(Image) Tony Cokes, Testament E: MF.slow.cancel.2024 (Rework 02), 2025 Digital print on PVC, billboard; Dimensions variable Courtesy the artist, FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna, Greene Naftali, New York, and Hannah Hoffmann, Los Angeles
Ayşe Erkmen, Balkanık, 2003/2025 Cake project Courtesy the artist / Galerie Trautwein Herleth, Berlin
more detailed informations here: Audio (4:45 min) Text by Sophia Yvette Scherer
As part of the exhibition It’s Just a Matter of Time, selected works on view outside the gallery spaces highlight the central role of public space in historiography.
On a billboard in front of the PalaisPopulaire, Tony Cokes captures a sense of menace that simultaneously urges one to act: “There’s a set of forces that want us to be permanently anxious.” But what can be done against these forces, and how can polyphony and freedom be actively defended? The time to find answers to these questions is running out.
This is also conveyed by Adrian Piper’sSeriation #2: Now (1968), a sound work that resonates in the Prinzessinnengarten. Over the course of twenty minutes, the artist repeats the word “now” at increasingly shorter intervals—a meditation on time and transience that marks the transitions between past and future.
In the Café LePopulaire, Ayşe Erkmen’sBalkanık (2003/2025) is being served—a traditional recipe reinterpreted by the artist with her own instructions. The cake, blending ingredients from various cultures, symbolizes transcultural exchange. Like the Palais itself, this cake is a symbol of constant change and the layering of historical and cultural strata.
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(Image) Tony Cokes, Testament E: MF.slow.cancel.2024 (Rework 02), 2025
Digital print on PVC, billboard; Dimensions variable
Courtesy the artist, FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna, Greene Naftali, New York, and Hannah Hoffmann, Los Angeles
Adrian Piper, Seriation #2: Now, 1968
Sound work; 00:17:36 min
Collection of the Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation © Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation
Ayşe Erkmen, Balkanık, 2003/2025
Cake project
Courtesy the artist / Galerie Trautwein Herleth, Berlin
more detailed informations here: Audio (4:45 min)
Text by Sophia Yvette Scherer
As part of the exhibition It’s Just a Matter of Time, selected works on view outside the gallery spaces highlight the central role of public space in historiography.
On a billboard in front of the PalaisPopulaire, Tony Cokes captures a sense of menace that simultaneously urges one to act: “There’s a set of forces that want us to be permanently anxious.” But what can be done against these forces, and how can polyphony and freedom be actively defended? The time to find answers to these questions is running out.
This is also conveyed by Adrian Piper’s Seriation #2: Now (1968), a sound work that resonates in the Prinzessinnengarten. Over the course of twenty minutes, the artist repeats the word “now” at increasingly shorter intervals—a meditation on time and transience that marks the transitions between past and future.
In the Café LePopulaire, Ayşe Erkmen’s Balkanık (2003/2025) is being served—a traditional recipe reinterpreted by the artist with her own instructions. The cake, blending ingredients from various cultures, symbolizes transcultural exchange. Like the Palais itself, this cake is a symbol of constant change and the layering of historical and cultural strata.
Further artworks from this exhibition
Introduction of the exhibition
It's Just a Matter of Time
Julian Irlinger, James Gregory Atkinson, Philippe Parreno, Petrit Haliaj
Rotunda
Shilpa Gupta
Room 1
Max Beckmann, Lena Henke, Nancy Lupo, Heidi Bucher, Martin Kippenberger, Rachel Whiteread
Room 2
Cildo Meireles, Wisrah Celestino, Kai Althoff, Kandis Williams
Transition Room 2 to Room 3
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, George Tony Stoll, Manfred Paul, Julia Phillips, Shilpa Gupta
Room 3
Cornelia Schleime, Marianne Berenhaut, Christo, Rosemarie Trockel, Latifa Echakhch
Room 4