"Traces" by Gytis Skudzinskas at WerkStadt Berlin

The Traces cycle, which began evolving in 1999, places its focus on territories inhabited by people. The exploration and transformation of urban spaces is connected to the organization, migration, communication, and self-awareness of communities and individuals. “Traces” seeks to mark the outer limits of personal experiences in the present situation.

The work is not a representative city panorama but rather a hyper textual telling about the space where people live. The story does not have a central axis and focuses on the possibility to experience the same space over and over again.

more info on www.gys.lt
opening
Firday 07 January · 19:00 - 22:00
 at
WerkStadt Kulturverein Berlin e. V.

Emser Str. 124

Berlin
http://www.werkstadt-berlin.com

The final MMX show -Friday October 29th

Not to be missed!!! Friday October 29th the last show of the one-year project that is MMX. Show VII offers the tasty and interactive work of Risa Puno with her kunst vending machine and “Magic Eye” auto
stereogram wall works. James Bullough takes the challenge of transforming the bar space
of MMX while Juan Arata paints the underbelly creatures of Berlin’s nightlife. Geoffrey
Garrison brings his new video installation piece that questions the space and time around
a gilded frame. Screening program VII deals with the theme “the end is just the
beginning”, appropriately fitting for MMX’s history. Fresh from Winnipeg, Lancelot
Coar and Patrick Harrop take over the front of the house. Valentin Hartweck’s
installation will entrap the viewer as they head towards BitteBitteJaJa (collaborative
video works by Ulu Braun and Roland Rauschmeier). The UV light installation by
Jeongmoon Choi finishes the show with an atmospheric and labyrinthian end.
Tacos Berlin will be serving up yummy Mexican food once again at the Vernissage.
Nothing less than a stellar last show with unexpected installations and weekly
performances by Argentinian artist Martin Molinaro


MMX- Open Art Venue
Linienstraße 142/143, Mitte
www.mmx.mx
Hours- Wed 12-22 Thu-Sun 12-19
Exhibition: October 29 – December 3
Opening: October 29, 2010 18:00-22:00

Friday Openings

La Chose presents

ANTHOLOGY OF OPTIMISM

OPENING OCTOBER 15, 7 PM EXHIBITION: 16-19 OCTOBER, 12-7 PM

MMX Open Art Venue, Linienstrasse 142/143, 10115 Berlin

Sascha Blume · Carly Fisher · Lola Göller · Constantin Hartenstein · Hideaki Idetsuki · Martin Meyenburg · Alex Neuschäfer · Pete Moran · Sharman Riegger · Julien Rouvroy · Benjamin Rubloff · Betti Scholz · Elmar Vestner · Bastian Vogel · Das Geschehen

What went wrong with the future? How did tomorrow lose its promise? What happened to the endless possibilities and solutions it once represented to our grandparents? And why is what has not yet happened being handled with so much precaution and skepticism nowadays?

Drawing on broad ranging perspectives, the exhibition will seek to provide a critical view of the possibilities and shortcomings of once-dreamt utopian totalities. By exploring what relevance these past imaginings of the future hold for current notions of progress, it will also expose our own ideas of what is yet to come.

The exhibition venue, the MMX, offers 1000sqm of floor space plus surrounding gardens to examine the topic at hand. The area is one of the last untouched, unrenovated buildings on Linienstrasse in Mitte. With its intimate front yard, labyrinthine layout of gallery rooms and back courtyard, the MMX provides a unique backdrop to this unusual exhibition.

The exhibition’s title is taken from An Anthology of Optimism, a performance by Pieter de Buysser and Jacob Wren.

La Chose is a project-based artist collective established in 2009. The collective consists of a small core group of artists who invite an ever-changing line-up of visual artists, performers, musicians and composers to collaborate with them on projects that are often site specific.

www.lachoseprojects.com

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"Visit" - Lexander Prokogh at G11 Galerie

Opening reception will take place on Friday, the 15th of October, at 7pm.

Exhibition runs: 16. Oktober - 14. November 2010

G11 Galerie

Landsberger Allee 54, 3. Etage

10249 Berlin-Friedrichshain

www.gruppe11.net

Tonight, for one night only : 9 Doors - 15 Artists

For one night only in Berlin, 'Team Fucking Brilliant' brings you a feast of experience. Set in the old corridors of the former Mint, TFB presents 9 closed rooms to be experienced and have experiences within.


Direktorenhaus

Am Kroegel 2

Berlin, Germany

Directions: www.direktorenhaus.com/howtofind/

Artists involved:

ANTOINE CAPEYRON (Bordeaux, France)
Designer and art-collector.

KATHERINE CANNON (London, England)
Architect who dreams up buildings that can't be built.

TAMSIN ROSS VAN LESSEN (London, England)
Photographer.

ROSS WALKER (Farnham, England)
Painter of structures and failure.

EUTECHNIK (Dublin, Ireland)
Audio-artist - sound-design & programming.

PHIL (Essex, England)
Owner of a free ticket to do what ever he likes.

NIKLAS FISCHER (Berlin)
Filmic soundscapes.

DYLAN BAKKER (Wellington, New Zealand)
Selfish reverberations.

NAPHTA (Band from Berlin)
Colourful indie-electro-brass-band.

CRYSTAL AMPS (Band from Berlin & England):
The sound of the most peculiar hangover.

SPECIAL GUEST (?)
Very special guest with extremely rare and unusual abilities.

September in the air - What to see this week

Image - Hendrik Voerkel - - Malerei - G11 Galerie

 


In August each year Berlin's art world goes into hibernation as galleries put up "gone fishing" signs and close their doors. The dust settles on the last exhibition which often still graces the walls and plans are made for September when the whole game begins again. While there were a few openings last weekend, possibly to coincide with the Lange Nacht der Museen, this coming Friday and Saturday sees the true kick off of the new season with the opening of a considerable number of fresh new shows. But what to see, with so much to choose from? Well here are a few suggestions of what might be worth a gander: 

DOLL | KOTT - Alexander Ochs Galleries
Eröffnung | Opening - Freitag, 3. September, 19-21 Uhr

Presenting the work of Christina Doll and Anna Kott
In Christina Doll's work, full figure sculptures take centre stage. Anna Kott creates paintings of women. The exhibition DOLL | KOTT arranges an encounter of two autonomous positions.

Born in 1972 in Cologne and 1975 in Ruda Slaska / Poland, both painters focus on human existence, the idea of men and women in their social environment, as well as their cultural, religious and sexual contexts in different ways.
Both Berlin-based artists work with restrained colours, in the sense of a consciously reduced repertoire. While the colour of Christina Doll's work is given by the porcelain and concrete used, Anna Kott restricts herself to two cold colours: grey and a strong contrasting red.
Christina Doll's work can be classified as a part of the long tradition of Berliner statuary since neo-classicism, in which full figure statues, mainly life-size and in honour of the pictured person, were installed in public places. During the romantic era, porcelain and plaster miniatures of these portraits were created for domestic usage.
Anna Kott's work can be seen here: http://www.alexanderochs-galleries.com/front_content.php?idcat=471&idart=3010
and Christina Doll's here: http://christinadoll.com/index.php/aktuelle_projekte.html

ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN | BEIJING
Sophienstrasse 21
10178 Berlin
www.alexanderochs-galleries.com
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Come Live in my Head - Galerie WAGNER + PARTNER
Opening reception with the artist:  Friday 3 Sep 7-10 p.m.

The works of Australian artist Natascha Stellmach are emotional investigations into the dark worlds of memory, the unconscious and the unspoken. Her installations, photographs and videos are thought-provoking and compelling.
In Guatemala, children who are scared of going to sleep are given tiny handmade dolls (worry dolls) for underneath their pillow. By passing on their fears to the doll they can then sleep peacefully. In Stellmach’s ongoing series Worry Dolls, she creates unique works that embody the secrets and nightmares of adults and take on monstrous forms. With titles like Nazi Girl, Killer or Fuckhead, these worry dolls reveal personal stories whose biographical core represents collective experiences and thus becomes universal.
In the series Blood, Stellmach uses photographs as mementos in combination with her own text, bringing forth new associations and alternative narratives.
This formal approach of juxtaposing text and image enables Stellmach to link reality with fiction. She brings into play documentary or staged, biographical or found material in order to tell powerful narratives about the transience and darkness of the human condition.
Like French artist Sophie Calle, Natascha Stellmach is a storyteller who harnesses words and images in order to analyse, fictionalise and reassess. She successfully tackles challenging topics through her sense of the poetic paired with intelligence and black humour. With Come Live in my Head Stellmach invites the visitor in a very personal way to explore the self. In the end there is indeed hope for fantastical dreams.

Natascha Stellmach was born in 1970 to German parents who immigrated to Australia. She works across photography and video and resides in Berlin and Melbourne.
Recurrent themes in her practice are tabooed aspects of identity, childhood memories, love and death. Her mode of working is to combine images and text, consciously blurring biographical facts with fictional storytelling. This approach manifests in her artist books, The Book of Back (2007) und It is Black in Here (2010).

Galerie WAGNER + PARTNER
Karl-Marx-Allee 87
10243 Berlin
www.galerie-wagner-partner.com

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PAULE HAMMER - Galerie Jette Rudolph
Opening: 3. September, 18:00 - 22:00 Uhr

Galerie Jette Rudolph starts their season in September with a solo show of the Lepzig-based artist, Paule Hammer (b. 1975), his first at this gallery. The show is entitled “World Encyclopedia No.4: Anxiety, Love, Dream“ and will introduce a staging of the entire gallery space based on the artist’s large and middle sized canvases, text-based installation works and sound sculptures.

Paule Hammer’s complex works narrate stories from the ego-perspective with its content centred on the self-image of the individual going through his inner experiences, thoughts, intentions and fantasies. The Berlin show questions the essential necessities around anxiety, love and dream. It is builds on Hammer’s stage “Weltenzyklopädie III/ World Encyclopedia III”, that formed part of the exhibition “Bilder vom Künstler/ Images from the artist” at the Frankfurter Kunstverein at the beginning of 2010, to locate various social roles & their analysis.

The recent works of the artist focus word and text by means of catchwords taken from the title of the exhibition, which are painted in big letters intertwined in a network of connected ‘islands’ joined by lines and punctuated with synapse-like (thought-) knots. The recipient is encircled by an endless questionnaire of existential descriptive patterns, made of collages. The black and white canvases, similar to charts on blackboards, describe the word “love” through the terms “community”, “violence” as well as “man” and “woman”, “animal” and the level of “being”, “family” and “body”. But only the selective view can penetrate the thick meshwork to feel the lines and isles as parts of the thresholds of the margin and dissolution of sense. The three chapters –“anxiety”, “love” and “dream”– are accompanied by a sound sculpture of a cephalopod, with the notations based on a precise translation from word into music created according to the artist’s own system. Hammer takes the recipient on a journey into his soul to audio-visualize the limits of non-objective as well as objectified corporeality; stripped in his dreams becoming himself by another self.

Galerie Jette Rudolph
Zimmerstrasse 90- 91,
D- 10117 Berlin
www.jette-rudolph.de

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Approaching the Onion - WILDE Gallery
Opening Friday 3rd September · 19:00 - 21:00

WILDE Gallery is pleased to announce Approaching the Onion, the first solo exhibition of Spanish painter Antonio Santín with the gallery.

Antonio Santín paints scenes of existential ennui, women depicted in domestic yet surreal environments cluttered with material objects. Santín, who specialized in sculpture during his studies, carves forms out of the layers upon layers of paint that he applies, arriving at densely structured yet luminescent compositions. The subjects that Santín selects for his large-scale paintings are primarily young women, who confront the viewer with a stoic gaze, almost morose in its serenity and yet silently defiant, inquisitive and unforgiving.

Santín is a draftsman of exceptional skill. Deriving inspiration from Spanish masters such as Velázquez, Goya and Greco, Santín renders his subjects with precise detail and controlled painterly flourishes. His brushstrokes take on a three dimensional treatment, reducing the paint to graduated matter that is carved away to excavate the inner being of the subject.

WILDE GALLERY
Chausseestrasse 7
D-10115 Berlin
www.wilde-gallery.com

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Hendrik Voerkel - Malerei - G11 Galerie
Opening Saturday 4th September at 19:00


Hendrik Voerkel reconstructs in thick bright colours and clear shapes an image of contemporary urban environment that at the same time looks familiar and alien.

G11 Galerie
Landsberger Allee 54, 3.Etage
www.gruppe11.net

Show VI at MMX Berlin on August 27

Show VI opens on August 27, 2010.  A performative craze has landed at MMX bringing forth 30 artists and 14 performers in a 6-week span. Juan Arata brings his project “Out of Control”; every week one artist leaves after curating a replacement. Each new artist is welcomed into the gallery on Wednesday nights with a mini-opening and special performances. Bernd Bleffert’s klangkunst performs throughout the East wing along with Sarah Rechberger’s sublime work with oscillating light. Ivonne Dippmann unveils outdoor wall works and Kati Gausmann draws the subtle traces of Kleidung. Laura Napier’s public interventions and David Sherry’s cheeky performances counteract the blasé of daily life.  Screening program VI is an eclectic mix of performance work.

The Vernissage on August 27; performances by AlteregoRelativamenteSensibili, Nadia Salom, David Sherry and Laura Napier.  Tacos Berlin will be serving yummy Mexican food all night long.               

Artists: Laura Napier, Bernd Bleffert, Kati Gausmann, Ivonne Dippmann, Sarah Rechberger, Elke Graalfs, David Sherry, Tobias Sternberg, Islamiya Scarr, Jon Rafman, Cari Freno, Jacob Tonski, Andrew de Freitas, Hugh Walton, Ben Kinsley, Inez de Vega, Eric Fleischauer, Zachary Fabri, Michelle Teran, Juan Arata, SSMIDD, Lan Hungh, Phillipe Marcus, Stephanie Custance, Gab Heller, Christel Fetzer, AlteregoRelativamenteSensibili, Nadia Salom, Liang Ya-hui, Elizabeth Wurst, Joakim Stampe & Chuyia Chia, Julischka Stengele, Márcio Carvalho & Brina Stinehelfer, Dovrat and Elana Katz

MMX- Open Art Venue

Linienstraße 142/143, Mitte

www.mmx.mx

Hours- Wed 12-22  Thu-Sun 12-19

Exhibition: August 27- October 10

Opening: August 27, 2010  18:00-22:00

Two interesting opening this Friday in Berlin

AUTOCENTER presents: "CHOP SHOP"

with:

Marc Bijl, Thomas Chapman, Sven Drühl, Lori Hersberger, Daniel Jackson, Clemens Krauss, Olivier Mosset, Jan Muche, Mario Neugebauer, Manfred Peckl, Nathan Peter, Richard Priestley, Marcus Sendlinger, Peter Thol

Opening Fr. 6.08.10, 8:00 p.m , live B-MEN

Exhibition 6.08. - 21.08.2010 , Thu-Sat 4 - 6 p.m.

curated by Marcus Sendlinger

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DEFINITE ARTICLE

Glasgow School of Art MFA International Exhibition

Berlin > Bethanien > Mariannenplatz 2

Opening: 6 August, Friday, 7-11 pm

Exhibition: 7 - 28 August 2010

Tuesday to Saturday 11-6 pm

Oliver Braid, Fiona Burke, Celeste Carballo, Kirstin Carlin, Kaifeng Chun, Emily Donnini, Caroline Douglas, Solveig Einarsdottir, Hannah Ellul, Kitty Finer, Emma Fitts, Sarah Forrest, Ellie Harrison, Tom Harrup, Gayoung Jang, Amy Marletta, Gaby Peters, Charlotte Prodger, Rosemary Scanlon, Peter Schoeffer, Olga Schulz, Darren Tesar, Deniz Uster, Tobias Wootton, Jamie Wright

curated by John Calcutt and Graham Ramsay

www.gsamfa.com

Artnews Projects c/o Bethanien

Mariannenplatz 2, D-10997 Berlin

www.artnews.org/projects

Last days to see the 2010 Berlin Biennale

The 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art which opened on the 11th June and will close in 3 days on the 8th August. The last event of the Biennale takes place on Sunday, 8.8.2010 at 7 pm at KW Institute for Contemporary Art and this will be a talk in English entitled In the body of the victim with Ion Grigorescu, participating artist of the Biennale.

Marta Dziewanska, Editor of the publication Ion Grigorescu. In the body of the victim (2010)
and Kathrin Rhomberg, Curator of the 6th Berlin Biennale and the exhibition Ion Grigorescu. In the body of the victim 1969–2009, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2009. The talk is accompanied by the book launch: Ion Grigorescu. In the body of the victim. Ion Grigorescu, born in 1945 in Bucharest, was one of the first Romanian conceptual artists and advocates of anti-art, postulating a radical consolidation of artistic activities with quotidian life. The publication is the fruit of the exhibition prepared in 2009 by Kathrin Rhomberg and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, which for the first time gathered works from 1969 to 2009. As part of the 6th Berlin Biennale Grigorescu's film Sleep (2008), the photograph Topbottom (2008) and a diary of the artist are shown at KW.

On Sunday, 8.8.2010 the 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art will remain open at KW Institute for Contemporary Art until 9 pm.

Thursday Evening Ticket: for the last time on 5.8.2010

The Thursday Evening Ticket costs 5 Euro and is valid on Thursday evening from 7 to 10 pm at Oranienplatz 17 or at KW Institute for Contemporary Art.

KW Institute for Contemporary Art
6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Auguststraße 69
www.kw-berlin.de
www.berlinbiennale.de

www.facebook.com/KWInstituteforContemporaryArt
www.facebook.com/BerlinBiennale

Show V - MMX - July 16, 2010

Show V opens on July 16, 2010. Andy Holtin premieres his interactive pieces Glance, Contraption for the Influence of Breath and Checkin’ out you checkin’ out me. Tobias Sternberg finishes Schadensorge with the addition of one more animal in the bushes. Islamiya Scarr joins us in the garden with her decadent and campy birdbath sculpture. Elke Graalfs’ wall work remains in the entrance room while Kuno Ebert’s Mindset takes a closer look at the natural narcissism of the Spiegel. Gert-Jan Akerboom takes his site-specific drawings out through the windows and into the Hinterhof. Kinga Dunikowska and Gianni Moretti transform their spaces into microcosms of otherworldliness. Lana Vogestad’s video installations come over from Iceland. Screening Program V is a Chicago/Berlin Exchange curated by Eric Fleischauer and features emerging video art from the Windy City.

Exhibition: July 16-August 20

Opening: July 16, 2010 18:00-22:00

MMX- Open Art Venue

Linienstraße 142/143, Mitte

www.mmx.mx

Hours- Wed 12-22 Thu-Sun 12-19

Show IV at MMX

Show IV opens on June 4, 2010 with a musical performance by the Canadian duo Trike. Tobias Sternberg continues his interactive piece Schadensorge in the garden, if you missed the life-sized mammoth in the tree then be prepared for more creatures. Elke Graalfs unleashes her palette to transform the entire entrance room. Paintings from Hannah Murgatroyd and Nicole Lebarge, a video installation by Irishman Maurice Doherty, performances by Berlin based Madeline Stillwell and a 2.5 meter bubble making machine entitled Cycle by Ben Sloat. Michael Ebert’s Stiller remains in the Hinterhof and Screening Program IV is curated by the MMX staff and includes works by Jesper Just, Annette Otto, Nicolas Provost and Eric Fleischauer. Last summer the Venice Biennial premiered the work of Uruguayan artist Pablo Uribe and this summer MMX brings Atardecer to Germany.

MMX- Open Art Venue
Linienstraße 142/143, Mitte
www.mmx.mx
Hours- Wed 12-22 Thu-Sun 12-19
Exhibition: June 4-July 9
Opening: June 4, 2010 18:00-22:00

Shadow + Sunlight

Midori Hirose, “Black Rainbow”, 2010 gouache and Flashe on archival paper 6.25” x 5.25”

Venue: The EAST/WEST Project BERLIN

Artists: Midori Hirose, Chloé Richard, Per Schumann + Elina Tuhkanen

Dates: April 30 - May 29, 2010

Opening Reception : Friday, April 30, 2010 at 7pm - 10pm

For “Shadow + Sunlight” the EAST/WEST Project presents a Berlin/West Coast Spectacular of work by a new generation of artists raised in a world colored by counter-cultural ideals of the 60’s and esoteric, transcendental visuals from the American Symbolist and Visionary artistic movements of the early 20th century. Encompassing painting, photography, sculpture and drawing, it is an exhibition of moments where micro-emotional experiences open the door

to a new and infinite sense of self in the world; a walk through the city becomes a cartographic mandala charting intimate epiphanies, hypercolor crystals trap the suggestion of a sacred geometry, tiny hillsides sprout on the backs of gnarled mushrooms and young men and women commune with one another in a woodland utopia.

Midori Hirose (Portland, Oregon) Hirose’s collages of bright crystalline gradients are a joyful examination of figurative representation and abstraction. With a rainbow palette and painterly hand, her deliberate arrangements of crisp and reasoned polygons move beyond strict minimalist confines and recall the shapes and colors of natural crystals with esoteric and mystic

implications.

Chloé Richard (Portland, Oregon/Berlin, Germany) Richard’s photography documents the lives of a young generation. The “Bagby Hot Springs Series” marks a shift from the landscape of an urban daily life to the verdant woods of the Northwestern United States. Here, suffused with lush sunlight, she captures intimate portraits of reflection and contemplation.

Per Schumann (Hamburg, Germany) In the "Daily Kraut" drawing series Schumman turns his daily walks into illustrated maps charting his thoughts and encounters he has along the way. Brightly colored and filled with a deep appreciation for nature, they are an intimate reflection on how through a simple physical interaction everyday environments can be an ever-changing

discovery of self and place.

Elina Tuhkanen (Portland, Oregon/Finland) In the “The Kääpä Collection” Tuhkanen collects her memories of walking through forests and fields and her sense of curiosity on finding furrows and holes, dark places full of secrets and questions. Using mushrooms gathered from fallen trees in old growth forests as her canvas she isolates those moments of discovery by creating

intimately scaled landscapes of her own.

The EAST/WEST Project is a 501(c)3 international exhibition program founded by Dam, Stuhltrager (EAST) and galleryHOMELAND (WEST). Previously located in Alexanderplatz, The EAST/WEST Project moved in January 2010 to an incredible, doubled-in-size, new space next to the Berliner Unterwelten on Fichtestraße!

Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 12:00 - 18:00 or by appointment

Contact: The EAST/WEST Project, Fichtestrasse 3, Berlin, Germany

www.damstuhltrager.com/east_west.htm - theeastwestproject@gmail.com

www.galleryhomeland.org/wordpress/projects

Directions: U7 to Sudstern. (Two blocks from station.)

Exhibition by American Photographer Gregg LeFevre at Freies Museum, Berlin

Exhibition by American Photographer Gregg LeFevre at Freies Museum, Berlin

3 Voices in my Head: Three exhibitions curated by Shaheen Merali
Freies Museum, Potsdamer Straße 91. 10785 Berlin
April 18 through May 14, 2010. Opening reception: April 17 at 7:00pm



Corporate advertising imprints itself on a city and not surprisingly, a city often talks back. Since the mid-1980s, artist Gregg LeFevre has been documenting this dialog in cities around the world. His photographs illustrate the accidental, premeditated and fleeting ways that a city’s inhabitants—from protestors to pigeons—respond to commercial messaging. His images—straightforward street photography, not collages or digital manipulations—reflect LeFevre’sinterest in documenting the urban landscape exactly as he sees it.

In his Freies Museum installation, LeFevre has stretched a number of large-scale photographic works from ceiling to floor within the industrial interior of the galleries. This recent series explores the concept of subversion. Once an advertising image is released from the safeguards of the corporate studio into the unpredictable topography of the
city, the inherent tensions between commercial mythology and urban reality begin to surface: protestors and graffiti artists respond, urban wildlife plays a part and sun, wind, and rain leave their marks. LeFevre focuses on varied aspects of this dialog between citizens and advertisers.

Curated by the London and Berlin based writer and curator Shaheen Merali, these three exhibitions of artists Gregg LeFevre, Ulrich Volz and Yvette Mattern at the Freies Museum in Berlin will run from April 18 – May 4, with an artists reception on April 17 at 7:00pm. The exhibition’s title, 3 Voices in my Head, refers to the connection Merali has found between the different artists’ work, of which he explains, “In the work produced by all three artists, the one concern that remains stable is their differing relationship to the notion of a globality and its uncontrollable wanton consumption.”

Gregg LeFevre’s work can be viewed at www.gregglefevre.com. Press inquiries should be directed to Jennifer Andrews at 1 347 351 9609 or jennifer@andrewsjennifer.com. For more information about the exhibition, contact Museum Director Marianne Wagner-Simon at +49 (0) 179 921 2146 or marianne.wagner@freies-museum.de

MMX, Show II, opening 12th March

MMX, Open Art Venue is located on Linienstraße right in the heart of one of Berlin's longer established commercial art areas but it claims to offers something different: a non-profit venue which "is committed to fostering innovative ways of generating, exhibiting, supporting and experiencing contemporary art. Influenced by seasonal and social consciousness, MMX aims to offer the Berlin art community a different approach." It is hard to figure out just what this different approach could be but it is certainly worth investigating.

MMX opened its doors to the public on January 29th. Their first exhibition, "Show I", which just closed on Friday 5th March, featured the work of The Ebert Brothers, Reynold Reynolds, Ingo Fröhlich, Karin Schröder, Jonathan Gröger, Caspar Stracke, Darri Lorenzen, Patrick Timm, Rebecca Loyche, Björk Viggósdóttir, Gabriela Monroy, Daniel Wilson and Pablo Fernandez Pujol.

The next exhibition Show II will open on March 12th and run until April 15th and will present the work of Veronika Schumacher, Ingo Fröhlich, Rasso Hilber & Mikko Gaestel, Francisco Montoya, Florian Gwinner, Constantin Hartenstein, Clemens Wilhelm, archivo-video dumbo, Rebecca Loyche and Björk Viggósdóttir. The opening night includes a musical performance by Francisco Montoya, Per Olaf Schmidt and Sebastian Neubauer.

visit http://www.mmx-berlin.com/ for more info or befoce of fan of MMX on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/MMX.Berlin

MMX, Open Art Venue e.V.

Linienstraße 142/143
10115 Berlin-Mitte

general opening hours: Wed 12-22, Thu-Fri 12-18, Sat-Sun 12-19

A Berlin Salon - 13th March 2010

Carte Blanche
Exhibition / Salon / Performance with
Elly Clarke, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Linda Franke, Anne Kathrin Greiner, Elisabeth Jugert, Anna-Myga Kasten, Katja Kollowa, Michelle-Marie Letelier, Silvia Marzall, Lätitia Norkeit, Bettina Rave, Karen Scheper De Aquirre, Miriam Steinhauser, Kymberley Ward

Saturday 13th March 2010, 4pm - 10pm

Anyone who thinks Salon Culture belongs to the past is mistaken! Generously (perhaps foolishly?) Clarke Gallery opens its doors to fifteen Ladies, inviting them to present their work in the style of a Salon - as practiced during the 17th-20th centuries.

These fifteen artists met in January 2010. They brought together through their shared "fateful destiny" of the Goldrausch Kunstlerinnen Projekt - of which they are all Stipendium recipients this year. This is the first exhibition these artists have done together and is organised independently of the programme.

With the exhibition title Carte Blanche artists are offered free rein to do whatever they want within the private apartment of Clarke Gallery.

Alongside videos and works on paper are other works created in direct response to the immediate environment of the gallery. The border between furniture and art becomes blurred as the whole flat is monopolised by the artists.

Performances and readings will also take place. The complete line up will be published on the Clarke Gallery website on Friday 12th March.

Food, drink, a touch of anarchy and a sense of nobel refinement will all be present.

We look forward to seeing you!

Clarke Gallery and the 15 Salon Ladies.

Elly Clarke
Pauline Curnier Jardin
Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez
Linda Franke
Anne Kathrin Greiner
Lisa Jugert
Anna-Myga Kasten
Katja Kollowa
Michelle-Marie Letelier
Silvia Marzall
Lätitia Norkeit
Bettina Rave
Karen Scheper De Aquirre
Miriam Steinhauser
Kimberley Ward

Carte blanche definition: unrestricted power to act at one's own discretion.

Clarke Gallery was set up by Elly Clarke in October 2008 and is located in a 4th Floor Hinterhaus apartment in Neukoelln, Berlin, near Hermanplatz.

Text: Miriam Steinhauser, Translation to English: Elly Clarke

http://www.clarkegallery.de/

The Prairie Project at 48 Stunden Neukolln

The Prairie Project is part of "48 Stunden Neukolln" June 26-28,2009 at the Magdalen Kirche on the Karl Marx Str.
It is an installation by Ex-Berliner Kat Citroen who lives and works in Canada and Berlin . Her Installation called "Epiphany" consists of Wall Sculpture, Photographs, Drawings and a Soundscape based on Native chanting recorded on wax cylinders, and re-mixed by Richard Citroen of the Grammy nominated* pop duo Lola Dutronic.
Further info can be found on the "48 Stunden Neukolln" website: www.48-stunden-neukoelln.de

Opening Friday 6th March - MARCUS SENDLINGER / THE RECURRENCE OF TRUTH

Galerie Jette Rudolph
6th March 2009 - 18th April 2009

Opening: Friday 6th March, 19:00 - 22:00

Marcus Sendlinger (* 1967 in Königsstein/ Taunus, based in Berlin) presents his third solo show entitled „The Recurrence of Truth“ at the gallery Jette Rudolph Berlin. Works include his most recent small and large-sized images and a metal sculpture.

The linchpin of this exhibition will be the sculpture “T.B.O.T.” (The Base of Thoughts), awakening reminiscences of a folded object. Despite its materiality it is set on a thin triangular metal sheet, fixed by steel wires from the ground to the ceiling. The construction suggests a stage-like but virtual character, reminiscent of installations of the Modern and captures the metaphorical idea of “the stoppage of time”, similar to a movie-still.

Featuring the exhibition title „The Recurrence of Truth” Sendlinger hints at the approach of “the eternal recurrence of the same” by F. Nietzsche. Comparable to the philosopher Sendlinger discounts the thought of progress in the art and works consciously with references taken from art history, architecture and design. References to philosophy, especially phenomenology, can also be found in the image titles, e.g. “Auge und Geist”/ “Eye and Mind”- the object of the image is composed between the evidence and the truth, the extract and the event.

Corresponding to the image strategy of faceting in Sendlinger´s works, light refraction and reflexion is visualized. Further a series of figurative but seemingly surreal ink drawings show the process of transformation of a car frame into the sculpture, associating the morphing from material and shape through to a new generated object. Finally a geometrical shape canon prevails, its lines and planes, triangles and circles multi-layered — put one on the top of the other to evoke an alternating play between surface and space. By using successive staggering of the image planes Sendlinger operates with techniques of taping, laying and moving templates and perforated metal plates. The moiré-effect with its iridescent patterns and colours originates an additional dynamic.

The artist generates a concept of construction into his paintings and sculpture, a minimized geometrical syntax, a compressed self-generating and multi-layered system, motivated by references and codes, which are expressed by its autonomy and necessity being a medial reminiscence of language and its reflection of thoughts and ideas on the track into a new consciousness.

Galerie Jette Rudolph, Zimmerstrasse 90- 91, D- 10117 Berlin
open: Tues- Sat 11.30 am- 6 pm
galerie@jette-rudolph.de / www.jette-rudolph.de

Opening Friday 6th March - MARCUS SENDLINGER / THE RECURRENCE OF TRUTH

Galerie Jette Rudolph
6th March 2009 - 18th April 2009

Opening: Friday 6th March, 19:00 - 22:00

Marcus Sendlinger (* 1967 in Königsstein/ Taunus, based in Berlin) presents his third solo show entitled „The Recurrence of Truth“ at the gallery Jette Rudolph Berlin. Works include his most recent small and large-sized images and a metal sculpture.

The linchpin of this exhibition will be the sculpture “T.B.O.T.” (The Base of Thoughts), awakening reminiscences of a folded object. Despite its materiality it is set on a thin triangular metal sheet, fixed by steel wires from the ground to the ceiling. The construction suggests a stage-like but virtual character, reminiscent of installations of the Modern and captures the metaphorical idea of “the stoppage of time”, similar to a movie-still.

Featuring the exhibition title „The Recurrence of Truth” Sendlinger hints at the approach of “the eternal recurrence of the same” by F. Nietzsche. Comparable to the philosopher Sendlinger discounts the thought of progress in the art and works consciously with references taken from art history, architecture and design. References to philosophy, especially phenomenology, can also be found in the image titles, e.g. “Auge und Geist”/ “Eye and Mind”- the object of the image is composed between the evidence and the truth, the extract and the event.

Corresponding to the image strategy of faceting in Sendlinger´s works, light refraction and reflexion is visualized. Further a series of figurative but seemingly surreal ink drawings show the process of transformation of a car frame into the sculpture, associating the morphing from material and shape through to a new generated object. Finally a geometrical shape canon prevails, its lines and planes, triangles and circles multi-layered — put one on the top of the other to evoke an alternating play between surface and space. By using successive staggering of the image planes Sendlinger operates with techniques of taping, laying and moving templates and perforated metal plates. The moiré-effect with its iridescent patterns and colours originates an additional dynamic.

The artist generates a concept of construction into his paintings and sculpture, a minimized geometrical syntax, a compressed self-generating and multi-layered system, motivated by references and codes, which are expressed by its autonomy and necessity being a medial reminiscence of language and its reflection of thoughts and ideas on the track into a new consciousness.

Galerie Jette Rudolph, Zimmerstrasse 90- 91, D- 10117 Berlin
open: Tues- Sat 11.30 am- 6 pm
galerie@jette-rudolph.de / www.jette-rudolph.de

Some upcomming openings

On Friday 20th February from 7pm
HUNCHENTOOT REVISITED

Anlässlich des zweijährigen Bestehens der Galerie zeigt Hunchentoot eine Gruppenausstellung von Künstlern der Galerie. Die Künstler geben Einblicke in aktuelle Prozesse ihrer Arbeit und stellen Projekte vor, die im Lauf des Jahres in Einzelausstellungen gezeigt werden. Dies verleiht der Ausstellung den Charakter einer Laborsituation. Die Ausstellung zeigt Arbeiten von:

Tobias Becker, Philipp Hennevogl, Thomas Kutschker, Enda O'Donoghue, Gregor Stephan,
Tom Schmelzer

The exhibition runs until 14.03.2009

Hunchentoot, Galerie für zeitgenössische Positionen, Choriner Straße 8, 10119 Berlin

http://www.galerie-hunchentoot.de

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Open Studio Day
Takt Kunstprojektraum
Artist Residency
The current artists of the February residency program
show their new Berlin works:
painting, objects, sculpture, performance.

Saturday, February 21, 2 -7pm
Grünberger Str. 1, 10243 Berlin, 1st floor left (ring "Takt")

Participating artists:

Francesca Amati, Italy
Ashleigh Burskey, USA
Lino di Vinci, Italy
Nike Forsander Lorentzen, Denmark
Yoko Ishiguro, Japan
Karena Keys, Australia
Kiera Brew Kurec, Australia
Josh Pearce, Australia
Anthony Reach, USA

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Gallery [DAM]Berlin is looking forward to presenting you the following exhibition:

LAb[au], LAboratory for Architecture and Urbanism
(M.Abendroth, J.Decock, A.Plennevaux, E.Vermang)

time ¦ emit

Installation, Skulpture

Exhibition: 21. February - 28. March 2009 /
Preview: Friday, 20. February, 7-9 pm

The artist group LAb[au] from Brussels is known for its large-scale light-
installations and kinetic objects in urban spaces

Their exhibition deals with the subject time. On the basis of cybernetics and
the theory of colours they transform time in light and colours. The local time
of different time zones on earth will be shown as a perpetually changing
colour installation on twelve consoles according to the principle of GMT.
The code of the installation - the concept of the work - is visualised as a text
on the walls of the gallery.


Gallery [DAM]Berlin Tucholskystr. 37 10117 Berlin Germany Fon: +49 30 280 98 135
www.dam-berlin.de

Simon Starling

Opening tomorrow is an exhibition by Turner Prize winner Simon Starling, in the big blue and white box near the demolished Palast der Republik... otherwise know as the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin.


Friday, February 6, 2009, 9 p.m., exhibition opening of Simon Starling – Under Lime

With his installations, Simon Starling tells stories about natural and cultural processes of transformation. For the exhibition Under Lime, the artist has transplanted an Andalusian cactus to Berlin’s winter, where a converted automotive engine ensures its survival (Kakteenhaus, 2002), and created a mud-brick chamber for sensitive historical photographs (Plant Room, 2008). A balancing act between nature and culture is also integral to Starling’s newest work, for which he cut a lime branch from the nearby “Unter den Linden” boulevard in order to graft it beneath the Kunsthalle’s rafters (Under Lime, 2009).

Duration of the exhibition: February 7 to March 18, 2009.

SEBASTIAN GRÄVE at Galerie Kollaborativ

backgrund
Sebastian Gräve
Galerie Kollaborativ
Opening: Thursday, 29. Januar, 19–21 Uhr
Öffnungszeiten: 30. Januar – 21. Februar 2009, Mittwochs–Samstags 13–18 Uhr

Saarbrücker Strasse 25 (Ecke Straßburger Straße)
10405 Berlin
http://kollaborativ.com