Peres Projects company logo
Peres Projects
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • Artists
  • Exhibitions
  • Fairs
  • News
  • Shop
  • Contact
  • EN
  • KO
  • 简体
Cart
0 items $
Checkout

Item added to cart

View cart & checkout
Continue shopping
Menu
  • EN
  • KO
  • 简体
GG
Ad Minoliti, Berlin, 13 January - 10 February 2023

GG Ad Minoliti

Past Exhibitions exhibition
  • Press release
  • Installation Shots
  • Press
Press release

Peres Projects is pleased to present GG –galáctica gatoteca–, Ad Minoliti’s (b. 1980 in Buenos Aires, AR) second solo exhibition at the Berlin gallery.

 

Challenging definitions and categorizations, GG is simultaneously an interactive exhibition, a site-specific installation, and a collective happening; but it is foremost Ad Minoliti’s invitation to take shelter in the midst of the Berlin winter and to envision together an alternative universe.

 

Drawing inspiration from the café-concert and cat cafés meant for adoption, Ad Minoliti converts the gallery into a warm space open to all, and to the queer and trans youth of Berlin in particular. GG, which encompasses paintings, sculptures, murals, and carpets, incorporates a coffee corner, a library including Argentinian fanzines and comics, and live events, thus transforming the exhibition space into Minoliti’s own fantasyland where the public is welcome to hang around.

 

Since 2014, Minoliti has been investigating childhood as a state of subordination and autonomy deprivation benefiting the surveillance and control of bodies and desires. With GG, Minoliti takes us a step further as they tackle the issue of adolescence. This transient, hybrid interval between childhood and adulthood is a very stereotyped stage of life in Western culture where teenagers tend to be marginalized and regarded as the “other.” Conceived as a cocoon, that is a place of both protection and growth, GG, by its very existence, points to the lack of positive spaces intended for teenagers.

 

In most cultures and societies, teenage years remain an even more traumatic stage in the lives of queer and trans youth. With GG, Minoliti addresses the issue of the representation of these struggles. Refusing to abide by “porno miseria,” or miserabilism, a common expedient for picturing the experience of queer and trans adolescence, Minoliti advocates warmness and care as legitimate rhetorical strategies, and opens up new avenues for political art, beyond the literal depiction of misery and suffering and towards speculative heterotopias. In doing so, they rely on geometric characters with no gender, origin, age or class that populate the walls of the gallery. Here and there, next to painted tea cups and coffee pots, one can see a pair of eyes, legs, the evocation of a mustache; but these fluid figures are mostly made of curved and straight lines, bright colors and repeating patterns. The exhibition space becomes a futuristic and cartoonish queer spacecraft, and Minoliti’s fictional geometry a self-questioning device extended to the viewers.

 

Multicolor and multivalent, GG is a generous and joyful act of resistance against adultism and binary discrimination. True to Minoliti’s practice, this playfulness and ebullience remain politically loaded. The forest green, cobalt blue, pumpkin orange, and candy apple red that adorn the exhibition space come from the color code of Argentinian activist groups, including the pro-abortion movement (green) and the movement for a secular state (orange). Minoliti’s prowess lies in their ability to strategically turn their art into a “serious play.” Rejecting commonplace cynicism, with GG, they rehabilitate tenderness and softness and expand a policy of empathy.

 

In line with Minoliti’s urge to promote feminist and queer artists, the gallery will host a program of performances, including drag kings, poets, and stand-up comedians. By rallying a community of artists, Ad Minoliti, whose practice draws from transfeminist and queer theory, activates Donna Haraway’s concept of sympoiesis, or “making-with.” A harmonious whole made of disparate elements, GG is an experiential symphony. Softening the traditional white cube, Minoliti opens the doors to an experimental, inclusive space where hierarchies are abolished, in an attempt to show that utopias and fantasies are not vain dreams but necessary scenarios that stimulate social changes through individual and collective actions.

 

This is Ad Minoliti’s second solo exhibition with Peres Projects. Minoliti’s work has been extensively acclaimed internationally, and shown in numerous institutional solo exhibitions worldwide, including the recent Biosfera Peluche, Tate St Ives, UK, play theater, Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré (CCCOD), Tours, Nave Vermelhe, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, Fantasías Modulares, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, Atrium Project: Ad Minoliti, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Soft Museum, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. Minoliti also took part in the 58th Venice Biennale and the 13th Gwangju Biennale. Their work has entered the collections of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMBA), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Pérez Art Museum Miami, and Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, among others. Minoliti has upcoming solo exhibitions at Kunstpalais Erlangen and Peres Projects, Seoul, in addition to a group exhibition at Giant, Bournemouth, as well as a residency at Cité des Arts, Paris.

Installation Shots
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ad Minoliti GG January 13 – February 10, 2023 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Timo Ohler
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ad Minoliti GG January 13 – February 10, 2023 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Timo Ohler
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ad Minoliti GG January 13 – February 10, 2023 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Timo Ohler
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ad Minoliti GG January 13 – February 10, 2023 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Timo Ohler
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ad Minoliti GG January 13 – February 10, 2023 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Timo Ohler
Press
  • Installation view of Ad Minoliti's exhibition "GG" at Peres Projects, Berlin (2023)

    Outer (Safe) Space: Ad Minoliti’s ‘GG’

    Matteo Calla, Berlin Art Link, February 3, 2023
  • Installation view of Ad Minoliti's exhibition "GG" at Peres Projects, Berlin (2023)

    A Queer Spacecraft

    David Alarcón, Metal Magazine, January 23, 2023

Related artist

  • 애드 미놀리티

    애드 미놀리티

Back to exhibitions

BERLIN

Karl-Marx-Allee 82
10243 Berlin, Germany

SEOUL

37 Yulgok-ro 1-gil, Jongno-gu

03062 Seoul, Republic of Korea

MILAN

Piazza Belgioioso 2
20121 Milan, Italy

Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Vimeo, opens in a new tab.
Artsy, opens in a new tab.
Artnet, opens in a new tab.
Manage cookies
Copyright © 2023 PERES PROJECTS
Site by Artlogic

This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.

Manage cookies
Accept

Cookie preferences

Check the boxes for the cookie categories you allow our site to use

Cookie options
Required for the website to function and cannot be disabled.
Improve your experience on the website by storing choices you make about how it should function.
Allow us to collect anonymous usage data in order to improve the experience on our website.
Allow us to identify our visitors so that we can offer personalised, targeted marketing.
Save preferences
Close

Join our mailing list

Signup

* denotes required fields

We will process the personal data you have supplied in accordance with our privacy policy (available on request). You can unsubscribe or change your preferences at any time by clicking the link in our emails.