Le Lucky
HVW8 BERLIN | JOSEP MAYNOU ‘LE LUCKY’
Opening: Saturday, February 16 7:00-10:00pm
Special Programming: February 17, 18, 22, 23
Exhibition Hours:
February 20–March 30, 2019,
Wednesday to Friday 2-7pm,
Saturday 12-6pm
Free Admission
HVW8 Gallery Berlin is pleased to present LE LUCKY, a fictional and functioning bar created by Josep Maynou, opening Saturday, February 16th. As a celebration of love, friendship and the avant-garde, LE LUCKY is the Catalonian artist’s tribute to his thirteen years in Berlin, as well as a bittersweet goodbye to the city. The exhibition signifies a full circle for Maynou, who during his first year in Berlin worked as a bartender in Berlin’s Mitte neighborhood, nearby to HVW8 Berlin. Through the element of collaboration, the artist establishes the gallery as a site of fortuitous social interaction: he has invited fifty of his creative friends to contribute to the installation with performances, artwork and music, programmed throughout the show’s one-month duration. As captured by its title, the exhibition is symbolic of good fortune in social and occupational relations, initiating a chance for new beginnings and exchanges.
Text by Jenny Ames
LE LUCKY
Bernhard Rappold
Ana Alenso
Pere Llobera
Elise Lammer
La Folie 8
Felipe Talo
Felix Leon Westner
Cécile di Giovanni
Victor Jaenada
Bernat Daviu
Isa Toledo
Caique Tizzi
Stephen Kent
Sol Calero
Dafna Maimon
Lorenzo Sandoval
Leah Dixon
Charles Benjamin
John Holten (BDP)
Eli Cortiñas
Cibelle Cavalli Bastos
Natália de Assis
Niels Trannois
Jakup Ferri
Ethan Hayes-Chute
Christopher Kline
Sophie Erlund
Kelly Tissot
Charles Benjamin
Ricardo Trigo
Hanne Lippard
Maximilian Kirmse
Nina Kurtela
Alejandro Lorente
Isabel Lewis
Joel Munné
Andrew Birk
Juan-Miguel Pozo
Coco Magnusson
Adriano Costa
Natasja Loutchko
CAVE3000
Joan Saló
Blanca Miró Skoudy
Oliver Roura
Oozing Gloop
Aurora Sander
Jessica Lauren
Elizabeth Taylor
Jenny Ames
Mika Manke
Josep Maynou
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