Performative installation/sculpture: 60 printed champagne glasses, chrome stainless steel tray

Habib Asal broaches the issue of the Opening as a ritual in which the art world manifests itself as a social, economical and political system. His installation rearranges the establishment‘s role-play of artists, curators, gallerists, collectors and lets the visitors participate as a living sculpture in the art celebrity‘s Rendezvous/tryst. Performative installation/sculpture 60 printed champagne glasses, chrome stainless steel tray Habib Asal broaches the issue of the Opening as a ritual in which the art world manifests itself as a social, economical and political system. His installation rearranges the establishment‘s role-play of artists, curators, gallerists, collectors and lets the visitors participate as a living sculpture in the art celebrity‘s Rendezvous/tryst.

Exhibition view: Stadtgalerie Bern

Names on champagne glasses:
John Armleder / Silvia Bächli / Guy Bärtschi / Christian Bernard / Bruno Bischofberger / Konrad Bitterli /Peter Bläuer / Lionel Bovier / Christoph Büchel / Andrea Caratsch / Giovanni Carmine / Bice Curiger / Dolores Denaro / Simon de Pury / Ulla Dreyfus / Jean-Paul Felly / Silvie Fleury / Friedrich C. Flick / Urs Fischer / Peter Fischli / Fabrice Gygi / Thomas Hirschhorn / Gianni Jetzer / Claudia Jolles / Samuel Keller / San Keller / Peter Kilchmann / Daniel Kurjakovic / Simon Lamuniere / Urs Lüthi / Manon / Heike Munder / Sharyar Nashat / Hans-Ulrich Obrist / Mai-Thu Perret / Francesca Pia / Eva Presenhuber / Hans Rudolf Reust / Michael Ringier / Pipilotti Rist / Ugo Rondinone / Angela Rosengart / Beatrix Ruf / Peter J. Schneemann / Stephan Schmidheiny / Annette Schönholzer / Shirana Shahbazi / Roman Signer / Marc Spiegler / Claudia Spinelli / Urs Stahel / Gili Stampa / Dorothea Strauss / Andrea Thal / Philip Ursprung / Yvonne Volkart / Nicola von Senger / David Weiss / Iwan Wirth / Tirdad Zolghadr