Das KloHäuschen in the plane to the 12th Istanbul Biennial, 2011:
“In recent years we have seen a lot of biennials. They look like and want to look like everything but an
exhibition. We have decided to make a real exhibition.”
And Das KloHäuschen immediately fell in love with the curators of the 12th Istanbul Biennial. Because the exhibition was allowed to exist for itself, just like Das KloHäuschen exists for the purpose of being itself.
Not serving anyone or having to be useful for anything. And in that moment Das KloHäuschen also wants to host an “art exhibition”. Yes, every 2 years! The best available out there.
The KloHäuschen Biennale
Since 2012, the Das KloHäuschen organizes its own Biennale. It was inspired when it read an interview with their two curators on a flight to Istanbul Biennale 2011 in Skyline magazine. The point of the interview is that a biennial is neither a tool for city marketing nor has any other political purpose to serve. But that it is an art exhibition, which is usually international and takes place every two years.
These curators are concerned with the „purpose“, or its absence. For Das KloHäuschen this is a valuable statement in its clarity. After all, it still has to explain – again and again – to its guests and its visitors, to the press and to others, that it is not an „exhibition room“ (nor a „Gallery“, nor a „Museum“, nor an „Offspace“, … so all rooms that serve a declared „purpose“, that can also be “showing Art”).
Das KloHäuschen is free.
It does not have to fulfill these „purposes“. It’s free because of „The Measures to Ensoul the Old Public Toilet at Munich’s Wholesale Market“. Thus, it is none of the above-mentioned „purpose rooms“. It’s just an old men’s urinal, which invites his guests to play with him and to develop something new together.
With its own Biennale, the KloHäuschen itself really turns into an „exhibition space“. Just once every two years. And it’s doing this with a completely self-aware and public decision. It observes what it is like to be such a space and plays with its challenges and possibilities.
And by the way, it also confirms its status as a sovereign space again and again, because:
„If you have your own biennale, then you are
someone like Venice or Istanbul.
Everyone knows that.“
Previous editions of KloHäuschen Biennale
KHBiSix – GRAND TOUR
10 June – 03 July 2022
2022. The big Biennials – above all the great Venice Biennale – have suddenly changed their rhythm. Das KloHäuschen is convinced: the reason can only be that they finally want to take place in the same year together with the KloHäuschen Biennial!
Curator Ralf Homann
Artists
Doris Amann, Regina Baierl, Yutta Bernhardt, Gabi Blum, Thomas Breitenfeld, Ergül Cengiz, Lucia Dellefant, Elke Dreier, Judith Egger, Ina Ettlinger, Susu Gorth, BHAVANI GS, Heribert Heindl, Andrea Huber, Monika Kapfer, Anton Kaun, Nina Annabelle Märkl, Andreas Mitterer, Torsten Mühlbach, Stephanie Müller, Judith Neunhäuserer, Günter Nosch, Gabriele Obermaier, Susanne Pittroff, Paula Pongratz, Andreas Pytlik, Peter Reill, Ivo Rick, Raquel Ro, Barbara Spaett,Angela Stauber, Janina Totzauer, Gottfried Weber-Jobe, Katharina Weishäupl, Carolin Wenzel, Oliver Westerbarkey, Sigi Wiedemann, Lina Zylla
Architecture Biennale-Infopoint rasso rottenfusser
Graphic Design Mel Castillo
Open Program Olaf Probst, Thomas Gatz, ATHOR & Schmidt
Head of Outreach Management Manuela Unverdorben
Social Susanne Blaszczyk
Team Biennale Infopoint Klaus Mayer
Biennale-Director Anja Uhlig & Das KloHäuschen
Sponsors cultural department of the city of Munich, Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse München
Webseite: KHBiSix.KH-Biennale.world
KHBi5 – 5th KloHäuschen Biennial
The KloHäuschen Art Hall
10 July – 14 August 2020
Art Exhibition with
Regina Baierl, Ken Brown, Anja Buchheister, Jutta Burkhardt, Ergül Cengiz, Albert Coers, Alexis Dworsky, ATHOR, Klaus Erika Dietl, Johanna Eder, Judith Egger, Wolfgang Ellenrieder, Stephanie Felber, Anette Friedrich Johannessen, Andrea Golla, Susu Gorth, Susanne Görtz, Ekkeland Götze, Zoe Gudović, 9 Volt, Ralf Homann, Helen Varley Jamieson, Uwe Jonas (Berlin), Uwe Jonas (München), Magdalena Jooss, Martina Kändler, Monika Kapfer, Yuliia Koval, JC Leopold, Silke Markefka, Guida Miranda & Christoph Reiserer, Andreas Mitterer, Vincent Mitzev, Stephanie movall, Heidi Mühlschlegel, Bernhard Müller, Manuela Müller, Stephanie Müller, Günter Nosch, Gabriele Obermaier, Katrin Petroschkat, Anna Pfanzelt, Susanne Pittroff, Olaf Probst, Martina Ring, Helena Rossner, Stefan Schessl, Sabine Schlunk, Tommy Schmidt, Alexander Steig, toffaha (Rasha Ragab & Christoph Nicolaus), Janina Totzauer, uns (mit Frederic Böhme, Nicolas Boissel, Alexander Deubl, Andreas Holzapfel, Andreas Sternecker), Andrea Unterstraßer, Veronika Veit, Nikolai Vogel, Lutz Weinmann, Katharina Weishäupl, Carolin Wenzel, Oliver Westerbarkey, Patricia Wich
Curator Das KloHäuschen
Architecture KloHäuschen’s Art Hall rasso rottenfusser
Art Education alias Pasearse Claudia Pescatore
General Biennial Concept Anja Uhlig + Das KloHäuschen
Sponsors cultural department of the city of Munich
Website: KHBi5.KH-Biennale.world
KHBi4 – Learning from Athens Ottobrunn
30 June – 22 July 2018 – Bower of Art, Ottobrunn
9 – 29 July 2018 – Das KloHäuschen
Artists
Alexis Dworsky, Andreas Mitterer, Anett Frontzek, Anette Friedrich Johanessen, Anja Buchheister, ATHOR & Schmidt, Carolin Wenzel, Fabian Feichter, Fridolin Kleie, Gemma Meulendijks & Justina Seiler, Günter Nosch, Helen Varley Jamieson & Annie Abrahams, Johannes Evers, Judith Egger, Lena Hendlmeier, Lina Zylla, Lutz Weinmann, Manuel Eitner, Maria Berauer, MarinA, Mediendienst Leistungshölle, Monika Kapfer, Monika Supé, Nikolai Vogel, Patricia Wich, Rasha Ragab, rasso rottenfusser, Regina Baierl, Silke Markefka, Simona Andrioletti, Sophie Lindner, Stephanie Felber mit Luise Lochmann, Susanne Görtz, Veronika Veit
Curator Exhibition Pietro Tondello
Exhibition Architecture Matthias Castorph / Architects Götz Castorph
General Biennial Concept Anja Uhlig + Das KloHäuschen
Sponsors & Partners cultural department of the city of Munich, Architecture Götz Castorph
Open Program Dr. Johanna G. Eder
Parcours Christian Jacobs
Bower of Art Kerol Montagna
Public relations Kina Deimel
Translations Dr. Susanne Schmidt
Website: KHBi4.KH-Biennale.world
KHBi3 – The Biennial of neglected Forms of Life
2 – 9 July 2016
Curator Dr. Susanne Schmitt
with
9 Volt | Adam Zaretsky | Anette Friedrich Johannessen | Anna Rose | Anne Percoco | Campus Novel | Carolin Wenzel | Eben Kirksey | Ella von der Haide | Ellie Irons | Fiona Davies | Heidi Mühlschlegel | Izabela Leska | Janean Williams | Judith Egger | Katharina Weishäupl | Katrin Petroschkat | Laurie Young | Lutz Weinmannn | Manuela Müller | Martin Leibinger | Myrna Lee Pronchuk & JJ Jones | Natalie Doonan | Natalie Göltenboth | Nicola von Thurn | Nikolai Vogel | Sanne van Gent | Silke Markefka | Stephanie Müller | THE HERCULES AND LEO CASE | Tommy Schmidt & Athor | Unsensiblo Chamaeleon ||
Exhibition Space
Basic Concept: Das KloHäuschen (according to a field research at Venice Biennial 2015)
Detailed Concept + Realization: rasso rottenfusser
Biennale-Director Anja Uhlig & Das KloHäuschen
KHBi2- TRANSFER
Neugier und Überwachung und künstlerische Praxis
25 October – 1 November 2014
Curator Matthias von Tesmar
Artists
Claire Angelini | ATHOR | Maria Sophie Berauer | Birthe Blauth | Annegret Bleisteiner | blinkgestalten | Christian Donner | Judith Egger | Manuel Eitner | Klaus von Gaffron | Su HuiYu | k. / no-face! LOOK | Johannes Lotz | Shinn Maeda | Stephanie Maier | Silke Markefka | Heidi Mühlschlegel | Tommy Schmidt | Alexander Steig | Tamiko Thiel | venske & spänle | VistVunkVerlag | Nikolai Vogel | Oliver Westerbarkey
Biennale-Director & Graphik Anja Uhlig & Das KloHäuschen
1st KloHäuschen Biennale – Biennale for One
„repository of knowledge and art“ – unrealized projects
12 May – 10 June 2012
Curator Dr. Cornelia Oßwald-Hofmann
International Art Exhibition with
Gülçin Aksoy, Birthe Blauth, Carlotta Brunetti, Judith Egger, Manuel Eitner, Klaus von Gaffron, Amit Goffer, Johnny Highway, Helen Varley Jamieson, N.N., H. Kun Kuo, Vera Lossau, Silke Markefka, Vincent Mitzev, Christoph Nicolaus, Shari Pierce, Susanne Pittroff, Peter Reill, Valio Tchenkov, Nikolai Vogel, Oliver Westerbarkey, Silke Witzsch
Biennale-Director & Graphik Anja Uhlig & Das KloHäuschen