Opening performance of the group exhibition Schlaraffenland at Kunstverein Dortmund. Curated by Linda Schoeer.
Picture by Roland Baege.

At the opening performance, two service staff served exquisite canapés only to a small number of randomly selected guests. The canapés were ordered  from Dark Wings Inflight - a catering company exclusively for private jet customers. If a canapé - for whatever reason - was refused, it landed kindly but firmly in the bin for everyone to see. The performance refers to the carefree traveling habits of private jet owners*, which produces ten times more emissions than large commercial aircraft. commercial aircraft. Here, the land of milk and honey “presents itself as a real utopia in which “apocalypse blindness” (Günther Anders) leads to the future being sacrificed to the moment and thus common sense, social reason, to carpe diem.”

Excerpt from exhibition text by
Linda Schoeer