Bimal Projects - Independence weekend

Описание: Performance. The following text was issued shortly after the opening of Bimal Projects:
Gallery Weekend, May 2008, Berlin.

Since a few years the most established galleries in the city organize special joint openings during the first weekend of May. They open also on Sunday and offer croissants to the visitors.
Concomitantly with this event and from the other side on the border (the line where the Berlin Mauer used to stand runs just in front of the gallery),

Bimal declares Independence.

The above mentioned galleries will be asked to send ambassadors to Bimal Projects, Zimmerstr.11,
10969 Berlin on the 2nd of May at 5.30 pm, half an hour before the gallery weekend begins.
Nameplates of the galleries will hang on the window glass of Bimal Projects.
As the diplomatic corps arrive, they will wear their relative name plates and stand for a group photo shooting with Bimal.
With their presence they will officially accept and offer public recognition to Bimal Projects Independence from the art federation of Berlin.
The nameplates of the galleries that will not have sent ambassadors will remain on the glass window.
The group photo will immediately be printed and shown during the weekend, together with the plates left in the window.

No ambassadors were sent and Bimal posed alone for the photo.