[artinfo] The Alt-Right Complex at Hartware MedienKunstVerein

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The Alt-Right Complex
On Right-Wing Populism Online

March 30-September 22, 2019

Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV)
at the Dortmunder U, Level 3
Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse
44137 Dortmund

<https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=116335&N=25452&L=172369&F=H>hmkv.de

The international group exhibition deals with 
forms of right-wing populism, which, especially 
today, use the Internet and "social media" to 
disseminate ideas. The Alt-Right Complex traces 
the development from a (sub)culture of 
transgression in online forums such as 4chan to 
platforms such as Breitbart News. The artists 
deal with memes (e.g. Pepe the Frog, probably the 
most famous symbol of the Trump followers), with 
figures such as Steve Bannon, flag worship, the 
prepper scene, White Supremacists and Dark 
Enlightenment. The exhibition is accompanied by a 
critical glossary that briefly explains the most 
important terms.

The Alt-Right Complex presents 12 projects by 16 
artists from 12 countries: Germany, France, Great 
Britain, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, 
Austria, Poland, Hungary, Switzerland, Serbia and 
Slovakia. The exhibition is curated by Inke Arns 
(HMKV).

Participating Artists: Paula Bulling / Anne König 
(DE), Simon Denny (NZ), DISNOVATION.ORG (FR/PL), 
Vera Drebusch & Florian Egermann (DE), Dominic 
Gagnon (CA), Szabolcs KissPál (HU), Boris 
Ondreiãka (SK), Milo Rau, IIPM - International 
Institute of Political Murder (CH/DE), Vanja 
Smiljaniç (SR), Jonas Staal (NL), Nick Thurston 
(GB), UBERMORGEN (CH/AT)

The exhibition The Alt-Right Complex will include 
performances, discussions with artists and a 
series of lectures ("The Kids Are Alt-Right"). 
All dates at 
<https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=116335&N=25452&L=5205&F=H>www.hmkv.de

As part of the opening of The Alt-Right Complex, 
the Justus Bier Award 2018 will also be presented 
on Friday, March 29, 2019 at 7pm. The Justus Bier 
Award for Curators, which honors outstanding 
curatorial achievements in the German-speaking 
world, will be presented for the first time to a 
German art association in its tenth edition, for 
the exhibition and publication The Storming of 
the Winter Palace. Forensics of an Image. The 
award winners are Inke Arns, Director of the 
Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) in Dortmund 
(DE), Igor Chubarov, Director of the Institute 
for Social Sciences and Humanities at the State 
University of Tyumen (RU) and Sylvia Sasse, 
Professor of Slavic Literary Studies at the 
University of Zurich (CH). The exhibition toured 
internationally: in 2017 it was shown at 
Gessnerallee Zurich (CH), in 2017-2018 at HMKV at 
the Dortmunder U in Dortmund (DE) and in 2018 at 
Muzeum Sztuki in ¸ódê (PL) (see press release of 
January 15, 2019 at 
<https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=116335&N=25452&L=5205&F=H>www.hmkv.de).

The Alt-Right Complex is an exhibition of the 
HMKV (Hartware MedienKunstVerein), Dortmund

Curated by Inke Arns (HMKV)

Cooperation Partner Urbane Künste Ruhr - Ruhr Ding: Territories