CLEMENTINE MORRIGAN FUCK THE POLICE MEANS WE DON'T ACT LIKE COPS TO EACH OTHER (ZINE)
I am on reels now, send help! As always, using the medium in the wrong way. I started off with something easy and not complicated at all: Cancel Culture ( plus Edith!). Art can survive in a hostile environment. Hell, it thrives in hostile environments. It is meant to cause hostile environments. Because it is new, because it is uncomfortable, because it is different. Status quo questioning. Change driven. I don't know if art can survive without community though. If we threaten to withdraw community at every sign of discomfort ( art IS discomfort) at every sign of difference ( community IS difference) we are basically pulling the plug at any chance for original thinking. We are coming full circle patriarchy in a way. Fear, complacency, sameness. Withdrawal.
And if you are white dude enthusiastically nodding your head right now, spare me. This does not let you off the hook. You are still accountable.
pictured: CLEMENTINE MORRIGAN FUCK THE POLICE MEANS WE DON'T ACT LIKE COPS TO EACH OTHER (ZINE)
Fuck the Police Means We Don't Act Like Cops to Each Other is a collection of writing on resisting cancel culture and building a left grounded in compassion, kindness, freedom, and respect for difference. This zine explores many related issues including: defining cancel culture, how cancel culture perpetuates harm rather than addressing it, what it means to take responsibility when we've harmed someone, the practice of intervening on violent situations, a trauma informed challenge to the 'believe survivors' narrative, the need for dissent and disagreement on the left, nervous system education, and overcoming people pleasing. This zine takes the work of justice and liberation seriously, values the healing and autonomy of survivors, believes no one is disposable, and seeks to build communities that are not punitive or authoritarian. This is a love letter to left we are building together, toward a more just world where we aren't afraid of our friends.
You can order a hard copy ( 12$) or the digital version click here.
Thank you to my student JH for this and countless other resources.
NEW SPACE OPENED ON POTSDAMER STR this week! Go visit Ronewa Art Projects
Kimvuka (Together) with Nú Barreto & Yvanovitch Mbaya
Collective human experience is the center of the exhibition, taking the shape of anonymous figures. Barreto’s dark silhouettes manifest a reality of violence and inequality, while Mbaya’s line-drawn figures are vessels that appeal to the universality of human nature. Both artists surround their figures with a distinct symbolic system developed over their careers and grounded in the context of contemporary Africa. Similarities in their work parallel the friendship and generational influence between the two artists.
on view until March 3rd
Image: Nú Barreto Joyeux en Péril 2017 Acrylic, oil pastel, and paper collage on canvas 110 x 110 cm Photo by Véronique Drouin Courtesy of Ronewa Art Projects
Opening Fri, 27 Jan 19h at Haus am Lützowplatz - Studio Galerie Möglichkeit und Wirklichkeit (Possibility and Reality), curated by Rüdiger Lange
with Charlotte Bastian, Bénédicte Blondeau, Benjamin Gräbner, Zora Janković, Thomas Ravens, Benedikt Terwiel
Two- and three-dimensional, the group exhibition "Possibility and Reality" ventures into unsecured terrain. The works of the selected artists raise questions about the reality of fragile landscapes and surfaces: is what we see of artificial or natural origin, do we see a beginning or an end, dystopian or merely transitory states? Where are we in the midst of these images and forms, and can we still rely on our perception?
Last chance! Until Jan 28th Being with Others- Zusammensein @einbuch.haus:
with Sebastián Arancibia and Sebastián Barrante, Fernanda Aránguiz M., Laura Fusaro and Edoardo Ferrari, Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson, Na Kim, antoine lefebvre editions, Anja Lutz, Miguel Ângelo Martins and Laura Pilar Delgado, An Onghena, Claudia de la Torre, Robin Waart, Rahel Zoller
einBuch.haus
Florastraße 61
13187 Berlin
Last Chance! Repetitive Actions by Pavel Zeldovich at HAZE GALLERY
Pavel Zeldovich was developing this project in Moscow from 2021 until early 2022 when the Russian invasion of Ukraine forced him to leave his country and move to Berlin.
The project is a multi-genre series of digital prints and videos of urban daily life. Despite their apparent diversity, the paintings share a common theme: a set of endlessly repetitive actions. The situations depicted are not isolated moments in life, but rather parts of endlessly repeating cycles – day after day, year after year, generation after generation…
HÄUTUNG solo exhibition at Gr_und Berlin - An End to a Sentence
a conversation between Alizée Gazeau and Lisa Deml
Alizée Gazeau (born in Paris in 1990) is an artist and curator based in Berlin since 2020. During her studies of art history and philosophy at the Sorbonne, she laid the foundations for her artistic reflection. Painting is her anchorage, both as a medium of expression and as an object of research. She deploys a language where autobiographic aspects intertwine with reflections on the structures that make up the world. Surface vibrations, skin envelopes, and interfaces between narratives are the starting points of her research. Starting from found objects made of intertwined meshes, her paintings and sculptures create spaces of contact in a continuous interplay between control and letting go embodied by these objects. Her canvases are like fragmented tissues, projection screens or environments in which the permanence of the imprint and the process of metamorphosis, harmony and disturbance, mastery and fluidity coexist.
on view until 5 February 2023
On view @axelobiger Nathalie Grenzhaeuser „The floating“, from the White Sea Scapes (Zimmer #39 book now!).
Part of ZIMMER frei - 11 Artists - 11 Rooms (single room & double room), Axel Obiger is transformed into a very special hotel. There are eleven individually designed hotel rooms to choose from, which were designed by eleven artists from the project space. Book now!
An exhibition and book presentation by Tobias Kruse
For his project Deponie, Tobias Kruse sought out the traces and scars of a time that still casts a lingering shadow on the present: the years subsequent to the reunification of East Germany. Thirty years on from the fall of the Wall, the photographer and native of Mecklenburg, drove 8,000 kilometers through Eastern Germany, capturing what is left in the wake of this monumental juncture in history. A psycho-geographic exploration, Kruse documented everything from desolate countryside and rural villages to packed football stadiums and nighttime demonstrations – phenomena that are as much historical as they are contemporary in their integral space in Germany’s collective memory.
Titled CHEAP HEDONISM, the exhibition includes an immersive light and sound experience in collaboration with Yasmina Dexter in the main subterranean gallery space, and will be accompanied by a new series of text paintings and works on paper.
Titled CHEAP HEDONISM, the exhibition includes an immersive light and sound experience in collaboration with Yasmina Dexter in the main subterranean gallery space and will be accompanied by a new series of text paintings and works on paper. The gallery and the artist will host a finissage event on Friday, March 3, 2023, with a unique activation of the installation.
Linienstraße 23
10178 Berlin
image: Monty Richthofen TOPLESS AT THE BOTTOM / BOTTOMLESS AT THE TOP, 2021
acrylic on canvas, 190 x 190 cm
Riding In Cars With Boys is South African artist Brett Charles Seiler's first exhibition in Europe. Seiler, who lives and works in Cape Town, where he graduated from the Ruth Prowse School of Art in 2015, has been part of Galerie EIGEN + ART's program since 2021.
Brett Charles Seiler's work includes elements of painting, drawing, installation and object art. Moreover, text and language, whether poetic, nostalgic or romantic, play an integral part in Seiler's artistic approach, and at times are even the central element of his works.
Githan Coopoo, Asemahle Ntloni, Natalie Paneng, Guy Simpson at EIGEN + ART Lab
Welcome to 4 x 4, the group show at EIGEN + ART Lab presenting four artistic positions from South Africa. Through their art, they bring to you their views of life. Take your time. At first, they may seem soothing. Though the second, the third or the fourth view could also be uncomfortable. But it will be fun, too, promise. Or not promise, too much of a word for today’s world as Githan Coopoo will tell you, but you’ll see. Come closer, have a look, as focused as you stare on your phone scrolling over all the squares in all those IG feeds. Instead, feed yourself with some nice art. Do something 4 yourself. In the end, it may maybe help you in your relationships, whether with yourself or the others or the world or your phone – for better or for worse. Let the meet and greet begin. - text from Lisa Schütz
Hidden Gems until Feb 23 at Dorothee Nilsson Gallery
Unexpected treasures, captivating discoveries, hidden gems. A constantly evolving exhibition featuring works by different artists. A chance to discover and explore, unfolding over the next four weeks.
First hang features work by Lotta Antonsson, Inka & Niclas, Martin Mlecko, and Johan Österholm.
Dorothée Nilsson Gallery
Potsdamer Strasse 65
10785 Berlin
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