Caption: Elisa Strinna, Third Nature; Electrical Symbiosis; Cables and Sea Anemone, 2021, photo: Elisa Strinna - @Galerie im Turm
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pic by Willem de Haan
THIS WEEK
Wed, 19 Jul 18-22h at Galerie im Turm Pole der Unzugänglichkeit with Ana Alenso, Eren İleri, Dina Khouri, José Montealegre and Elisa Strinna
Live Modular Performance by ILYICH during opening night
Many names have been given to the remotest place in the ocean: “South Pacific Ocean Uninhabited Area” (SPOUA) defines it as furthest away from inhabited land. “Spacecraft Cemetery” describes the region as the designated crashing site for space debris. “Point Nemo” (Nemo=Nobody) suggests a point in “no man*’s land” and “Pole of Inaccessibility” refers to a location that matches the geographical criteria for physical unreachability. These designations convey narratives that neither take non-human existences nor the destructive impact of human life on oceanic ecosystems into account. In this context “inaccessibility” implies a claim to potential (colonial) enclosure in the future.
The pacific Pole of Inaccessibility is the starting point for the exhibition, which explores the condition of and anthropocentric approach to supposedly inaccessible places in the ocean and beyond. Pole der Unzugänglichkeit (Poles of Inaccessibility) is the second part of the exhibition series Schwindel – conceptions of (extra)terrestrial worlds between reality and fiction. Curated by Johanna Janßen.
parallel program:
Jul 26, Aug 2+9+30, Sep 6+13, 23, 6–7 pm: Curator’s Tours Into the Underground with Johanna Janßen
Aug 6, 23, 5–6 pm: Artist Talk with José Montealegre
Aug 23, 23, 3–5 pm: Workshop in Simple Language Trances of Humankind with the F3_kollektiv
Sep 3, 23, 5–6 pm: Artist Talk with Ana Alenso
Sep 7, 23, 6–8 pm: Workshop Haunted Waters with Nonhuman Nonsense
Wed, 19 July, 19h- 22h Premiere "Wonderful Automated World " by Clemens Schöll Media Art Animated Puppet Theater
as part of "The revolution will not be automated" by Clemens Schöll
We are excited to invite you to the premiere of Clemens Schölls new piece Wonderful Automated World. It features three crocodiles, drums, an orange 70s e-organ, eight servo motors, and a lot of electronics – all automated. (or not? that distinction is best understood by experiencing it yourself!)
Art Claims Impulse
Markgrafenstraße 86,
10969 Berlin
Thu July 20th 18.–21h at soft power Opening: All Muses are Dead by Donna Volta Newmen
Donna Volta Newmen focuses on the complex characters and hidden histories of the artists, inventors, political wire pullers, and patrons hidden behind the countless, often anonymous portraits of women in Western art history and its institutions. Her portraits insist on the authorship, autonomy, (self-)representation, and subjectivity of the depicted persons. Newmen’s historical, personally known or sometimes fictional figures are stubborn, defying the male gaze’s ideals of beauty and grace; they are rebellious or vulnerable, at times marked by age or exhaustion, at times demonstratively self-assured in their appearance. Respecting the individuality of her subjects, the artist abandons the serial language characteristic of printmaking – line etching, aquatint, mezzotint, and drypoint – by employing painterly elements of monotype. The results are not editions, but individual works. By declaring death to the muses, Donna Volta Newmen’s new works create critical references to (art) historically female-attributed roles, while celebrating those personalities who have been structurally excluded from art history or reduced to the status of muses. In All Muses are Dead, their defiant poses stand in as subversive and emancipatory gestures for processes of social and political change in historical as well as contemporary contexts of self-representation.
20.7.-10.8.2023 soft power
Teilestr. 11–13,
12099 Berlin
Thu July 20th 19h at Klosteruine Berlin: Garden Play with Bela Shayevich & Kristijonas Bartkus
A performance in/with Shirin Sahabi’s Out of Season, Garden Play reconjures her flowers, her fountain, and her wind harp into a meditation on love and eternal return. You will see costumes. You will eat fruit. You will be invited to a party inside the party. 45 minutes, give or take, depending on how much you heckle. The event will take place in English. Free admission.
Invited by Shirin Sabahi. With Bela Shayevich & Kristijonas Bartkus. Klosterruine Berlin
picture by Juan Saez
Thu, July 20th // OPENHAUS ZKU Berlin // ZSÓFIA SZŐKE Cellotope //
“Cellotope” explores the idea of non-functional, ephemeral microarchitecture and its potential within the public space. In site-specific interventions, the enterable cells are constructed using repurposed materials, and strategically placed in various environments to generate purposeless spaces, secret empty ‘trading rooms’ for the urban collective.
By focusing on the assembly of tangible structures as volatile self-containers, the aim is to assess the impact of different units on somatic experiences, particularly in terms of intimacy, isolation, and protection. The overarching objective is to broaden the functionality of these units and meticulously observe genuine interactions in real-life scenarios.
The cloud observer Cellotope has been implemented in the Moabiter Stadtgarten Berlin. Thanks to @zku.berlin , @martin.kiman and @culturemoveseurope , Zsófia is able to carry out urban research as a fellow artist-in-resident on the significant trivialities of the city.
(c) Zsófia Szőke
Don’t miss the opportunity to meet the artists, curators and researchers-in-residence and explore ZK/U’s space and surroundings, to ask questions, to discuss and to exchange ideas about ongoing projects and artistic practices while having a limo or Weißweinschorle on a mild summer evening.
more OPEN HAUS PARTICIPATING RESIDENTS:
Gal Amiram / Alexandre Baldrei / ClimArt / Martin Kiman & Zsófia Szőke / John Seung-Hwan Lee / Zihao/Hazel Mei / Maintenance is not a Metaphor / Maya Nguyen / Ragil Dwi Putra / Lena Wegmann
ZK/U Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik
Siemensstrasse 27
10551 Berlin
Fri 21. July, 18:00 - 20:30 Finissage: “Beyond Solitude” at BBA Gallery +
Giulietta Coates will be in Berlin from Tuesday 18. to Saturday 21 July for the final week of her debut solo show at BBA. Private appointments for a tour of the exhibition in the company of the artist are available via email. Contact us today via info@bba-gallery.com to meet the artist and experience personal insights into her works.
Sat July 22nd 14-22h Error Music Festival @ACUD MACHT NEU
free entry - full program and registration @errrrormusic
The Error Music Festival is the first electronic music & tech festival for young people.
Hear the world with teenage ears • Meet pioneers* of electronic music and computing • Experience former Error Crews live on stage • Perform in a real club • Build Synthesizer • Program the only electronic musical instrument in the world that people play with their hands • Learn what sound engineers* do on stage • Experiment with smoke machines • Make beats • Produce music • Use your cell phones, but in a different way • Use your senses • Use your hands. Make your own Error Music! Renowned music producers*, sound engineers*, inventors* from Berlin's music and tech scene around the Error Music Team: Yosa Peit, Perera Elsewhere, Bakläxa, Angelica Tavella, homemade music and many more young up to 110 years. All are welcome.
Photo: Monika Karczmarczyk
until July 27th at Ronewa Art Projects Interwoven Narratives Add to my mapwith Alper Emeklier and Hyacinthe Ouattara Interwoven Narratives is a remarkable convergence of Alper Emeklier's abstract oil paintings and Hyacinthe Ouattara's textile sculptures @hyacinthe.ouattara. An exhibition that delves into the complex interplay of materials, memory, and identity.
Until July 25th Achim Kobe: Writings at Axel Obiger Add to my map
Writings is a series of image-writing works changing in the gallery window during the summer break. The works refer to various practices of writings in public space, Blockbuster, Comment, Fading and others, similar to the content, which can be read personally, generally or abstract artistic.
Achim Kobe, *1963 in Gießen, studied fine arts at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1985 to 1992, with Henning Kürschner, Frank Badur and Karl-Horst Hödicke.
with works by KETUTA ALEXI-MESKHISHVILI, JAGODA BEDNARSKY, KASIA FUDAKOWSKI, ISABELLE GRAEFF, HANNAH HALLERMANN, NADIRA HUSAIN, VERENA ISSEL, KATARINA JANEČKOVÁ WALSHE, MICHELLE JEZIERSKI, CAROLINE KRYZECKI, MONTY RICHTHOFEN, NADINE SCHEMMANN, JENNA SUTELA, YOUNG-JUN TAK, SLAVS AND TATARS, ANNA VIRNICH et al., initiated by Juliet Kothe and Natanja von Stosch in conjunction with their publication Boobs in the Arts—Fe:male Bodies in Pictorial History, which will be released by Distanz Verlag in September.
The exhibition picks up on selected concerns in the publication. The paintings, photographs, sculptures, and textile works on view elaborate on associations around themes that emerge in a sustained engagement with the so-called feminine. The artists explore perspectives on and narratives about the fe:male body and the breast. The publication Boobs in the Arts—Fe:male Bodies in Pictorial History surveys historic and contemporary depictions of the fe:male breast, scrutinizing the diverse perspectives on breasts and ways they have been represented since the early twentieth century.
Until Aug 26th at einBuch.haus Up and Coming: Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design 2023 Add to my map
with Anna Wank, Shinichiro Shirashi, Carlota Barberán Madruga
einBuch.haus and Stiftung Buchkunst (German foundation for book design) continue their cooperation with the presentation of the awardees of the 2023 "Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design".
The designers Anna Wank, Carlota Barberán Madruga and Shinichiro Shiraishi together with Enno Pötschke, who were awarded the 2023 Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design, will be honoured with an exhibition. On display are the three award-winning publications, but also their translation into space: staged excerpts from the works, sculptural manifestations of photographs, as well as interviews from the development phase. Supplemented by art prints, posters, and the shortlist of this year's Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design. The three works are united by the reproduction of a personal point of view, which becomes comprehensible to outsiders through the medium of the printed object.
13 Jul-26 Aug 2023 einBuch.haus
Florastraße 61
13187 Berlin
until Aug 17th at Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin: Be Water with JE Yeoran, LI Qing, Tatsuma TAKEDA, ZHANG XU Zhan Add to my map
Everyone knows the saying „be water”, which in a transnational context is usually associated with the Chinese-American actor and martial artist Bruce Lee. It refers to the paradox inherent in water‘s ability to be both soft and strong, as defined by Lao Tzu (老子) more than 2,500 years before Lee: “Water is fluid, soft and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is [a] paradox: what is soft is strong.”
For the exhibition Be Water, the gallery has brought together four artists from East Asia: Zhang Xu Zhan (Taiwan), Je Yeoran (Korea), Li Qing (China), and Tatsuma Takeda (Japan). They all work in different media and in different cultural contexts, which allows us to form a wide web of aesthetic and contentual interpretations around the idea of water as a paradox.
Until Augst 9th at Art Claims Impulse "The revolution will not be automated" by Clemens Schöll Add to my map
Media Art Animated Puppet Theater
At the center of the exhibition "The revolution will not be automated" is the 'small automation theater'. The 17-minute fully automated puppet theater installation uses classic hand puppets to tell the story of the Wohnungsbot. The Wohnungsbot is a free, open source software that Clemens Schöll developed and released in 2019. The software acts as an "ibuprofen for apartment hunting" and seemingly frees people from the symptoms of rent madness in Berlin. After an initial euphoria, however, the situation in the play turns against the apartment seekers and the question arises: Can there be technical solutions to social problems?
Of someone who went forth to find a flat in Berlin. An automation-drama in three acts — Act 3: In ultimate consequence. 17 minutes, no break.
spoken by Monika Freinberger (Kasperle, Prinzessin, Krokodil), Marlene [AWS Polly] (Wohnungsbot)
Copy editing: Christopher Heyder I Production: Ortrun Bargholz I Courtesy Clemens Schöll. Copyright: Ortrun Bargholz
The first iteration of Gravity and Grace was performed at the CCA – Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, and the Bat-Yam Museum of Contemporary Art. The Hebrew book was published by Poraz et Navok and was showcased during ArtPorts’ Artist Book Fair 2022.
