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

Where gravity makes you float

Grim Projects presents

WHERE GRAVITY MAKES YOU FLOAT curated by Silja Leifsdottir

June 12th-July 8th 2010. OPENING 12th 19:00-23:00

Group show with Henrik Menné, Josefine Lyche/Henrik Pask, Kristina Bengtsson, Katharina Kiebacher,Michael John Whelan, Simen J. Helsvig, Sinta Werner.

The exhibition Where gravity makes you float looks at contemporary artists who in different ways play with the nature and limitation of knowledge through their exploration of existential ideas. By working through philosophical problems visually, they question a fully rational understanding of the world. The works in the exhibition reveal a deep curiosity about the nature of reality and embody a constant dialogue between fact and fiction.

According to 20th century myths, the laws of aerodynamics prove that the bumblebee should be incapable of flight, as it does not have the capacity in terms of wing size or beat per second to fly. Not being aware of scientists 'proving' it cannot fly, the bumblebee succeeds under ‘the power of its own ignorance’.

Gravity is well known as a force of nature that is just as inevitable as death. It is responsible for keeping the earth and all the other planets in the orbits around the sun. Without it, life as we know it, would not exist. In spite of this knowledge, mankind have been attempting to conquer this force for centuries, dreaming about weightlessness and the ability to fly.

Date:	Saturday, June 12, 2010
Time:	7:00pm - 11:00pm
Location:	GRIMMUSEUM. Fichte strasse 2, 10967 Berlin http://www.grimmuseum.com/

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

Landsberger Allee 54

Landsberger Allee which was once called Lenin Allee seems like a never ending street, it runs from the Platz der Vereinten Nationen onward and east-wards. This seemingly non-descript street, which is filled with traffic and tram lines running at a constant rate, has actually a couple of quite illustrious historic locations dotted along its length. One such location is the former Patzenhofer Brewery which apparently was once Europe's largest brewery. The building dates back to 1877, closed as a brewery in 1990 and since then has fallen into disrepair to put it mildly, in fact it is a steps or two above being a just derelict shell of a building and just lake many empty derelict shells in Berlin the artists have moved in and taken over.

Located at Landsberger Allee 54 at the corner of Richard Sorge Strasse, the graffitied hallways are now filled up with artists studio spaces and most interestingly a selection of gallery and project spaces. It seems that the names and setups of each of these spaces is in constant flux or evolution but currently you can find Project Space 91mq, the galleries Styx and Kunstraum Richard Sorge, Gallery G11 and Marzia Frozen Contemporary Art. Each one with a very different flavour and style and approach but all with something interesting to offer. If you are every wondering why Berlin has gained such an international reputation for its unique art scene and art spaces then this is one place that offers a very current answer to that question. http://www.landsberger54.org

The G11 Gallery on the third floor is the newest addition to the building. It is being run by a small collective of artists based in Leipzig and stands in quite contrast to the building it inhabits. It is a clean white professional looking space in a decaying, wild, almost dangerous looking building. Their first exhibition in this space presents work from the artists who have setup and are running the space. Three artists, John Power from Ireland, Lexander Prokogh from Russia and Hendrik Voerkel from Germany present a collection of painting and object/installation which is of all of a strikingly high quality. It will be very interesting to see how the exhibitions in this space evolve over time. http://www.gruppe11.net

The Project Space 91mq on the first floor was founded in 2008 by Elena Bellantoni and Marco Giani, two berlin based Italian artists and has since expanded and begun working with new curators and artist. They present a mix of work, experimental and playful in a variety of mediums which seems to lead towards the tighter conceptual side of the game. http://www.91mq.org

The current exhibition at Marzia Frozen Contemporary Art on the third floor is called Fucking Kunst and is based on the theme of censorship. The walls present a salon style hanging of painting and photography while the centre of the space presents a number of installation or object based pieces. This is the gallery space which fits into its into its surroundings the easiest, at first glance it is as wild, dangerous and chaotic in here as it is throughout the building. But here the aim it obviously orchestrated to shock and while the individual pieces on show vary in quality and style quite dramatically, collectively it works as a tightly curated showing. http://marziafrozen.webs.com/

The STYX Project Space on the second floor has been presenting the first Berlin exhibition of New York based artist Daniel Turner. This space presents a very mixed programme not only by showing visual art but also live music, performances, and readings. http://www.styx-berlin.de

The Kunstraum Richard Sorge has a separate ground floor entrance is named after the neighbouring street and the communist spy that apparently was Ian Fleming's model for James Bond and reputedly saved the Western world from Nazism. The work they present follows this semi political and historical strand. “Like its namesake, the initiative independently works from a marginal, yet cosmopolitan position to ultimately save the world.” http://www.kunstraumrichardsorge.org/

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.)