Current Events

Liebe auf den ersten Blick

26. October – 3. December 2024
Group Show, Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen

Die Stiftung Springhornhof wurde gegründet, um das Lebenswerk der 1998 verstorbenen Ruth Falazik weiterzuführen. Als Galeristin hat sie bereits in den 1960er Jahren aus dem historischen Spring­ hornhof einen Ort für zeitgenössische Kunst ge­ macht. Als spätere Kunstvereinsleiterin gelang es ihr, namhafte internationale Künstlerinnen und Künstler in das Heidedorf zu locken, um neue Werke im Dialog mit Natur und Landschaft zu entwickeln.

Die obere Etage gehört den Künstlerinnen und Künstlern des Ensembles von mittlerweile mehr als vierzig frei zugänglichen Skulpturen und Installa­ tionen, das vom Springhornhof stetig weiter ent­ wickelt wird. Großzügig haben sie Fotografien, Skulpturen und Objekte für den Verkauf zugunsten der Arbeit der Stiftung zur Verfügung gestellt. Die Schau führt eindrucksvoll vor Augen, welche Band­ breite künstlerischer Positionen die Neuenkirchener „Kunst­Landschaft“ mittlerweile umfasst:

Elmgreen & Dragset, Rupprecht Matthies, HAWOLI, Gabriela Albergaría, Hartmut Stielow, Mutter/Genth, Martin Reichmann, Kaori Tomita, Verena Issel, Aram Bartholl, Ulrich Eller, Harald Finke, Stefan Kern, Micha Ullman, Rolf Jörres, Timm Ulrichs, Christiane Möbus, Volker Lang, Carl Vetter, Anna Guðjónsdóttir, Will Beckers, Gisela von Bruchhausen und viele mehr.

Singularity

4. October – 15. December 2024
Group Show, C-Lab - Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei

2024 Future Media FEST-Singularity Embracing the Dawn of the Singularity

In the heart of the 21st century’s digital revolution, technological advancements are reshaping human existence—our lifestyles, thought processes, and societal structures. Underpinning this transformation is the captivating concept of the Singularity, a theory both alluring and profound.

The Technological Singularity, as envisioned by mathematician and computer scientist Vernor Vinge in 1993, designates a pivotal moment when machine intelligence eclipses human intellect. This event is predicted to trigger an exponential surge in technological progress, irrevocably altering the trajectory of civilization. The academic community further understands the Singularity as an inflection point where artificial intelligence reaches a certain threshold, catalyzing a cascade of technological disruptions and an “intelligence explosion.”

Grand Snail Tour

26. September 2024 – 29. August 2025
Group Show, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Xanten Ruhrgebiet

What is the Ruhr area? An exciting metropolitan region centred around the major cities of Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg? Or a collection of scattered towns and villages from Alpen to Xanten? Or both? Does it consist of tranquil river landscapes along the Ruhr, Emscher and Lippe or is it hopelessly damaged by the scars of heavy industry? Ruhrpott, example of transformation, poverty zone – how can art open up, change and enrich this diverse region?

Urbane Künste Ruhr wants to find out and is launching the Grand Snail Tour in autumn, an artistic-performative journey through all 53 cities in the Ruhr region. Because this is an ambitious endeavour and Urbane Künste Ruhr has set itself the goal of getting to know local players, forming bonds and establishing sustainable networks, this is a three-year project.

Kick-off Grand Snail Tour in Xanten
Urbane Künste Ruhr is launching the Grand Snail Tour in autumn, an artistic-performative journey through all 53 cities in the Ruhr area. The kick-off event will take place on 26.9. in Xanten.

Urban Art Biennale

26. April – 10. November 2024
Biennial, Völklinger Hüttte, Saarbrücken

Staged at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Völklingen Ironworks, the Urban Art Biennale is one of the world’s largest exhibitions of this anarchic form of art. Departing from a conventional white cube aesthetic, the entire site of the Völklingen Ironworks is given over to a fruitful dialogue with an art form that has evolved from street art or graffiti. Established in 2011, the 2024 edition will focus on participatory urban art projects as well as political works in situ.

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Upcoming Events

Total Screen Time

23. November 2024
Curatorial, tba, Athens

Kill Your Phone

16. November 2024
Workshop, Super Duper Store, Athens

Recent Events

Low Resolution

19. October 2024
Group Show, Transfergallery / Postmasters, NYC

ʟᴏ ᴀɴᴅ ʙᴇʜᴏʟᴅ, ɪᴛ’ꜱ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ꜰᴏʀ ʟᴏᴡ ʀᴇꜱᴏʟᴜᴛɪᴏɴ. Postmasters 5.0 and TRANSFER present a show within a show to celebrate the finissage of ‘High Resolution’ on October 19th, 6-9PM 🗓️

​🎥 LOW RESOLUTION GIF SCREENING 🎥

Shiny renders, ‘poor images’, generative art, and everything in between – ‘Low Resolution’ features looped moving images from the internet and beyond, screening for one night only in SoHo.

​Featured Artists: @pr_x_s @anamariacaballero @arambartholl @auriea.harvey.studio @danieltemkin_ @fabiolalariosm @asugarhigh @joemckay5 @mrkdrf @machewtops @mayaontheinternet @yoururgetobreatheisalie @moisesdsanabria @made.by.oona @rodellwarner @rothbergrothberg @sashastiles @fakeshamus @nihil_diamond @taramoves @travisleroysouthworth @pipizzy02 + more announced soon.

​Join us for an evening of Animated GIFs from invited artists in the expanded community around ‘High Resolution’ to celebrate the close of the exhibition.

🎥 Sneak peek 👀 a special contribution from Auriea Harvey ‘Madame Archive’ 1996-1999 a sequential archive of the GIF the artist used online on Entropy8.com in the 90s

RSVP link in bio 🔗
https://lu.ma/q9mrjdnm

Fix your phone shop

19. – 27. October 2024
Workshop, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven

Your smartphone is broken – and it’s not just a cracked screen. The problem is in the apps, the operating system, the hardware, and it affects your privacy, your health, and the health of our planet. During Dutch Design Week, visit the Fix Your Phone Shop by Waag Futurelab and learn what to do to fix it!

Killyourphone.com workshop at Fix Your Phone Shop

High Resolution

28. September – 19. October 2024
Group Show, Postmaster 5.0 & TRANSFER gallery, New York

Postmasters 5.0 and TRANSFER
are excited to present a collaborative exhibition

It’s high time for High Resolution.

As the much needed antidote to a week of overwhelmingly static art at the fairs and the season opener shows, Postmasters 5.0 and TRANSFER will present a large-scale collaborative exhibition of digital art.

High Resolution will include several classics by pioneers of time-based media art shown along the hot-from-the-studio works by the new generation of digital artists. This high resolution, high energy, high bar exhibition will center around current ideas and technologies befitting 2024 and looking forward.

Tamas Banovich and Magda Sawon of Postmasters 5.0 and Kelani Nichole of TRANSFER are veterans who do not think like veterans.

with:

GRETCHEN ANDREW
VUK ĆOSIĆ
DAMJANSKI
CARLA GANNIS
HUNTREZZ JANOS
MARTA KUCSORA
LOVID
JENNIFER & KEVIN McCOY
ROSA MENKMAN
LORNA MILLS
EVA PAPAMARGARITI
FRANK WANG YEFENG

special appearance
ARAM BARTHOLL

50 für Bad Berlin

11. – 15. September 2024
Group Show, Bauakademie Berlin, Berlin

For Berlin Art Week, the non-profit organisation Flussbad Berlin will be presenting the exhibition and auction “50 Für Bad Berlin” in the Red Salon of the Bauakademie. Fluss Bad Berlin is a civil society initiative for urban development committed to making swimming possible in the Spree Canal and, in the long run, in other sections of the Berlin Spree.

“50 Für Bad Berlin” will present works by mostly Berlin-based artists and architects who show solidarity with the objectives of the Fluss Bad Berlin project and the team behind it. They advocate a sustainable development of Berlin for the common good. They oppose the tendency to restrict for ideological reasons the debate on the future of the city (centre) to the historicising reconstruction of the Berlin of the early 20th century and the attempt to appropriate “art and culture” for that purpose. They want to emphasise instead that art and culture are closely linked to development initiatives such as Fluss Bad Berlin, which promote a more social, ecological, sustainable, and futureproof urban development.

While the works on display cover a wide range of types and techniques, they all relate to themes the Fluss Bad project addresses: for instance, in their interpretation of the essential significance of water for our world and for life, and the diverse relationships between humans and the element. They analyse the sensory, political and technical significance of water as a cultural asset, and the meaning of a free and equal access to it. They remind us that the river belongs to the city, that everyday culture belongs to high culture, and that the city is shaped by social values, which –at the same time– it is capable to mediate.

All of the pieces shown at the “50 Für Bad Berlin” exhibition will be auctioned on September 12.

List of participating artists:
Rosa Barba, Barkow Leibinger, Aram Bartholl, John Bock, Stefanie Bürkle, Thomas Demand, Oswald Egger, Olafur Eliasson, Elmgreen & Dragset, Estudio Herreros, Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani, Simon Fujiwara, Filomeno Fusco & Victor Kégli, Graft, Katharina Grosse, Esra Gülmen, Asmund Hansteen-Mikkelsen, Annette Hauschild, Heide von Beckerath Alberts, Robert Hermann, Katharina Hinsberg, Moon Hoon, Bjarke Ingels, Inges Idee, Christian Jankowski, Peter K. Koch, Annette Kisling, Mischa Kuball, Götz Lemberg, Susanne Lorenz, Regula Lüscher, Maciej Markowicz, Maix Mayer, Jürgen Mayer H, Bjørn Mehlhus, Fernando Menis, Christian Möller, Olaf Nicolai, Lewis Pugh, Raumlabor, realities:united, Anselm Reyle, Shirin Sabahi, Michael Sailstorfer, Karin Sander, Tomás Saraceno, Sauerbruch Hutton, Erik Schmidt, Something Fantastic, Carlo Stanga, Wolfgang Tillmans, Clement Valla x Certain Measures, Michael Wesely, Haegue Yang, Tobias Zielony

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Blog Archive for Month: May 2007

Pic of the day: Designmai soccer fan

May 17, 2007


The city looks like there was a soccer cup final this weekend. And “Designmai” is the new favorite team. Green flags everywhere.
😉

Everybody who is involved in some creative occupation is taking part in this city wide event,
me too.

New Project: “Missing Image”

May 16, 2007



Three months ago at the Second Life panel during Transmediale 07 I showed this new project “Missing Image”. The missing texture default message of unloadable Second Life clothing is transferred into real life. Find more pics and a detailed description on the projects page here.

If there is somebody ( gallery, designer, fashion label …) interested in coproducing a small series of these shirts don’t hesitate to contact me.

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New Project: “256²”

May 16, 2007



The solution to the 16 meter chalk line is a new piece called “256²”. Although it didn’t stop raining yesterday noon I used almost 64 pieces of chalk to mark the outline of the Second Life Sim NewBerlin (Teleport) around Alexanderplatz Berlin real life. It was a lot of fun. Check out more pics and a detailed description on the projects page here.
See also joachim’s post on this event.

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Niklas Roy “Gallery Drive”

May 15, 2007


I am just coming from Niklas Roy’s Diplom presentation at UdK Berlin Digitale Klasse Joachim Sauter. Very nice high end low tec project, great job Niklas!

link GalleryDrive

Check some more pics on flickr

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1 piece of chalk = 16m line

May 14, 2007


256 x 256m = 65536m² = 64 pieces of chalk
Any idea what this will be. Make a guess!

Meet me tomorrow at Alexanderplatz 13:00 and you will see!

Second Life @ t e s l a: Lecture by Jo Fabian

May 14, 2007


From the Tesla newsletter:

second life 1 – with jo fabian
jo fabian visits us in our reality. a few months ago, having attained all important artistic goals, he emigrated to second life. now, he accepts our invitation, in the context of two tesla salons, to offer a first report on his experiences over there and to present his perspectives on the culture industry.
thurs 17.05.
at 8:30 pm
tesla salon
http://www.nofish-nocheese.de
http://secondlife.com
http://tesla-berlin.de/_page.php?aktion=SHOW_PAGE&Page_ID=316

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Rap at Designmai

May 13, 2007



“Two coffee with sugar and milk, please …. hmm, I think it is not quick enough yet.”

Allthough I haven’t seen all the presentations at the Designmai Symposium the “RepRap” project presented by Adrian Bowyer has blown me away. The vision of the self replicating replicator becomes reality!

The informal “Unconference” I was invited to talk today was nice and cosy. We had an interesting group of people discucssing.

Speakers at the Symposium:
DESIGNMAI SYMPOSIUM – TOOLS, TALENTS AND TURNOVERS

*Assa Ashuach* | Product-/Furniture Designer (www.assaashuach.com), London

*Adrian Bowyer* | Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering and Design, University of Bath
(www.bath.ac.uk/~ensab), Bath

*Michael Braungart* | Professor of Water Engineering and Environmental
Technology, University Lüneburg; CEO EPEA International Environmental
Research (www.epea.com); Co-Founder MBDC McDonough Braungart Design
Chemistry (www.mbdc.com); Founder of Hamburg Environmental Institute
(www.hamburger-umweltinst.org)

*Regine Debatty* | New Media Art Consultant for festivals and art
commissions; Blogger (www.we-make-money-not-art.com), Berlin

*Holm Friebe* | CEO Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur
(www.zentrale-intelligenz-agentur.de), Berlin
*Stefan Heidenreich* | Media Theoretician (www.stefanheidenreich.de),
Berlin

*Helena Hyvönen *| Dean of University of Art and Design (www.uiah.fi),
Helsinki **

*Björn Richter* | Stratasys GmbH (www.stratasys.com), Frankfurt**

*Ned Rossiter* | Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Ulster;
Digital Cultures, University of Western Sydney (online)
*Joachim Sauter* | Professor of Digital Media, Universität der Künste,
Berlin; Media Art and Design, University of California, L.A.; Artistic
Director ART+COM AG www.artcom.de), Berlin

*Ursula Tischner* | Designer; CEO econcept – agency for sustainable
design (www.econcept.org), Cologne

*Reto Wettach* | Professor of Physical Interaction Design,
Fachhochschule Potsdam; Director Interaction Design Lab
(www.idl.fh-potsdam.de)

Unconference

May 12, 2007

Stefan Heidenreich invited me today to talk at the second part of the Designmai Symposium “TOOLS, TALENTS AND TURNOVERS”, the “Unconference” tomorrow. I’ll show some projects and talk about the upcoming performance “Speach Bubble” at the plazes.com new HQ opening party next week.

Symposium-Conference 12.05, 10 – 18:30h
Symposium-Unconference 13.05, 11 – 15:00h, my talk ~ 14:00 h
DESIGNMAI Forum,
Spandauer Str. 2,
10178 Berlin

Pic of the day: Urban implant

May 12, 2007

Exhibition: My Own Private Reality , Update!

May 12, 2007



Some more pictures of my north west Germany trip. I had luck and could join the press tour of the exhibition “My Own Private Reality” guided by the curating team Sabine Himmelsbach ( Director of Edith-Russ-Haus) and Sarah Cook on friday morning. The show is a good mixture of on- and offline pieces pointing out social structures, participation and early web2.0 development of the internet. It’s the first time I have been at Edith-Russ-Haus. Very nice exhibition space, good show!

More pics of the guided tour on flickr

Blog of the show
“My Own Private Reality: Growing Up Online in the 90s and 00s” .

Flickr group of “My Own Private Reality” Show

Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art” Oldenburg, DE