For this work, Alice Creischer has developed her reflections on overproduction, which she has based on the story “Geschichte von Antek Pistole” (Story of Antek Pistole) by Janosch. Janosch wrote his tale about a broom maker who can’t stop making brooms and ends up badly. Creischer brings this popular tale to the museum, showing it on the wall with continuous lines of comments. She uses threads and objects to interweave a second theme into the story: the problem of industrial meat production. Her “pig fairy tale” is not just a form of ethical and ecological criticism of factory farming, practiced excessively in what is referred to as the “pig belt” in the region around Münster. Creischer also invites visitors to take a broom into their own hands while listening to an audio track of the story and to loose themselves in the infinite text loops. With the broom, Creischer also references Joseph Beuys’ “Ausfegen” (“Sweeping” or “Cleaning out”) action in 1972 and calls on people to exit such spirals and advocate change.
WIDERLEGUNG DER GESCHICHTE VON ANTEK PISTOLE, 2021
mixed media installation
mixed media installation made of painted canvas, table, threads, paper collage, brochure, wall drawing and broom objects with speakers and an audio track (15:00 mins.) with excerpts from Janosch’s “Die Geschichte von Antek Pistole”
installation views LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur
Alice Creischer
Alice Creischer, born in Gerolstein in 1960, studied Philosophy, German literature and Visual Arts in Düsseldorf. As one of the key figures of German political art movements in the Nineties, Creischer contributed to a great amount of collective projects, publications, and exhibitions. Her artistic and theoretic agenda within institutional and economical critique has evolved over 20 years, more recently focusing on the early history of capitalism and globalization. As co-curator of such paradigmatic exhibitions like Messe 2ok (1995), ExArgentina (2004) and The Potosi Principle (2010), Creischer has developed a specific curatorial practice that correlates with her work as an artist and theorist, including her extensive practice in archive research. As author Creischer has contributed to many publications, magazines and fanzines. She has been awarded a few prizes throughout the years, most recently of the Günther-Peill-Stiftung (Düren, 2018). She has hold solo exhibitions at institutions such as Stadtgalerie Wedding, Berlin (2019), Culturgest, Lisbon (2017), ifa Galerie, Berlin (2013), MACBA, Barcelona (2008) and secession Vienna (2001). Her work has been shwon in group shows at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2022, 2021, 2019, 2017), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (2021), LWL Museum, Münster (2021), Gropius Bau, Berlin (2019), Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (2018), Museum der Moderne, Salzburg (2016), ludwig Forum aachen (2015) among others.
- Anna Boghiguian
- Candice Breitz
- Marco A. Castillo
- CATPC
- Alice Creischer
- Chto Delat
- Clegg & Guttmann
- Eugenio Dittborn
- Heinrich Dunst
- Anna Ehrenstein
- Estate of León Ferrari
- Peter Friedl
- Sophie Gogl
- Estate of Barbara Hammer
- The Cabinet of Ramon Haze
- Hiwa K
- Simon Lehner
- Renzo Martens
- Chris Martin
- Frédéric Moser & Philippe Schwinger
- Oswald Oberhuber
- Mario Pfeifer
- Dierk Schmidt
- Tina Schulz
- Santiago Sierra
- Michael E. Smith
- Franz Erhard Walther
- Clemens von Wedemeyer
- Tobias Zielony