Berlin art collector Axel Haubrok collects attitude, and American sculptor Sam Durant creates art with attitude. Together, they’ve curated an exhibition at the Haubrok Foundation at Fahrbereitschaft in Lichtenberg, opening this Sunday (06.04.2025 16h). Titled Consider Listening, the exhibition takes its name from a lightbox work by Durant bearing the same inscription — an excellent piece of general life advice, especially in the current climate. The exhibition features works from the Haubrok Collection alongside several loans, including pieces by Monica Bonvicini, Willem de Rooij, Sam Durant, Claire Fontaine, Kim Gordon, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Alfredo Jaar, Ahmet Öğüt, Adrian Piper, Gerhard Richter, and Heimo Zobernig, among others. In keeping with its title, the exhibition will be accompanied in the coming weeks and months (until mid-July) by a series of events and talks addressing contemporary and future issues related to art, society, and urban life. Given the curators’ intellectual ambitions and the success of past events, the exhibition and its accompanying programs promise to be thought-provoking and aesthetically refined. And for those attending, the post-event dinner at the Dong Xuan Center is sure to be an enjoyable conclusion to the evening. Consider going.
Text: Hilka Dirks / Photos: Ludger Paffrath, Ériver Hijano / Credit: Sam Durant, Consider Listening, Edition for the haubrok foundation, Berlin 2025
Haubrok Foundation at Fahrbereitschaft, Herzbergstr.40–43, 10365 Berlin–Lichtenberg; map
Consider Listening 06.04.–06.07.2025, opening 06.04.2025 from 16h
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