We Will Find a Solution

[Lars Schumacher]

Artistic Collaboration as Epistemic Practice at Kunstraum Reuter, Berlin – July 4–6, 2025

"We Will Find a Solution"

In a time of mounting cultural fragmentation, We Find a Solution positions art not as commentary but as catalyst. The three-day exhibition at Kunstraum Reuter in Berlin, featuring Asma Ounine, Rainer Wieczorek, and Lars Schumacher, reframes the gallery space as a participatory lab—

a platform where creation, reflection, and public dialogue coalesce into a collective thinking process.

Rather than privileging finished objects, the curatorial vision disrupts conventional binaries between art production and reception. Drawing from Fluxus, Mail Art, and the legacy of dialogical aesthetics, the exhibition insists that the experience of art must be porous, contingent, and socially embedded. The motto “create – develop – rethink” isn't merely thematic—it’s a methodological imperative.

Three Artists, Three Dialogues

• Rainer Wieczorek contributes a series of Quintessence Paintings, formally precise yet conceptually expansive. His works embody a visual condensation of socio-political realities, serving as open propositions for democratic and aesthetic self-examination.
• Asma Ounine, in contrast, engages with poetic fragmentation and media fluidity. Through her dialogical Mail Art practice, she destabilizes boundaries—between sender and receiver, visual and textual, presence and absence—thus constructing new relational ecologies.
• Lars Schumacher situates his practice within the expanded field of the social sculpture. His interventions invoke quotidian materials and moments, proposing art as a lived rhythm within public space. Participation here is not performative but generative; viewers become co-authors of meaning.

From Exhibition to Activated Space

The curators—including members from

Medienhaus für Kunst und Kultur e.V. and

Freundeskreis Kunstdemokratie e.V. —

eschew traditional static display strategies. Instead, visitors are invited into a responsive environment: dialogic conversations, impromptu readings, musical provocations, and hands-on experimentation populate the gallery’s daily cycle. The exhibition becomes a site of transformation rather than transmission.

Notably, this model pushes back against the museumification of contemporary art, emphasizing fluidity and impermanence over institutional codification. In doing so, We Find a Solution joins broader movements advocating for art as an open system of knowledge production.

A Timely Proposal

For critics and theorists alike, We Find a Solution offers a fertile case study in participatory aesthetics, where form arises through encounter. It calls attention to art’s capacity to host critical inquiry—not simply to represent ideas, but to engender new ones. As such, the exhibition might be read less as a response and more as a provocation—a radical invitation to co-think, co-feel, and co-create in uncertain times.

 

Collaborative Currents in Berlin's Mail Art Scene

An essential layer within We Find a Solution has been the active participation of Berlin's vibrant Mail Art community. Numerous local artists converged in Kunstraum Reuter during the exhibition dates, transforming the space into a living workshop for collaborative creation. Spontaneous exchanges of visual poetry, hand-crafted postal pieces, and conceptual provocations gave rise to a series of newly initiated Mail Art works—many of which are expected to appear in future exhibitions within and beyond Berlin.

These collective pieces reflect the spirit of immediate dialogue and shared authorship. They extend the exhibition’s commitment to artistic process and challenge institutional notions of the solitary creator. As such, Kunstraum Reuter temporarily functioned less as a gallery and more as a relay station in an expanding network of experimental correspondences—locally rooted yet globally resonant.