Friday February 3, 18-20h opening of Rehearsal for Redemption, @wannsee_contemporary
with @yaelbartana with artistic advice by @shelleyharten.
With the exhibition 'Rehearsal for Redemption', Yael Bartana enters into a conversation with the location of the exhibition – the Wannsee in Berlin – as a venue of historic (pre-)enactment.
The capsule project, shows a video work, photos, and collages produced in the area. It is based on Bartana’s interest in the 1920s as a time of intense political, ideological, and social upheavals alive with utopian vision and dystopian promise.
February 3 – April 22, 2023.
Wannsee Contemporary
Chausseestr. 46
14109 Berlin Wannsee
Image: Yael Bartana, Gravity, 2022, video still
Fri, 3 Feb 18:30-21:30 at Oyoun QAD (QUEER ANALOG DARKROOM) GET TOGETHER
The Queer Analog Darkroom (QAD) is finally opening the doors to the community for its first get-together here at Oyoun. Since accessing and practicing analog photography has its limits for discriminated and marginalized groups, the QAD emphasizes engaging with the wider community of practice.
One Shot Awards Fri, 3 Feb 2023 18h-21h at BBA Gallery
Winner announcement at 19:30
60 photographers will be exhibited in the gallery: 10 physical works, 50 on a large digital display. The stunning landscape photographs of Vincent van Gaalen, winner of the BBA Photography Prize 2022, will be also be exhibited. Come along and step into the many worlds of stand-alone photography.
Sat, 4 Feb 17-20h at Oyoun : SCREENING: GRBAVICA, LAND OF MY DREAMS followed by a panel discussion on the topic of Wartime sexual violence
Language: OMU Bosnian with English Subtitles
as part of FILM FESTIVAL: WAKE UP EUROPE
GRBAVICA is a story about contemporary Sarajevo…Single mother Esma wants to grant her twelve-year-old daughter Sara's wish to participate in a school trip. A certificate proving her father is a war martyr would allow her a discount. But Esma continues to avoid Sara's requests for the certificate. She would rather find a way to pay full price for the trip. She believes not telling the truth about Sara's father is a way to protect both her and her daughter.
Sat, 4 Feb 17-19h at einBuch.haus TRANS_CONNECTED- Audiovisual real-time performance & catalogue release ‘INVISYLLABES - Moving Space’ by Claudia Schmitz
Claudia Schmitz - Live Moving Image onto Sculpture
Sabine Ercklentz - trumpet, electronics
Nicola L. Hein - guitar, electronics
On the occasion of the catalogue release INVISYLLABES - Moving Space by Claudia Schmitz, the artist invites Sabine Ercklentz and Nicola L. Hein, with whom she is working together since many years on various projects, to a real-time performance at einBuch.haus. Following the performance, the catalogue INVISYLLABELS published by Kerber Verlag (Design: Dokho Shin) will be presented.
Invisyllables is the first volume in her monograph, which is based on the concept of an open archive.
LAST CHANCE! 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
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.
Juliane Duda „Balkan-Suite“ (Zimmer 274). Welcome home auf und unter der Oberfläche – Bewohnen auf eigene Gefahr - On view @axelobiger
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.
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
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?
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
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.
