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2020
1985
Switzerland
Weiss Falk
TINA BRAEGGER OUT OF THE DARK
Weiss Falk is happy to present Out of the Dark, a triptych by Tina Braegger for the inauguration of LISTE Showtime.
In the triptych we witness a marching bear appear out of the dark and disappear into the light. The marching bear is constantly reemerging in Braegger’s oeuvre and potentially appears anywhere – out of the dark – as the triptych literally shows. Ever since it first appeared on the cover of The Grateful Dead’s The History of the Grateful Dead, in 1973, the bear has become the unofficial logo of the rock band, chosen by the band’s fans, the Deadheads, as a signifier amongst the Dead‘s insignia. The bear was appropriated by the fans long before the band used the logo for official merch, and thu ...
TINA BRAEGGER
Tina Braegger, born in Lucerne in 1985, lives and works in Berlin and Zurich. She has a forthcoming solo exhibition at Neuer Essener Kunstverein, Essen. Her works have additionally been exhibited at Société, Berlin; Luma Westbau, Zurich; Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome; Galerie Weiss Falk, Basel; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen; Fondation Ricard, Paris; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; and DAAD Galerie, Berlin; among other venues. Several books have been published by Hacienda Books in the recent years – Braegger currently works on her second novel.
WORKS AND PROJECTS
Tina Braegger Zu Besuch bei den Träuschlingsverwandten, Weiss Falk, 2019
It must have been in the car with my father, in the early 1990’s, that I first heard the lyric: “Out on the road today / I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac / Little voice inside my head said: / ‘Don’t look back, you can never look back.’” By then I was well on my way to becoming a Grateful Dead fan, or a “Deadhead,” as they are known. Thus, this lyric, as well as the general easy-listening vibe of Don Henley’s 1984 hit “The Boys of Summer,” struck my pre-pubescent brain as an anathema: one that ...
Tina Braegger The Great Fool Braegger, Weiss Falk, 2017
He is not a mortal beast but an anachronism – a phantom out of a dead time, the invincible epitome of the old wild life. That is roughly how Faulkner outlines the myth of the virtuous Old Ben, whose hunt embodies the crossing from one existence to another: from man to bear. Hunting becomes a symbol of existence, a self-sustaining desire to explore, which is less about the catch than the obsessive chase.
Isole Faraguna, On A Pink Planet, Good Will Hunting, Dead Dolp ...
PUBLICATIONS
Tina Braegger
The Grapefruit Bear
Published in the occasion of Tina Braegger’s exhibition Zu Besuch bei den Träuschlingsverwandten at Weiss Falk, Basel, February 2019.
1st Edition 2019
Softcover, 320 pages
210 × 170 mm
Designed by Anne Stock
ISBN 978-3-9524429-1-3
Tina Braegger
The Grateful Dead – A Diary by Gabriel Krampus
Gabriel Krampus lives with his wife on a deserted island of the Idian Ocean. They are both artists. At 84 years old, he decides to publish his diary, written 8 years earlier, in 2059.
“To have an island all by myself was my dream since forever, to be able to work without worldly distractions. My wife had always made conceptual work. She wanted to be buried in a beautiful place, and our private little island can definitely be described as such, so now for almost 44 years she has been watching the weather change, the time pass, the ocean come and go.”
2nd Edition 2019
Texts in English
Softcover, 120 pages
170 × 110 mm
Designed by Marietta Eugster
The first edition was published by BECKBOOKS, 2016.
ISBN 978-3-9524429-6-8
Tina Braegger
The Grateful Dead
This publication results from Braegger's “The Grateful Dead” paintings series, ink jet prints of colorful psychedelic marching bears on canvas. These bears were used as a logo by San Francisco Sixties rock band The Grateful Dead.
1st Edition 2015
Hardcover, 104 pages
230 × 200 mm
Edited by Tina Braegger
Published by Forde, Geneva
ISBN 978-3-9524429-6-8