This is not a week, it is a marathon. You know the rules: hydrate well, wear comfortable shoes and concentrate on the pop up events and , yes, well, sceeny openings. You can visit the exhibitions in the month to come. And, yes, we do have VIP tickets for Position Art Fair, scroll down for more.
TUESDAY 12.09
Tue, 12 Sep 11-18h at Lobe Berlin Opening and Performances Blooming Brief- Add to my map
with Ori Gersht, Richard Green, Christian Hellmich, Wolf von Kries, Ines Lechtleitner, Mahony, Christl Mudrak, Tommy Støckel/Paul McDevitt, Sinta Werner, Ella Ziegler et.al. 12.09. 11-18h / 13.09. 11-22h
13.09, 19h Performances Empathy II: CargoCult and Kashka, 8 pm Hannelore, 9 pm Manfred Peckl
Curators: Sienna Mac Anna, Olivia Reynolds, Julia Wirxel
Plants were the first beings of this world. They collaborated in their own creation and are cosmogonic. For them, existence means world-making and vice versa. All animal life feeds on the gas exchange of these beings. Even we humans are immersed in the atmosphere, penetrate it even as it, with each breath, penetrates us. Breathing, in this sense, becomes a kind of cannibalism: we feed on the gaseous excretions of plants, a life consuming the life of others. Plants' immense significance and blooming have long been forgotten and repressed. We are at a precarious tipping point, profligately overwhelming the world of plants with the carbon it is expected to absorb.
The exhibition Blooming Brief will deal with several of these aspects. Performances on the theme of empathy and sym-pathy will take place in parallel with the exhibition. Catherine Lorent, Tom Früchtl aka Hannelore, Manfred Peckl, the artist collective CargoCult and the artist Kashka, in cooperation with the Jugendmigrationsdienst Mitte-Wedding, will investigate the theme with young people.
Lobe Berlin
Bötterstrasse 16
13357 Berlin
Tue, 12 Sep 19h at BBA Gallery Opening Burning Bright in the Forest of the Night - Add to my map
solo show Katarina Kudelova
The title of the show is a direct reference to the poem “The Tyger” by William Blake from 1794 and its concept of opposition. As the 1st Prize winner of the BBA Artist Prize 2022 group exhibition, Katarina Kudelova blew the jury away with her ceramic sculptures and firecracker-based performance pieces. Kudelova’s explosive practice addresses major themes of transience, death and the human-animal relationship.
WEDNESDAY 13.09 - Few Openings and Digital Art Lab @HaL!
Wed, 13 Sep 17-22h at Haus der Statistik Sculpting inside– Add to my map
Sculpting Inside is a six part hybrid performance work by Aleks Slota and Florian Feigl. The live performances, installation works, sound pieces, and video works engage with forces of nature, noise, and darkness. Over a period of six weeks the durational presentations travel through three different venues, each time featuring various bands and musicians whose performances are interwoven with the work of Slota and Feigl.
Each presentation is singular – one fragment out of six celebrating the unique encounter of creative forces. Audiences are invited to a full-on experience of installation works, minimal performances, and soundpieces starting at 5 pm and ramping up to a more tightly knit environment from 8 pm on. Line-ups include the band Nashmeh and Sun Worship, the solo musicians Lars Ennsen, Robert Fisk, Felix Müller-Wrobel, Heather Green, Joke Lanz. Aleks Slota and Florian Feigl collaborate for Sculpting Inside with lighting designer Hanna Kritten Tangsoo and video artist Christopher Hewitt.
please nore : Performances possibly include sequences of very loud sound and music (ear protection will be provided) and sequences with stroboscopic light effects.
Haus der Statistik
Otto-Braun-Straße 70-72
10178 Berlin
Wed, 13 Sep 17-21h at Galerie Georg Nothelfer Opening of INVENTORY – Add to my map
archiv SANDER I SCHAAL in community with Eduardo Chillida, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Galli, Gerhard Hoehme, Walter Menne, Robert Motherwell, Max Neumann, Georges Noël, Arnulf Rainer, Richard Serra, Fred Thieler
The two Berlin-based artists Finja Sander (*1996) and Daniel Schaal (*1990) take the exhibition title INVENTORY literally and embark on an open-ended exploration of selected positions from the collection of Galerie Georg Nothelfer. The artists work both independently and under the collaborative name archiv SANDER I SCHAAL. For INVENTORY, Sander and Schaal selected eleven different artists from Galerie Georg Nothelfer, who are initially juxtaposed during a happening with the two artists' mere pool of material. Then Sander and Schaal radically expose themselves to the curated works: Several days a week, they will work through the selection, visible to the public at all times, developing confrontational strategies in a multimedia manner. The initial rational inventory thus becomes a daring undertaking with an open end.
In mid-October, the works created by the two artists will be juxtaposed with the existing pieces. A second opening marks the transition between the working phase and the final presentation.
Special Events and Dates:
Second Opening: October 13, 6-9 pm
14 Sep-11 Nov 2023
Galerie Georg Nothelfer
Corneliusstr. 3
10787 Berlin INVENTORY. archiv SANDER I SCHAAL in community with Eduardo Chillida, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Galli, Gerhard Hoehme, Walter Menne, Robert Motherwell, Max Neumann, Georges Noël, Arnulf Rainer, Richard Serra, Fred Thieler.
"Instinktverstärkungselixiergarten" a collection of captivating botanical drawings by the renowned Swiss artist, Mireille Gros explores the delicate dance of invention and extinction, painting a poignant narrative of fictional plant biodiversity.
According to the artist, the gallery space is transformed into a magical "garden" (GARTEN) where an "elixir" (ELIXIER) brews and "reinforces" (VERSTÄRKUNG) your "instincts" (INSTINKT). The "Planetary Plants" series aims to engage both local and international audiences, seamlessly bridging the gap between the familiar and the fantastical. Her newest works, especially tailored for Ronewa Art Projects in Berlin, oscillate between two distinct scales, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in her vivid, imaginative world, irrespective of the dimensions. All visitors are free to explore the artworks, engaging in a dialogue between perception and creation.
Discover "Instinktverstärkungselixiergarten" the "Planetary Plants" series: An Artistic Ode to Fictional Biodiversity at Ronewa Art Projects Mireille Gros, Planetary Plant (Blue) 1, 2022, Ink on paper, 100 x 70 cm, 39 3/8 x 27 1/2 in
The DIGITAL ART LAB is the venue for digital art during the Berlin Art Week 2023 at the Haus am Lützowplatz (HaL). To accompany the exhibition Unleashed Utopias. Artistic Speculations on the Present and Future in the Metaverse, a program of events, including various talks, panels, workshops, and performances, will take place between 13 and 17 September 2023.
Renowned artists and experts from the field of digital art will do a deep dive with you into themes concerning VR art. You will learn more about virtual worlds and how to program digital art yourself. See full program here
The DIGITAL ART LAB creates a special space for the exploration of digital art and sharpens awareness of the significance of VR art in the contemporary art scene.
Wed, 13 Sep 19h at Culterim Art Market Gesundbrunnen chair-2-chair / contemporary positions on portraiture – Add to my map
2chairs artspace collective with Camila Piana, Bernd Reichert, Scott Culley, Lena Ash, Jac Carley, Stefano Loiacono, Sandra Stops, Sarah Schultz, Josephine Riemann, Sabine Kontny, Jungwen Yao
The 2chairs artist collective takes on the theme of portraits – each in their own way. A portrait represents more than its sitter, and often more than its maker. Created by artists looking for honesty in their own times, there is no clear definition of what makes a portrait a portrait. The face may be a window to history or a window to the soul. A facade to hide behind. Phe portraits presented by 2chairs artists are classical, abstract, wearable, reduced to circles and intersecting lines, pieced together on textiles, surreally stretched to new dimensions, reduced to their bare bones, or have become emotions with no human features.
Opening party from 9 pm with music by Beatmensch 5000- Landebar, Plaza Hangar 6 Yes, we have 5 VIP tickets to give away! Ask a friend to subscribe to our newsletter then you can both go. Winners will be notified by Wednesday evening. Once again, subscribe here
Position is celebrating its 10th edition! 100 selected galleries from 20 countries present their artistic positions from contemporary and modern art to a large international audience. To mark the 30th anniversary of the partnership between Berlin and Mexico City, selected Mexican galleries will be a focal point. The spacious Hangars 5 & 6 at Berlin-Tempelhof Airport, which, in addition to the metre-high ceilings and light-flooded halls with the covered open space and the airfield, provide a unique and airy backdrop for the art presentations, guarantee a special and relaxed atmosphere and offer on more than 10.000 sqm sufficient space for a diverse supporting programme with special exhibitions, award ceremonies, talks, and many other highlights.
Every painting is the greatest enemy of another, as is commonly said among painters. But one could just as rightly claim that they need each other - and only the view through the time reveals the bigger picture. In the exhibition ENTRE NOUS, Galerie Georg Nothelfer, for the first time, shows works by the Berlin painter Toni Mauersberg (*1989). Her combination of non-figurative paintings with portraits brings both of their “madeness” out of mere colour into view and at the same time expands their interpretative potential: In symbolic and art-historical aspects, this creates new connections between expressions, colours, forms and painting manners. The dialogue between the paintings is intended to open up the viewer's own ways to decipher seemingly hidden rules within images and examine the readability of abstract painting as a complex pictorial language - whose origins also lie in the search for new forms of spirituality and liberation. A catalogue entitled ENTRE NOUS will be published by Verlag DCV in conjunction with the exhibition.
Special Events and Dates:
Book Launch: October 14, 3 – 5 pm
Special opening hours during Art Week Berlin:
Fri: 11-9 pm
Sat-Sun: 11-6 pm
FATMA SHANAN (b. Julis, Israel, 1986) lives and works between Tel Aviv and Zurich.
Fatma Shanan demonstrates a post-transcendentalist appreciation for the environment, blurring the boundaries between her body and nature. In her new series of self-portrait oil paintings, she embraces the rhythms of urban and pastoral surroundings, seeking her identity and creating a space for diverse self-perspectives. An exhibition essay from writer and curator from the Swiss-based independent curator, author and lecturer Damian Christinger will be available for the opening and published on our website and in a digital catalog.
10178 Berlin
Fatma Shanan, Figure and Stones, 2023, Oil on linen on wood, 30 x 40 cm, Unique, photo: Jens Ziehe, courtesy the artist and DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin
Fri, 15 Sep 19h at Culterim RealTime Composition — An Interdisciplinary Performance by TRIO
Music / Dance: with Ingo Reulecke (dance), Kriton Beyer (Daxophon & Elektronis); Wieland Möller (Percussion)
The interdisciplinary TRIO, with its idiosyncratic instrumentation can be found performing at unusual, hard-to-find site-specific locations. The audience at Culterim Art Market will experience auditory and kinesthetic nuance while being led through the interim-usage space at Gesundbrunnen. The performers will lead the audience through back entrances and labyrinthine storage spaces at the vacant commercial spaces. Inspired by Jac Carley's action painting techniques. https://echtzeitmusik.de/index.php
Free entrance. Donations Welcome.
Culterim Art Market Gesundbrunnen
Brunnenstr 107
13355 Berlin
Real Time Composition Performer: Ingo Reulecke Photo: Roberto Duarte
SATURDAY 16.09
Sat, 16 Sep 13-18h at L40 Opening Lena Marie Emrich: soft cruelties - Add to my map
Whether Venice, Sardinia or Uluru - places where beauty becomes a curse are rapidly increasing. Overtourism but also exaggerated expectations are becoming the norm in the race to travel the world. Lena Marie Emrichs' exhibition soft cruelties revolves around the resulting construction of reality, fiction and speculation. In particular, Emrichs illuminates those moments in which the pursuit of individual pleasure comes into conflict with moral principles. The title thus describes that uneasy feeling that we know will inevitably arise when we decide not to pay the 1.99 euros for CO2 compensation when booking a flight.
For this latest production, the artist has developed sunshades, sand-coloured inlaid pictures, wishing wells and a bench from the Garden of Eden from everyday objects and materials that she has taken out of their context, manipulated, recreated and/or over-aesthetised. Characteristic is the use of technical materials in new contexts. Polished surfaces, maple, bamboo, coloured sprinkles - in the new works, a cool yet poetic formal language meets materials from contrary fields of application. The palette ranges from a high-quality architectural material HIMACS to a group of slightly trashy parasols made of plastic raffia to large-format window films. Despite all realism, the individual works remain mostly associative and suggestive in the group, so that in the end the question remains whether we are not all terrible tourist? But first: Welcome to Paradise by Lena Marie Emrich.
special opening hours during Berlin Art Week: 13-15.9.2023 1-8 pm
Sat Sept 16, 13h Art Claims Impulse booth at Positions Dani Ploeger Lecture performance with bolt cutter.
Dani Ploeger will be present at the Art Claims Impulse booth with a bolt cutter. In a 30-minute lecture-performance he will talk about technologies of violence at state borders while cutting pieces of the original barbed wire of the EU immigration protection fence. Art Claims Impulse Hangar 6, A02
More than 40 of Gallery Weekend Berlin’s galleries ( and not JK) will participate in the very first #GalleryWeekendFestival! The two-day programme will present contributions by their artists, alongside the galleries current exhibitions. Curated by Sandra Teitge, the festival will focus on younger positions, oscillating between traditional disciplines in a non-hierarchical way.
Expect performances by Leyla Yenirce (Capitain Petzel), Leda Bourgogne (BQ), Nicholas Grafia (Peres Projects) and Mikołaj Sobczak (Capitain Petzel) and screenings by Pauline Curnier Jardin (ChertLüdde), Cemile Sahin (Esther Schipper), Kandis Williams (Heidi), and Loretta Fahrenholz (Galerie Buchholz), just to name a few!
Opening hours:
Saturday, 16 September 2023, 12 – 9 pm
Sunday, 17 September 2023, 12 – 7 pm
Studio Mondial
Sun, 17 Sep 12-19h at Königskolonnaden Skulpturverein #7Königskolonnaden - Add to my map
Twenty-four sculptors meet with selected sculptures in the colonnades and present their work to the public. A concentrated and intensive action that brings the public closer to the potential of contemporary sculpture in this special place. Fresh and freely detached from the museum setting. Skulpturvereinis an initiative launched by the three sculptors, Hildegard Skowasch, Florian Japp, and Yasmin Alt, to show the diversity and magnificence of sculptures. The project aims to open access to sculptures to a broad public while stimulating discourse on sculptural art.
curated by @skulpturverein @hildegardskowasch @florianjapp @ya_smin_alt
with Florian Balze, Lotta Bartoschewski, Anina Brisolla, Veronika Brovall, Birgit Cauer, Jin Chung, Dennis Feddersen, Jan Herdlicka, Jennifer Jordan, Fee Kleist, Jens Nippert, Gabriele Regiert, Susanne Ring, Elisabeth Rosenthal, Sonya Schönberger, Sonja Schrader, Ulrika Segerberg, Karina Spechter, Frederic Spreckelmeyer, Lucy Teasdale, Lisa Tiemann, Dorit Trebeljahr, Daniela von Waberer, Johannes Weiss
Königskolonnaden
Potsdamer Straße 190
10783 Berlin
ALSO ON VIEW
David Schnell, Flyer at Eigen & Art Berlin
[…] The perspectives in David Schnell’s pictures have changed: What the gaze once saw before it, the strict pull from all edges of the space into the middle of the radiant world, a view from the central eye of the observer, is now replaced by an overview down from above. From the tower, from the apex of the pyramid, from an inexorable camera circling in the sky? An observation absolved from the human point of view, as taken by machines. It is the view of the angel of history. […]
Text excerpt by Bertram Haude
with works by: Roxanne Krumm and Skai
Camp is a brand new space in Berlin!!! The first show, "IS IT NO MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THAT?" follows two young women artists as they navigate a complex, ever-deviating path from disillusionment and discontent to emotional fulfillment. Through new works in distinctly different yet complementary styles, artists Roxanne Krumm (b. 1988, USA) and Skai (b. 1992, Lithuania) document their determined, if not fraught, efforts to seek truth and sanguinity both within themselves and their perception of the world around them.
With a tongue-in-cheek approach, Jonathan Monk humorously combines Appropriation Art with autobiographical elements. Referring to earlier exhibition and book projects, Monk is showing paper work conceived especially for einBuch.haus, which will be realized both as a wall installation and as an artist’s book. In this project, Jonathan Monk refers to the publication OLD VIENNA POSTERS by Martin Kippenberger, published by the Grazer Kunstverein in 1992. Kippenberger’s book is composed of a poster board divided into A4 pages, originally on view in Graz, depicting the space of a Viennese bar with advertising posters. In OLD BERLIN POSTERS, Monk uses his own collection of German movie posters from the period 1979-1981.
Jonathan Monk (*1969, Leicester, lives and works in Berlin.)
Virtual exhibition and research space with works and texts by Sarah Buser, fantastic little splash, Judith Hanke, Olga Krykun, Svitlana Matviyenko, Tactical Tech, Susan Sontag and others.
The link to the show will be posted on the day of the opening.
Contemporary cyberwar is based on electronic control, communication, and weapon targeting systems. It also includes hacker attacks, social network monitoring and analysis, and more. The flood of contradictory information and images makes it difficult to grasp reality. Using artworks, texts, and sources, the project outlines the geometry of cyberwar.
UNLEASHED UTOPIAS at Haus am Lützowplatz Artistic Speculations about Today and Tomorrow in the Metaverse(VR KUNSTPREIS by DKB in cooperation with CAA Berlin) -Add to my map
In this exhibition, the winners of the VR ART PRIZE of the DKB in Cooperation with CAA Berlin show how we might be able to deploy new technologies for a more just, multifaceted, and personal coexistence. They are alert to the changes in values and norms currently going on in society and link their speculations to topical debates. With the help of virtual reality and site-specific installations, the artists create accessible, immersive, experiential utopias. They critically speculate upon artificial intelligence, 3D scanning, animation techniques, research in scientific fields, or the metaverse.
With works by Marlene Bart, Anan Fries, Mohsen Hazrati, Rebecca Merlic, Lauren Moffatt
Curated by Tina Sauerländer (artistic director)
Do not miss the accompanying Digital Art Lab: September 13 – 17, 2023
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