BLAM Festival 2025
Axel Obiger
To be Announced
Opening:
2025 Oct 23, 6-10 pm
El Hub
Mesones No. 154
Centro Histórico,
Cuauhtémoc
06000 Mexico City,
Mexico
Fourteen posters announcing fourteen individual solo presentations—the same duration, the same location: El Hub, an exhibition space in Mexico City.
The Berlin project space Axel Obiger presents TO BE ANNOUNCED, a series of fourteen distinct visions that explore ways of inhabiting a space and activating it as a site for ideas. The act of announcement itself assumes a performative dimension, constituting an initial gesture through which reality begins to form.
The posters, all printed locally, are displayed side by side on an equal footing. They visualize the core concept of Axel Obiger as a collectively organized, democratically structured initiative grounded in the individual artistic practices of its members.
The posters are accompanied by a social media campaign that further extends the exhibitions’ performative assertion of reality.
This project playfully examines each artist’s negotiation of visibility and the search for an appropriate form of presentation under the conditions of the digital age. What role do analog modes of display continue to play? Do the digital traces left across various platforms not often serve as sufficient catalysts for reaction and discussion? And which algorithms, in turn, now determine visibility and assume the roles once held by curators and exhibition organizers?
In this way, the group draws critical attention to existing hierarchies while simultaneously communicating its vision of how solidarity and collaborative action might persist in a digital world. The shared exhibition space becomes a symbol of how hierarchies may be subverted through collective practice grounded in diverse forms of authorship. Within this framework, an exhibition becomes possible for all the members of Axel Obiger, regardless of their financial resources or ability to travel to a distant country.
TO BE ANNOUNCED opens up an experimental space for collaborative and egalitarian exhibition practices—situated between analog and digital formats, and negotiated between global and local contexts.
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