Crash Pad

With Crash Pad Angelidakis creates a multi-purpose room with a library in the front building of KW Institute for Contemporary Art, drawing upon the idea of the 19th century salon as a setting for cultural and political conversations. The room is formed by an arrangement of ancient and folkloric rugs handmade in the Greek countryside, displaying a transitional iconography from an Ottoman to a European tradition, together with a set of columns. The carpets and the columns represent the two conflicting systems that modernized Greece in the 19th century: The Europeanized Greek diaspora (educated in Germany, France, and England and influenced by the invention of antiquity there), and the peasant guerrilla fighters under general Theodoros Kolokotronis.

8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art presents: Crash Pad by Andreas Angelidakis
26.1.–3.8.2014, every Saturday and Sunday, 2–6 pm, admission free
Opening: Saturday, 25.1.2014, 2 pm
25.1.2014, 3 pm: Andreas Angelidakis in conversation with Juan A. Gaitán

Crash Pad by Andreas Angelidakis is the first commissioned work of the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. The room installation opens on January 25, 2014, as a preliminary statement of the 8th Berlin Biennale.