{"id":386,"date":"2026-01-15T23:01:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tierrechtsethik.de\/freiraum\/?p=386"},"modified":"2026-02-21T21:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:14:45","slug":"an-exhibition-on-capitalist-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tierrechtsethik.de\/freiraum\/an-exhibition-on-capitalist-art\/","title":{"rendered":"An Exhibition on Capitalist Art"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Work, consume, obey; commodifying dreams, shaping desires, controlling narratives; corporate aesthetics: the art of ideology. Depiction of an exhibition for that matter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An Exhibition on Capitalist Art<\/strong>
\nperhaps Till Wasserpest<\/em><\/p>\n

What is called art today is no longer a commodity in any simple sense.
\nIt is a language \u2013 and this language is ideologically formed.<\/p>\n

Not because art is sold, but because it has learned
\nhow one must speak in order to be allowed to persist.
\nThe decisive mechanisms are not prices or relations of ownership,
\nbut formats: legibility, connectivity, situational critique,
\ncontrolled deviation.<\/p>\n

Art is therefore no longer a place, but a mode of conduct.
\nIt shapes subjects long before it asserts meanings.<\/p>\n

For this reason, art today can no longer be a critique of capitalism.
\nNot because critique is absent,
\nbut because the very mode of production already speaks
\nthe logic of the system it claims to criticize.
\nNot in a blatant or affirmative way,
\nbut subtly, elegantly, unmarked.<\/p>\n

The ideological does not lie in the content,
\nbut in the syntax.
\nIn the self-evidence
\nwith which everything appears as material:
\nworld, relation, suffering, crisis, more-than-human life.<\/p>\n

The contemporary exhibition world is not a special case in this regard.
\nIt is a training ground.
\nHere, nothing is sold;
\ninstead, one practices
\nhow to address the world without touching it.
\nHow to name everything without letting anything remain.
\nHow to thematize violence
\nwithout assuming responsibility.<\/p>\n

Capitalism needs no censorship here.
\nIt needs only a language
\nin which everything can be said,
\nas long as nothing binds.<\/p>\n

Animals, landscapes, destroyed habitats
\nare not placed in relation,
\nbut rendered available \u2013
\naesthetically, discursively, morally.
\nEven critique is not suppressed,
\nbut kept exploitable.<\/p>\n

The problem, therefore, is not the art market.
\nThe problem lies deeper:
\nin a humanity
\nthat has learned
\nto treat everything outside itself
\nas an instrumental exterior \u2013
\nand to mistake this attitude
\nfor reflection.<\/p>\n

The world no longer appears as a shared world,
\nbut as a topic.
\nAs an occasion.
\nAs a resource.<\/p>\n

Art that speaks this language
\ndoes not withdraw from capitalism.
\nIt enacts it.
\nNot out of malice,
\nbut out of practice.<\/p>\n

A humanity that speaks in this way
\nwill not lose the world.
\nIt has already replaced it.<\/p>\n

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An Exhibition on Capitalist Art perhaps Till Wasserpest What is called art today is no longer a commodity in any simple sense. It is a language \u2013 and this language is ideologically formed. Not because art is sold, but because it has learned how one must speak in order to be allowed to persist. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[14,18],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights-punk-and-disability","tag-antispe","tag-by-all-means-necessary","tw-meta-no-icon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tierrechtsethik.de\/freiraum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tierrechtsethik.de\/freiraum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tierrechtsethik.de\/freiraum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tierrechtsethik.de\/freiraum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tierrechtsethik.de\/freiraum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tierrechtsethik.de\/freiraum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/tierrechtsethik.de\/freiraum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tierrechtsethik.de\/freiraum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tierrechtsethik.de\/freiraum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tierrechtsethik.de\/freiraum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}