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In 2009, Com & Com has broken with irony and provocation. At the beginning there is a programmatic manifesto. Com & Com call for the rediscovery of beauty in everyday life and the simple, for the authentic and for the celebration of the creativity and uniqueness to each individual. Central aspects of postironic works and actions are curiosity, sustainability, social responsibility and endowment with meaning. This realignment is reflected both in individual work, collaboration and participation projects such as "Unbuilt Roads" (2009-10) and discussion and education projects such as "Postirony" (2009–2010).
www.postirony.com

The group show ‘Shifting Identities – (Swiss) art today’ focuses on the traces of globalisation to be found in contemporary art. Adducing more than 60 examples, the Kunsthaus Zürich demonstrates the way a burgeoning generation of artists approaches such subjects as changing values and evolving identities. In this context Com&Com shows their latest video Google Earth Art, Switzerland (2008) as a room installation in the second flor of the museums collection just in the middle of the classic modern, surrounded by landscape and genre paintings.

artist list:
Adel Abdessemed, Nevin Aladag, Pawel Althamer und Artur Zmijewski, Emmanuelle Antille, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Marc Bauer und Christine Abbt, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Lonnie van Brummelen, Christoph Büchel, Stefan Burger, Mircea Cantor, David Chieppo, Claire Fontaine, Com & Com, Anne-Lise Coste, Keren Cytter, Yan Duyvendak, Latifa Echakhch, Brian Eno, Al Fadhil, Les Frères Chapuisat, Fucking Good Art, Goran Galic’ und Gian-Reto Gredig, Thomas Galler, Vidya Gastaldon, Georg Gatsas, Johannes Gees, Ingo Giezendanner aka GRR, Bob Gramsma, David Hominal, Huber.Huber, Karin Hueber, Georg Keller, San Keller, The Kingpins, Isabelle Krieg, Jérôme Leuba, Alon Levin, Erik van Lieshout, Beat Lipert, Jen Liu, Mark Manders, Aleksandra Mir, Gianni Motti, Shahryar Nashat, Adrian Paci, Mai-Thu Perret, Elodie Pong, Anne-Julie Raccoursier, Christian Ratti, RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co), David Renggli, Didier Rittener, Pamela Rosenkranz, Vittorio Santoro, Markus Schinwald, Tino Sehgal, Kerim Seiler, Shirana Shahbazi, Nedko Solakov, Loredana Sperini, Jules Spinatsch, Costa Vece, Christian Vetter, Andro Wekua, Ingrid Wildi, Zorro & Bernardo.

curated by Mirjam Varadinis, catalogue available

exibition: 6.6. - 31.8.2008
opening: 5.6., 19h
SHIFTING IDENTITIES - (Swiss) art now
Kunsthaus Zürich, Heimplatz 1, CH-8001 Zürich
www.shifting-identities.ch
www.kunsthaus.ch

"Vertrautes Terrain – Contemporary Art in/about Germany" with approximately 70 German and international artists, is intended as a process as well as a current snapshot. In this way, the exhibition is, last but not least, shaped by shared and clearly shifting ideas of what the term "Germany" means. Com&Com shows the 6 advertisment spots about Germany they produced with their students in a workshop at the Mobile Academy in Berlin in 2004.

artist list:
Franz Ackermann, Com&Com, Björn Dahlem, Thomas Demand, Tim Eitel, Günther Förg, Peter Friedl, Isa Genzken,
Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Andreas Gursky, Georg Herold, Andreas Hofer, Martin Honert, Martin Kippenberger,
Astrid Klein, Via Lewandowsky, Michel Majerus, Jonathan Meese, Jonathan Monk, Reinhard Mucha, Marcel Odenbach,
Albert Oehlen, Manfred Pernice, Peter Piller, Neo Rauch, Tobias Rehberger, Anselm Reyle, Daniel Richter, Thomas Ruff,
Thomas Schütte, Andreas Slominski, Florian Slotawa, Hito Steyerl, Thomas Struth, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija,
Rosemarie Trockel, Cosima von Bonin, Franz West, Johannes Wohnseifer, Artur Zmijewski und viele andere.

curated by Gregor Jansen and Thomas Thiel, catalogue will be published by the end of the exhibition

exhibition: 22.5 - 21.9. 2008
ZKM Karlsruhe, Lorenzstraße 19, D-76135 Karlsruhe
www.vertrautes-terrain.de
www.zkm.de

Com&Com shows in their second solo exhibition at Galerie bk a new body of work of their abstract paintings from the cycle THE BIG ONE:
monumental and fragile Airbrush Acryl painting on canvas.

exhibition: 23.5. - 9.8. 2008
(16.7.-9.8.08 by appoinment)

Galerie bk, Bernhard Bischoff und Partner
Speichergasse 8, CH - 3011 Bern
www.galeriebk.ch

As part of the exhibition "Zu Gast bei Verlierern - Eine Österreichisch-Schweizerische Begegnung" (the title refers to the current UEFA European Championshop in this two countries), Com&Com shows part 2 and 3 of their Swiss Trilogy (2000-2002): the short films "I love Switzerland" and "Side by Side".

Artist list: Laurence Bonvin, Com&Com, Tom Fellner, Johanes Kubin, Marianne Lang, Birgit Pleschberger Gerald Schicker

kuratiert von Urs Küenzi

Ausstellung: 16.5. bis 14.6. 2008
Substitut, Torstrasse 159, D-10115 Berlin
www.substitut-berlin.ch