How We Live
How We Live
solo exhibition
Berlin, Germany
12. September - 09. February 2025
part of Berlin Art Week 2024
Curated by Dr. Marc Wellmann, Artistic Director of Haus am Lützowplatz
In her sculptures of existing buildings, the artist examines the social relationships of the individuals living in them. The objects are staged with light and sound effects, while video clips are shown on built-in monitors. Tracey Snelling’s sculptures and installations refer to the complexity of a world in which images are omnipresent and interchangeable and in which fictions increasingly overlap and merge with reality.
The project at HaL is be the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the well-traveled and internationally renowned artist in her adopted home city, reflecting her residencies in New Orleans (2018), Shanghai (2018-19), Paris (2020), Ann Arbor/Michigan (2022) and Tokyo (2022).
One unifying element of the sculptures in the „How We Live“ exhibition is the theme of social housing, i.e. state-subsidized construction projects and the associated social issues. For the „Haus am Lützowplatz“ art association, the „How We Live“ project is directly related to a socially linked construction project on the site of the former parking lot, which will be realized from spring 2025 after a planning phase lasting several years. A permanent exhibition about this project was set up in the HaL Studiogalerie in February 2024.
Tracey Snelling has lived and worked in Berlin since 2016. In 2017 she was awarded a residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien and in 2022 she received a working grant from the Stiftung Kunstfonds. Her works have recently been shown as part of the following exhibitions: „Suddenly Wonderful: Visions for chunky 1970’s architecture in West Berlin“, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (May 25 – September 18, 2023); „Contemporaneo Non-Stop“, Museo di Arte Contemporanea Palazzo Forti, Verona (October 7, 2023 – January 2025); „About Us, an installation by Tracey Snelling“, The Human Safety Net with Generali, Procuratie Vecchie, Piazza San Marco, Venice (April 13, 2024 – April 28, 2025); „Profitopolis: oder der Zustand der Stadt“, Museum der Dinge, Berlin (May 23, 2024 – February 28, 2025).