Wednesday February 15th – HIDDEN GEMS at Dorothée Nilsson Gallery
The exhibition will evolve and from Wednesday, 15th of February onwards will include works by Gerry Johansson, Julia Peirone, Lisa Röing Baer, Stefanie Schweiger, and Sascha Weidner.
Thu, 16 Feb, 18:45-20:30 at Oyoun FILM | EMILIA BAU – DOCUMENTARY SCREENING
This 16th of February is the second anniversary of Emilia Bau´s murder.
Emilia Bau was -among other things- a trans woman, ecotransfeminist, animal rights activist, defender of indigenous territories, anti-capitalist. She was murdered by hitmen hired by businessmen on February 16th, 2021, in a Mapuche land reclamation in southern Chile. She was murdered for defending her people, the forest, the waters, for standing firm against the exploitation of all beings. She declared her trans body a territory of resistance, she was rebellious, brave, wild, and radicalized her convictions in her life practices.
Talk and discussion (in German) in the lobby with Dr. Martin Schwegmann, architect and urban researcher, studio representative of the BBK; Matthias Mayer, artist, curator, project space operator; Stefano Gualdi, art historian and mediator, project room manager at Axel Obiger.
COMMUNICATION CAPTURES Performance by Stella Geppert during the opening Friday, February 17, 18.00 - 19.00 h and on Saturday, March 18, 14.00 - 15.00 h
In MOTIONS OF MATTER, Galerie Georg Nothelfer is presenting works by six artists that have been created over the course of six decades. Contemporary younger positions include sculptor, installation and performance artist Stella Geppert and young sculptor Mahdad Alizadeh. They are joined by post-war classics such as László Lakner, Gerhard Hoehme, Henri Michaux and Georges Noël.
What unites and separates them all is a deep engagement with the theme of gesture/movement as an act of communication and articulation, along with their relation to space.
Screening and Discussion Sat, 18 Feb 17h-20h at Oyoun
FILMFESTIVAL WAKE UP EUROPE | SCREENING: HIVE
Screening, followed by panel discussion on the topic of rebuilding after the war
Language: OMU Albanian with English Subtitles
ABOUT the movie Hive: Fahrije's husband has been missing since the Kosovo war and, in addition to her grief, her family is also struggling financially.
To support them, she starts a small farming business, but in the traditional patriarchal village where she lives, her ambition and efforts to empower herself and other women are not seen as a positive. She not only struggles to keep her family afloat, but also against a hostile community that longs for her failure.
pictured here a dance performance by @yvanovitchmbaya
“I feel the body is the most direct way to transmit emotion. In the Ngunza religion, dance is very important. Through it, we get in touch with the spirits of our ancestors more easily. This performance represents my works in three dimensions and is simply the extension of my emotions and experiences.”
Performance: Yvanovitch Mbaya
Videographer: Abdelmoula Leksibi
The video ‘Ngunza (Spiritual Awakening)’ is showing during the current exhibition ‘Kimvuka (Together)’ at Ronewa Art Projects in Berlin.
Sun, 19 Feb, 18:00 at Fitness Center aTB Group show: Gemeinsamer Nenner
After the first exhibitions were a complete success and the result of showing art in a fitness center was quite amazing, we would like to present you more works of art after Corona has prevented us from doing a lot. A symbiosis between art and reality in the middle of a fitness studio takes place for the eighth time. We are happy to be able to do what we enjoy again - showing art in a different atmosphere than a gallery. Experience and admire impressions together with the artists.
Director: Kurt Heinz Reitz
ON VIEW 19 Feb-19 Mar 2023
Fitness Center aTB
Am Tempelhofer Berg 6
10965 Berlin
NEXT WEEK
Thu, 23 Feb 2023 18h -21h at einBuch.haus Grapes and Seeds - Rabea Edel & Dongwan Kook
Vernissage and reading with Dongwan Kook
"A portrait of an unborn being in the time before birth"
"The birth of a child and the birth of a mother"
The duo exhibition Grapes and Seeds by Rabea Edel (Berlin, DE) and Dongwan Kook (Seoul, KR) addresses how women relate their artistic practice to motherhood or distance themselves from it. While Dongwan Kook depicts 40 weeks of a gestation period with free association drawings and texts to show the landscape of growth as one and multiple, Rabea Edel tells the story of a woman as a newborn mother with documentary pictures and auto-fictional strategies to express motherhood, love and postpartum depression.
By bringing a light to the subject of women and mother artists in the contemporary art scene, einBuch.haus aims to engage women artists to continue their artistic career and break the taboo of mothers not being able to exhibit because of parenting.
Further events: Reading with Rabea Edel⎢Sat. March. 25, 14 hr
Thu, 23 Feb, 18-21h at L40 UNWEARABLE Paul McDevitt & Tommy Støckel
opening with Sodomland
Unwearable is the joint project of artists Paul McDevitt and Tommy Støckel. It extends McDevitt's two-dimensional graphic images into a spatial dimension defined by Støckel's sculptural language in various formats. In an earlier project, the two already merged their respective practices to create new, idiosyncratic products. They were shown in the form of a pop-up shop selling everything but "art objects". On offer were things like shelves, frames, chairs, mirrors, cushions, bags, jumpers and scarves - all made as affordable and functional editions.
Unlike established artistic traditions that deal with clothing and costumes as part of performances - Oskar Schlemmer, Yayoi Kusama, Jana Sterbak, Franz Erhard Walther or Hélio Oiticica are just a few examples - McDevitt's & Støckel's Unwearable calls for the works to be integrated into everyday life. It is a matter of finding out for oneself where and when art becomes fashion and whether an object can still be considered a sculpture when it is worn.
The project is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation
“The Rat Choir” x “More-than-Human: Music from other species”
by Gunnhildur Hauksdottir
Rats make sixteen different sounds to express happiness in a frequency undetectable by the human ear. They name each other and play social games according to rules which they express with sounds, as their existence is mostly lived in darkness. Hauksdóttir has created a score for human voices based on the rats’ social dynamics, sonographic images of rat sounds and human phonetics, thus assembling the Rat Choir."More-than-human: Music from other species" by Changing Room
A series of events and projects as well as the accompanying podcast series "In Conversation with Nature" will explore the various relationships between humans, nature and music.
20:00 - please, make sure you arrive on time!
Duration: 30’ + after-event hang out over drinks!
Changing Room, Cornelius-Fredericks-Straße 11, 13351, Berlin
free entrance
*Note: Cornelius-Fredericks-Straße was renamed from Lüderitzstraße on 02.12.22 and at the time of this post the street may have not yet been updated in some GPS systems.
Berlin - Tobias Sternberg artist-curator, Frederick Spreckelmeyer, Nat Tafelmacher- Magnat, Philip Topolovac
Luxembourg - Ivana Cekovic artist-curator, Franck Miltgen, Neckel Scholtus
The group show Polished/Raw is part of an exchange between artist run spaces: HilbertRaum, Berlin and Musel Link, Luxembourg curated by Tobias Sternberg and Ivana Cekovic, who invited the participants from Luxembourg. The exhibition focuses on material strategies of representing nature and artificiality in human culture. The tension between utopian and dystopian vision, between constructed and broken, between polished and raw, pops up again and again in the work of the invited artists.
At the Border A collection of materials related to the Bulgarian-Turkish border
with Ruken Aslan, Ayşe Tülay İnce, Janis Schroeder
Southeastern Europe is a multi-ethnic home for people with diverse languages and religions. For centuries, ethnicity was not a key distinguishing factor. This changed with the influence of major European powers in the middle of the 19th century. They juxtaposed the concept of belonging to an ethnic to the notion of belonging to a religious group. The new concept of identity quickly spread throughout the region. This resulted in uprisings against the Ottoman rule, and as well in hegemonic claims against other population groups. A bloody trail of massacres, expulsions and refugees has been running through Southeastern Europe since, giving rise to small-scale, mostly homogeneous nation-states. After the end of the 1st World War, this policy manifested itself in population transfer and forced resettlements. With the reorganization of Europe after the 2nd World War, Bulgaria was politically linked to the Soviet Union, Turkey belonged to the Western Alliance.
From 1980 onwards, Bulgaria introduced a tightened policy of restrictions against Muslim minority, coupled with a „Bulgarianization campaign“ which forcibly „Bulgarianized“ 800,000 muslim names between 1984 and 1989. The fierce resistance of those affected prompted the Bulgarian government to open the border with Turkey in 1989 and more than 350,000 people left for Turkey.
Accompanying program:
Film screening and artist talk with Birgit Auf der Lauer, Caspar Pauli and Janis Schroeder, moderated by Juliane Zelwies.
REAGENZIEN with Alke Brinkmann and Wolfgang Matzat
Reagents. The wild-looking veneer, sourced from ailing trees, breathes new life with our collaborative intervention. Cut and stained like a microscopic specimen it becomes the starting point of contemplation about the essence of nature and the beauty of imperfection.
