documenta ulaanbaatar kassel -UFO UFO UFO 10.6.2017, Kassel Biebergemünd

Das documenta UFO landete am 10. Juni im Dorf Kassel-Biebergemünd auf dem REWE Parkplatz. Mit Hilfe des UFO Prinzips, unbeteiligte mit Kunst zu überraschen, überraschten wir das kleine Kassel mit zeitgenössischer Kunst. Anders als bei der Athener documenta, die auch dem UFO Prinzip folgte, wurde unsere documenta Frenetisch gefeiert. Wahrscheinlich war unsere documenta erfolgreicher, weil die Griechen grad existenziellere Sorgen haben als ein deutsches Dorf. Im inneren des Ufos präsentierten wir Kunst von Tom Albrecht, Batbileg, Thomas Behling, Daniel Chluba, Lisa Drost, Glenn Geffken, Francisca Gómez, Angela Grasser, Jeanette Heene, Julie Legouez, Lisa Peters und Michael H. Rohde. Es konnte jeweils nur eine Person die Ausstellung betreten und nach 100 Besuchern war Schluß. #Superkunstjahr #documenta #ufo #kassel #kunst #wirwollennichtzurdocumenta14 #wirtragenkeineeulennachathen #documenta14sucks #AdamSzymczyk #Biebergemünd

R.O.I. - Return on Investment, The Cafe, 1.6.2016- 31.6.2016

POST CONTEMPORARY ART-Return on Investment- THE CAFE

Nobody knows how Post Contemporary Art will look like.

Art now mirros the powerstructures of our globalized world. Within its bubble, objects are constantly imported and flipped into commodities to make us feel better.

As Boris Groys tells us instead of artworks, contemporary art now produces "information about art events." While the world is collapsing and the image culture of the internet is becoming our second nature, this constant flow of information calms us, it has a paliative effect.

BURNRATE's information release is therefore that We Must Wipe Out Contemporary Art like ISIS from Palmyra.

Generated Memes, infectious videos and psychedelic tweets vs. Strawberry Cupcakes, pressed Coffee and coloring books. After burning the credits of cultural capital, is this what a return on investment will look like?

BAUHAUS is researching on Weapons of Mass Destruction. Take a look at the well hidden outpost. Razzle Dazzle. JOIN THE DISCUSSION.

POST CONTEMPORARY ART-Return on Investment- THE CAFE

LEARNING BY DOING -Before the retrospective pt.99 Philipp Herfeldt @BURNRATE, 12.02.2016 – 06.03.2016

Philipp Herfeldt, ART INTO MEME

Born in Munich 1978th

Philipp Herfeldt is an Internet artist. For more than 15 years he has gained a unique standing in the LEGO online community under the name Brucewaynelego/ Toyshansolo. Posting on Flickr and youtube images and videos of his LEGO designs Herfeldt has achieved an audience of millions. In many ways Herfeldt is a ‚real‘ Post Internet artist as his whole work up until now has been disseminated on the Internet utilising the advances of Web 2.0.

Herfeldt is a perfect example of the consumer turned producer/ entrepreneur. His activities mark him asone of a new breed of creative individual: a Post Contemporary Art artist in that his work did not need the usual mainstream art world to gain a vast international audience. Herfeldt estimates his youtube videos have received 35 Million views. However he has now taken down most of these videos as others were ‚stealing‘ them to repost online to feed the shared communal addiction to getting ‚hits‘. Also he says he stopped making videos because: “The young kids just make them better now.”

Herfeldt is now entering the visual arts realm, with this solo exhibition, as an individual who is expert in art history but also an expert ‚fan boy‘ of popular culture. He is entering Art as a new type of artist using LEGO as his material means of making; raiding the ‚toolbox‘ of iconic art images which by now have become yet more memes. Rather than using past art in an 80s Appropriation sense, this artist is after an immersive rather than ‚critical‘ relationship with culture. Herfeldt is an artist who leaves low and high culture deliberately behind.

BURNRATE, 2016

BURNRATE BLACK FRIDAY - Home Fixture @ BURNRATE, 4.12.15 – 20.12.15

GET SET FOR BLACK FRIDAY by BURNRATE featuring a major architectural element by ETTORE SOTTSASS

4.12.15 – 20.12.15

“The new artwork looks really new and alive only if it resembles, in a certain sense, every ordinary, profane thing, or every other ordinary product of popular culture or prior artwork”.

Boris Groys "On The New"

“The revolutionary idea of contemporary art was that any object, any detail or fragment of the material world could exercise the same strange attraction and ask the same insoluble questions as those formerly reserved for a few rare aristocratic forms called art.”

Jean Baudrillard “The Conspiracy of Art”

AS OF MAY, 2014 INTERNET CITIZENS NOW UPLOAD AND SHARE OVER 1.8 BILLION PHOTOS EACH DAY. ALL ART IS NOW JPEG.

It is no longer necessary to review popular music. And it is certainly no longer necessary to discuss Contemporary Art. It doesn’t matter if Contemporary Art is Bad or Good. Even to say it all looks the same; has a distinct “look” or house style is irrelevant.

BURNRATE was founded to investigate value in Contemporary Art. BURNRATE seeks to set up a soft polemic between objects from Design and the” real world” on relation to those objects placed into Art. However we now acknowledge that our thoughts have been superseded by the enormity of the Internet. Our values are now totally relative.

With GET SET FOR BLACK FRIDAY BURNRATE use their trademark SUBVERSIVE AFFIRMATION to hail the beginning of the age of Post Contemporary Art so let’s throw in some harder polemic:

REJECT ALL IDENTITY AND EMBRACE TOTAL FRAUD. WOOL IN SHENZHEN! GEFFKEN IN SHENZHEN! SHENZHEN IN SHENZHEN! APOCOLYPSE NOW: AVOID THE RUSH! FREE HUGS

//Sun Penetrations// by Kim Engelen @ Burnrate, 1.11. – 27.11.15

BURNRATE "BAUHAUS IS WINNING THE WAR!" @ producersartfair Hamburg, 24. – 27.9.2015

BURNRATE ART FAIR 2015 – Journeys towards POST CONTEMPORARY ART @ abc artfair Berlin, 17.09.2015

In September 2015 Burnrate is pleased to announce the first art fair that is focussing only on the emerging phenomenon of POST CONTEMPORARY ART.

BAF15 is initiated by the PCA-Department of BURNRATE commercial space, Berlin. The Fair is an exclusive show for VIP ́s, Institutions and Collectors to have a first glance on the NEW Artists dealing with POST CONTEMPORARY ART.

BURNRATE ART FAIR is thinking OUTSIDE and INSIDE of Contemporary Art. The BAF15 is a setup to discuss the art fair as an economical and aesthetic format as well as the art in its dependencies to these factors.

CAN YOU IMAGINE A POST CONTEMPORARY ART? PHASE 1. INTRODUCE THE TERM

Contemporary Art ≠ Art Now.

Contemporary art is a brand name without a brand, ready to be slapped onto almost anything, a quick face-lift touting the new creative imperative for places in need of an extreme makeover...
-Hito Steyerl