ILLEGITIMI NON CARBORUNDUM elaborates on Craig Mulhollands ongoing interrogation into the role of media and information technologies within post-industrial capitalism. The installation, consisting of over 30 elements, represents a kind of classroom situation with benches and blackboards. The fragile surfaces of the individual table elements show different markings. Another part of the work is a digital opera production.

At a certain point of his career Klaus Merkel decided to make an inventory of his works painted so far. This inventory took the form of large-scale “Katalogbilder” basicially functioning as an index reproducing each painting in the scale of 1:10.

As an ongoing project Merkel invites collector’s or friends to chose different motifs (minimum 2, maximum 20) from this index. The chosen combination of motifs as well as a background colour. also determined by the future owner, are re-painted and combined by Merkel in his so-called Stacks. Merkel thereby takes a retrospective look at his work, bundles it, revises it, and updates it – en miniature and depicts at the same time the individual choices of the owner of the painting.

In conjunction with The New Mineral, Nina Canell will realise Black Light (For Ten Performers) – a project which has been specially commissioned by the Twodo collection. Both sculptural intervention and an experiential collective, the work will materialise by the interconnectivity of ten synchronised black-outs in the participant’s geographically disparate homes. Triggered at irregular intervals by the artist, Black Light (For Ten Performers) will run for twelve calendar months.

Nina Canell was born in Växjo, Sweden (1979) and currently lives in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Paradise [31] (The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin), Walking on No-Top Hill (Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin) and Digging a Hole (ICA, London). Her work has also been included in several international group exhibitions such as All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (MuHKA, Mechelen), Gwangju Biennale: Annual Report (Gwangju) and Manifesta 7 – The European Biennale of Contemporary Art (Trentino).

The title of the exhibition suggests different perceptive and presentational possibilities – seeing, showing, reading – and reflects the diversity of materials and medias, which the artist is using for his show. His works, which mostly examine structures of modernity, take the physical forms of neon lights, video projections, installations and living persons. A game between reality and illusion is staged by the artist at NAK with Twodo members at center.

Simon Dybbroe Møller started his studies in Fine Arts 1999 at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and continued from 2001 to 2005 at Städelschule in Frankfurt/M.

With regard to interdisciplinary discourses content- and mediawise the work of Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven is to be explored as a widely unknown and most significant reference – given her long term multimedia investigations from the mid 1970s to 2004. It reflects a deep consciousness for the mental human state. Lead by scientific and philosophic theories it points on border lines in our concept of individualistic modern being, unfolding female and male modes of alienation, compensation, conquest, gaps and anxieties in our human existence.

The Twodo Collection acquired a significant series of Anne-Mie van Kerckhovens works and thereby responds to an actual ‚set up’ of Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven’s working process – declared by the artist herself as her very start of „presentation”: All working series, drawings, animations, films, and installations are just now, after 29 years of continiuous work, set up for their function as a complete – multilayered and most complex – artistic argument.

Starting from the mysterious (non-)existence of the diplomat D.Dr.h.c. Edmund Dräcker – a legend of the German diplomacy and media history – Daniel Roth made up evidences in the form of drawings, objects and sculptures for the Twodo collectors witnessing the exsistence of Dräcker.

From 1997 till 1998 Mel Chin and theartist collective “GALA Committee” designed more than 120 works – reaching from furniture and painting to bed clothes and food bags – being placed in the frame of the TV series “Melrose Place”. The realization of this work can be perceived as a first-time and also very complex collaboration between arts and TV. As its first project Twodo acquired more than 50 pieces of this work in an auction at Sotheby’s, Beverly Hills, California, which set the final point to Mel Chin’s intervention.