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>>„durchschlag“
a project by at the sollintuna art fair by:
anaïde chirinian
anna kalesse
anngjerd rustand
eva beierheimer
gudrun gruber
guangjuan zhang
magnus oledal
victor rundgren

a long discussion about art fairs and fair art lead us fair we invited a flower shop to install a shop and sell flowers at the kkh-space at the sollentuna art fair.
the idea was to switch our position from being artist to galerist. we acted as a non profit gallery and didn’t charge money from the artist but visitors who bought a flower had to sign an art sales contract, which were numbered by “durchschlag #1, durchschlag #2…). We wanted to raise the question of the conditions of being an artist, the conditions of selling art and finally what can be seen as art, and what is supposed to be the artworks that were sold from the installation.
even though the KKH sign hung over the installation it was interesting to see that not a lot of people didn’t realise that the flower shop was invited by us and was by that part of an art installation. most of the purchasers also didn’t question to sign the contract even without reading. at the end we sold 158 pieces. nine people refused to sign the contract.
the title of the installation comes from the german word “durchschlag” which means a blue print copy.
blue prints what we used to have a second copy of each contract which the purchasers were supposed to take home.
durchschlag is also an old word for sieve and is also used as the swedish word
durkslag.

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