It has now become painful to watch.

Steyerl, who initially had tried to put the whole documenta pre- opening controversy in a historical context has now removed her work from the show. There is a whole world of memes here, of Hito looking disappointed but maybe the most important piece of news in the article comes a bit on the by and by; Julia Stoschek is not an artist collective from Indonesia after all:
“In a message to Artnet News, Steyerl explained that she has also removed her work from the Julia Stoschek Collection in Berlin after the institution’s namesake collector denied claims that her family’s fortune came from manufacturing gasoline canisters and armaments for the Nazis during World War II.”  – Wait what?

THIS WEEK
 

Opening Thursday July 14th, 17-21h at Eigen Art Lab: BELIA BRÜCKNER

EINE INTRIGANTE NATUR, SCHEINBAR SINNLOS ARBEITEND WIE DER WIND, NACH FERNEN FREMDEN [AUF]VERTRÄGEN, IN DIE MAN NIE EINSICHT BEKOMMT
The Lab recently celebrated their 10 years birthday and is keeping on keeping on!! Congratulations!
solo presentation
14 Jul 2022 – 13 Aug 2022
EIGEN + ART Lab
Torstraße 220
10115 Berlin

Opening Thursday July 14th at 18h at einBuch.haus: VERENA MACK, ARTMANN&DUVOISIN, ONDINE PANNET (BUREAU EST), ALEKSANDAR ŽIVKOVIĆ

Prize for Young Book Design 2022: The designers Verena Mack, Ondine Pannet together with Artmann&Duvoisin and Aleksandar Živković, were awarded the 2022 Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design, and will be honoured with an exhibition at einBuch.haus. The three award-winning works, associated performance videos, choreography drawings, photographic works and art prints as well as award-winning sponsorship prize projects from previous years will be on display. Each a strong design statement in its own right, the works of this year’s awardees invite a change of perspective through their interplay:
Verena Mack with Nonbinary Future
Artmann&Duvoisin, Gestaltung: Ondine Pannet (Bureau Est) with Umzug in eine vergleichbare Lage
Aleksandar Živković- Was bleibt vom Opelaner ohne Opel-Werk?

14 Jul 2022 – 20 Aug 2022
einBuch.haus
Florastraße 61
13187 Berlin

Opening July 14th at 18h at Kunstverein für Kunst und Kultur am Rosa Luxemburg Platz:

HANNES BRUNNER ENTWURFSANLAGEN +/- CIRCULAR ECONOMIES
The Berlin-based Swiss artist Hannes Brunner has long been concerned with modelling established areas of action that often have had a long anthropomorphic development, but are now increasingly guided by algorithmically recorded expertise. His models are games, scores and exercises and offer references to the mentally experiential in allegorical, metaphorical or synonymous translation. They are approaches to potential further developments that see themselves as an offer for communication and thus as a component of a dialogue. The works shown at the Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz explicitly refer to such an exchange.
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Cooperators are: Jakob Wirth, Alena Trapp, Florian Techel, Olga Shalashova, Marina Resende-Santos, Joe Wolff-Lester, Paul Ohnesorgen, Wolfgang Knapp.
The public interventions trash +/- value will take place Saturday 16. and Sunday 24. and 31 July from 13-18h.
Opening times 15. - 31. July 2022, Thu-Sat 14-18h;  1.-27. August 2022 by appointment info@rosa-luxemburg-platz.net
14 Jul 2022 – 27 Aug 2022
L40
Linienstrasse 40
10119 Berlin

Opening Thursday July 14th at 18h: TREIBHAUS - METAMORPHOSEN DER ORDNUNG

with Sabine Linse, Mariel Poppe, Fernando Niño-Sánchez
The title "Greenhouse" picks up on what the exhibition venue, the Orangerie is original: a greenhouse. Here, in the small Orangerie at Charlottenburg Palace, it is primarily a place for overwintering. A greenhouse is also a place of cultivation and controlled growth, of cultivated and optimized nature.
The artists are fascinated by the greenhouse as a kind of in-between world with its own conditions in the interplay between nature and culture. Instead of plants, their works now thrive in the greenhouse. Unusual constellations and encounters occur. Organisms mutate and new variants emerge. Insect-like, vegetative and human beings form a new biotope in the seclusion of this special place. Ants celebrate a feast. Crowds of people drift. Invertebrates freeze at the height of sexual reproductive excesses. Flowers beckon in maximum display, masked people present themselves individually like the exotic blossoms. All this: Snapshots of abundance as well as transience.
Tue to Sun | 12 - 18 h
free admission
15 Jul 2022 – 28 Jul 2022
Small Orangery at Charlottenburg Palace
Spandauer Damm 22
14059 Berlin-Charlottenburg

Opening Friday July 15th, 18h at Oyoun: FALLING FIGURES

The exhibition falling figures, which premiered in 2020, examines the idea of ​​a possible memorial to Europe's colonial past from the perspective of the colonized countries. Colonial memorials are noticeable everywhere in Ivory Coast, with statues of former colonists at intersections and magnificent buildings on the beach. In Germany, too, colonial history is omnipresent in street names, statues and subway stations. After decades of pressure from activists, street and train station names have now been changed. From the black and white treatment to the color treatment, from a position of captivity to freedom, the series tells the story of black empowerment in a different way.
Medine Tidou is a Franco-Ivorian photographer and marketing manager who has been living in Berlin for 10 years. She came to Europe 18 years ago at the age of 15 during the war in Ivory Coast. Since then, Médine Tidou has evolved into a documentary, portrait and conceptual photographer, focusing on issues such as non-binary and gender identity, sexual, cultural and social inequalities, recasting them as figures of empowerment.

16 Jul 2022 – 31 Aug 2022
OYOUN
Lucy-Lameck-Str. 32
12049 Berlin

Opening and book launch Sat July 16th, 18h at thx again:  KÖNNTE AUCH WOANDERS SEIN

The exhibition ‚could be any place…‘ by Lukas Korschan is a visual research on today’s mundane spheres of solitude and conformity across the world - physical as well as of digital nature - and a quest for the glimpses of romance, beauty and poetry within. An ongoing chase for the butterfly.
Presenting outtakes from his first book, designed by Jan Motyka, Lukas enquires the exchangeability of airports, hotels or shopping malls and their meaning to both the individual and society. During the pandemic, these (non)places of hyper capitalism (Marc Auge) that he had documented on his extensive travels remained deserted. Being locked down at home in Amsterdam, the photographer thus flipped the concept and went for a more static approach to photography. He captured people flashing by the lens and assembled the outcome to a dynamic composition. The site-specific installation which is on view as part of the exhibition  illustrates a busy world that is not meant to stop moving. More info here
16 Jul 2022 – 13 Aug 2022
thx again
Frobenstr. 1
10783 Berlin