A RADICAL READING ROOM

15 NOV - 15 DEC 2024

OPENING
Piotr Pietrus (15 & 17.11, from 17h) - THE AESTHETICS OF RESISTANCE
Photographic window projection

OPENING EVENT
Pierre Boggio (20.11, 19h) - COOKING IS POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT
Communal Supper with Soupe au Pistou - (First come first serve)

WIRWIR
Stuttgarter Str. 56
12059 Berlin-Neukölln

WIRWIR's RADICAL READING ROOM hours
Fridays & Sundays; 16 - 20h
(additional opening hours upon request)

"I make ceramics and tableware to prepare soup in order to invite people to share convivial moments. I will make the famous provençal Soupe au Pistou, that I learnt to cook with my mother according to my great-grandmother's recipe. During the event, I will tell the story behind the soup and the kitchenware I made, which gives people the opportunity to tell their own stories."
-Pierre Boggio

“In April 2022 we wanted to start the project I II I (Один два один)* an exhibition format for artist books that would be hosted in a private apartment in Kyiv (located in Konovaltsia, 44a, apt 121). It’s built around a site specific installation that hosts curated artists books dealing with specific topics. For the first session - due to current circumstances - the topics are forms of resistance, empire, exile, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We would like to think of the project as a more intimate and durational model that gives time and space to spend time with the publications and appreciate them in a contextualized environment with a radical idea of hosting that involves the resident of the apartment as caretaker of the project. We want to develop a site specific setting for the presentation of the artist books. We consider this project in exile as a nomadic setting hosted by different venues, starting with WIRWIR, each with uniquely their own, until the project can relocate to its original destination. Continuing with the private hosting session there will be intimate moments of drinking tea together (Chaina tseremoniya), collaborative readings, cooking as a form of resistance, performances and artworks that respond to the individual artist books. The books are curated by a variety of artists, researchers, curators and friends with different backgrounds and perspectives as well as random discoveries.”
- Stefan Klein and Andriy Bozhok

*The name of the project derives from the street address and visually symbolizes an abstract form of books placed next to each other 

Project by Andriy Bozhok & Stefan Klein

Works by
Kateryna Aliinyk & Natashа Chychasova // Sitara Thalia Ambrosio // ateliernormalno // Vic Bakin // Pierre Boggio // Ania Brudna // Lesha Berezovskiy // Hakim Bey // Care Collective // Reine Chahine // Faye Dudukovich // Cynthia Enloe // Simon Faithfull // Freefilmers // The Information Front // Dani Gal // Gustav Landauer // Sergiy Maidukov // Stefan Maneval // Hind Mezaina // Piotr Pietrus // Abdullah al-Qaseer // Wu Qin // Dmytro Shandra // Alex Tapia // Yu Yu Myint Than // Yixin Wang

Co-Curation by
Bogomir Doringer // April Gertler // Alona Karavai // Sofia Baldi Pighi // Valus Sonov // Adrian Schiesser // Stas Turina