Siekmann, Rajesh Vangad), establishing a critical discourse around the concept of trust. The exhibition interrogates the socio-political prerequisites, structural implications, and various manifestations of trust, prompting viewers to analyze it both within the immediate phenomenological encounter between artwork and spectator, and within broader systemic frameworks of political power and institutional control. Rather than treating trust as a static paradigm, the selected works frame it as a highly specific, ubiquitous, and dynamic process. Ultimately, the exhibition demonstrates how the inherent necessity and vulnerability of trust have historically served as a critical focal point in contemporary artistic practice. 

On a maybe innocent note, contradicting the serious of my work about transactional voting and social media propaganda, I am awe-struck to be part of the Longing for Trust exhibition amongst rockstar artists. Thank you Linda Walther and Julius Osman for inviting me to be part of this!

Performers: Emma Rüther, rabea_chatha, Gabriela Tudor, Tini Aliman,  Lea Frensch, Jihyung Park 박지형, and Anastasiya Trifonenko

Links:

• Annoucement on Website of Museum Quadrat

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