Group Show: sitting here, thinking of

Urban Spree Galerie invites the Berlin curating duo raumwww (Daniel Hahn and Johannes Mundinger) to invest the Galerie for its last show of the year.

"sitting here, thinking of" features the works of 11 young artists, predominantly based in Berlin:

Neda Aydin, Solweig de Barry, Jakob Francisco, Jane Garbert, Daniel Hahn, Olga Jakob, Stefanie Kägi, Adrien Klemensiewicz, Johannes Klever, Alice Morey, Johannes Mundinger

"The milling machine rattles, the hammers tap brightly on the metal, the belt squeaks as it rotates in circles, endlessly from morning to night. 

In the middle of it all, the first bell sounds. The workers flock together, it's lunch break at the Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk (R.A.W) (*). The queue in front of the counter is getting longer, people from different departments are sitting together at the tables. Oil-smeared overalls on one bench, apprentices' overalls on the other. 

Where the smell of the hot stew and the fresh bread hangs in the air, there is more going on than just filling hungry stomachs. This is where stories are exchanged and experiences shared, regardless of position in the company. 

Time passes quickly until the second bell rings. The clattering milling machine, the pounding hammers, the whirring conveyor belt, until the end of the working day. 

The place where people were once trained and worked is now an exhibition space. For the show "sitting here, thinking of", eleven artists come together and occupy the space of the Urban Spree Galerie.

(*) RAW is now a post-industrial complex in the heart of Berlin and the actual location of Urban Spree but was from 1867 to 1990 a large maintenance and repair yard for trains in Berlin. 

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