An event by Louis Rastig and Karina Mertin/ABOUTNOW. In cooperation with Radialsystem.
PRESALE STARTS AT MIDNIGHT MAY 3rd (tonight!) AT ALARMEFESTIVAL.DE 
special EARLY BIRD deal: first 20 festival passes ( for all 3 days) will go out for 50 Euro. 
DAY TICKET/ ADVANCE: € 25 + FEES I FULL FESTIVAL PASS (3 DAYS)/ ADVANCE: € 60 + FEES
A L’ARME! Vol. X+I10—12 AUGUST 2023 BERLIN, RADIALSYSTEM
International festival for avant-garde jazz, vibrant experimental music since 2012 with CLAIRE ROUSAY (US) / EDWIN VAN DER HEIDE (NL) / EVE RISSER PRESENTS RÊVE PARTI (FR) / JASPER STADHOUDERS PRESENTS POLYBAND (NL/IS/GB/PL/CH/DE) / JOY GUIDRY PRESENTS RADICAL ACCEPTANCE (US/DE) / JULIA REIDY (AU/DE) / KASSA OVERALL PRESENTS ANIMALS (US) / LUKAS KOENIG PRESENTS 1 ABOVE MINUS UNDERGROUND (AT) + NIK HUMMER (AT) + VICTORIA SHEN (US) + ELVIN BRANDHI (GB) + NAPPY NINA (US) + DÄLEK (US) / MOE FEAT. METTE RASMUSSEN (NO) + VESLEMØY NARVESEN (NO) / NO PLEXUS PRESENTS GEN_Y: BRECHTJE VAN DIJK (NL) + ALLISON WRIGHT (AU/NL) / MEAT.KARAOKE.QUALITY.TIME (DE) / THOMAS ANKERSMIT PRESENTS 50 YEARS OF SERGE MODULAR (NL/DE), CM VON HAUSSWOLFF AND SO MUCH MORE

for more info and tickets see here 

Open Call, Apply now unti May 31st  LOCALIZE – Ex Officio FESTIVAL FOR CITY, CULTURE AND ART >>> www.localize-potsdam.de
From October 5 – 8, 2023, the Festival for City, Culture and Art moves to Potsdam's City Hall and creates a temporary experimental laboratory for exploring the city and its administration. All artists, cultural practitioners, visionaries and citizens are invited to apply with installations, performances, video and photography,  workshops, guided tours, dance, talks, and everything in-between: Every format and genre is encouraged, that explores the limits and possibilities of the topic through experimental, locally specific approaches. Please use the online form.

VON AMTS WEGEN
05. – 08. Oktober 2023
Rathaus Potsdam

Wed, 3 May 19h at alpha nova & galerie futura: Never relinquish the streets!
Discussion on the history of the right of assembly with Elke Steven (sociologist) and Katharina Gamm (lawyer for criminal law), moderated by Cornelia Herfurtner
What are the consequences of the application of paragraph 17a (§17 a VersG) on social movements and protests? And what practices oppose the restriction of democratic rights? This discussion will focus on the history and present of freedom of assembly in the FRG. On the one hand, we will talk about how the freedom of assembly has been repeatedly attacked. On the other hand, we will look at the strategies and ideas people in social movements have developed to enforce assemblies.

further events this week:
Friday 05.05. // 15:00 Berührungen und Selbstschutz? Inclusive art education with Katrin Dinges (artist and cultural educator)
Together we will encounter the exhibition in an unusual way: with our fingers and hands. How do we feel images?  What ideas does this kind of perception evoke in us? And what role do (shared) touches play in our lives? Through touch and conversation, we will address these questions – and of course, also any questions you have.

alpha nova & galerie futura
Am Flutgraben 3
12435 Berlin

Thu, 4 May 18-21h at einBuch.haus Opening of Jeong Hwa Min: ma-eum: Wandering Minds
For the first edition of the picture book ma-eum: Wandernde Gemüter in German, einBuch.haus invites the illustrator Jeong Hwa Min to a solo exhibition.
ma-eum is a series of paintings in which the artist collects and documents ma-eum* that exist within her but have been forgotten, hidden, or neglected. The process of numbering the ma-eum, taking note of their condition, and documenting their proper storage is similar to the process of collecting to create a personal herbarium. The Korean word 마음ma-eum means heart, mind, and spirits in English.

*ma-eum:
1. The character or personality of a person.
2. Feelings and thoughts that arise in or are triggered by another person or thing in a person.
3. A space or place where a person’s thoughts, feelings, memories, etc., originate or settle.

on view until Jun 10th 
einBuch.haus
Florastraße 61
13187 Berlin

pictured Jeong Hwa Min, ma-eum #38, 2023, Acrylic on wood © Jeong Hwa Min

Fri, 5 May  18h at Oyoun with Şeyda Kurt reading & Soli Küfa

Due to the persistent tragic situation, Soli Küfa decided to organize a solidarity event on 05.05 at Oyoun, offering community support for the earthquake victims in Kurdistan/Turkey/Syria. Şeyda Kurt will read from her current book “HASS”, the artist Elu will present an exhibition and Adnan Çelik is going to entertain you with Kurdish and Turkish music. Soli Küfa started its solidarity project as a solidarity kitchen, which cooks and sells food against donations. They would like to continue doing this and provide guests with Kurdish food and drinks.
*As there won’t be a ticket sale, the event especially depends on your donations. Entry will be on a first-come, first-served basis.*
Tickets: Donation based 

Oyoun
Lucy-Lameck-Str. 32
12049 Berlin

Fri, 5 May 202319:00-22:00at Axel Obiger Opening of „chapiteau“ with Christian Hellmich / Matthias Moravek

The exhibition title (French: circus tent) already characterizes the artistic idea Christian Hellmich and Matthias Moravek are playing around with: Their paintings and sculptures are all dealing with aspects of the imaginary and illusionary, be it mysterious or clown-esque. Let the magic happen!

6 May-3 Jun 2023
Axel Obiger – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Brunnenstr. 29
10119 Berlin

pictured: Matthias Moravek, "will echo wit laughter", watercolour and charcoal on paper, Detail, 2022

Friday May 5th, 2023, 6.30pm Publishing as an act of resistance- First chapter: Feminist practices in publishing 

Miss Read will be launching a series of monthly events taking place in our new space in the neighborhood of Wedding. We will delve into different publishing practices and how they can be framed within a larger (activist) feminist practice, acknowledging that gender is not a standalone issue. The participants will share their experiences and thoughts around publishing as a feminist tool of resistance in conversation with the public.
Participants: Safia Dickersbach (Dickersbach Verlag / Protocollum), Chiara Figone (Archive Books) and Pascale Obolo (Afrikadaa / AABF / Miss Read). 
After party at Black Wedding Bar with "ta panda re” (live music) at Badstrasse 38 (Remise), starting at 10pm. Free entry.

Gerichtstr. 45
13347 

Upcoming MISS READ TALKS: May 23, 6.30pm: Forms of people's revolts and actualizing the emancipatory politics of the avant-garde with Sezgin Boynik (rab-rab Press)

Sat, 6 May 18-22h at HB55 Kunstfabrik Opening of Federico Gargaglione: Under a Maypole-Type Bower @federico_gargaglione

to visit via appointment email federicogargaglione@gmail.com

6 May-18 May
HB55 Kunstfabrik
Herzbergstr 55
10365 Berlin

Sat May 6th Finissage 15-18h at  SCOTTY: SUGAR & SPICE - 37 x painting
with Yvonne Andreini, Sabine Banovic, Carl Baratta, Darren O´Brian, Niina Lehtonen Braun, Joanna Buchowska, DAG, Jasmina Danowski, Ulrike Dornis, Franziska Goes, Jesse Farber, Undine Goldberg, Johanna Hochholzer, Jasmine Justice, Mikko Kallio, Heike Kelter, Frank Maier, Daniel Mohr, Moritz Neuhoff, Patti Oleon, Justine Otto, Mirka Raito, Hannah Rath,  Gabriele Regiert, Lucas Reiner, Matthias Reinmuth, Kerstin Serz, Max Presneill, Daniela Trixl, Maik Schierloh, Eva Schwab, Peter Scior, Zuzanna Skiba, Carlos Silva, Anke Völk, Marco Wachsmuth, Daniel Wiesenfeld
(curated by Bettina Weiß)

SCOTTY
Oranienstr. 46
10969 Berlin

pictured: Yvonne Andreini: „Doppelsternenhaufen“, 100x75cm,ink and acrylic on canvas, 2023  @yvonneandreini

The Gallery Weekend is over, but most of the shows are not. Let's have a look at the highlights that opened last week. 

On view until May 27 at Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin: Olaf Nicolai I never look at you from the place from which you see me
The exhibition "I never look at you from the place from which you see me" by Olaf Nicolai presents a series of photographic works taken in June 2022 in Olympia, Greece.
The motifs are the landscape and the historical facilities of Olympia - but in anamorphic and floating distortions. They were created using a parabolic mirror - the mirror used to IGNITE the Olympic Flame by the sun's rays.

Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin
Auguststraße 26
10117 Berlin

On view until May 27th Yalda Afsah: Curro at Between Bridges Residency Space:
A series of cuts mark the uneasy climax of Yalda Afsah’s Curro, an exhibition culminating the inaugural Between Bridges residency. The show debuts the fifth installment in the Berlin-based artist’s series of films concerned with ritualised interaction between men and animals. She has dedicated her practice to these human-animal relationships since 2018. Conceived as an installation across two rooms, the film is split into parts which are displayed in a fence-like framing structure and viewable from a rounded bench both constructed for the space and reminiscent of the physical entrapment depicted in the film. The structure also resonates with the film’s title, a Galician term for fencing something in. While Curro’s snipping scenes could conjure a score of symbolic associations, it lands less as metaphor here than as the pinnacle of a brutal and domineering frenzy. A kind of literal power grab.
Wednesday to Saturday 12–6pm
Keithstraße 15
10787 Berlin

On view until July 29 at Between Bridges: Juan Pablo Echeverri: Identidad Perdida

Between Bridges

Adalbertstraße 43
10179 Berlin

On view until July 1st  at Dittrich & Schlechtriem Opening of Andrej Dúbravský: Anxiety of Subimago

Dúbravský presents an empathetic yet critical study of the environment and its progressing devastation. The Anxiety of Subimago points to an unresolved tension between humankind and nature, resulting in frustrating restlessness akin to an adolescent subimago state—a winged preadult life stage of the delicate-looking mayfly. Over a layered wall, an installation of molted studio canvases, Dúbravský presents a series of new large-format acrylic paintings on canvas with sweaty renderings of huddled running bodies paired with deserted landscapes and small-format portraits of pollinating bees and insects in varying states of metamorphosis.

Dittrich & Schlechtriem
Linienstraße 23
10178 Berlin

K.R.H. Sonderborg. copy-paste at Galerie Georg Nothelfer

Galerie Georg Nothelfer is pleased to present a solo show of works by one of the most important representatives of 
Inspired by the gestural painting of American Abstract Expressionism,  K.R.H. Sonderborg (1923 - 2008) “German Informel Art”, went his own way early on, showing in his paintings and drawings a fascination with technical constructions and their traces of movement. 

Galerie Georg Nothelfer
Corneliusstr. 3
10787 Berlin

pictured: Untitled, 1986, Acrylic/canvas, 162 x 228 cm

Bygones be bygones or what is hidden in the snow will come to light by thaw

Welcome to Henrik Strömberg's immersive installation, including sculpture, video, light, sound, and a bar. The project explores the ephemeral existence of humanity in relation to its transient, increasingly collapsing environment, which is literally just melting away in many places presents an immersive installation with video, light, and sound work. Every Friday at 7pm, the public is invited to join in conversations, readings, and performances at the Beygons-Bar - designed and executed by Strömberg for the installation. Guest will include: @jens.soneryd @k.yoland

until 2 Jun 2023

L40
Linienstrasse 40
10119 Berlin

Tashi Brauen: Cover the Blank Spots at Ronewa Art Projects 

Since Ronewa’s first collaboration with the Swiss-Tibetan artist in 2017, Brauen’s practice has covered photography, relief sculpture, works on paper and cardboard, and now painting on canvas – always led by an inquiry into reduction. He has explored reductions in pictorial space, materials, process, and color. The minimalist abstract paintings presented in Cover the Blank Spots could be considered the logical conclusion of this search.

on view until 24 Jun 2023
Ronewa Art Projects
Potsdamer Str. 91
10785 Berlin

pictured: Tashi Brauen, Untitled (Horizon 11), 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 50 cm. 19 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.