Rhea Myers  The Fractionalized Phallus

07/03/2025 – 17/04/2025

Galerie Nagel Draxler
Weydingerstr. 2/4
10178 Berlin

Opening / Eröffnung:
Freitag, 7. März 2025, 17 – 20 Uhr
Friday, March 7, 2025, 5 – 8 pm

Öffnungszeiten / Opening hours:
Dienstag - Freitag 11 – 18 Uhr, Samstag 12 – 18 Uhr
Tuesday - Friday 11am – 6pm, Saturday 12 – 6pm

The gallery will be closed on March 8th for International Women's Day.

Rhea Myers' exhibition features new works that repurpose blockchain technologies and cryptographic concepts to explore themes of identity, ownership, and self-determination. From NFTs that challenge traditional notions of gender and personhood to generative art inspired by cypherpunk ideals, the exhibition interrogates societal power structures and the anxieties they produce.

Following The Ego, And It’s 0wned, The Fractionalized Phallus deepens the transfeminine perspective in Rhea Myers’ work and transforms the artist’s own body into a fragmented relic of a past self. 3D scans, no longer tied to the body they once represented, collapse the patriarchal master signifier into the marketplace, where it is redistributed, deconstructed, and rendered mutable. This dissolution of fixed identity finds a parallel in Self-Identifying, where generative PostScript programs create unique images embedded with their own cryptographic identity. Here, the artwork does not just depict identity but enacts it, asserting autonomy in both form and function and interrogating authorship. The critique of systemic control takes another form in Non, where the legal frameworks that govern corporate power become the subject of the work itself. Through an NFT embedded with Non-Disclosure and Non-Disparagement clauses, the piece reflects on the entanglement of labor, ownership, and compliance, exposing the anxieties and mispriced fears of late startup culture. In doing so, Non reads like marriage vows: love, honor, and obey.

Rhea Myers is an artist, hacker, and writer based in British Columbia, Canada, originally from the UK. Since 2014, she has used the blockchain as a medium for embodying, critiquing, and moving beyond the anxieties of post-financial-crisis society. Her work places technology and culture in mutual interrogation to produce new ways of seeing the world as it unfolds around us. Myer‘s art has gained international recognition with exhibition at AKG Buffalo Museum, New York (USA), HeK, Basel (CH), Art Science Museum, Singapore (SGP), Kunsthalle Zürich (CH), Francisco Carolinum, Linz (CH) and Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (GER).

The anthology Proof Of Work. Blockchain Provocations 2011–2021 reflects on her pioneering projects and understanding of conceptual art and decentralized technology.