HORT lives up to its name for a new exhibition at KK Outlet, which celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the studio by transforming the gallery into a ‘creative playground’ far removed from your average retrospective.
When it was founded in 1994, HORT went by the title Eikes Grafischer Hort or ‘Eike’s Creative Playground’. Although the name might have shrunk, the ambition of the studio, and founder Eike Konig, has not, with HORT’s playful approach earning it a reputation for innovation and unorthodoxy.
Fittingly, an exhibition to mark its twentieth birthday at KK Outlet next month will focus less on the studio’s meaty portfolio of projects but instead looks to unpick this unconventional approach, exhibiting some of the work based on time the team spent at a residential artistic retreat at Rome’s Villa Massimo. There, the studio challenged themselves with a number of collaborative multidisciplinary projects that, away from their Berlin base, took members out of their comfort zones.
Building on this experience the KK Outlet show will feature work from this residency as well as pieces created since, and especially for the exhibition. KK Outlet will also host a special dinner curated by Konig on the 10 September.
20Y HORT
KK Outlet, London
12 - 26 September
kkoutlet.com
hort.org.uk