NAMES // SERIES BY JOSEF KA OF 112 PCS // RANKKA GALLERY // HELSINKI SPRING 2020

NAMES // performance/installation by Josef Ka (112 wooden plates 20×20 cm) created in collaboration with Yrjänä Sauros (Rankka Gallery, Helsinki, March 2020) is connected to the Degenerate Art exhibition opened by the Nazis in Munich in 1937. The original show included 112 artists who were considered by the fascist regime to be “degenerate artists”.

“Degenerate artists” – Jankel Adler, Hans Baluschek, Ernst Barlach, Rudolf Bauer, Philipp Bauknecht, Otto Baum, Willi Baumeister, Herbert Bayer, Max Beckmann, Rudolf Belling, Paul Bindel, Theodor Brün, Max Burchartz, Fritz Burger-Mühlfeld, Paul Camenisch, Heinrich Campendonk, Karl Caspar, Maria Caspar-Filser, Pol Cassel, Marc Chagall, Lovis Corinth, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, Walter Dexel, Johannes Diesner, Otto Dix, Pranas Domšaitis, Hans Christoph Drexel, Johannes Driesch, Heinrich Eberhard, Max Ernst, Hans Feibusch, Lyonel Feininger, Conrad Felixmüller, Otto Freundlich, Xaver Fuhr, Ludwig Gies, Werner Gilles, Otto Gleichmann, Rudolf Großmann, George Grosz, Hans Grundig, Rudolf Haizmann, Raoul Hausmann, Guido Hebert, Erich Heckel, Wilhelm Heckrott, Jacoba van Heemskerck, Hans Siebert von Heister, Oswald Herzog, Werner Heuser, Heinrich Hoerle, Karl Hofer, Eugen Hoffmann, Johannes Itten, Alexej von Jawlensky, Eric Johansson, Hans Jürgen Kallmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Hanns Katz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Cesar Klein, Paul Kleinschmidt, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Lange, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, El Lissitzky, Oskar Lüthy, Franz Marc, Gerhard Marcks, Ewald Mataré, Ludwig Meidner, Jean Metzinger, Constantin von Mitschke-Collande, László Moholy-Nagy, Marg Moll, Oskar Moll, Johannes Molzahn, Piet Mondrian, Georg Muche, Otto Mueller, Magda Nachman Acharya, Erich Nagel, Heinrich Nauen, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Karel Niestrath, Emil Nolde, Otto Pankok, Max Pechstein, Max Peiffer Watenphul, Hans Purrmann, Max Rauh, Hans Richter, Emy Roeder, Christian Rohlfs, Edwin Scharff, Oskar Schlemmer, Rudolf Schlichter, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Werner Scholz, Lothar Schreyer, Otto Schubert, Kurt Schwitters, Lasar Segall, Fritz Skade, Heinrich Stegemann, Fritz Stuckenberg, Paul Thalheimer, Johannes Tietz, Arnold Topp, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Karl Völker, Christoph Voll, William Wauer, and Gert Heinrich Wollheim.

SPECIAL THANKS TO MARK MAHER FOR SUPPORTING THE PROJECT.

VIDEODOCUMENTATION OF PERFORMANCE

Published by Josef Ka

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International performance, visual and sound artist Josef Ka blends richly varied influences – everything from Butoh dance to cinematic theory – with her decades of nomadic world travel to create bold, highly personal site-specific art. Josef Ka’s themes range from investigating the place of the human body in contemporary reality to exploring the inner body as a representative system of our human and post human kind. Her artistic practice often actively invites the audience inside a sort of private reverie, making it is a deeply participatory one; she actively engages with both her audiences and with a wide diversity of other experimental artists. In addition to her own work, Josef Ka curates a regular series of events and exhibitions at her Helsinki underground space – Sauna Gallery – and teaches classes on the theory and practice of performance art. She is also the inventor of the WORST THEATRE and her yogic training system, KA-YOGA. https://eskargoeskargo.com/

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