Jeannette Christensen: Every Day is a Miracle II.

2022.09.03.– 2022.10.07.
Budapest IX. Vámház körút 11.

Private view: 2022.09.02. 18.00

In connection with the Ludwig Museum’s international exhibition Extended Present – Transient Realities.

Jeannette Christensen’s installation for Budapest is not only site-specific but also “time-specific”, although the latter term is hardly used in contemporary art. Her work Every Day is a Miracle II uses a completely banal, everyday material, jelly to create objects that appear as minimalist sculptures, which take on a “life of their own” due to the atmospheric characteristics of the exhibition space – a cellar.

The biochemical processes that take place in the gel cause the installation to appear differently at almost every moment to the viewers, who cannot see the work in its “entirety”, but only experience it in the time they spend at the exhibition.

The installation, however, is the sum of all the moments that make up the process of decomposition and thus draw the viewer’s attention to the temporality of the reception of the work. As the work itself is in fact destroyed by the end of the process, and thus of the exhibition, temporality raises further questions not only about the reception but also about the survival and, eventually, the disappearance of the work.

Opening hours:

03/09/2022 – 04/09/2022
On the occassion of the Bakáts Feszt: 2 – 8 pm.

07/09/2022–07/10/2022
Every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday between 5 and 7 pm.