"For months we have continuously faced smearing attacks, humiliations, vandalism, and threats in major media outlets, as well as in the streets and in our spaces. What is even scarier is the normalized dismissal of these actions. We have detailed these experiences in our previous statements and this has been completely ignored by the Supervisory Board of Documenta gGmbH.3.
In this hostile environment, actors with a coordinated agenda have been determined to find any indication of pre-assumed “guilt,” twisting any critical detail into a simplistic anti-Semitic reading and repeating the same accusation again and again until it became accepted as fact. It is obvious to us that the same mechanism of passing the ball from cyberbullies and racist bloggers to mainstream media outlets to racist attackers on the ground to politicians and even to academics is being is being reproduced in each situation. It has clearly informed the mechanics of the “scientific” advisory panel.
We know what it means to be discriminated against due to color, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, origin, caste, and/or disability. We understand the ways that our different anti-colonial struggles intersect. And that these struggles are faced in everyday life in society at large. We are committed to art’s role in resisting these broader societal injustices. And in the context of documenta fifteen and the specificities of the German context we see that the targeting of Palestinian artists is the point at which our anti-colonial struggles meet, and have become a focal point for attack. Anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian racism, anti-queer, transphobia, anti-Roma, abelism, casteism, anti-black, xenophobia and other forms of racisms are racisms that the German society must deal with in addition to anti-Semitism." Read the full open letter here 
 

An eerie silence on the König allegations, which, as we all know are just the tip of the iceberg. Will Berlin Art Week promote this (and the other) galleries with a known in the scene history of employee abuse? Yes, yes they will. Oh and König souvenir is launching iphone nipple holders. Free the Dick! 

Opening Tue, 13 Sep, 18h at thx again: UMRISSENE WELTEN
An exhibition by Saïdou Dicko
The upcoming exhibition at ARTCO Galery Berlin sets Saïdou Dicko‘s (born 1979 in Burkina Faso) early photographic work in the context of his latest digital collages. Now living and working in Paris, Dicko creates a world of lyrical storytelling in which people are far more than just shadows. Instead, the artist hands out an invitation to engage with the characters on a deeper level, to put yourself in their place, and to enter his contoured universe. Look out for ARTCO gallery at Positions Berlin as well!

14 Sep-29 Oct 2022

thx again
Frobenstr. 1
10783 Berlin

DEPARTURE - RÄUME 3- soft opening Sept 13 (today!) at 16h in the Cargo Halle Flughafen Tegel. I don't know about you, but I would use any excuse to visit Tegel again. 

 FLUGHAFEN TEGEL 
CARGOHALLE
Am Flughafen 113405 Berlin

open: 13-15.Sept, 16-20h/ 16-17 Sept, 16-22h, 18.Sept 12-20h
curated by Alina Mann 
recommended to use bus 109 (Endhaltestelle: urban tech republic), limited parking spots.

Wed, 14 Sep 15-21h at Art Claims Impulse: HYSTERESIS by Dani Ploeger

HYSTERESIS consists of a bumper car that has been modified in collaboration with car tuners in Zeeland, a rural area in the Netherlands. The car is equipped with a Virtual Reality headset and accompanied by a video projection. After a virtual race in a Golf Mk4 over a dike road, a tuner talks about his car. Meanwhile, an endlessly repeating video recording of burnout with an Mk4 is projected. Burnouts are performed to warm up tires for a drag race, as a spectacular public intervention, and as a memorial for fellow tuners who have crashed. 

14 Sep from 21h Live Concert with Infinite Livez - view
Location: Feldfünf, Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 7-8, 10969 Berlin
Infinite Livez is an MC and artist with a wide range of influences from such diverse sources as P- Funk and Surrealism. His first album "Bush Meat" was released on Big Dada Records in 2004 to immediate critical acclaim in the UK and abroad.
15-18 Sept 

Art Claims Impulse
Markgrafenstraße 86,
10969 Berlin
PHOTO BY: Daniela Macé Rossiter: Mixed media installation (modified bumper car, Virtual Reality app, digital video

Wed, 14 Sep 18-21h at Showroom Galerie Georg Nothelfer: cccc

with Michael Buthe, Nadine Fecht, Gerhard Hoehme, Elmira Iravanizad, Lucia Kempkes, Miriam Salamander, Jan Voss. The Title cccc stands for collect-cut-compose-cobble. Four adjectives that describe the creation process of collages. 

Nothelfer at Positions Berlin Hangar 6/A19, where we show works by Mahdad Alizadeh/Britta Lumer/Fred Thieler/Geerten Verheus
15 Sep-29 Oct 2022

The exhibition takes place at both locations.
Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Corneliusstraße 3 
Showroom Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Grolmanstraße 28
picture: Nadine Fecht, Untitled (adopt a revolution series), 2014, graphite powder, archival newspaper, photography cut-out on paper, 44,6x32,3cm Courtesy Galerie Georg Nothelfer and the artist.jpg

We have 5 double tickets for Positions Berlin, any day. Like our page on instagram AND forward this to a friend ( cc ing us) to be eligible. We will email winners tomorrow (Wednesday) morning. 

Preview and Opening Thu 14 - 21h
Public days Fri-Sat 14-20h, Sun 10-15h
Flughafen Tempelhof
Hangar 5-6
Tempelhofer Damm 45
12101 Berlin
U Paradestrasse U6

Wed, 14 Sep, 19h at Haus am Lützowplatz: SurVival – Questions to the future
with Bettina von Arnim, Maxim Brandt, John Cage, Louisa Clement, Sabine Groß, Philip Grözinger, Bjørn Melhus, Katja Novitskova, Mette Riise, Michael Schmidt, Nina E. Schönefeld, Markus Wirthmann

The exhibition „SurVival: Questions about the Future“ is conceptually based on the film „Soylent Green“ (1973), which takes place in the year 2022 and created a gloomy vision of the future, that of extreme overpopulation and the ecological problems it caused. The uninhibited exploitation of natural resources, so the message of the film, leads to a social system that is, as it were self-devouring and based on violence.

15 Sep 2022-1 Aug 2023
Haus am Lützowplatz
Lützowplatz 9
10785 Berlin

Thursday, Sept 15, 19h to midnight  - Award Ceremony ACUD CLUB 
Berlin Art Prize: 8 Nominees 8 Exhibitions 8 Project Spaces

The Berlin Art Prize has returned after two years of pandemic pause. The exhibitions highlight eight nominees at eight independent project spaces across Berlin. The 2022 nominees and participating project spaces are: Alicja Rogalska at Scherben, Bassem Saad at Peles Empire, Hana Yoo at ACUD Galerie, Lucas Odahara at Die Möglichkeit einer Insel, Mazen Khaddaj at Blake & Vargas, Mazenett Quiroga at LAGE EGAL [Kimgo], Melanie-Jame Wolf at Centrum

Thu, 15 Sep, 19h at HAZE GALLERY:  KONSTANTIN SCHNEIDER

A ten-day happening dedicated to the contemporary crisis: Among other topics, Konstantin addresses the issue of money; money losing its value due to inflation and therefore its importance is likely to diminish for more and more people in the future. Today, humanity is again faced with the alternatives of "having or being" and, recently, even "yellow or love".

curated by Irina Rusinovich
HAZE GALLERY
Bulowstrasse 11
10789 Berlin

Fri, 16 Sep 18-20h at Dittrich & Schlechtriem: Keith Boadwee Spiritual Abstractions

DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM is pleased to present the first solo show in Berlin by KEITH BOADWEE (b. 1961, Meridian, Mississippi, USA; lives and works in Emeryville, California, USA). Portrait subjects -frogs, poodles, and fish- are depicted in multi-planer dimensions, posed and peering through cocktail glasses, prisms, and fish bowls, geometrically divided, multiplied, and reflected. The new artworks have evolved now into a realm of spiritual abstraction. On the occasion of the exhibition, the gallery will produce and publish a catalog of the works with a new essay from David Rimanelli, in German and English, available in September 2022. 

Preview during Berlin Art Week 14.09-16.09 12-18:00
14 Sep-29 Oct
Dittrich & Schlechtriem
Linienstraße 23
10178 Berlin

BUS TRIP TO THE AWARD WINNERS 2022 Friday, September 16th, 15h (80 seats, hop-on hop-off).

Come together and gathering for the bus tour Babylon: 15:00 – 16:00 
1st stop VIDEOART AT MIDNIGHT Babylon Cinema, Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30, 10178 Berlin (Mitte) 
To see: It’s gonna happen, video intervention by Rosa Barba, at 24:00 screening #123 with Rosa Barba 
Departure: 16:00 sharp 
2nd stop ARCHIVE KABINETT Reinickendorfer Str. 17, 13347 Berlin (Wedding) 
To see: Crossings # 2, part of Archive’s research stream (re)memberings and (re) groundings. A program with readings, performances and interventions, including Ruth Buchanan, Mariana Castillo Deball and Rebeca Pak, among others. 
Departure: 16:35 
3rd stop ART-LAB BERLIN AT IPHONEDOCTOR Perleberger Str. 60, 10559 Berlin (Moabit) 
To see: Matière noire, installations and paintings by Azar Pajuhandeh, Iran and Nadia Safieddine, Libanon/Senegal. 
Departure: 17:10 
4th stop SOX BERLIN Oranienstr. 175, 10999 Berlin (Kreuzberg) Shop window, open 24 hours 
To see: Tobias Koenig – Those Irrevocable Words
5th stop STATIONS Adalbertstr. 96 (Balcony level, left), 10999 Berlin (Kreuzberg) To see: Making Something From Nothing. Highlights From the A.I.R. Gallery Archives
Departure: 18:10 
6th stop HOPSCOTCH READING ROOM Kurfürstenstr. 14/Haus B, 10785 Berlin (Tiergarten) 
Departure: 18:45 | Arrival: 19:00 
7th stop TV BAR Potsdamer Str. 151, 10783 Berlin (Schöneberg) Reception and Party with food by Malakeh Restaurant and music by DJ Bianca Heuser 19:00-22:00

Sat, 17 Sep 13-18h at L40: Carlos Noronha Feio (sunclipse!) / (sunsight!)
An installation in public space, Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 27 + 28, Berlin Mitte

With (sunclipse!) and (sunsight!), the Portuguese artist Carlos Noronha Feio alludes to the architect and systems theorist Buckminster Fuller and his conviction that the wrong use of language perpetuates outdated realities. The latter was convinced that we will never be able to rid ourselves of the mistaken belief that we are the centre of the universe as long as we use scientifically outdated words such as sunset and sunrise, for example. Buckminster therefore proposed new terms for sunrise and sunset, namely sunclipse and sunsight. The neologisms point beyond the lingering geocentric bias of pre-Copernican celestial mechanics and specifically describe how we see – or don’t see – the sun depending on the constellation of earth’s movement and our individual geographical position. A simple change of language can therefore change attitudes.

At the same time, the two opposing quotes fit perfectly into the urban planning conditions on site. The north-south orientation of Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. means that the west side only gets sun in the morning and the east side only in the evening. (sunclipse!) and (sunsight!) thus describe concrete phenomena.

A German version will replace the English one in the spring of 2023.
17 Sep-10 Nov 2022
L40
Linienstrasse 40
10119 Berlin