Artists and groups: 3NÓS3 • AA Bronson • Allegoric Postcard Union • Pawel Althamer in collaboration with Artur Zmijewski and Nowolipie Group • Art & Language • B+B • BankMalbekRau • Joseph Beuys • BijaRi • Bokhorov / Gutov / Osmolovsky • Collective Actions • Contra Filé • Escape Program • Etcétera… • flyingCity • Freud’s Dreams Museum • General Idea • Gilbert & George • Gorgona • Group of Six Artists • Grupo de Arte Callejero • Gruppo Parole e Immagini • Guerilla Art Action Group • Dmitry Gutov • IRWIN • kleines postfordistisches Drama • Maj 75 • Moscow Portraits • Neue Slowenische Kunst • Oda Projesi • OHO • Pages • Radek Community • Mladen Stilinović • Superflex • ŠKART • Taller Popular de Serigrafia • Temporary Services and Angelo • The Revolution Will Not Be Televised • Tucmán Arde Archive (Graciela Carnevale) • Urucum • Zagreb – Cultural Kapital 3000 • What is to be done?…

The Collective Creativity exhibition opened on the 1st of May 2005 in the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel. Until the 17th of July, it presented the works of more than 40 international artist groups – mainly from Eastern Europe, Latin America, Russia and the USA.
Collective Creativity deals with different forms of collective artistic creativity, whose protagonists share common programs, ways of life, methodologies, or political standpoints.

The exhibition focused on specific social tensions that serve as a common axis around which various group activities are being organized. It is interested in the different emancipatory aspects of collective work where collaborative creativity is not only a form of resisting the dominant art system and capitalist call for the specialization but also a productive and performative criticism of social institutions and politics.

The discursive programme included Saturday Swap Shop: a series of conversations with participating artists, organized by B+B (London), the Singing Action Fast Songs of Hard Work by HORKESKART (Belgrade), the concert Rocque Rocque by Urucum (Macapa), the film and discussion by kleines postfordistisches Drama (Berlin/Zurich) and the lecture by Victor Mazin, Freud’s Dreams Museum (St. Petersburg).

The exhibition was accompanied by a German and English edition of a reader, published by Revolver, designed by Dejan Kršić and with contributions by Art & Language, Collective Situaciones, Charles Esche, Ljiljana Filipovic, Jon Hendricks, Brian Holmes, IRWIN, Ana Longoni, Viktor Misiano, Angelika Nollert, WHW and Stephen Wright.