'let's have an exhibition at my house', curated by renee cosgrave

Loving Kent's crazy layered images!

our good friend renee put on an exhibition in kreuzberg last night, in true berlin style, in her lounge, entitled "Let's Have An Exhibition At My House", an idea I've wanted to be involved in for ages!

there was some street marketing, with chalked signage on the footpath and invite on the door, and we had an interesting influx of people actually make their way up the stairs and into the show.

Truly was a luscious little gathering. 

Very cool to have guests bold enough to visit just from seeing arrows chalked on the ground! 

Huzzah!

here's lucy setting up her collages

the works on show were by renee, devon, carly, lucy and me. a good mix of stuff - sculpture, collage, painting, drawing, video. quite a nice little show actually, whipped together quickly but professionally.

entrance signage

 carly's work - these are all hand made out of paper. yes, it looks like rubbish at a distance, but up close, it's fine craftsmanship.
Well, it is actually rubbish, but handmade for your enjoyment! Fantastic! 
 

detail of carly's sculpture (handcut letters and all)

 this is my little book of 86 ink drawings.

These were definitely a party favourite - the book spent more time being 

passed around for viewing than on the little table - go Kent! 

renee's abstract paintings

 one of lucy's collages

 video work by devon, with drawings

sorry about the quality of the documentation here, they're a but rough. someone took some better images with a better camera and was taking photos throughout the night, i'll try and get hold of some. the champagne and beer was abundant, and there was much chatting with new people, so the camera went to bed in my pocket.
Actually, we were too drunk to remember. And I was too busy eating an entire pizza. Mmm - I could go some of that right now ... Piz ... zaaaaaa.

here's one image though, of this old dude who came in off the street:

devon is quite fluent in deutsch, so she was giving him the heads-up on the whole affair. he was lovely, just curious and didn't know any of us. I am amazed at the effort in coming up the 3 or so flights of stairs, without anything but 'exhibition here!' to guide him. Thanks dude! he spent quite some time looking at each work, he took my little book to the window and went through every page, having a decent look. I think he gave Carly's paper rubbish quite a good squeeze (much to her alarm) to suss out the materials. such a nice experience to have a complete stranger digest a whole lot of images put together by a bunch of other strangers. epic like.
He had a tissue plugged in one nostril though, which was very distracting.

oh yeah - devon said there was blood on it too ... eewww...

some native deutschers checking out lucy's stuff.

champagne in plastic cups - hooray! oh, plus strawbs. 
Always deceiving - 1 plastic cup of champagne is a lot bigger than it seems at the time.

the opening then kicked into party mode and a fun time was had by all.
Here here! I vote that lounge room exhibitions are held on a much more regular basis.

oh, and this morning, check out the condition of the tree in our courtyard:

FOLIAGE!

not a bad view now!
Definitely helps to muffle all that screaming.
(Not really, but I am getting desparate!)