Happy Birthday 2

Happy Birthday 2
Hedda Bauer, Hilma Bäckström, Freja Gøtke, Seyoung Yoon
November 4, 2022, 8pm

We are celebrating and everybody is invited!

Venue: Kunsthalle Zürich, basement
Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zurich

Invitation card design: Foundation Cindy de Perky

Hedda Bauer, Hilma Bäckström, Freja Gøtke, Seyoung Yoon – Happy Birthday 2, 2022, Kunsthalle Zürich, basement, installation view.

Photo: Cedric Mussan

Hedda Bauer, Hilma Bäckström, Freja Gøtke, Seyoung Yoon – Happy Birthday 2, 2022, Kunsthalle Zürich, basement, installation view.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Hedda Bauer, Hilma Bäckström, Freja Gøtke, Seyoung Yoon – Happy Birthday 2, 2022, Kunsthalle Zürich, basement, installation view.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Hedda Bauer, Hilma Bäckström, Freja Gøtke, Seyoung Yoon – Happy Birthday 2, 2022, Kunsthalle Zürich, basement, installation view.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Hedda Bauer, Hilma Bäckström, Freja Gøtke, Seyoung Yoon – Happy Birthday 2, 2022, Kunsthalle Zürich, basement, installation view.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Hedda Bauer, Hilma Bäckström, Freja Gøtke, Seyoung Yoon – Happy Birthday 2, 2022, Kunsthalle Zürich, basement, installation view.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Hilma Bäckström & Freja Gøtke, The Last Hurrah, 2022.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Hilma Bäckström & Freja Gøtke, The Last Hurrah, 2022.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Hilma Bäckström & Freja Gøtke, The Last Hurrah, 2022.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Hedda Bauer, Hilma Bäckström, Freja Gøtke, Seyoung Yoon – Happy Birthday 2, 2022, Kunsthalle Zürich, basement, installation view.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Hedda Bauer, Hilma Bäckström, Freja Gøtke, Seyoung Yoon – Happy Birthday 2, 2022, Kunsthalle Zürich, basement, installation view.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Hedda Bauer, Hilma Bäckström, Freja Gøtke, Seyoung Yoon – Happy Birthday 2, 2022, Kunsthalle Zürich, basement, installation view.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Seyoung Yoon, Types and Sides, 2021.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Seyoung Yoon, Veracity and Vacuums, 2021.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Seyoung Yoon, Growing Pains, 2021.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Seyoung Yoon, Generic Wall & Co. 1, 2021.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Seyoung Yoon, Generic Wall & Co. 1 (detail), 2021.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Seyoung Yoon, Cindy's daydream 1, 2020.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Seyoung Yoon, Cindy's daydream 1, 2020.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Hilma Bäckström & Freja Gøtke, The Last Hurrah (detail), 2022.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Hilma Bäckström & Freja Gøtke, The Last Hurrah (detail), 2022.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Hilma Bäckström & Freja Gøtke, The Last Hurrah (detail), 2022.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Hilma Bäckström & Freja Gøtke, The Last Hurrah (detail), 2022.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Hilma Bäckström & Freja Gøtke, The Last Hurrah (detail), 2022.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Hedda Bauer, The Fox, 2022.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Hilma Bäckström & Freja Gøtke, The Last Hurrah (detail), 2022.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Hilma Bäckström & Freja Gøtke, The Last Hurrah (Detail), 2022.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Seyoung Yoon, Pee after Sex, 2021.

Photo: Cedric Mussan

Seyoung Yoon, Sass, 2021.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Seyoung Yoon, Sass (detail), 2021.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Hedda Bauer, Hilma Bäckström, Freja Gøtke, Seyoung Yoon – Happy Birthday 2, 2022, Kunsthalle Zürich, basement.

Photo: Jil Lahr

Hedda Bauer, Hilma Bäckström, Freja Gøtke, Seyoung Yoon – Happy Birthday 2, 2022, Kunsthalle Zürich, basement.

Photo: Jil Lahr

Hedda Bauer, Hilma Bäckström, Freja Gøtke, Seyoung Yoon – Happy Birthday 2, 2022, Kunsthalle Zürich, basement.

Photo: OB

Hedda Bauer, Hilma Bäckström, Freja Gøtke, Seyoung Yoon – Happy Birthday 2, 2022, Kunsthalle Zürich, basement.

Photo: OB

Happy Birthday 2, 2022, invitation card cover (unfolded)

Design: Foundation Cindy de Perky

Happy Birthday 2, 2022, invitation card inside (unfolded)

Design: Foundation Cindy de Perky

Backrooms

A whisper behind a hand, a hatched plan, an embarrassing slip of the tongue, unexpected inspiration: these happen in the gaps, corridors and brief interactions on the way to other activities. In these liminal spaces — places as well as states — emerge zones of reverie with a psychological and social threshold character. They are marginal areas of ambiguous limbo where back doors are left open and free spaces unconstrained, thus generating potential for experimentation as well as for failure.

Under the title Backrooms, a programme of events, readings, performances, screenings, concerts and other artistic formats took place organised by Otto Bonnen.