SAVE THE DATE: Thu, 29 June, the 2nd edition of THE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL THE FUTURE IS AFRICA, a project of the Opera Village Africa, opens in Berlin with artistic contributions from the African continent and the African Diaspora. See information on screenings and panels here
This year, the festival focuses on female perspectives in African Cinema – both by shining light on the diverse range of contemporary gendered realities and perspectives on the African continent and showcasing a wide selection of young female filmmakers. Running until 4 July, 22 films of various genres will be presented at two locations – IL KINO in Neukölln and Sinema Transtopia in Wedding.
THIS WEEK
Wed, 17 May 18-20:30 at anorak LOVE TEST: The Workshop with Rosa Aiello & Dylan Aiello
This is a movement based workshop with Dylan Aiello at anorak’s new space in Berlin Tempelhof.
In this workshop we will explore the concept of circuit, as a path, a repetition, a refuge, a habit, a ritual of transcendence. We will perform a series of games and exercises to sensitise ourselves to interpersonal and spatial relationships and explore the many ways that circuit can take root in and reflect on the space that contains it. Participation is free. Please RSVP at: hello@anorakanorak.com.__
The workshop is part of LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising, a newly developed piece featuring film, live performance, and song by Rosa Aiello, Dylan Aiello & Friends, which premieres on Friday, 19 May 2023 at anorak. More info here.
Wed, 17 May 19-20:30 at Galerie im Turm CIRCLES workshop with Natascha Anahita
as part of Banu Çiçek Tülü's immersive sound installation and exhibition 'Pink Noise'. FLINTA* who are open to and interested in getting in touch with the circles and cycles within and around our bodies are warmly invited to participate *-* The workshop will provide space for stretching and moving the body – relax – reflect – write or draw. Banu will accompany us on our journey by providing a soundscape.
Spots are limited. Please register by May 16 by sending an email to info@galerie-im-turm.net or texting Galerie im Turm on Instagram. Dress code is comfortable clothes.
Fri, 19 May 18-21:00 at BBA Gallery Opening ‘Beyond Solitude’ by Giulietta Coates
‘Beyond Solitude’ is the first solo show of Giulietta Coates at BBA Gallery. The exhibition represents a body of work spanning the last 4 years. Black and white photographic fragments of landscapes, embedded in wood, stand for the longing of what is unreachable and for things to be different. The expansive mountainous landscapes of Haute Provence where absolute solitude resounds, informs the works within ‘Beyond Solitude’. Reconstructions of landscapes exude a melancholic beauty of world within worlds, and longings that have philosophical, material, personal and collective origins. Giulietta Coates has lived in Haute Provence for the past 15 years.
19 May-15 Jul 2023
In the frame of his show Bygones be bygones or: what's hidden in snow will come to light by thaw
Henrik Strömberg invites K.Yoland to the Bygones be Bygones Bar
Desert Diaries jumps from location to location and back and forth through time. As a shapeshifting text, it takes the form of travel log, surveillance device, memory bank and teleporter. The diary entries are entered by an outsider who takes a journey through different parts of the Southwest deserts of the United States, meeting land, humans and more-than-humans. The traveller has many roles, including witness, listener, ghost-whisperer, guest and target. Desert Diaries started in 2012 when Yoland first parachuted into the desert. The work shares the often invisible and suppressed stories of migration, poverty, loss, borders and power. In the format of a journey, it weaves through borderlands, public lands and military zones, going off the grid and then into the heady cities that bookend these desert dwellings.
The performative reading of Desert Diaries by K. Yoland is supported by Berlin based artists Chang Gao and Anna Karoline Müller.
Fri, 19 May, 20:00 at anorak LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising- re-opening in new location with an exhibition by Rosa Aiello, Dylan Aiello & friends, doors 8pm, performance 8:30pm. Afterparty with DJ sets by Eleni Poulou and Pitt Wenninger.
On the opening night of anorak’s new space in Berlin-Tempelhof, we are proud to present LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising, a collaboration by artist and filmmaker Rosa Aiello and actor and theatremaker Dylan Aiello. Building on a lifetime relationship between them, LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising stages the slippery dynamics of testing love, attention-seeking, and pushing past thresholds of social tolerance as potentially meaningful forms of connection, actions to be treated without contempt: a comedy of errors rather than a tragedy of failures. Short comic routines called ‘Lazzi,’ which acted as performance units in Renaissance Commedia dell’Arte theatre to construct, break into, and unravel plots, serve as a means to destabilise the roles we take on as friends, lovers, performers, bosses, and siblings, as well as the power dynamics at play in these roles. As a love test, this collaboratively developed piece puts a spotlight on the urge to act, to control, to make something happen. Stitching together film, live performance, and song, LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising is a variety show, an ecstatic conversation, a road trip, a succession of interruptions, charged with expectation.
The event will also feature film footage by Laura Langer and filmed appearances by Arianna Calgaro, Leslie Ewen, Victor Jacono, Maya Misfud, Tori Sasso-Briggs, Scarlett Stitt, Katherine Ward, and others.
15 – 18 June 2023 MATTER OF FLUX Festival: Women/ FLINTA* in Art, Science and Technology OFFICIAL REGISTRATION will start from 18 May 2023
More information on the Festival Program with Abstracts and Biographies is HERE
The MATTER OF FLUX festival takes place in the framework of the group exhibition MATTER OF FLUX in which artists explore the use of menstrual fluid for tissue culture, propose new modes of care within the context of female and nonbinary health and discuss both traditional forms and new possibilities of reproduction. Six clusters – CRITICAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY, LEAKY CYCLES, TECHNOLOGIES/ SENSORS/ INTERFACES, PLANT ENCOUNTERS, ALTERNATIVE KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION and HYDRO-RELATIONS – offer workshops, talks, performances, zine-making lounges and more over the four days. In addition there will be a Smell workshop as well as artist studio, exhibition and laboratory visits. With contributions by artists, scholars from sciences and humanities and cultural producers: Alanna Lynch, Alice Cannava, Anne Hölck, Annika Haas, Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research (AFSAR), Aslı Dinç, Baldeep Grewal, Cansu Tekin, Cammack Lindsey, Charmaine Poh, Chiara Garbellotto, Constanza Piña Pardo, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, Flo Razoux, Gülşah Mursaloğlu, Han Wen Zhang, India Mansour, Jacky Hess, Jemma Woolmore, Käthe Wenzel, Kristina Stallvik, Lena Fließbach, Lena Johanna Reisner, Lisa Bell Weisdorf, Lucy Powell, Lyndsey Walsh, Marianna Szczygielska, Margherita Pevere, Mooni Perry, Nayeli Vega, Nicol Rivera Aro, Nicola Maria Hochkeppel, pamela varela, Park Hye-in, Petja Ivanova, Sarah Hermanutz, Selen Solak, Sina Ribak, Susanne Schmitt, Susanne Jaschko, Sybille Neumeyer, Theresa Schubert, WhiteFeather Hunter, Yan Lin.
Art Laboratory Berlin
@ PA58, Prinzenallee 58, 13359 Berlin, (opposite of ALB)
The festival takes place during all four days at PA58, except studio, lab and exhibition visits as well as the club night.
FEES AND REGISTRATION
For women/ FLINTA*
2-Day Festival Pass (15 + 16 June): 70/ 50 EUR
1-Day Festival Pass (15 or 16 June): 45/ 32 EUR
Workshops (17 + 18 June): 25/ 20 EUR
Exhibition, Artist Studio and Lab Visits (17 + 18 June): free entrance
CALLS CALLS CALLS
OPEN CALL / MATERIAL by Scotty Project Space Deadline for entries is Sunday, 14 MAY 11:59 p.m.
For this year's OPEN CALL 2023 on the theme of "Material" can now be submitted works for a group exhibition at SCOTTY. The exhibition runs from 24.06.23 - 29.07.23. The opening will take place on Saturday 23.06.2023. The OPEN CALL is aimed at visual artists (from Berlin and Brandenburg) inside all disciplines / media who want to submit a work on this theme. We ask all applicants to submit only one work. IMPORTANT: We ask all those who have exhibited at our OPEN CALL exhibitions in the last 3 years not to apply this year. Thank you for your understanding!
Please send a meaningful image of your work, a short description, CV and website until 14.05.2022 with the subject "Open Call - Material" just to: scotty-open-call@gmx.de.
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
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
until Jun 10th at einBuch.haus: 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.
Until Jun 3rd at Axel ObigerOpening 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!
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