text:
It
began with a phone call;
a
chronicle of anecdotes relating many disparate events concerning post
World War II Berlin.
Several
months later, an evening tale carried the anecdotes into a spurious
set of narratives, which managed to link the histories of three
German identities:
Reinhold
Hahn
Reinhold
Huhn
Otto
Hahn
In
an attempt to verify or perhaps simply connect these fragments and
seemingly unrelated histories I travelled to Berlin during summer
2004. By exploring the city; asking locals and visiting museums,
monuments, wastelands and architecture I started collecting details,
which I had hoped would find their place in my own story, the
unravelling of the hahn and huhn.
Since
that summer visit I have been assembling and re-working many of the
discoveries and materials, trying to communicate them through various
forms. The project currently manifests itself as an installation
consisting of verbal storytelling.
TRIS
VONNA_MICHELL °1982 Born in London, GB Lives and works in
Berlin, Germany
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 No more racing
in circles — just pacing within lines of a rectangle, Focal Point
Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
2009 Halle für
Kunst, Lüneburg
2009 Finding Chopin:
Endnotes, Jeu de Paume Satellite, Paris
2009 Tensta
Konsthall, Stockholm
2009 Auto-Tracking:
Ongoing Configurations, Jan Mot, Brussels
2009 Tris
Vonna-Michell, X-initiative, New York
2009
Auto-Tracking-Auto-Tracking, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich
2009 Studio A:
Monumental Detours / Insignificant Fixtures, GAMeC, Bergamo
2008 Cabinet
Gallery, London
2008 Auto-Tracking,
Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich
2008 The Trades of
Others, T293, Naples
2007 Tall Tales and
Short Stories, Cubitt, London
2007 Puzzlers,
Kunstverein Braunschweig Cuboid, Braunschweig
2007 Tris
Vonna-Michell, Witte de With, Rotterdam
2007 hahn/huhn,
vondoering c:, Schwäbisch Hall
Selected Group
Exhibitions and Performances
2009 Cologne
Kunstverein, Cologne
2009 Blinding the
ears, Artissima, Turin
2009 5 x 5 Castelló
09. Premi Internacional d'Art Contemporani, Espai d'art contemporani
de Castelló EACC, Valencia
2009 This World &
Nearer Ones, Creative Time, New York
2009 ars viva 08/09.
Inszenierung / Mise en scene, Atelier Augarten Contemporary, Wien
2009 Spatial Works,
Färgfabriken, curated by Theodor Ringborg, Stockholm
2009 Critical
applause 3: Tris Vonna-Michell, CCA, Glasgow
2009 Finding Chopin,
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburger
2009 Art Cologne /
Open Space (with Cabinet, London)
2009 The
Generational: Younger than Jesus, New Museum, New York
2009 Just in the
dark/Solo al buio, Mercati di Traiano, Rome
2009 The Front Room,
Contemporary Art Museum, Saint Louis
2009 ars viva 08/09.
Inszenierung / Mise en scene, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
2009 The Space of
Words, Mudam Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
2009 I Repeat Myself
When Under Stress, MOCAD Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
2009 IASPIS Open
House, IASPIS, Stockholm
2009 Altermodern:
Tate Triennial,
2009, Tate Britain,
London
2009 A spoken word
exhibition, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Gateshead, Gateshead
2008 Speak and
Spell, performance at Vienna Art Week, Wien
2008 Storyteller –
Organizing Time and Space, 0047, Oslo
2008 Lieber
Künstler, erzähle mir!, Kunstverein Hildesheim, Hildesheim
2008
Stone-Paper-Scissors, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU), Berlin
2008 Kunst Im Heim,
Capitain Petzel, Berlin
2008 ars viva 08/09.
Inszenierung / Mise en scene, Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg,
Würzburg
2008 Bending the
Word / MATRIX 226, BAM/PFA - UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film
Archive, Berkeley
2008 Time Crevasse,
Yokohama Triennale
2008, Yokohama
2008 ICA:60 Past,
Present and Future, performance at ICA - Institute of Contemporary
Arts, London
2008 Fia Backström:
That social space between speaking and meaning, performance at White
Columns, New York
2008 The Store,
Tulips & Roses, Vilnius
2008 Experiment
Marathon Reykjavík, Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík
2008 Oral Culture,
performance at Jan Mot, Brussels
2008 Tate Triennial
2009 Prologue 1,
Tate Britain, London
2008 Self-Storage,
CCCA - California College of the Arts, Metro Self Storage, San
Francisco
2008 Of this Tale, I
cannot Guarantee A Single Word, Royal College of Art Galleries,
London
2008 5th berlin
biennial for contemporary art, KW Institute for Contemporary Art,
Berlin
2007 The
Affirmation, Chelsea Space, London
2007 Monumental
Detours / Insignificant Fixtures, performance at KW, Berlin
2007 Performa 07,
The second Visual Art Performance Biennal, New Y
2007 Playground,
Stuk Performance Festival, Leuven
2007 The Year of the
Human Sciences, performance at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU), Berlin, Berlin
2007 Experiment
Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London
2007 Floating
Territories, Evens Foundation, Transbiennial Project, Istanbul and
Athens
2007 The Present
Order, Museum de Hallen, Haarlem
2007 The Moment You
Realise You Are Lost, Johann König, Berlin
2007
KölnShow2, European Kunsthalle, Cologne
