Current Events

Moving Image Perspectives

22. December 2024 – 30. June 2025
Group Show, Annka Kultys Gallery, London

Coinciding with its 9th anniversary, ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY is delighted to announce the launch of its new digital programme Illuminated: Moving Image Perspectives, which will take place over the course of a year, and elaborates on the gallery’s expertise in moving image and reaffirms its ongoing commitment to this field.

On a weekly basis, Illuminated will offer unique insights into a new media artist using film, video animation, as well as their latest technological explorations, including blockchain and advanced technologies such as AI. This project aims to showcase and contextualise diverse digital art practices, while introducing international artists and their distinctive approaches to the gallery’s audience.

The online streams will be augmented by physical presentations of digital artworks in a private home setting at the gallery founder’s loft in Shoreditch. These installations will be accompanied by regular, invitation-only dinners and carefully curated exclusive viewings for art professionals, fostering deeper connections between artists, collectors, journalists, and museum curators.

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.

Instruments of Surveillance

21. September 2024 – 2. May 2025
Group Show, National Communications Museum, Hawthorn, Melbourne

As the race to create an artificial general intelligence (AGI) accelerates, questions of surveillance are more important than ever. Is it human or machine? And how can people equip themselves with the tools and knowledge they need to navigate technological futures?

Instruments of Surveillance grounds an age-old and contentious topic in the human and the everyday. From government spooks, data-extraction and activism through to generative AI, this exhibition unravels the interface between human and machine, inviting audiences to unpack the technologies that people use to surveil and their role in it.

Interact with a robotic commission by Louis-Philippe Demers. See an original WWII Enigma Machine, along with wiretaps and prototypes from the Australian Federal Police. Engage with commissions by Leah Heiss and Emma Luke, Kate Crawford, Aram Bartholl and Weniki Hensch among others.

This exhibition is curated by Jemimah Widdicombe (NCM) in collaboration with Dr. Tyne Sumner, current ARC DECRA fellow at the Australian National University.

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Upcoming Events

Are we there yet?

14. February – 16. May 2025
Group Show, Nome gallery, Berlin

Total Screen Time: BRAINROT

1. February 2025
Curatorial, panke.gallery, Berlin

Total Screen Time is a one night group exhibition on phones! All participating artists will bring a phone with their artwork on it, which will be mounted on the walls of the exhibition space. The idea behind the show is that the audience gets to peep through the hole of the artist’s phones immersing into their artworks. LET’S BRAINROT TOGETHER! 🧠 In a collective and liberating moment we asked all artists and visitors to share their daily phone screen time during the opening. WE ARE ALL GETTING EXPOSED LOL 🎀

Recent Events

Graphic Matters

29. November 2024
Talk, TURF festival, Breda

On Friday 29 November 2024, we are organising an inspiring afternoon for creative makers and tech enthusiasts together with TURF. During Current Characters IV: Wired Wonders , attendees and speakers will discuss the possibilities and ethical challenges of technology in art and design.

The new event TURF highlights electronic music, art, culture and tech. On Friday 29 November during Characters IV: Wired Wonders , three idiosyncratic makers Aram Bartholl (DE), SMACK(NL) and Roos Groothuizen (NL) present their work and share their views on the role of technology in art and autonomous design. They are known for their critical and social engagement. Wired Wonders promises to be a fascinating mix of inspiration and reflection, challenging attendees to think about the impact of technological innovations on the creative process.

Breda-based collective SMACK highlights the ethical dimensions of digital culture, critically visualising the seductions of technology and algorithms; Aram Bartholl explores the boundary between the digital and physical worlds, with critical installations that make technology tangible in the public domain; and Roos Groothuizen is known for her work on digital freedom and privacy, using technology as an activist tool to create awareness about surveillance and control.

Total Screen Time

21. November 2024
Curatorial, Ithakis 28, Kypseli-Athens, Athens


Total Screen Time is a
one night group exhibition on phones! All participating artists will bring a phone with their artwork on it, which will be mounted on the walls of the exhibition space. The idea behind the show is that the audience gets to peep through the hole of the artist’s phones to immerse into the artworks. LET’S BRAINROT TOGETHER! 🧠 In a collective and liberating moment, we also ask the artists  to share their weekly screen time prior to the opening. WE ARE ALL GETTING EXPOSED LOL 🎀

participating artists:
Andreas Angelidakis, Margarita Athanasiou, Cory Arcangel, James Bridle, Constant Dullaart, Chioma Ebinama, Evoulix, Fruitgillette, Agape Harmani, Hristos Hantzis, Kathrin Hunze, 1g.00_0 (Dirk Paesmans), Karl Heinz Jeron, Anna Kalozoumi, Kakia Konstantinaki, Markella Ksilogiannopoulou, Leefwerk, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Lucile Littot, Miltos Manetas, Maria Mavropoulou, Anastasis-Panagis Meletis, Tokisato Mitsuru, Eva Papamargariti, Angelo Plessas, Captain Stavros, Kosts Stafylakis, Mandy Stergiou, Alexandros Touramanis, Connor Willumsen

curated by:
Aram Bartholl, Socrates Stamatatos & Theo Triantafyllidis

curatorial statement:
Our algorithmic life has been reduced to isolation and hostility the last few years. Alone in our echo chamber we are brain rotting endlessly, while each specific algorithm is surveilling our every move and gatekeeping the process of our actions. To quote the famous philosopher and poet, Britney Spears:

“What am I to do with my life?
How am I supposed to know what’s right?
I can’t help the way I feel
But my life has been so overprotected
I tell ’em what I like, what I want, and what I don’t
But every time I do, I stand corrected
Things that I’ve been told, I can’t believe
What I hear about the world, I realize I’m overprotected.”

Meanwhile, everyone seems to be obsessed with their screen time. Some are trying to downsize it, some are accepting their ‘terminally online’ identity, some perceive it as a competition, and some—as always, simply don’t care. Enough with the heavy! We invited thirty artists to present digital works through their own personal devices, extending an intimate invitation for audiences to peer through the artist’s screen—a portal into their unique, brainrot-filled worlds. From personal and collective imagery to camp, critical takes on surveillance, viral memes, and wholesome escapism—artworks from every corner of the digital psyche are on display. This one night exhibition is about connecting, sharing in the joy of deep-frying our brains, rather than in isolation. And we think THAT’S HOT!

Kill Your Phone (with style!)

16. November 2024
Workshop, Super Duper Store, Athens

KILLYOURPHONE.COM 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 time we are adding a cute twist 🥰 your phone is going down with style 💖

Join @arambartholl & @socratesstamatatos on 16.11.2024 from 12:00-17:00 at our beloved @super_duper_wow 🎀

Blog Archive for Month: March 2012

Enclave

March 17, 2012


(found at Ackerstr, Berlin)

'Tumblr Art'

March 16, 2012

Nothing You Can Compare To Your Neighborhood Hoe from Education of the Noobz on Vimeo.

Some artists don’t like at all to find pictures of their pieces on tumblr blogs without any context or credits. Olia aka @gifmodel in the contrary enjoys that! 🙂 via http://art.teleportacia.org/exhibition/AGM/

The Pop-Up City

March 16, 2012

full post at http://popupcity.net/2012/03/book-the-speed-book-by-aram-bartholl/

Book: The Speed Book By Aram Bartholl

By Anna Triboli | Published: Friday March 16, 2012

Some time ago I wrote about the question “How to democratize art?”. Aram Bartholl’s work is maybe one of the best examples of how to engage a large group of people with contemporary art. Bartholl meticulously tore down those boundaries built around the image of the ‘artwork’ as something far from our everyday lives, converting people into active participants of his projects. Gestalten dedicated one of its latest publications to him. The Speed Book is the first comprehensive monograph of Bartholl’s projects, with essays on his work, an interview and AB News #1 and #2, supplements conceived in the shape of a magazine.
Some of Bartholl’s projects gained him plenty of publicity, such as Map (the big red Google Maps marker that was turned physical and placed in urban space) or Dead Drops, a file-sharing network installed in public spaces through USB sticks placed into walls of landmarks or buildings, which we already mentioned in a previous post. These interventions perfectly underline the nature of his work as a smart critique on the digital world through public projects that bring typical Internet culture elements and video-gaming (which everyone knows and can be easily understood) straight into our lives and our cities. …
read on!
full post at http://popupcity.net/2012/03/book-the-speed-book-by-aram-bartholl/

Schönschrift

March 16, 2012
full article at http://schönschrift.org/artikel/what-comes-back-from-cyberspace-aram-bartholl-galerie-dam-berlin/

What comes back from cyberspace?

Aram Bartholl in der Galerie [DAM] Berlin


Was passiert, wenn wir Orten aus der virtuellen Welt auf einmal in der realen Welt begegnen? Oder ist nicht längst die virtuelle Welt auch Teil unserer realen Welt geworden? Aram Bartholl verweist mit seiner Kunst auf spielerische Weise auf die komplexen Verstrickungen und Überlagerungen von digitalem und analogem Leben.  Der Künstler interveniert dabei meist im öffentlichen Raum und bedient sich alltäglicher Symbole, Formen und Codes, die sich ganz selbstverständlich in unser Leben eingeschlichen haben, ohne dass wir uns ihres Gebrauchs bewusst sind oder diesen reflektieren. Die Kunst dient hier als Denkanstoß sich dieser Allgegenwart bewusst zu werden und sich ihrer Sprache zu bedienen, um selbst aktiv am technischen Zeitalter teilzuhaben.
Bartholls wohl bekanntestes Werk Dead Drops, eingemauerte USB-Sticks als anonyme, allgemein zugängliche Datenablage, ist mittlerweile an vielen Orten weltweit zu finden und hat nun auch in der Außenwand der Galerie [DAM] Berlin ein Zuhause gefunden, im Rahmen von Bartholls erster Einzelausstellung „Reply All“. Unter anderem zeigt die Ausstellung auch die Arbeit 15 Secs of Fame,  die  für Aufmerksamkeit sorgte, nachdem Bartholl 2010 zufällig mit einem Google-Street-View Wagen in Berlin zusammen traf und diesem folgte, um sich auf der virtuell begehbaren Karte zu verewigen.
Auf sympathische und intelligente Weise befreit sich Bartholl vom Künstlermythos, indem er seine Arbeitsprozesse offen legt, um Wissen zu teilen und seine Betrachter zum selbstständigen Agieren und Eingreifen anzuregen. Die Guy-Fawkes-Masken, die zum Markenzeichen der Occupy- und Anonymous-Bewegung geworden sind, dabei aber widersprüchlicher Weise Geld in die Kassen des Medienkonzerns Warner Bros. spülen, kann der Besucher in How to Vacuum Form mittels einer Plastikplatte, eines umfunktionierten Toasters, einer Ton-Form und einem Blasebalg innerhalb von wenigen Minuten selber herstellen…..
read on http://schönschrift.org
 

'Small Small World'

March 11, 2012


Great exhibition concept by Hennesy Youngman 🙂 Will try to get a piece in there 🙂

Saturday Afternoon Graffiti Masterclass

March 10, 2012


(My son’s 1st graffito, ever 🙂

Ohne Worte

March 10, 2012


(…btw, today is the last day of ‘Reply All‘ last chance if you haven t seen it …. )

7UP!

March 7, 2012

looking fwd to this http://rhizome.org/sevenonseven/ ! CU in nyc in april!

Saturday, April 14th, 2012
12:00-9:00 at the New Museum

The Rhizome Seven on Seven Conference pairs seven leading artists with seven game-changing technologists in teams of two, and challenges them to develop something new—be it an application, social media, artwork, product, or whatever they imagine—over the course of a single day.