New Mysteries: Luiza Prado & Annette Frick
Ruckhaberle Award: New Mysteries. Luiza Prado & Annette Frick
Exhibition at GalerieETAGE, Museum Reinickendorf
May 28 – August 1, 2021, extended until August 8
Opening hours: Mon–Fri, Sun 9:00 am–5:00 pm
Opening reception: Sunday, June 6, 12:00–4:00 pm
Since 2019, Künstlerhof Frohnau, together with the Department of Art and History of the Berlin-Reinickendorf District Office, has awarded the Dieter Ruckhaberle Award. The prize is aimed at artists whose artistic practice, or work alongside their artistic production, engages with political and social issues and develops innovative forms to do so. The exhibition New Mysteries at Museum Reinickendorf presents the first two award recipients from 2019 and 2020: Luiza Prado and Annette Frick. In parallel with the exhibition, two risoprint artist books in limited editions are being published (printing: we-make.it). For orders, please send us an email.
Credits
Project lead: Dr. Cornelia Gerner
Exhibition curator: Kaya Behkalam
Assistant: Katja Hock
Production: Setareh Shahbazi
Technical support: Christopher Mylaeus, Ralf Sköries
With the kind support of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, the Exhibition Fund for Municipal Galleries, and the Exhibition Fees Fund for Visual Artists.
The works of Luiza Prado and Annette Frick, both Berlin-based artists of different generations, are formally highly distinct. Prado, born in 1988 in Brazil, works with multimedia, vividly colored installations incorporating video, objects, and text. Frick, born in 1957 in Bonn, has for decades been a photographic chronicler of the queer scene in Germany and works with large-scale black-and-white photography, experimental films, and self-published zines. What unites them is their engagement with urgent questions surrounding gender relations and biopolitics, and with the possibilities of fighting for and sustaining alternative modes of thought and ways of life in the face of the global resurgence of neoliberal and authoritarian ideologies.
Luiza Prado and Annette Frick will present selected works from recent years in the museum’s three gallery spaces, including works produced during the artist residency at Künstlerhof Frohnau that is part of the award.
The prize commemorates the life and work of the artist, curator, and cultural policy advocate Dieter Ruckhaberle. The title New Mysteries refers to Ruckhaberle’s series of lithographs from 1967/68 of the same name, in which he addressed current political events and sought to reveal their “new, mystical” forces. Alongside the artistic works of the two award recipients, Annette Frick and Luiza Prado, the exhibition recalls aspects of Ruckhaberle’s practice through archival material from his extensive and little-known estate. Ruckhaberle was an important and outspoken advocate for improving the living and working conditions of artists, founded the BBK print and sculpture workshop, was involved in the founding of the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (nGbK), and co-initiated the Artists’ Social Insurance Fund. In addition to his achievements in cultural policy, he was also one of the first exhibition makers in Germany to engage with art beyond the dominant mainstream of society. At the same time as the opening of the exhibition, the recipient of the 2021 Ruckhaberle Award will be announced.