Current Events

Let’s Do It All!

11. March – 21. May 2023
Group Show, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel

with:
ARAM BARTHOLL, ALICE CREISCHER, FANTASTIC LITTLE SPLASH, FREDERIK FOERT, SOPHIE GOGL, BARBARA HAMMER, MIRIAM JONAS, RALF MEYER, MICHAEL SAILSTORFER, PHILIP SCHEFFNER, CONSTANTIN SCHRÖDER, ALEEN SOLARI

Enigma

25. February 2023 – 25. February 2024
Group Show, Museum of Communication, Kopenhagen

Communication pervades our lives more than ever before. With the digital channels, we are constantly accessible and can publish ourselves wherever and whenever we want. But despite the many great opportunities, the tide of information may often appear confusing, polarizing or hateful, and our public conversation is challenged.

On November 19, 2022, ENIGMA will open new exhibition areas and a large children’s area, in which we look forward to welcoming everyone.

Behind the screens. 50 years of computer art.

22. January – 4. June 2023
Group Show, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn

Online, interactive and endless ones and zeroes in algorithms and coding; digital art, in all its forms and designs, is occupying an increasingly important place. And not only that. The growth and developments in the field of digital art also force us to think about the definition and meaning of concepts such as ‘unique’ and ‘authentic’. With more than 50 works by 29 artists, the group exhibition Behind the screens – 50 years of computer art shows the various forms of digital art and the developments from the 1970s to the present. A large part of the works of art in this exhibition come from a private collection from Apeldoorn, which includes a number of iconic works of art and gives an impression of the development of digital art.

 

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Upcoming Events

REMINDER! – Package Ready for Pickup

8. July 2023 – 25. February 2024
Solo Show, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück

2023 👋🏻 I am looking fwd to this solo. It will be the 30th anniversary of the Kunsthalle and 375 Jahre Westfälischer Friede 2023. The Kunsthalle is partly located in a former church. It’s quite a space to work in 😮😅 looking fwd to this! It will be a fun project. 🙂 Stay tuned! ✨

A:PRÉS D:ÉSSERT

17. June – 23. July 2023
Group Show, Projectspace A:D:, Berlin

Tilt / Shift

28. April – 7. May 2023
Group Show, Darmstadt

Recent Events

:-#

25. February – 12. March 2023
Group Show, Kunstverein Rotenburg, Rotenburg

Social Media prägt unseren Alltag und unsere Gesellschaft. Messenger-Dienste, Plattformen zum Teilen von Bildern und Videos, bis hin zu Dating Plattformen sind Teil unserer Kommunikation geworden. Auch aus den Künsten sind die Sozialen Medien nicht mehr wegzudenken. Einerseits genutzt als Website, andererseits als Ort der Selbstdarstellung, scheint das eigene Publikum nur einen Klick entfernt.

Die Ausstellung „:-#“ zeigt Arbeiten zum Thema Social Media in der Kunst und stellt die Frage was sozial an den Sozialen Netzwerken ist und inwiefern diese unser Verhalten und Gesellschaft verändern. In unterschiedlichsten Medien setzen sich Künstler*innen damit auseinander, was es bedeutet in einer digital geprägten Welt künstlerisch zu agieren.

Ausstellende:
Aram Bartholl, Felix Chauvin, Michael Dörner, Veronika Domp,  Finn Geiger, Gunilla Jähnichen, Amy Justen, Kira Keune,  Echo Can Luo, Zhiyi Liu, Julian Öffler, Eun Jung Sim und weitere

Kunst gegen Rechts

18. November 2022 – 8. January 2023
Group Show, https://www.haeselburg.org, Mieze Südlich, Häselburg Gera

Eingeladene Künstler:innen:
Ulf Arminde, Stefan Alber, Aram Bartholi, Fehmi Baumbach, Marc Bijl,  Jessica Buhlmann/Zao, Zuzanna Czebatul, Moritz Frei, Jana Gunstheimer, Christian Henkel, Verena Issel, Zoe C. Miller, Anne Mundo, Rainer Neumeier,  Angelika Nguyen, Thomas Prochnow, Regina Schmeken, Schroeter&Berger, Kristina Schuldt, Raul Walch, Christian Werner, Ina Wudtke

Die siebte Ausstellung der Reihe KUNST GEGEN RECHTS nimmt den 30. Jahrestag der Pogrome von Rostock-Lichtenhagen als Anlass, um kritisch auf aktuelle, gesellschaftliche Konflikte einzugehen.

Deutschland ist eine postmigrantische Gesellschaft der Vielen. Immer noch wird diese Tatsache viel zu wenig zur Kenntnis genommen. Der Wiedervereinigung am 3. Oktober 1990 folgten rassistische Ausschreitungen und Mordanschläge in Rostock, Mannheim, Hoyerswerda, Mölln und Solingen bis zur Terrorserie des NSU. Es folgten Anschläge auf jüdische Friedhöfe und emanzipatorische Projekte. Eine wiedererwachte deutsche Volksgemeinschaft kroch aus den Löchern hervor.

Der rechte Populismus, der die Kultureinrichtungen als Akteure einer gesellschaftlichen demokratischen Vision angreift, steht der Kunst der Vielen feindselig gegenüber. Die Neue Rechte hat die Kulturpolitik als Kampffeld entdeckt, um ihre völkischen Vorstellungen umzusetzen. Rechte Gruppierungen und Parteien stören Veranstaltungen, verhindern Ausstellungen, greifen in Theater-Spielpläne ein, polemisieren gegen die Freiheit der Kunst, gegen Dekoloniale Erinnerungsprojekte und arbeiten an einer Renationalisierung der Kultur. Es wird einFeldzug gegen zeitgenössische, „undeutsche“ Kunst geführt, die als „neumodische Extravaganzen“ und „exzentrische Randgruppenkunst“ bezeichnet wird, wie aktuell gegen den Kunstverein in Zwickau.

Seit dem Ausbruch der Pandemie, stehen viele Dinge auf dem Prüfstand. Es zeigte sich, wer ein solidarisches Miteinander praktiziert und wer als Pandemiegewinnler oder Coronaleugner die Krise für eigene Interessen nutzt. Bei den sogenannten Querdenken-Demonstrationen kommt es zu einer fatalen Zusammenarbeit verschiedener Akteure. Rechte Gruppierungen und Parteien gewinnen immer mehr an Einfluss. Antisemitismus ist in der neuen Bewegung stark vertreten, wie auch eine Verharmlosung der Shoa und der Gleichsetzung der NS-Zeit mit der aktuellen Situation.

Playmode

26. October 2022 – 16. January 2023
Group Show, CCBB – Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Sao Paulo

Since very early on, artists have understood the power of transformation of play, integrating it into their works with distinct purposes -evasion of reality, social construction and transformation, subversion or criticism of the very mechanisms of play and games. The exhibition Playmode proposes a reflection on these aspects and on the period of ludification that contemporary societies are going through, bringing together the work of several artists who adopt the theme and explore new ways of seeing, participating in, and transforming the world, using play in a critical manner.

with:

Aram Bartholl, Bill Viola + Game Innovation Lab, Bobware, Brad Downey, Brent Watanabe, Coletivo Beya Xinã Bena + Guilherme Meneses, David OReilly, Filipe Vilas-Boas, Harum Farocki, Isamu Noguchi, Jaime Lauriano, Joseph DeLappe, Laura Lima + Marcius Galan, Lucas Pope, Mary Flanagan, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Milton Manetas, Molleindustria, Nelson Leirner, Pippin Barr, Priscila Fernandes, Raquel Fukuda + Ricardo Barreto, Samuel Bianchini, Shimabuku, Tale of Tales (Auriea Harvey e Michaël Samyn) e The Pixel Hunt.

Curators: Filipe Pais and Patrícia Gouveia.

 

Safe Mode: Amplified Realities

8. October 2022 – 8. November 2022
Group Show, TILT Platform, The Project Gallery, MISC, BHD Hub Athens, Athens

The current mutated “epidemiological” societies within which we exist reveal that any previous indication we had about the term “safety” is now in limbo. TILT Platform has started exploring and developing the concept “Safe Mode” likening it to the indication safe mode appearing on our computers and smart devices, when they stop functioning properly after a major technical crisis. The process of safe mode emerges as the only possible solution. Comparing this state of technological malfunction to the processes of contemporary life, psychology and human behaviour, the term safe mode acquires an anthropological character.

Participating Artists
Nikos Arvanitis (GR), Aram Bartholl (DE), Browser Based (Zsolt Mesterhazy & Alex Zakkas) (NLD / GR), Sofia Caesar (BR), Paolo Cirio (IT), Manja Ebert (DE), Adrianos Efthymiadis (GR) & Iria Vrettou (GR), For Cancel (Makis Faros, Zoi Pirini, Takis Zerdevas) (GR), Elisa Giardina Papa (IT), Basim Magdy (EGY), Theophanis Melas (GR), Simon Menner (DE), Yorgos Papafigos (GR), Michalis Zacharias (GR), Apostolos Zerdevas (GR)

Curated by
Foteini Vergidou in collaboration with TILT Platform (Makis Faros, Zoi Pirini, Apostolos Zerdevas, Takis Zerdevas)

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Blog Archive for Month: July 2008

“Escape Vehicle no.6”

July 10, 2008


I had a great time last weekend during our ‘Performing Spaces’ workshop at Castle Bröllin. It showed that Anette and Miles had a very good hand in selecting and combining artists for the upcoming project. In the beginngin all of us introduced ourselfes and presented our work.

Simon Faithfull did show a video of the live event “Escape Vehicle no.6” one of my favorite pieces on that weekend. It is just amazing. I’ve often seen movies of cams mounted on a small rockets or similar filming from above. But having this plain chair ascending in almost earth space view is just hilarious. (The whole journey took about 90 min. he says)

Escape Vehicle no.6 started as a live event developed from the previous balloon film 30km. The live audience first witnessed the launching of a weather balloon with a domestic chair dangling in space beneath it. Once the apparatus had dissapeared into the sky they then watched a live video relay from the weather balloon as it jouneyed from the ground to the edge of space (30km up).

Now presented as a non-live video work, the footage shows the chair first rush away from the fields and roads, ascend through clouds and finally (against the curvature of the earth and the blackness of space) begin to disintegrate. The chilling nature of the film is that the empty chair invites the audience to imagine taking a journey to an uninhabitable realm where it is impossible to breath, the temperature is minus 60 below and the sky now resembles the blackness of space.

More hardware music

July 9, 2008

Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

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Trockenbau

July 9, 2008


Today I went to the new gallery area right behind HamburgerBahnhof (looks a bit like the wrapped Reichstag) to take a look at the Shilpa Gupta exhibition at BodhiBerlin/Volker Diehl.

During this excursion I found again Dieter Lutsch with his installation Trockenbau at Jarmuschek+Partner. I like his simplicity style.

We're famous

July 8, 2008


And more Google map marker conquer public space. Hmm … is this just a poster from the shop owner or a advertisment campaign by Google? I thought they are not running campaigns? Are you famous because you are on google map? I doubt that.

Anyway, Berlin is going to be famous too. The Google car with 6 digi cams on the roof for Google Streetview has been spotted in Berlin. A big discussion on the privacy issue (take care of your cats!) has started already.

Ok, let s have some messages, signs and posters ready for Google …

Hey, this is going to be a huge ‘screentshot’ of Berlin streetart 2008. Let’s get to work …

via ffffound

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“256² “

July 7, 2008

256² from Aram Bartholl on Vimeo.

“256²” is a piece which I performed mid May 2007. Finally I found time to reedit the video documentation of this urban intervention.
Pics and more text at the project page.
In the movie I am marking with chalk the first sim (Second Life land unit, 1 simulator = 256m²) of NewBerlin at Berlin Alexanderplatz. The famous TV tower of Alexanderplatz is right in the middle of the virtual representation of Berlin which Tobias Neisecke and Jan Northoff started in Second Life a year ago. Today NewBerlin has at least 8 sims and is still growing.

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Two similar designs

July 6, 2008


(found at Bröllin, DE)

Google Images

July 6, 2008


via Yorit

Thx for the link Peter!

Private vs. Public

July 3, 2008


Hey! My shortcut!
(A fresh fence on former Berlin Wall strip found on Bernauerstr. Berlin)

Residency

July 3, 2008


Anette Schäfer and Miles Chalcraft the curating team of Trampoline are developing an exhibition project called “Performing Space” for 2009. A handful of artists (including me) are invited to join for a 4 day Artists’ Residency at Schloss Bröllin in the country side near Berlin the upcoming weekend. In serveral presentations and workshops we will discuss the topic, our work and possible ideas for the exhibition in 2009.

Participating Artists:

Heath Bunting (UK)
Michelle Teran (CAN/DE)
Simon Faithfull (UK/DE)
Folke Köbberling und Martin Kaltwasser (DE)
Plan b (Sophia New & Dan Belasco Rogers) (UK/DE)
Aram Bartholl (DE)
Frank Abbott (UK)
Esther Polak (NL)
Joanna Warsza (PL)

Steering Group:

Miles Chalcraft (Berlin)
Trampoline/Radiator Festival, curator and project initiator, artist
Anette Schäfer (Berlin)
Trampoline/Radiator Festival, curator and project initiator
Mirjam Struppek (Berlin)
curator of Urban Screens, Melbourne and Berlin, urbanist, researcher
Ela Kagel (Berlin)
curater and producer, member of public art lab berlin
Jennifer Davy (Berlin)
artist, critic, and PhD candidate European Graduate School
Kuba Szreder (Warsaw)
curator, PhD candidate

International Project Partners:

Netherland’s Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
Susanne Jaschko, Kuratorin
Bec Zmiana, Warsaw
Bogna Swiatkowska, Kuratorin
Radiator Festival, Nottingham
Anette Schäfer, Miles Chalcraft

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Top Shot Helmet

July 1, 2008


And another cool project by Julius von Bismarck. The Top Shot Helmet gives you a 3rd person view on yourself via a ballon cam from above. The pictures and the movies are great. The shiny white ball ‘replacing’ his head and the athmosphere of the scene reminds me of Kubricks 2001. Somehow his headless performance has also some connection to Mark Jenkins headless homeless sculptures. His alienated acting causes a lot of reactions in the public audience.
All details on the Top Shot Helmet project site.
Related projects: Avatar Machine, First Person Shooter ( Blake Fall-Conroy)

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