FOUNDATION | METASITU

14.02.2019 – 14.04.2019

FOUNDATION is a proposal for a new community formed by strangers, that will build its own space and its own bonds. In seven days. Without communicating with the outside world. Without leaving the gallery.

About the FOUNDATION project

A project by METASITU, commissioned by DAS ESSZIMMER – space for art+
with: Eduardo Cassina, Liva Dudareva, Grace Euna Kim, Dana Kosmina, Ellen H Tracy, Illia Yakovenko and Laura Yuile

Together with Dana Kosmina, and Eduardo Cassina, of METASITU, the other four FOUNDERS selected through an anonymous open call are Laura Yuile, Illia Yakovenko, Grace Euna Kim, and Ellen H Tracy. – The six of them will be inside FOUNDATION for a week (1st – 7th February 2019), without leaving the premises of DAS ESSZIMMER, nor contact with the outside World, building the foundations for a new city based on affiliation and community creation between strangers.

The results will form the exhibition and be visible from 14th February to 14th April 2019 at DAS ESSZIMMER. The exhibition design is by Dana Kosmina.

We don’t know our neighbors by name – most of the times, we don’t even know how they look like. Yet, through social media, we are extremely familiar with the dietary habits of someone who we have never met and is oceans apart from us. They might not even know we exist, but we feel, we are part of their tribe – One of the many tribes we belong to.
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Project material

press release
invitation
project archive (google.doc)
Wall Street International
Article by Gudrun von Schoenebeck, General Anzeiger Bonn, 25.03.2019

YouTube — A project by METASITU in collaboration with
DAS ESSZIMMER – Space for Art+|
Videography by Semih Korhan Güner

We thank Stiftung Kunst der Sparkasse in Bonn and Stadt Bonn for supporting this project.

Dana Kosmina

Dana Kosmina works as an independent architect and multidisciplinary artist in Kiev / UA. She was a participant in the exhibition project FOUNDATION

Eduardo Cassina

Eduardo Cassina is an architect, city sociologist, and part of the curatorial group METASITU. He was trained in Glasgow, Porto, Amsterdam, Beijing and London.

Ellen H Tracy

the most mysterious and undiscovered of all the participants of FOUNDATION

Grace Euna Kim

Berlin/GER

Grace Euna Kim is a New York born Korean-American performance and visual artist.

Illia Yakovenko

Kiew/UA

Illia Yakovenko is an artist and activist.

Laura Yuile

London/UK

Laura Yuile is an artist from Glasgow and currently lives in London. Her work is multidisciplinary and explores the notion of house and city through intimate (or public) affairs of coexistence.