The Café: Karen Kilimnik

The American female artist Karen Kilimnik has been invited to design the GfZK Café. Her theatrical productions give the viewer the feeling of being on stage and of playing a part. On the one hand, the viewer’s fascination of the ›spectacle‹ is maintained, on the other- by revealing the construction of its ›setting‹- we are made aware of our identity’s fundamental artificiality. This is also true of space: through its transformation into theatrical space, its identity- for instance as a ›white cube‹- is forfeited, becoming a variably ›changeable‹ and ›changing‹ space, the identity of which must constantly be defined anew.