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The artist-collective Bernadette Corporation was

founded in a night club in 1994. It was a downtown New

York fashion label for a couple of years. It self-published

a fashion magazine called Made in USA. It has produced

videos, including Get Rid of Yourself. It authored the

novel Reena Spaulings. It wrote the screenplay Eine

Pinot Grigio Bitte as part of its Pedestrian Cinema under-

ground film studio project in Berlin. It has made art for

galleries and museum institutions.

The artist-collective Bernadette Corporation was

founded in a night club in 1994. In the beginning the

group organized spontaneous, purposeless events in

public space. In 1995 they morphed into a fashion label,

then a self-publishing company that from 1999 to 2001

published an art magazine called Made in USA. Berna-

dette Corporation has also produced films, including Hell

Frozen Over (2000), and Get Rid of Yourself (2003), as

well as exhibits at art galleries and museums throughout

the world.

Bernadette Corporation was formed in a Manhat-

tan nightclub in 1994, and began organizing DIY social

events that evolved into unauthorized art carnivals in

SoHo parking lots. From 1995 to 1997, the group worked

under the guise of an underground fashion label. In 1999

it self-published a magazine, “Made in USA,” and began

producing videos, such as “Hell Frozen Over” (2000,

A fashion film about the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé

and the color white.) and “Get Rid of Yourself” (2003, a

video-tract that aligns itself with nascent forms of politi-

cal resistance within the anti-globalization movement...

a filmed essay that works by betraying its own form.”).

In 2005 Bernadette Corporation authored the collec-

tive novel “Reena Spaulings,” which was published by

Semiotext(e). Currently they are experimenting around

the possibilities of an underground film studio in Berlin

with their project “Pedestrian Cinema.”

Bernadette Corporation was founded in a New York

nightclub in 1994. It became a shifting collaborative, ex-

ploiting the blankness of a corporate image to sidestep

precise definition, and variously implicating itself in art,

fashion, photography, magazine publishing, and film. It

is significant to note that BC has functioned as its own

kind of cultural institution, providing an uncompromised

context for its multiple modes of expression. During its

history, Bernadette Corporation has worked under the

guise of an underground fashion label, self-published an

art magazine called Made in USA, produced video-films,

and collectively authored a novel. They are represented

by Reena Spaulings Fine Arts/NYC and

Galerie Meerrittich/Berlin.

Bernadette Corporation was founded in 1994. Con-

ceived as an opaque structure for collective activity,

‘Bernadette Corporation’ was meant to signify anything

in the elaboration of the lives and work of those who take

part and therefore animate it. It contracts and expands

its population, it moves through various media, ways of

defining itself, and spaces as it needs. In its ten years of

activity, it has been many things: a fashion label, a maga-

zine publisher, a filmmaker, an artist, a novelist. It is

significant to note that BC has functioned as its own kind

of cultural institution, providing an authentic legitimising

and uncompromised context for its multiple modes of

expression. Today BC is comprised of three consistent

members based in NY, Paris, and Berlin.

Bernadette Corporation is a collaborative of open

definition. Its collective projects create concrete networks

for refuge and use in the milieus of the arts. From 1995 to

1997, Bernadette Corporation worked under the guise of

a fashion label, and from 1999 until 2001, self-published

an art magazine, Made in USA. BC has also produced

films, including Hell Frozen Over, 2000, and Get Rid of

Yourself, 2003, and exhibits regularly in galleries and

museums.

Bernadette Corporation has worked under the guise

of an eponymous underground fashion label, published a

fashion magazine called Made in USA, produced video-

films, including the 2003 protest documentary Get Rid of

Yourself, collectively authored the novel Reena Spaulings

(Semiotext(e) 2004) and operated Pedestrian Cinema,

an underground film studio in Berlin which developed

the screenplay Eine Pinot Grigio, Bitte (Sternberg Press

2007). They have exhibited at the 2006 Whitney Biennial,

the Witte de With museum, and the Centre Pompidou.