Baader-Meinhof
2001 Vinton Street
Omaha, NE 68108
Hours: Thursday - Saturday 1-6 PM and otherwise by appointment.
Why Baader-Meinhof?
No, the gallery bears no personal or professional affiliation with the Red Army Faction.
The name is a reference to the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, a term which describes frequency illusion, a cognitive bias in which, after noticing something for the first time, there is a tendency to notice it more often, leading someone to believe that it has a high frequency of occurrence. When we discover something new, we begin to imprint the significance of our revelation upon the world around us.
I see a relationship between this phenomenon and the ways in which culture is produced and reproduced, coded and canonized. Cultural discourse is often dominated by the fetish of the new and undiscovered. In this context, Baader-Meinhof phenomenon feels like the harbinger of the subsequent process of cultural sublimation and recuperation.
Running a space “off-center” demands a decentralized approach to sharing and community building. Most of our audience finds and experiences the work we do through social media or online. As word trickles out, spreads among friends and colleagues, Baader-Meinhof, the art gallery, manifests the phenomena it is inspired by.