Take me somewhere nice – an exhibition of collaborative works by emerging artists of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Germany, and beyond

Exhibitions:   Berlin   Tbilisi   Baku   Yerevan

Imagine an aftermath to the story of Adam and Eve: already the apple has been consumed, already the two first humans are expelled from Eden. They have lost their innocence and their perfect garden, and neither knows anything of the what is to come. Imagine that, in such a moment, Adam shrugged his shoulders, turned to Eve, and said, “take me somewhere nice.”

The eternal search for utopia is both a consequence and a criticism of the fact that we live in an imperfect world. After all, utopia is a word meaning both ‘good place’ and ‘no place,’ and utopia can therefore, be considered as the good place that is nowhere or as the goodness of something non-existent. It is a recurring source of creative inspiration and political ambition across cultures, even if those utopias which have actually been attempted never exactly turned out as planned.

This exhibition presents what happens when we poke utopia with a stick, when we pick it up and put it on our heads, when we roll it down a sand dune just to see if it will reach the sea.

These artworks stand as a record of a particularly ephemeral event of meeting and collaboration that will never be repeated.