Civic Servant Exhibition
Konzulát Studio, Gallery Weekend Berlin 2025.
With works by Hannah Rose Stewart, Finley Stewart, and Collezione Nancy Delroi (Désirée Nakouzi De Monte and Andrea Parenti).
Presented by Tor Studio
“Civic Servant Exhibition”
What can exist in a space for 72 hours, or 57 years, or 29 minutes? What exists afterwards? A shadow of a memory. Stretched long and faint.
“Civic Servant” gathers four artists whose work navigates the mark left by formative space. The exhibition unfolds in a transitory retail space whose commercial shell is temporarily repurposed, echoing architectural excavation as a means of rupture; the formative and performative impact of rooms and buildings, bound tight in the subconscious, lifted to the surface.
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Alongside the Civic Centre-focused works, Collezione Nancy Delroi turns the tension inward. Reclaimed and symbolic material, pre-artefacts of failed design, repurposed into the theatrical, uneasy, and deliberately unresolved. Soiled sofas are dismantled and reassembled as collages; furniture fragments drained of meaning and saturated with cultish menace. “I Kills You Second” (2025) is a slow, dogmatic performance of social tension. No music. No dialogue. Just three non-actors in a room, silently smoking, sulking, pouring champagne into glasses they never drink. An exhausting loop of gestures left unresolved.
Text by Chris Erik Thomas
