Before the term "revolution" was used in the 18th century – under the influence of the Haitian and Caribbean, French and North American revolutions – to describe a "violent overthrow of the existing political or social order", it was used in astronomy to describe the rotation of celestial bodies.
The essayistic group exhibition "Comrade Sun" is dedicated to artistic works and theories that link the cosmos and in particular the sun, the energy supplier for life on earth, with social and political movements. Is there, as the Soviet cosmists – in particular Alexander L. Chizhevsky in 1924 – claimed, a connection between solar storms and terrestrial revolutions? And what speculative, pleasurable considerations can be found in contemporary art and poetry?
The international group exhibition presents 18 artisitc positions and is curated by Inke Arns and Andrea Popelka.
Among the participating artists — Kobby Adi, Kerstin Brätsch, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, DISNOVATION.ORG, Ho Rui An, Sonia Leimer, Maha Maamoun, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Otto Piene, Marina Pinsky, Katharina Sieverding, The Atlas Group, The Otolith Group, Suzanne Treister, Anton Vidokle, Gwenola Wagon, and Zhiyuan Yang — Agnieszka Polska is also included.
Agnieszka Polska is presented in the Art Collection Telekom since 2014 – in the meantime with 11 video works.
