Opening Reception | Hütti: A Group Show

Rather than a formal presentation of a group show, Hütti is an installation within which works of artists are included. Based on an original concept design by Veit Laurent Kurz in collaboration with Ben Schumacher, the exhibition is an unofficial follow up to Huettendasein, a cardboard version of an Alpine hut that was built by the artists in the backyard of an apartment building in Brooklyn last May. While a typically rural dwelling, the hut has also come to symbolize existential retreat or a philosophical space, and in this respect becomes the contextual, as well as architectural, framework for an artist-curated exhibition of formal sensibilities and affinities.

Over 50 artworks have been gathered from an open invitation to an extended network of European and US-based artists as well as gallerists, musicians, and students. These works, however, are subsumed into the installation as a whole, and stripped of individual identification, in effect, illustrate a fiction as opposed to an overarching thematic. In this sense, the show serves as not only a haphazard setting in which disparate artworks are collected but potentially creates a mythopoeic characterization of an unknown figure—a person who might inhabit such a space—through them.

Including works by Magnus Andersen, Maximiliane Baumgartner, Lorenzo Bernet, Juliette Blightman, Leda Bourgogne, Max Brand, Lutz Braun, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Lauren Burns-Coady, Dese Escobar, Elise Duryee-Browner, Michaela Eichwald, Anna Fehr, Jonathan Gean, Rochelle Goldberg, Paul Gondry, Lena Henke, Shelby Jackson, Yannic Joray, Jeffrey Joyal, Marie Karlberg, Valerie Keane, Jenni Knight, Marc Kokopeli, Veit Laurent Kurz, Jonas Lipps, Alexandra Metcalf, Ben Morgan-Cleveland, Brandon Ndife, Yair Oelbaum, Crystal Palmer, Anna Pierce, Jessica Polaniecki, Michael Pollard, Viola Relle & Raphael Weilguni, Kate Sansom, Benjamin Saurer, Mark von Schlegell, Max Schmidtlein, Andy Schumacher, Ben Schumacher, Taketo Shimada, Daniel Sperry, Stefan Tcherepnin, Stefan Thater, Hanna Törnudd, Ellie de Verdier, Raphaela Vogel, Lillian Paige Walton, Brook Sinkinson Withrow, Amelie von Wulffen, Mark Van Yetter, Jutta Zimmermann, and Alivia Zivich