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THIS WEEK
Wed, 2 Aug 18-22h at ZK/U REHEARSING MOVES ON HAZY PATHS #1 — Add to my map
A SUMMER SERIES AT ZK/U ON REHEARSAL AND PRACTICE FOR POSSIBILITIES BEYOND STRUCTURES OF EXTRACTION AND POWER
Free and outdoor at @zku.berlin
We encounter the stinging nettle as a familiar yet curious companion for the first evening in the series, with which to think and from where to branch off towards different practices and considerations. We start with a nettle weaving workshop, spending attention with nettles growing around ZK/U, engaging in a multisensory dialogue, with Elis Ottosson. With the dinner by Jasmine Parsley we further explore interspecies relationships with plants growing self-seeded in Berlin. Brenda Alamilla and Daniela Medina Poch think with the nettle and other so-called weeds to perceive them beyond binary structures like the civilized and the wild, the planned and the spontaneous or unwanted towards an untamed listening. Which leads us to a collective deep listening practice with Tatiana Heumann, rehearsing multiple layered sensing and being open for what we may find together.
@ehhhlis - Post-St(r)ing - nettle weavings & conversations, workshop @bre_alamilla -Hierba Mala - Performance poetry @danielamedinapoch - If You Listen to Nettles, They Won’t Sting You - reflection on untamed listening @qeeiqeei - Interwoven Listening - deep listening rehearsal @jasmineprsly with Catherine Greiner - dinner with plant flavours of Berlin @aliceyuanzhang - participatory installation
Wed, 2 Aug 19h at XANADU MICHELLE SUI: Behalf iii Add to my map – Doors at 19h, performance at 20h
A room opens into the street. Many voices try out for a role already set. The third chapter in artist MICHELLE SUI's Behalf series. Behalf is a multipart performance developed by MICHELLE SUI while in residency at the Museum of Contemporary Art. The first two parts––a ballet and film––explore role-playing, lip-syncing, and Oriental cinematic archetypes. The third chapter is a site-specific piece developed at Xanadu with a cast of local Berliners.
Thu, 3 Aug 18-20h at Ronewa Art Projects A Journey Through Nature's Papers
Ronewa Art Projects (Berlin), in collaboration with O Gallery (Tehran), is pleased to announce their first joint exhibition titled "A Journey Through Nature's Papers."
Curated by Orkideh Daroodi, this exhibition features 28 captivating works on paper by six talented Iranian artists. Each work by the participating artists offers a unique perspective on nature and landscape. Oftentimes, the representation of "nature" in contemporary art transcends mere aesthetic appreciation. While a work of art may be viewed as a depiction of nature, it can also represent various concepts, such as social, political, cultural, and environmental issues that plague our society.
With an opening performance of Continuous Power by Simon Mullan and physical interventions by Helga Wretman.
HEUTE LEIDER NICHT staged by SIMON MULLAN and featuring performance, installation, sculpture, and multi-media artworks by EKATERINA BURLYGA, ZUZANNA CZEBATUL, ED DAVENPORT, DANIEL HOFLUND, SIMON MULLAN, EKATERINA PRONINA, ALONA RODEH, MORITZ STUMM, and HELGA WRETMAN. The selected Berlin-based artists address the time of identity-finding, teenage dreams, subculture, and a sense of belonging with clubs, community, and culture.
Sat, 5 Aug 21:15 at Engelbecken Park: City Vista Kino Club stay hungry in collaboration with Andrea Nicolò presents the second edition of City Vista Kino Club with Du bei mir (You by me) + followed by cinematic reference material by Christian Niccoli
Du bei mir (You by me) is a trilogy of films on faith where each part describes an aspect of the intimate and trusting relationship a person may develope
with spirituality or metaphisics.
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Starting point: On the gravel path next to the stone boulders @ Engelbecken Park at the height of Legiendamm 32 10969 Berlin-Kreuzberg
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The video screening will travel in the nearby area - so please make sure to be at the starting point on time!
During the screening stay hungry and Andrea Nicolò
will serve the first edition of Mobile Menu #15 Kino Edition II ~ crunch,nibble,gnaw ~
Sun, 6 Aug 16-20h at Neun Kelche I know what to do Sunny Pfalzer --- Add to my map
6pm performance on opening night by Marshall Vincent
With I know what to do, Neun Kelche presents the first solo exhibition of Sunny Pfalzer. The exhibition unites a series of life-sized, soft Stretch Sculptures and the video work I know what to do, both deeply rooted in Sunny's performative practice. The basis of the works is a choreographic research into gestures from music videos of the Country/ Schlager culture. How butchy is the Schlager singer Andreas Gabalier? What happens when we mimic his gestures? The research becomes a metaphor for a feeling: a teenager poses in front of a mirror, appropriating gestures in order to find a solid material extension of themselves. The performative movement repertoire of the video transfers into the sculptures, which depict snapshots of moving bodies and become life-sized cushions.
Sunny Pfalzer works with performance, language and poetry, textile and movement. Sunny is a Surfer Boy and Go-Go-Girl. Whether in the exhibition space or on stage, Sunny's practice is always bodily and felt. Fundamental to Sunny are questions about collaborative work processes and friendship. At the opening, R'n'B musician Marshall Vincent performs, who also produced the soundtrack of the video.
7 Aug-27 Aug 2023 Neun Kelche
Pasedagplatz 3-4, Zugang über „An der Industriebahn"
13088 Berlin
picture: Sunny Pfalzer, I know what to do, 2022, (c) Joesph Kadow.
Sun, 6 Aug 17-18h at Galerie im Turm Pole der Unzugänglichkeit- Artist Talk with José Montealegre
group show with with Ana Alenso, Eren İleri, Dina Khouri, José Montealegre and Elisa Strinna
More events
Aug 2+9+30, Sep 6+13, 23, 6–7 pm: Curator’s Tours Into the Underground with Johanna Janßen
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
Caption: Elisa Strinna, Third Nature; Electrical Symbiosis; Cables and Sea Anemone, 2021, photo: Elisa Strinna - @Galerie im Turm
On VIEW
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
until Aug 19th at EIGEN + ART Lab: Nassim L’Ghoul Three Years Later He Was Still Dancing @n_lghoul
“Three Years Later He Was Still Dancing” is an exhibition of experimental arrangements: Among other things, we associate the color white with the atmosphere of clinically sterile rooms that are never as neutral and isolated as they appear at first glance. The "laboratory-like" situations into which L'Ghoul's video works throw us are also constructed down to the last detail; our gaze within them is predetermined and directed. The work softlinks, for example, was created on the basis of a ride simulator of the Frankfurt subway. The scene sucks us in, but then leaves us standing in the mere excerpt of a possible narrative. In all the works shown, we encounter means of transportation: a raft drifts by, a canoe, a bathtub that fulfills a similar function of transporting bodies and thoughts-but they remain strangely separate from us, moving alongside us while we ourselves are moved by the encircling zoom of the camera.
L'Ghoul's videos do not offer a ride through immersively experienced stories. They thrust us into a space where animate and inanimate actors alike relate their movements to our passive being moved by the perspective provided by the artist and the technology.”
Excerpt from the press release @ellenmaria_w
Exhibition views: @johannes410
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.
