Flexible

“Flexible” is arguably the word (or non-word) of the year. “Flexible” in a deregulated market economy denotes a magic formula for the availability of resources; in a crisis-ridden labour market, where it functions as an adjective describing a new kind of service, it signifies individual attention. “Flexible” in art represents a pragmatic approach to the media and project-oriented creativity.


“Flexible” offers itself as a metaphor for contemporary developments in art, in that the picture is by no means homogeneous. In the art of the nineties, extremes come together not only in the employment of widely different media but also in the approach to reality. The exhibition endeavours to demonstrate this intuitively by confrontations between different projects. The projects chosen for “Flexible” were either those which, in terms of growth, were trying to determine their dimensions, or those which still had potential for development; young art whose search for lasting authority was not merely characterized by a severe and logical attitude.

Curated by Rein Wolfs