The artists invited in the order are: Franz Ackermann, Kristoffer Akselbo, AVPD, Kenneth Balfelt Bank & Rau, Massimo Bartolini, Monica Bonvicini, Janet Cardiff/ George Bures Miller, Maurizio Cattelan, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Olafur Eliasson, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Ceal Floyer, FOS, Alicia Framis, Dan Graham, Tue Greenfort, Douglas Gordon, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Jeppe Hein, Carsten Höller, Jesper Just, Ernesto Neto, Dan Peterman, Tino Sehgal, Tomas Saraceno, Claude El Skorrari, Robert Stadler, Simon Starling, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Johannes Wohnseifer. The name of the bar could be read as a celebration of the new spirit of a younger generation of “creators”: careerism. In other words every move for a young artist today is a career move, which does not necessarily have a negative connotation. Yet we live in an age of Karrierism where no underground endeavour is ever very appealing. PR are like drugs and alcohol in the Sixties and Seventies, a very abused substance among the experimental players of today’s contemporary art and culture at large. Karriere refl ects this 21st-century mood of wealthy young people who are very much concerned with the legitimate celebration of their own celebration, a big leap forward from the Schnabelism of the Eighties which is still polluting the art world and movie environment. On another note, it is worth mentioning that Karriere, a place not happening in Manhattan, London or Berlin, is perhaps a signal that once again, like with Moderna Museet or the Bern Kunsthalle in the Sixties, the focus in culture is moving outside the centres to bloom stronger and younger somewhere else, at the edges of the empires, offering new perspectives and opportunities to a more diverse and less centralised culture.
