27. April, 19:00 – Opening

28 April – 3 Juni 2012

Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK)
Oranienstr. 25
10999 Berlin
http://www.ngbk.de

The exhibition La Zona identifies different categories of ”zone”. The main reference is the zone in Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker – a territory that is at once enclosed and abandoned, deadly and healing, unpredictable, and always changing. Filmed seven years before the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Stalker is in retrospect considered as an anticipation of this catastrophe and its consequences. La Zona constructs a science fiction narrative out of the polymorphic reality of the ”zone” as well as the fractured idea of progress and enlightenment.

Participants: Büro für Konstruktivismus, Michael Danner, Katja Davar, Amin Farzanefar, Kim Feser, Ulrike Feser, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Ralf Homann, Ins A Kromminga, Tara Mahapatra, Steven Matheson, Chris McGrane, Esther Neumann, Lina Selander, Dylan Spaysky, Charles Stankievech, Ashok Sukumaran, Florian Wüst, Daniel Young & Christian Giroux

A project by Sandra Bartoli, Michael Danner, Ulrike Feser, Silvan Linden und Florian Wüst

La Zona – German edition ISBN 978-3-938515-48-8 / English edition ISBN 978-3-938515-49-5