With different intonations of the word “present”, the gift is at the same time a strategy and a form.

The interdisciplinary group “10 o’clock” was founded in Frankfurt/M in 1991 by the architects Bernd Mey and Christian Pantzer and the artist Ralf Schmitt, interim also the filmmaker Bernhard Schreiner was part of the group.

The fact that works land in the museum – and how – is something that has been known not just since Anselm Kiefer’s lead airplanes; whether this was a voluntary landing or an emergency landing is of no importance. But how do the works get out of the museum?

Referring to Austrian artist Franz West the trilogy generates an “asianonym” by appropriating, linking and adjusting the artist’s name to the present situation. The “Franz.East” – trilogy tells about this kind of (k)notworking, starting with Chinese Knotting, later Peruvian Quipus and currently based on magical practice in ancient Arabia.

Preview Berlin – The Emerging Art Fair is the Berlin-based platform for a young generation of national and international galleries and project spaces. The primary focus of the fair is on emerging artists.

ULTRA ART FAIR functions like a Trojan Horse into the emerging and proliferating global art fair markets of today. Its webdesign mimics and quotes already existing corporate designs of art fairs.