KU/RZ/NSTHALLE (kurz - short term - kunsthalle) is a gallery without permanent rooms. Instead we take temporary available places and claim them into a gallery of contemporary art. We are at the moment in a big shopping mall, in half-dismantled shop of 600 m2. We are new here, but everybody knows us now. Our exhibitions visit in the week 100-200 people, and on weekend 200-400 (intentionally or accidentally). Everybody shop! Set up between two main passages of the shopping mall Ku/rz/nsthalle cannot be avoided. 12 m long wall, we built intentionally cutting the main pathway through the mall, so the visitors have to make an effort if they want to bypass the art. Art refuses to be merely a decoration, instead it is a stone in a shoe. The stone that stabs everyday routine of disinterest, comfort of neglect and superficiality.

 

We (Lana and Rafet Jonuzi) started this project out of need to question the very concept of contemporary art presentation space. If the art gallery can take everyday object and “frame” it into a piece of art ... does that work other way around too? We set up stage for the questions to pop out for them self. Not only the questions about the institutions of art presentation but also the systems of art evaluation. The gallery runs two parallel projects: "The Artist is not Present" shows only artist that are already established. The parallel project "Rex Anonymous" shows young unknown artists.