Thursday, May 24, 2007

Kolonie Wedding 25-27 May and more....

Friday 25th May is the Vernissage evening in Kolonie Wedding

11 + shows opening incliding:

Art Laboratory Berlin

Art and Music II
3-ROOM-CONFERENCE.
A Live Performance with an Exhibition by the Berlin Tiefenrauschorchester

Opening: May 25, 2007, 8pm. Live Performance 9.30pm
Exhibition: 26.5.-17.6.07, Fr-So, 2-6pm

Leo Königsberg - Space-Cello, painting Inbetween (2001), film Cloud-Pieces (2005)
janusz de woyciechowski - dance, film Titania (1970)
Christian Glass - live act, electronics

The live performance on Friday, May 25, 2007 will be filmed by Sven Zimmermann and will be shown in the following exhibition from May 26 - June 17, 2007.








The 3-Room-Conference is a performance project, which was organized by the Berlin Tiefenrauschorchester especially for the rooms of the artspace Art Laboratory Berlin.

In connection with his painting Inbetween (2001) and his film projection Cloud Pieces (2005) Leo Königsberg will realize a sound collage on his space cello. This audiovisual production will be taken further by the live act by Christian Glass' electronic acoustics. The dance performance by janusz de woyciechowski, in relation to his film Titania (1970), which will be projected in the art space, will develop this interdisciplinary experiment through the human body in movement.

The Tiefenrauschorchester consists of sound and visual artists, performers, dancers in varying combinations. It is part of the FACTORY-BERLIN, an artist community located in a former battery factory in Berlin-Oberschöneweide. It was founded at the beginning of the 1990s as a place for the production of painting, sculpture, music, performance, dance, film, photography and theater.

"The performance project 3-Room-Conference is an artistic communication in three different spaces. The artists communicate with one another by means of different media in their own specific forms. Elements of sound flow together with the help of an electronic setting which complements the video works. These, in turn, correspond to the dance performance. Altogether we have a whole body of art, which the spectator through his/ her pure presence will become a part of, and without having to act he/ she will become an agitator."
Leo Königsberg in a conversation with Art Laboratory Berlin,
April 2007
more information



Leo Königsberg with his Space-Cello, Sounds of Industrial Past (Tiefenrauschorchester, roof performance, Berlin 2006)











Space-Cello by Leo Königsberg



















janusz de woyciechowski, Titania (1970) video still






















Galerie Art Digital
Freienealder Strasse 30
Marina Gertsovskaya



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25 May - 20 June
Venissage 25 May from 8 PM
26- 27 May 13-18
through 20 June by appointment 0179/1499265







Vierter Stock
Koloniestr. 131 hh

Projects

No. 3 Maryna Baranovska

Schwarzwald

Eröffnung: Freitag 25. Mai 2007, 20 Uhr

Ausstellungsdauer: 26. Mai bis 29. Juni 2007

Sa.- So. 13-17h

vierter stock hat die außergewöhnliche Ehre, eine besonders junge Künstlerin bei sich zu Gast zu haben. Die 1983 in Kiev geborene Ukrainerin Maryna Baranovska lebt seit 2001 in Berlin. Nach dem Abschließen der Kunstschule T.G. Schevtchenko/Kiew, begann sie 2002 ein Studium der Malerei an der Hochschule der Künste in Berlin (UdK) unter der Führung von Dieter Hacker. Während ihrer Zeit als Studentin der UdK nahm sie bereits an zahlreichen Gruppen- und Einzelausstellungen teil. Darunter auch als Preisträgerin der bekannten Dorothea Konwiarz Stiftung. Die Ausstellungsleiterin Creixell Espilla Gilart und Maryna Baranovska stehen seit langem in engem Kontakt. So organisierte Creixell Espilla Gilart die erste Einzelausstellung der Künstlerin im Rahmen der Ausstellungsreihe 'Dimensionen der Stadt' in Projektraum „space untitled“ des KolonieWedding e.V. im Jahr 2006, die auf unerwartet große Resonanz stieß. Nicht zuletzt deshalb fanden die beiden Frauen erneut zusammen und präsentieren ab dem 25.Mai ihr neues Projekt. Der Titel der Ausstellung lautet SCHWARZWALD. Schon in früheren Ausstellungen stand der Wald im Mittelpunkt von Maryna Baranovskas Werken. Eine Erklärung für den starken Bezug der Künstlerin zur Natur, insbesondere zu Wald und Bäumen, und deren immer wiederkehrende thematische Ausarbeitung, bietet Baranovskas Herkunft. Nahe Kiew wuchs sie weit abgeschieden im Haus der Eltern, gelegen in einem großen Waldgebiet auf. So soll der Titel der Ausstellung eben auch keine negativen Assoziationen wecken. Vielmehr lässt sich eine Verbindung zwischen dem deutschen Schwarzwald als Erholungsgebiet, und damit als positiv besetztem Begriff, und Baranovskas SCHWARZWALD im Sinne von nächtlichem Wald herstellen. Die üblicherweise in Verbindung mit Dunkelheit und Wald erste empfundene Angst soll durch den positiven Eindruck des Schwarzwaldes umgekehrt werden. So geben Maryna Baranovskas Werke auch keinen Anlass zum Fürchten, sondern stellen abstrahiert ihre Verbindung zur Natur dar und bieten dem Betrachter ebenso diese Möglichkeit. vierter stock zeigt eine Installation in Form eines Wandpaneels in Verbindung mit räumlichen Elementen zum Thema Wald, oder einfacher: Einen Indoor-Wald. Darüber hinaus werden Leinwände präsentiert, die ebenfalls Natur, Bäume und Wald in abstrakten Formen und Gestalten wiedergeben.






Others exhibitions in Wedding:
sunday wedding 25. - 27. mai

art laboratory berlin
prinzenallee 34
„three room conference“ tiefenrausch orchester
vernissage 25.5. ab20h performance ab 21h30
26.5.-27.5* 14-18
ausstellung läuft bis 17.6. fr-so 14-18

gad galerie art digital
freienwalderstr. 30
„golem“ marina gertsovskaya
vernissage 25.5. 20-23h 26.5.-27.5. 13-18h
ausstellung läuft bis 20.6. nach vereinbarung 0179/1499265

kunstraum_ sumpfhahn raumkunst
koloniestrasse 38
„liquidation' installation/performance“ mag.a daniela jauk divanova und mag. art. ing. erwin posarnig (pliant)
vernissage 25.4. ab 20h 26.5-27.5.* 14-18h
ausstellung läuft vom 10.05 bis 31.05 do-sa 17-21h,

artport
biesentalerstr.16
„der rote tisch“ fotografien von wolf gutbier.
vernissage 25.5. 20h 26.5.-27.5.* 14-18h.

prima center berlin
biesentalerstr. 24
„good guys and bad guys“ - danijel babić & đula šanta
vernissage 25.5. ab 20h, 26. - 27.6. 14-18h
ausstellung läuft bis 07.6. di-fr 13-18h

atelier soldina
soldinerstr. 92
„lessons for other times“ von elena ilina
vernissage 25.4. ab 20h, 26.-27.5.* 14-18h
und nach vereinbarung unter 0178/6369697

forum soldiner kiez
prinzenallee 45 c
malerei, video von t.yavuz
vernissage 25.5. 25h 26.5-27.5* 14-18h


projektraum m&n
biesentalerstraße 5
"dead space", installation von monika goetz
vernissage: 25.5. 20h 26.5.-27.5* 13-18h
ausstellung läuft bis 18.6 sa-so 13-18h


2 x 25 watt, by Monika Goetz at M&N



werk-raum
prinzenallee 58, 3. hof
„skulpturen + objekte: bronze - holz – stahl“ wassily heuschober + josef vilser
vernissage 25.5. ab 20h, 26.-27.5.* 14-18h

vierter stock projektraum berlin
koloniestr. 131, hh, 4. stock
„schwarzwald“ maryna baranovksa
vernissage 25.5. ab 20h 26.5-27.5*
ausstellung läuft bis 30.06. sa-so 13-17h

bar art
prinzenallee 38
„gemütliche ecke/neue ecke-part 2“ iwona borkowska & lucyna viale
25.05 vernissage 19h 19h30 „tour der galerie“ ab 22h party
26.05.ab 14uhr laufende ausstellung
27.05.* ab 13h, frühstück-buffet 14h „tour de galerie“






Carlier Gebauer
MARK WALLINGER | The End
PETER POMMERER | Ich war im Hemd oder im Unterrrock

31. May 2007, 18 - 21 Uhr.

01 June - 28 July 2007.

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carlier | gebauer

phone: + 49 30 280 81 10
fax: + 49 30 280 81 09

Holzmarktstraße 15 - 18, Bogen 51/52


6. Mai 2007





Anna-Catharina Gebbers | Bibliothekswohnung
Ziegelstr. 2, Apt.#06.03
D-10117 Berlin
www.acgebbers.com
10179 Berlin


12 - 6 PM

Andrea Winkler - White Belt
(Einzelausstellung / Solo Exhibition)

2PM
Markus Steinweg - Was ist ein Subjekt?
(Vortrag / Lecture in German language)

Andrea Winkler creates works of intense sensuality and minimalist
elegance. Made from “poor materials” like paper, foil, tape or glossy
magazine pages her delicate reliefs and often frilling objects produce an
atmosphere of “Baroque Povera”. The pieces are sparingly dispersed
in the space attached to the walls, spread out on the floor, fixed to
architectural protrusions and hanging from the ceiling. To the viewer
walking respectively navigating through the space impressions change and
new images occur. Carefree, playful and seemingly existing there only
temporarily, things appear light and mobile like transit passengers. But
the picture is well composed and catches the passerby with powerful
seducement.

It is evident that more often than not, a drawing element runs through
Winkler’s artistic practice, and which she extended to the
three-dimensional space. Even though her work aims to intensify the experience of
looking by slight spatial interventions it could not be characterized
as “minimal” in the traditional sense. The choreography of
materials, the marshalling of elements and the emphasis on the ephemeral are
rather alluding to Bataille’s crossing of borders and his definitions of
beauty, erotic, exuberance and excess.

Andrea Winkler (*1975 in Zurich, CH) has studied at the Slade School of
Fine Art, London and the Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg, with Wolfgang
Tillmans, Cerith Wyn Evans and Gisela Bullacher. Her work was exhibited
amongst other at Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Aargauer
Kunsthaus, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Center of Attention, Anthony
D’Offay, London, and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, NY. Andrea Winkler recently
moved from London to Berlin.


At 2pm the philosopher Marcus Steinweg will hold a lecture in German
language about the subject (as something which is more than an object
and it’s reality in the universe of facts): „Was ist ein Subjekt?“
(What is a subject?). The audience is invited for a vivid discussion
afterwards.

Marcus Steinweg (*1971) is author of philosophical and literary texts.
His recent publications are a.o.: „Krieg der différance“ and
„Autofahren mit Lacan“ (both Koblenz: 2001), „Der Ozeanomat. Ereignis
und Immanenz“ (Cologne: 2002), „Bataille Maschine“ (Berlin:
2003), „Subjektsingularitäten“ (Berlin: 2004), „Paloma Varga Weisz“
(with Jean-Christophe Ammann and Anna-Catharina Gebbers; Kleve,
Frankfurt/Main: 2004), „Behauptungsphilosophie“ (Berlin: 2006),
„Mutter“ (with Rosemarie Trockel; Cologne: 2007), „Duras“ (with Rosemarie
Trockel; Berlin: Juli 2007). For several years he has been
collaborating regularly with the artist Thomas Hirschhorn. Steinweg lives in
Berlin.





Perhaps—
A Loose Dialogue on the Possibility of The Blind Man #3 & other
propositions
NICE & FIT SHOWROOM
Brunnenstrasse 13
10119 Berlin
+4930 440 459 76
niceandfitgallery.com
hours: Tuesday thru Saturday, 12-6pm
and by appointment


Etienne Chambaud & Hannes Schmidt

May 25-June 23, 2007
Opening: Friday, May 25 at 7pm

"— [...] So for a short historical introduction, we should maybe talk
about the original magazine The Blind Man, back in 1917.


— Sure, Go ahead.

— So, in the spring of 1917, in April and May to be precise, in New
York, a group of people released two issues of a new magazine called
The Blind Man. The first issue was subtitled Independents’ Number and
the second one P.B.T. The initials P.B.T. stand for Pierre
(Henri-Pierre Roché), Beatrice (Wood) and “Totor” (from Victor),
Roché’s nickname for Marcel Duchamp. They were the three associated
publishers of the magazine. The first issue started—after few gallery
advertisements! —with the sentence : « The Blind Man celebrates to-day
[sic] the birth of Independence of Art in America ». "


[...]


"— What do you mean by "building misunderstandings"?

— Ok, let's take a little step backwards! I will explain a bit the
origin of the idea. [Laughs] I guess we're switching now to some kind
of an acted dialogue. Hmm… [Laughs]

When I was first thinking of this kind of a project, I had the idea of
an entire series of next issues of "dead" magazines. I wanted to put
together some people, basically some friends, to work on the repetition
of the last issue of different magazines, on second ends.

— Like an alternative ending for a movie?

— Pretty much."


[...]


"— Yeah, for sure, but you can say that for…

— …About basically any…

— …Any thing.

— Or almost!

— This problem of perception in time traveling is really somehow a way
for me to understand the figure of the blind man as the figure of the
time traveler and the one of the blind man are probably reversed
figures, each one being the negative of the other. The time traveler
cannot be seen but probably can see. It makes him an anti-blind man.

— Hmm, an anti-blind man!? He can see but he can't be seen, that's
what you‘re saying?

— Yes, like when you're a kid and you play this game...where you hide
from your friends. How do you call it in English?

— Hide-and-seek.

— … And you always have one friend, maybe when you’re five years old or
something, who thinks that if he closes his eyes you won’t see him
anymore…because…

— …He thinks he becomes invisible."


[...]

Etienne Chambaud and Hannes Schmidt met a few months ago in Paris. They
started talking about putting together the third issue of The Blind
Man, a magazine launched by Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood and
Marcel Duchamp that folded in 1917, after just two editions.

Their conversation culminated in "Loose Dialogue Piece", a
collaborative project that addresses the repetition of an “end”, then
switches to general questions of consciousness, blindness,
phenomenological understandings of time traveling, etc.

In addition, new works by the artists will be presented as part
of Perhaps___.
Etienne Chambaud (*1980, Mulhouse, France) lives and works in Paris.
Recent exhibitions include: “Le Présent”, Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux
and “Transmissions”, Villa Arson, Nice. This is his first exhibition in
Berlin. Hannes Schmidt (*1974, Freiburg, Germany) lives and works in
Berlin. He is represented by Nice & Fit, Berlin. Recent exhibitions
include: “Hannes Schmidt at Eva’s Arche”, GBE, New York, “Dicht im
Frontalunterricht”, Nice & Fit, Berlin and “Panic Room: Recent
Acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection”, DESTE, Athens.

For additional information and visuals please contact Helena
Papadopoulos or Natasha Isaacs at 030 440 45976 or
mail@niceandfitgallery.com

Thursday, May 17, 2007

18/19 May


Invaliden1 Galerie presents:


JOHN ISAACS

Opening: 18 May, 2007_19:00
Exhibition: 19 May – 23 June, 2007
Tu_Sa_12:00-18:00


Is there not a fine silken thread
Time woven in the astral loom of the cosmos
Connecting together our earth bound dreams
For if it were any other way
The world could not appear as it does
And the magic of all would cease to be

Wilhelm Van Der Post – Atlas Poeticus

“I believe I dozed off leaning over the rail, till an abrupt burst of
yells, an overwhelming outbreak of a pent-up and mysterious frenzy, woke
me up in a bewildered wonder. It was cut short all at once, and the
low droning went on with an effect of audible and soothing silence. I
glanced casually into the little cabin. A light was burning within, but
Mr. Kurtz was not there.”

Joseph Conrad – The Heart of Darkness

“We have the sky to talk about and the world to lie upon”

Towns Van Zandt – Rain on a Conga Drum

Invalidien 1 is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by
John Isaacs. It is not necessary to categorise or define the work of
this mercurial British artist, than to say that, whether it is directly
in his titles, or in the physical manifestation of his work, Isaacs
presents to us a world vision full of both longing and intellect. His
work is infused not just with a romantic sense of a lost utopia, but
also the absurdity of it’s very inception. For Isaacs it is not the
things that separate us from one another but the things that we share
but somehow loose along the way which are of interest.


In 1998 Isaacs went to Padua to film a documentary about the 16th
century Anatomy Theatre in which Andrea Vesalius gave his first public
lectures on human anatomy. Upon arrival in Padua he discovered that all
the hotels were fully booked because of an international flower
convention. He was advised by one hotel manager to take the train out
of Padua to a smaller town near by called Albano Therme - where there
were many hotels, owing to it being a natural spa town. What Isaacs
discovered there was a town full of old people, soaking their weary
arthritic bodies in the sulphurous hot spring water by day, and dancing
in the evenings to old waltzes. The footage Isaacs took in Albano
Therme now features in this exhibition. A few years before visiting
Padua, Isaacs had made a trip to San Diego to film and interview
Professor Stanley Miller. In the 1950’s Miller had performed a
ground-breaking experiment which produced invitro the pre-biotic
environment of the earth millions of years before life existed. The
primordial soup, as it was called proved that the building blocks of
life – amino acids - could have been produced in the earths oceans
billions of years ago.


“The old people, sitting in the warm waters of Albano Therme, facing
death and looking back on their lives, are not sad, as time has
prepared them for this moment; their bodies physically wind down, slowly
and will join the earth. Sadness comes from being out of time and
place, out of step, alone, like the romantic image of the artist
looking on from the outside onto a world, which needs to be reshaped
into their mirror. That is an anguish without end.”


For more information or images please contact the gallery.
www.invaliden1.com
info@invaliden1.com






Göran Gnaudschun / Dirk Scheidt


Dear Sirs and Madams, dear friends,

it is my pleasure to invite you for the exhibition opening by Göran Gnaudschun and Dirk Scheidt on Friday, May 18th at 6 p.m.

Both artists question in their new work the content of reality in photographic depiction. Maybe contrary to expectations it does not happen by means of digitalized processing or a specific technical method. It is the way how items and people are depicted that raises fundamental questions and refers to the second topic of this exhibition: the meaning of human presence and absence.

In his portraits Göran Gnaudschun traces the moment when inside and outside are in unison, when tension and relaxation, control and surrender equilibrate. This moment is ephemeral and photography with its immanent possibilities to fictionalize, redesign and reinterpret remains as the only memory of it. The people depicted in Gnaudschuns’ portraits become in their extreme presence replacement characters of emotions and the images turn into symbols of hidden meanings.

In his work Dirk Scheidt compiles model-like classical furniture like tables, chairs and indoor plants. As if on a stage, pieces of furniture sometimes gather - reminiscent to insects attracted by light - around a light bulb; and sometimes they seem to be left behind, figuring remainders of a conflict. The depictions could be thus understood as pseudo-documentary single images, but remind simultaneously of the single frames of a motion study or a filmic course of events. The evident lack of human personal stands in contrast with the sensible impression of personal interaction in the images.

The works can bee seen until June 23rd and I would be happy to welcome you and your friends at the gallery for the opening or in the course of the exhibition.

Kind regards,


Sebastian Klemm


AMERIKA
Brunnenstraße 7
10119 Berlin

Sebastian Klemm
fon: 030 40 50 49 53
fax: 030 40 50 49 54
mobil: 0177 7867 419
mail: gallery@amerika-berlin.de
www.amerika-berlin.de





art transponder

Zorka Lednarova

Finissage: Saturday, 19. Mai 2007 7pm

Projects 2007

SIGNS AND LOCATIONS_Building Global Cubes_Zorka Lednarova_April 07


Dicing Worldmaps

Child size dice puzzled together are showing us a total of six complete two dimensional world maps, classically drawn after eurocentristic guidelines. In broad outlines, differences in education and wealth are becoming visible.

How are those flexible and hierarchic systems of power pre- and reconfigurized in a picture. How could they be undermined?

...more

Opening: Friday, 27 April 2007 7pm

Finissage: Saturday, 19. Mai 2007 7pm

Exhibition: 28. April till 19. Mai 2007
Openinghours: Thursday 12-5 pm, Fr/Sa 2-7 pm








Uqbar

Schwedenstr. 16 | D -13357 Berlin
T/F + 49 (0)30 460 69 107
e-mail| website
U8/U9/M13 Osloer Straße
Thurs. – Sat. 14 – 19 h and by appointment

Elise Florenty’s solo exhibition inaugurates the activities of the project space uqbar in Berlin-Wedding run by cultural producers Dorothee Bienert, Dortje Drechsel, Marina Sorbello, and Antje Weitzel. In the summer of 2007 uqbar, in collaboration with the 4th Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art Don’t Worry – Be Curious!, will present artists from countries bordering the Baltic Sea, whose works address the problems and fears resulting from upheavals in present-day society.


Duration
28 April – 19 May 2007
Sunday Wedding 29 April 2007, 12 – 18 h
Finissage Saturday, 19 May 2007, 19 – 22 h, artist’s talk at 19:30 h






Last three days of PG at











Art and Music I
The artist group PG -
video works


The Group PG was founded in 1998. It now consists of Ilya Falkovsky, Alexey Katalkin and Boris Spiridonov. PG is a play on words that can be interpreted differently, for example as “Criminal Group”, “Hydrant” or “Hand Grenade”.

The group activity is multifunctional. It publishes its own magazines and postcards, releases musical albums, makes comics and performances. The main topics are the cruel realities of daily life, but it is ironically reflected through a lyric approach of Moscow psychedelic culture. The Artists play the roles of Russian massmedia charcters: gangsters, Chechen extremists, street hooligans, subculture representatives. The group unites different lines of activity into “multimedial comics” – installations where photos and graphics go together with video and soundtrack.

(Text: Accomplices. Collective and Interactive Works in Russian Art of the 1960s – 2000s. Moscow 2005, p. 120)

For more information see
www.pop-grafika.ru

Exhibition runs 31.3.- 20.05.2007
Fri 18 May 2 - 6 PM, 19-20 May 3-6 PM





















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