BASEL.- Von Bartha is presenting conceptual artist Florian Slotawa's third solo exhibition at the gallery, Customized Logistics, from 21 March to 13 June. The exhibition considers a subject that has occupied the artist since his student days: the use and consumption of materials by artists. Slotawa has been working with readymade objects as a sculptural material throughout his career. Initially, he used his own belongings, which he removed from their domestic environment and placed in the gallery space, only to return them to everyday use. Later, found objects were added to this process. While the gallery is temporarily closed Customized Logistics will be brought to life through von Bartha’s digital channels. Follow the gallery on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, for virtual tours, exhibition highlights and insights from artists and staff.
Customized Logistics centres around the artist‘s recent relocation from Berlin to South Tyrol in Northern Italy with his family. Driven by the attraction of unresolved situations and the search for a decision, and taking objects from his daily life as a starting point, Slotawa dedicates himself to the artistic examination of his current life situation and views the move as a caesura in his practice.
Von Bartha celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2020 and Customized Logistics will thematically incorporate the gallery's history by placing Slotawa's works alongside selected sculptural works by artists from the gallery's archives including Etienne Beothy, Marianne Eigenheer, and Enio Iommi. These works will enter into a temporary sculptural symbiosis with the complete inventory of Slotawa's studio, which will be displayed across the full gallery space.
Conceptual artist Florian Slotawa (born 1972 in Rosenheim, Germany) has been working with the readymade as a sculptural material throughout his career. His solo exhibitions include I could have just set it on fire (with Dušan Zahoranský), Center and Foundation for Contemporary Art, Prague (2016); Everyday Life (with Paola Pivi and Bojan Šarčević), Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2014); Andere Räume, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen (2012); Local Plants, Artpace, San Antonio (2012); P.S.1, MoMA, New York (2009); Solothurn aussen, Kunstverein Solothurn, (2008); One After the Other, Arthouse, Austin (2007); Land Gewinnen, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (2005); BONN ORDNEN, Bonner Kunstverein (2004); and Gesamtbesitz, Kunsthalle Mannheim (2002). In 2018 he presented the comprehensive solo exhibition Stuttgart Sichten at Deichtorhallen in Hamburg.
He has taken part in numerous group exhibitions internationally, most recently at Kunsthalle Mannheim (2018), Museum für Fotografie, Braunschweig (2017), Guggenheim Bilbao and Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin (both 2016), Hamburger Kunsthalle (2015), MoCA, Taipei, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Vancouver Art Gallery (all 2013), Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, Pinakothek der Moderne, München (both 2012), Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (2009), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2008), as well as ZKM Karlsruhe and Sprengel Museum, Hannover (both in 2007). His installation “Ersatzturm” was presented in the 4th Berlin Biennale (2006). In 2013 he participated in the Aichi Triennale 2013, Nagoya.
