NADJA KURZ

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The Motivation Machine, 2022

Work must pay off! The Motivation Machine provides the worker with a well deserved pat on the back whenever it’s needed - ensuring improved work morale AND efficiency. This first prototype was successfully installed in the office of my beloved father, Hartmut Kurz (in favor of my future heritage).

wood, metal, silicone hand, shirt, plastic button activating applause generating sound machine

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Porenprobleme // Solo exhibition @ Frieren_Room (the coolest art space in Berlin), 2022 papier-mâché, masking tape, wire, glass eyes, fake fur, secret substance, paint

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Es gibt Orte, die hat der Herrgott geküsst (mit Zunge), 2023

Flaccid Knob has ventured into the lion's den and has been convinced: Yes, it exists! The other Saxony.

1-channel video installation

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1st Snodder Release

Visual appetiser for the Tape Release Party @billo.tontraeger „Bildende Künstler*Innen versuchen Musik zu machen“ @zuostant, Berlin, 16.04.22 billotontraeger.bandcamp.com/album/bildende-k-nstler-innen-versuchen-musik-zu-machen

https://billotontraeger.bandcamp.com/album/bildende-k-nstler-innen-versuchen-musik-zu-machen

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Self Portrait, 2021

colored latex

part of Big Fungus group show developed by Tobi Keck hosted by the offsite platform Solo Show

check out the full exhibition here: http://soloshow.online/bigfungus.html

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Down to Earth Showroom, 2021 mixed media installation by Flaccid Knob

part of Pure Joy @ Königstraße 32, Lübeck  Pop-up exhibition developed together with Theo Huber and Matti Schulz

participating artists were: Theresa Ehrenberg, Eazy, Theo Huber, Flaccid Knob (Nadja Kurz & Per Warberg), Kryptkeeper, Jana Jedermann, John, Paul George, Ringo & Richard, MC Müllsaft, Karoline Schneider the exhibition was kindly supported by Kulturfunke

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https://downtoearth-bestattung.blogspot.com

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The light at the end of the tunnel shines green! Flaccid Knob presents Mit Schwung (in die Zukunft) – A portrait of the lucrative business of dying in times of green capitalism. 

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Today’s Opportunities // Employed & Depressed @ Good Job! Showroom, 2021

a depressing group show developed by Tobi Keck 

>> Good Job! Showroom is welcoming the virgin year not with usual empty phrases of good will and enthusiastic spirit, but rather with an honest load of the bitterness and struggle life actually offers. There will be no attempt of fooling the mind with cheap affirmations or worn-out optimism. Instead of comforting the awful misery of selling ones lifetime, a gathering of thirteen positions of visual artists will create an environment, that will confront the unfortunate laborer relentlessly with their unbearable situation and point a finger on the only option that is escape. A place vast of confident, unlimited lamento is the one, that will light a fire of raging denial, for an unpleasent present and will unleash a terrible force on the yet unachieved. <<

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Flaccid Knob’s first LP Mit Schwung in die Zukunft  released by Quality Music, April 2021

Record comes with a riso-printed insert and a zipper bag containing an unique hairy wart // limited to 250 copies.

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REKORD-Kunstkaufhalle @ Acud Macht Neu, Berlin (2.-4. Oktober 2020)

Shoppen, Shoppen, Shoppen! Ein 4-tägiges Ausstellungshappening mit über 70 KünstlerInnen, gemeinsam organisiert mit Liesa Fritzsche, Friederike Sigler & Matti Schulz

mit dabei waren: ADK, Antifa e.V., Lisa Maria Baier, BBF, Benzin, Melo Börner, Elizabeth Charnock, Cuntroaches, Destinys Chlid, Die letzten Ecken, Die Pest, Marie Donike & Johannes Specks, Nicolás Dupont, Claude Eigan, Alexander Endrullat, Ex White, Rainer Finke, Flaccid Knob, Lucie Freynhagen, Anni Fritzsche, Fuzzzgun, Ringo Gill, Gorbatshow, Bhima Griem, Gabriela Guarnizo, Jinran Ha, Konrad Hanke, Tobi Keck, Jake Kent, Klösse, Max Kowalewski, Magnus Krüger, Kryptkeeper, Nadja Kurz, Camille Lacroix, Petra Lange-Berndt, Lassie, Alizee Lenox, Moritz Liebig, Lova, Sarah Lüttchen, Simon Mann, Mangel Rec., Maske, Matthias Materne, Metzger, Wilhelm Mundt, Omen, Murat Önen, ÖPNV, Piss, Matthias Recht, Ricaletto, Johanna Rüggen, Raiko Sanchez, Marten Schech, Florian Schmidt, Olivia Schneider, Martina Schöne-Radunski, Ulrike Steinke, Stinkhole, Schreier Johann, Josefine Schulz, Willy Schulz, Max Schulze, Chris Shongo, Short & Pregnant, The Govenor himself, Ruth Unger, Urin, Laura Vargas, VCUNORDNUNGS AMT., Marcel Walldorf, Weazl, Mikka Wellner, (...) u.v.m.

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Soap for Moria crowdfunding video // Support the self-organized Vio.Me factory in Thessaloniki in establishing a self-sufficient power supply and help to transport their hygiene products to the overcrowded refugee camp Moria on the island of Lesbos! Subject „Soap for Moria", kosmotique e.V., BIC: GENODEM1GLS, IBAN: DE83430609671130360500

>Any contribution is bloody needed<

https://beyondeurope.net/1365/video-and-update-on-fight-the-dirty-conditions-everywhere/

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Der Sumpf, 2019

Found in the dark archives of the very first Flaccid Knob recording session - now bolstered with freshly added visuals. >>> A special thanks goes out to Dominik for his supportive expertise in sprinkling just the right amount of delicious spices into the large-scaled wetlands !

Track from "Der Sumpf" / recorded in the Stinkhole, Berlin, 2016 https://flaccidknob.bandcamp.com/album/der-sumpf

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Swinging Mush // Solo exhibition @ Kabakon art house, Leipzig, 2019

1-channel video Maximaler Gewinn by Flaccid Knob, digital prints with sausage pattern, padded 1/2-seater (wood, textile, children's mattress, various lining materials, fringe border), carpet, planted aquarium with HAARPUNE bottle, artificial veranda planting

kindly supported by Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn photos by Manuel Frolik 

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Haarpune, Nachlass // The Rock @ Westbruch, Brandis, 2019  – underwater art show developed by Tobi Keck, underwater photos by Torsten Schnabel

pipette bottle, hair, nail polish, porphyry slabs, silicone, hair

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Lichtschutzfaktor 0 // Blood, Sweat and Shoes @ C.Rockefeller Center, Dresden, 2019 – group show developed by Willy Schulz 

Sneakers, latex, makeup, food colouring, vaseline 

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The world has never seen anything like it: Flaccid Knob launches it's new product and the stock market goes crazy... 

– A big thank you goes to the brilliant Jan Wilhelm Vahl, Marten Schech and of course the Stiftung Kunstfonds, which made the project possible in the first place!

And look at JAMES – our human billboard of the FIRST HAARPUNE SUCCESS STORY OVERSEAS! So gorgeous.