FLORIAN KUHLMANN ← curation & projects

2015 – 2019

the wrong

Pavilions, embassies, a router and a symposium — Florian Kuhlmann's contributions to The Wrong, the world's largest net art biennale. For many years he was also part of The Wrong Council.

The Wrong Club, Galerie Falko Alexander 2017 — a wide installation view with works by Kretschmer, Banz & Bowinkel, Štromajer and UBERMORGEN
The Wrong Club, Galerie Falko Alexander, 2017 — the Cologne embassy of The Wrong biennale.

what is the wrong

a planet-scale digital swarm

"thewrong.org is the world's most net art biennale of the world. it consists of a planet scale digital swarm of webpages, shows and various exhibition formats contextualizing digital issues in a serious and playful way."

thewrong.org ↗

The Wrong — New Digital Art Biennale runs online and offline: dozens of online pavilions and a network of IRL embassies around the world. Across three editions (2015, 2017, 2019) Florian Kuhlmann took part as artist, curator and host — from a bed-borne performance in Düsseldorf to an open-source pavilion, a gallery embassy, a WLAN router in a museum, and a lecture in São Paulo.

four contributions

editions 2015 – 2019

2015

exploit & disappear

digital3mpire / THE HUB, Düsseldorf · 30 Oct 2015 · celebrating the opening of the 2015 biennale (50+ online pavilions, 40+ IRL embassies) with a performance/installation by Tanja Ritterbex, Isabella Fürnkäs and Isreal Aten: self-made phone videos meet found internet footage as a perpetual collage, printed onto a bedsheet; Aten types on that same bed, his words projected into the room. Bubblegum-pop lyrics, decontextualised, form the soundtrack — a dialogue on self-exploitation and dematerialization

Exploit & Disappear — #digital3mpire wall lettering, the poster and colourful projections
Exploit & Disappear — performer with headphones on the iron bed, 'tell me now' projected
Exploit & Disappear — visitors around the bed, projector beam and projections
full documentation (5 photos)
Exploit & Disappear — establishing shot with poster and projections Exploit & Disappear — visitors on the ornate iron bed under the projections Exploit & Disappear — performer with headphones, 'tell me now' text projection Exploit & Disappear — performer reclining with a laptop, visitors watching Exploit & Disappear — the crowd on and around the bed
2017 / 18

the wrong club

Galerie Falko Alexander, Cologne · 3 Nov 2017 – 6 Jan 2018 · THE WRONG Embassy Cologne, a collaboration between Digital Empire and Galerie Falko Alexander, curated by Falko Bürschinger & Florian Kuhlmann. With Banz und Bowinkel, Arno Beck, Tim Berresheim, Raphael Brunk, Matthias Danberg, Damian Dziwis, Dominik Halmer, Philipp Höning, Kilian Kretschmer, Stephan Machac, Igor Štromajer, Sebastian Schmieg, Timothy Shearer, Sebastian Thewes and UBERMORGEN

The Wrong Club — installation view: Arno Beck typewriter drawings (left), Tim Berresheim anaglyph print (right)
The Wrong Club — Banz & Bowinkel C-print facing Igor Štromajer's surveillance piece
The Wrong Club — room view: Dominik Halmer, Sebastian Thewes, Kilian Kretschmer
full documentation (14 photos)
The Wrong Club opening — the club poster 'Embassy of the Wrong Biennale 2017' above the bar, green beer bottles on the counter, a stuffed owl watching from its niche The Wrong Club — wide view: Kretschmer, Banz & Bowinkel, Štromajer, UBERMORGEN floor video The Wrong Club — Berresheim anaglyph print, Halmer panel, Thewes lightbox The Wrong Club — two Raphael Brunk glitch-landscape prints on the wall The Wrong Club — Matthias Danberg's 3D-printed portrait-bust sculptures The Wrong Club — Sebastian Schmieg: logos projected along a concrete wall The Wrong Club — Banz & Bowinkel, Postpainting I, CGI paint-splash C-print The Wrong Club — Igor Štromajer, 000000_1: doll, dummy CCTV camera and text The Wrong Club — Matthias Danberg, O.T.: 3D-printed bust on vertebra legs The Wrong Club — Raphael Brunk, Disturb_05: glitched landscape C-print The Wrong Club — installation view Super Information High Market — a laptop in a draped shopping cart, video still Super Information High Market — 'ART AS THE LAST OPEN SOURCE SUPERPRODUCT' poster Super Information High Market — laptop showing the super-information-high-market webpage
online

super-information-high-market still live ↗

THE WRONG Internet Pavilion, 2017 · "Art as an open source superproduct" — a pavilion built as an open-source repository on GitHub: instead of a market, a git logic of committing and spreading. Open 24/7, Beta version 0.96, an open call still running — interested artists just make a pull request. Discussed in Annet Dekker, Curating Digital Art (2021)

Super Information High Market — video still: 'It is the last product of a globalized hypercapitalistic technomachine'
Super Information High Market — the open-source superproduct poster above the shopping cart
2019

the wrong router

NRW-Forum Düsseldorf · part of the 2019 biennale, with the kind support of Alain Bieber. A WLAN router installed in the museum entrance serves an offline exhibition to every phone in reach. On it: Achim Mohné's sound work — "You are listening to the digital data packet of an analog photograph of the first analog cassette recorder from 1963 … sent by a Wi-Fi router in under one second" (47:12 min). Curated with the Darktaxa collective, driven by Michael Reisch and Florian Kuhlmann

The Wrong Router — the router on a pedestal in the museum, 'THE WRONG ROUTER' wall text
The Wrong Router — Achim Mohné's white router object on a round mirror
The Wrong Router — a visitor with headphones using a phone beside the plinth
full documentation (6 photos)
The Wrong Router — the router object on a round mirror, close-up The Wrong Router — the plinth with router and wall text in the museum The Wrong Router — the plinth with instruction text and QR code The Wrong Router — floor print of a vintage cassette recorder with QR-code plinth The Wrong Router — visitor with headphones using a phone by the plinth The Wrong Router — a phone showing the offline mobile site
2019

the wrong symposium — são paulo

São Paulo, Brazil · 2019 · Florian Kuhlmann's contribution to the symposium accompanying the biennale — a lecture, "A brief history of metamodernism", and a workshop, "Is it a trap?", on the networked present and the metamodern condition · made possible by David Quiles Guilló, founder of The Wrong

The stage before the lecture at The Wrong Symposium São Paulo — the wrong logo projected on the screen, an empty chair, and the book Metamodern. Wissen Fühlen Sein at the lectern

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