BUST A NUT (box set)

Box set including BUST A NUT issues I, II, III

In the summers of 2018 and 2019 BUST A NUT transformed the small concrete cube Plattenvereinigung at the former airport field of Tempelhof in Berlin into a queer clubhouse. The installations were accompanied by an outdoor rave and ensuing the exhibitions three zines are published now availabe as a box set. Each zine includes a poster.

Bust A Nut zine 1 combines black and white photographs by Robin Kirchner with colorful banners by Theodor Johansson. The works refer to gay slang cruising and club culture.

Bust A Nut zine 2 combines photographic works by Robin Kirchner and Karlheinz Weinberger about Turkish Oil-wrestlers and wrestlers in the 70ies in Switzerland.

Set up on the 1st of May 2019 when Berlin celebrated Tanz in den Mai, the opening of the summer and outdoor season, MAKE A MOVE was an invitation to get out of your house come together and dance.

Bust A Nut zine 3 : 50 years after Stonewall and 50 years after the moon landing, the 3rd Bust A Nut FORBIDDEN PLANET mixed queer liberation, club culture and science fiction with works of ten artists.

Artists included: Adrian Hermanides, Alba Frenzel, Anton Stoianov, Benedikt Rugar, David Behrens, Florian Glaubitz, Jana Engel, Kiernan Cobarrubia, Robin Kirchner, Sarah Feulner, Siciliano Contemporary Ballet

Every issue comes with a 30 x 45 cm poster

About the artist:
„Robin Kirchner’s artistic practice is shaped by the upheavals and emancipatory movements of the 1980s and 90s in Kreuzberg, Berlin, where he grew up. His works are influenced by artistic-documentary approaches as well as fashion and commercial photography. Kirchner not only often finds the protagonists for his pictures in the city’s queer club, music and art scenes, but also artistic collaborators“
– (excerpt from the exhibition booklet of TOUCH / neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin 2018)

Robin Kirchner studied at Lette-Verein Berlin and Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig in the class of Heidi Specker. He worked as an assistant for the photographers Ali Kepenek and Marcus Höhn. Nowadays he works as a freelance photographer with base in Berlin.

Since 2018 he is arranging BUST A NUT a series of events which combine elements of art, rave and performance at the former Airport Tempelhof.