Current Events

Home Smart Home

8. March – 21. April 2024
Solo Show, Kunstverein Rotenburg, Rotenburg

For the exhibition “Home Smart Home,” Aram Bartholl equips the tower of the Kunstverein Rotenburg with a variety of home surveillance cameras. In addition to hidden cameras, known as “Nanny Cams,” Bartholl also experiments with 360° “Lightbulb” cameras equipped with lights and speakers. The market for surveillance cameras in the private sphere has grown tremendously in recent years. The desire for control over one’s own private space is reflected in this development and is part of the digitally driven society marked by a loss of trust.

The Art Tower, 4 Floors – 122 Steps – 24 m.
Originally slated for demolition in the mid-90s to make way for parking space for the “Ronolulu” leisure pool, the disused fire brigade water tower was on the chopping block. However, Peter Möhl, the former managing director of the municipal utilities and thus the owner of the tower, envisioned a meaningful repurposing. Together with the vice chairman of the Art Association, architect Jürgen Lohmann, the idea was born to convert the tower into a gallery.

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Transmediale Exhibition: you’re doing amazing sweetie

31. January – 14. April 2024
Group Show, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin

Exploring the horror of content, the 37th edition of transmediale you’re doing amazing sweetie questions how logics of content production determine and frustrate our relations to technology. The festival takes place from January 31 to February 4, 2024 at silent green Kulturquartier, Akademie der Künste, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt. The festival’s main exhibition will be on view at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien.

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Decoding the Black Box

27. January – 2. June 2024
Group Show, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen

Die Ausstellung Decoding the Black Box bringt Künstlerinnen und Künstler zusammen, die Licht in diesen dunklen Raum und die Prozesse werfen, die sich in ihm ereignen. Sie legen dabei nicht nur die Funktionsweisen digitaler Technologien wie beispielsweise von künstlicher Intelligenz offen, sondern visualisieren zugleich die Auswirkungen, die sie auf unsere Wahrnehmung von Realität und unser In-der-Welt-Sein haben. Während sie die ökonomischen und machtpolitischen Strukturen der digitalen Technologien und insbesondere des Internets transparent machen, zeigen sie Gegenentwürfe für eine dezentralisierte, humanere und demokratischere Nutzung ebendieser auf.

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Upcoming Events

Urban Art Biennale

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

Killyourphone workshop

13. April 2024
Workshop, Transmediale exhibition hosted by Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin

14:00 – 16:00

Killyourphone is an open workshop format. Participants are invited to make their own signal blocking phone pouch. In the pouch the phone can’t send or receive any signals. It is dead! This workshop was run for the first time at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg end of 2013.

Recent Events

Stitch Incoming!!

25. March 2024
Curatorial, Speed Show at Web Cafe, Athens

Monday 25th of March, 7:00 PM at Web Cafe, Eptanisou 40, 113 61 , Kypseli – Athens

with:
!Mediengruppe Bitnik with Selena Savić & Gordan Savičić , Ingrid Hideki, Joanna Bacas, Kyriaki Goni, Maria Mavropoulou, Marina Gioti, Marsunev, Nadja Buttendorf, Theo Triantafyllidis

Curated by Aram Bartholl & Socrates Stamatatos

Speed Show lands in Greece, the country of souvlaki, the sun (yes we can claim that they originated a celestial body), ouzo, feta, an enormous financial debt. Currently, Greece is also trending for all the wrong reasons namely, gentrification, queerphobia, state crimes and more dystopic incidents.
As 2024 unfolds, we find ourselves amidst a whirlwind of confusion, bombarded with a cacophony of online horrors to consume, an attention span further abbreviated by TikTok’s algorithm and the barrage of incoming stitches.

Stitches Incoming serve as a conduit for creators to engage and converse, traversing from one topic to the next. They have evolved into a new social fabric, weaving connections within an ever-shifting digital and physical landscape while also serving as a testament to personal and collective traumas, both past and present.

What unites the participating digital artists? Perhaps everything and nothing simultaneously… Departing from the traditional Speed Show setup, where artworks are carefully stacked inside internet cafe computers, and drawing inspiration from the structure of TikTok stitches, each piece seems to propel the conversation forward, or perhaps uses the next as a springboard for its own narrative.

Stitch this and stitch that, we have everything you ever wanted (maybe) ! Are we stuck in an infinite loop of sh*tposting, valuable content, the highlight of social issues, personal and interpersonal experiences?
Maybe! Come and find out…

More info on Speed Shows at https://speedshow.net/stitch-incoming/

Killyourphone workshop

23. March 2024
Workshop, Transmediale exhibition hosted by Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin

14:00 – 16:00

Killyourphone is an open workshop format. Participants are invited to make their own signal blocking phone pouch. In the pouch the phone can’t send or receive any signals. It is dead! This workshop was run for the first time at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg end of 2013.

Killyourphone workshop

9. March 2024
Workshop, Transmediale exhibition hosted by Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin

14:00 – 16:00

Killyourphone is an open workshop format. Participants are invited to make their own signal blocking phone pouch. In the pouch the phone can’t send or receive any signals. It is dead! This workshop was run for the first time at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg end of 2013.

Killyourphone workshop

24. February 2024
Workshop, Transmediale exhibition hosted by Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin

14:00 – 16:00

Killyourphone is an open workshop format. Participants are invited to make their own signal blocking phone pouch. In the pouch the phone can’t send or receive any signals. It is dead! This workshop was run for the first time at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg end of 2013.

Blog Archive for Month: April 2010

Reboxing

April 29, 2010


( I like Tönjes’ pragmatism style. There is even space for a 3rd tree now! Seen at cafe Mörder, Borsigstr. Berlin)

Never follow the crowd!

April 29, 2010


via @jamiew via @hoverbird

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SHOOTOUT

April 29, 2010


SHOOTOUT for two performers (vl/pst/vlc), 15 min by David Helbich
performed by Mr.Probe at  Croxhapox, Ghent, Belgium, October 2009.
C.Ph.E.Bach wrote about this piece: “Daß alles dieses ohne die geringsten Gebehrden abgehen könne, wird derjenige bloß leugnen, welcher durch seine Unempfindlichkeit genöthigt ist, wie ein geschnitztes Bild vor dem Instrumente zu sitzen.” (‘Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen’, p.44)

Ariel Schlesinger 'Reverse Engineering'

April 28, 2010

Don’t get lost at the upcoming Gallery Weekend Berlin!
Make sure to drop by at Ariels Solo Show!
Awesome new works and his car full of gas (OMG)  on display!
Love that invitation card … haha
CU there on Friday!!!


‘Reverse Engineering’

Solo Show Ariel Schlesinger

at
Galerija Gregor Podnar (more galleries around )
Opening Friday, 30th of April
18:00 and 21:00 at  at Lindenstrasse 35 (G-maps)
May 1st – June 5th, 2010
Berlin

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Open Letter

April 28, 2010


(“The owner is asked to have this frigde disposed by himself! With costs!” found on Fehrberlinerstr, Berlin)

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Machines

April 28, 2010



If you happen to be in Zurich upcoming weekend don t miss Niklas’ opening!!
Machines – Exhibition and Workshops # Niklas Roy
at Kunstraum Walcheturm
presented by
digital brainstorming

Vernissage: Freitag, 30. April 2010, 18.00 Uhr
Ausstellung: Samstag, 1. Mai, bis Sonntag, 9. Mai 2010, täglich von 15 bis 19 Uhr, Ausser Mittwoch 5. Mai von 14 bis 20 Uhr.

Workshops: Surprise Control!
Ein Maschinenbau-Workshop mit Niklas Roy
Mi. 5. Mai 2010, 14 Uhr, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich

How to make a street artist mad at you

April 27, 2010


Sorry SP38! I just had to do this …
First released on F.A.T.

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Timber!

April 27, 2010


(Minor Urban Disaster at cafe MÖRDER this morning, Borsigstr. Berlin)

OFF FENCE

April 27, 2010



The Kolonie Wedding Gallery openings last weekend were great fun. The OFF FENCE show at Art Laboratory Berlin was my favorite one. The intervention piece “CAUTION: the freeway interventions” (2005) by Camilo Ontiveros is quite striking. The signs are real. The texts addons lasted for 4 days the artist says.
Art Laboratory Berlin
OFF FENCE. Art on the Californian-Mexican Border
Michelle Chong, Katya Gardea Browne, Ed Gomez, Luis G. Hernandez, Camilo Ontiveros.
Opening: Friday, 23 April, 2010, 8 PM
Artist Talk with Michelle Chong: Sunday, 25 April, 2010, 4PM
The exhibition runs 24 April – 22 May, 2010
Open: Fri – Sun, 2-6PM

Good Bye FB!

April 26, 2010

Diaspora: Personally Controlled, Do-It-All, Distributed Open-Source Social Network from daniel grippi on Vimeo.

I hope some of these projects will make it and kick out the big bastards in the future ….
Great video in speed project style, haha …
the diaspora project
joindiaspora.com
via @jamiew