For the closing night of MILKY WAY, we are excited to host this line-up of underground music trailblazers: Miss Madeline (live), Demisanté [FKA Demi Yo’Ko] (live), Meg10 and Euvn.
Flyer by William Becker
For the closing night of MILKY WAY, we are excited to host Miss Madeline (live), Demisanté [FKA Demi Yo’Ko] (live), Meg10 and Euvn.
Embracing themes of nostalgia and youth, Esben Weile Kjær’s installation will be paired with musical performances that each offer their own distinctive take on pop culture, art, satire and indie revival. Starting with a soundscape composed by frequent collaborator Europa, the first performance starts at midnight with shapeshifting artist Demisanté [FKA Demi Yo’Ko], followed by a DJ set by club pop producer Euvn. The night will culminate in a live set of lyrical and choreographic prowess by NYC royalty Miss Madeline, finally closing with a DJ set by Hoe_mies ringleader Meg10.
Doors at 22:00
About the exhibition:
TRAUMA is pleased to present Milky Way, a solo exhibition by Danish artist Esben Weile Kjær. Kjær’s multidisciplinary work across sculpture and performance clashes the visual vocabularies of entertainment, fashion, and contemporary art in a critical investigation of youth-cultural rituals past and present.
In TRAUMA’s theatre space, Kjær has erected a large, navigable concrete structure that recalls two iconic, if melancholic, architectural typologies from the recent past: Soviet playgrounds and the quintessential WW2 bunkers along the West European coastline (known officially as the Atlantic Wall). The severe brutalist design of the artist’s construction is contrasted by a child-like playfulness, inviting audiences to climb the structure via its stairs or to try its built-in slide. The bunker’s exterior is embellished by several neon works on the building’s exterior and several stained-glass windows. While the neon works display fluorescent plants with diamond-crusted flowers crawling up the building’s exterior, the windows’ illuminated motifs are inspired by NASA imagery of new galaxies forming in the Milky Way. In this clash of spatial and visual iconographies, Kjær explores the status of bygone utopian visions under the sign of the perpetual new: how dreams are made material as aesthetics, how they inevitably fade, and how they might reawaken and remind us (of something) anew.
The show is part of Berlin Art Week 2024 Featured Section
If your personal situation doesn’t allow you to afford a full-priced ticket, please contact us directly no later than 1 day before the event: reduced (at) traumabarundkino.de