Current Events

Urban Art Biennale

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

The World In My Hand

18. April – 31. October 2024
Group Show, Alexanser Tutsek-Stiftung, München

The World in My Hand explores the smartphone as both object and aesthetic inspiration for artistic creation. It comments on public debates surrounding the many uses of smartphones: from always-on media consumption to digital detox, from swiping and matching to ghosting and blocking, from language atrophy to information overload, from resource depletion to status symbol.

The curators, Dr Jörg Garbrecht and Katharina Wenkler, have chosen a narrative approach to the exhibition. In eight chapters, they summarize various aspects and debates surrounding the smartphone, ranging from the launch date of our daily digital companion to its characteristic touchscreen and the contractions of time and space it enables. Deeply personal moments – such as Ai Weiwei’s selfie at the moment of his arrest or Sergey Melnitchenko’s photograph of his son during a blackout in Kyiv – appear alongside themes of perception and presentation of the self, as realized in the glass sculpture Stability by Julija Pociūtė. Other subjects include: looking for love online, as in Ariane Forkel’s Casanova’s Kabinett or John Yuyi’s Tinder Match; the complexities and pitfalls of digital communication, for example in the works of James Akers or Alejandra Seeber; and the smartphone as a means of staying in touch during pandemic lockdown isolation, for instance in the work of George McLeod. Edward Burtynsky’s photograph of lithium mines in the Atacama Desert calls attention to the topic of raw materials for electronic devices.

With works by:
Tornike Abuladze, James Akers, Ai Weiwei, Kate Baker, Aram Bartholl, Tillie Burden, Edward Burtynsky, Yvon Chabrowski, Julia Chamberlain, Rachel Daeng Ngalle, Erwin Eisch, Ariane Forkel, Shige Fujishiro, Valentin Goppel, David Horvitz, Artem Humilevskyi, Gudrun Kemsa, Zsuzsanna Kóródi, Brigitte Kowanz, George McLeod, Sergey Melnitchenko, Jonas Noël Niedermann, Julian Opie, Cornelia Parker, Katie Paterson mit Zeller & Moye, Julija Pociūtė, Rebecca Ruchti, Karin Sander, Jeffrey Sarmiento, Alejandra Seeber, JanHein van Stiphout, Jolita Vaitkute, Sascha Weidner, John Yuyi, Jeff Zimmer

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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

Flussbad Berlin

11. – 30. September 2024
Group Show, Roter Saal, Berlin

Recent Events

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.

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.

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Calendar Update

March 18, 2015

Current & upcoming shows / talks / workshops

 
29.8.2015
Keep Alive
Springhornhof Neuenkirchen, Germany
with Leuphana, curated by Andreas Broeckmann
16.6.-21.6. 2015
PBKAC IMHO
LISTE – Art Fair Basel with HeK , House of Electronic Arts Basel
with: Aram Bartholl, Constant Dullaart, Raquel Meyers, Evan Roth
30.5.-1.8.2015
AESTHETICA
50 Years of Computer Generated Art
DAM Gallery Berlin
with: Aram Bartholl, DE, Horst Bartnig, DE, Peter Beyls, BE, Vuk Cosic, SL, Hans Dehlinger, DE, Patrick Lichty, USA, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, MEX-CAN, Manfred Mohr, DE, Vera Molnar, F, Frieder Nake, DE, Georg Nees, DE, Casey Reas, USA, Sommerer & Mignonneau, A – F, Roman Verostko, USA, Mark Wilson, USA and more….
28.5.-30.8.2015
Poetics and Politics of Data
HeK , House of Electronic Arts Basel
23.5.-31.5.2015
Human Futures: Shared Memories and Visions
Quartier des spectacles & MUTEK, Montreal
22.5. – 23.8.2015
Art In The Age Of… Planetary Computation
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
with: Bartholl, Aram; Biscotti, Rossella; Canell, Nina; Gerrard, John; Herregraven, Femke; Hirsch, Antonia; Khan-Dossos, Navine G.; Mundy, Owen; Paglen, Trevor; Raven, Lucy
18.5.-30.5.2015
F.A.T. GOLD
at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco
by F.A.T. lab, curated by Lindsay Howard
9.5.-7.6.2015
#watch22
Bonifaziusturm A, Mainz, Essenheimer Kunstverein
5.5.-7.5.2015
finding europe
re:publica conference, Station Berlin
30.4.-10.5.2015
Kongress der Möglichkeiten
HATE, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien
27.4.-3.5.2015
NODE15
Forum For Digital Arts, Frankkfurt
24.4.-5.7.2015
Hamster und Hipster: Zur Konsumästhetik des Mobiltelefons
Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt
24.4.-5.7.2015
Offline Art: Are you still there?
Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt
curated by Aram Bartholl
with: Alma Alloro, Anthony Antonellis, LaTurbo Avedon, James Bridle, Constant Dullaart, Claudia Mate, Eva & Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org, Niko Princen, Sebastian Schmieg, UBERMORGEN, Addie Wagenknecht
22.4.-1.6.2015
ANALOG DIGITAL: INTERFERENZ
Motorenhalle. Projektzentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden
17.4.-19.4.2015
playin’siegen
Urban Games Festival, Universität Siegen
7.4.2015
KILLYOURPHONE.COM
workshop at Parsons School Paris
8.4.2015
FMAC à l’école
FMAC, primary school 19°, Paris
28.3.-28.6.2015
#NEULAND
at Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Germany
with: Aram Bartholl, JODI und Evan Roth
20.2.-10.4.2015
Point Of View
solo show at Babycastles, New York City

 
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March 13, 2015

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#NEULAND Digitale Kunst
Arbeiten von Aram Bartholl, JODI und Evan Roth

28. März 2015 bis 28. Juni 2015

Das kunsthaus kaufbeuren zeigt erstmals Gegenwartskunst aus dem digitalen Bereich und präsentiert Arbeiten von Aram Bartholl, JODI und Evan Roth. Die Künstler visualisieren unsere digitale Identität, die durch Browserverlauf und Suchhistorie beim täglichen surfen durch das Netz entsteht. Sie versuchen sich vorzustellen, wie sich ein Computer mit einem Eigenleben verhalten würde. Sie hinterfragen kritisch aber durchaus auch humoristisch in Videoarbeiten, Objekten und Browserkunst alle Aspekte unseres technologisierten Alltags und enthüllen seine besondere Ästhetik. Tauchen Sie ein in die erstaunliche Vielfalt der Digitalen Kunst!
www.kunsthaus-kaufbeuren.de/

Hello World! video documentation

December 14, 2014


Aram Bartholl: Hello World! from olafval on Vimeo.

Einzelausstellung im Kasseler Kunstverein 30.8. – 13.10.2013 kasselerkunstverein.de
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OFFLINE ART: Hardcore
Gruppenausstellung kuratiert von Aram Bartholl

Siehe auch:
Aram Bartholl kommentiert einen Video-Walk durch seine Ausstellung: youtube.com/watch?v=A58qKJWNVM4
OFFLINE ART: Hardcore Video-Demo: youtube.com/watch?v=VuVJD0W1di8

thx Olaf!!

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Killyourphone at Sankt Gallen Kunsthalle

December 5, 2014

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«The Darknet – From Memes to Onionland. An Exploration»
Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen
18. Oktober 2014 – 11. Januar 2015

Mit Arbeiten von: !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Anonymous, Cory Arcangel, Aram Bartholl, Heath Bunting, Simon Denny, Eva und Franco Mattes, Seth Price, Robert Sakrowski, Hito Steyerl, Valentina Tanni

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Workshop II «KillYourPhone» mit Aram Bartholl 
KILLYOURPHONE.COM ist ein offenes Workshopformat. Unter Anleitung des deutschen Konzept- und Medienkünstlers Aram Bartholl und mit Hilfe des Teams der Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen werden die Teilnehmenden eingeladen, Handytaschen zu nähen, die Funksignale blockieren. Das Telefon kann in dieser Tasche weder senden noch empfangen und ist komplett vom Netz abgeschnitten. Während des Workshops spricht der Künstler auch über seine Arbeit und die allgegenwärtige Überwachung.
Nach dem Workshop findet um 16.30 Uhr ein Artist Talk mit Carmen Weisskopf und Domagoj Smoljo von der !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Aram Bartholl, Carolin Wiedemann (Soziologin, Universität Hamburg) und Giovanni Carmine statt.
Die beiden Veranstaltungen, Workshop und Artist Talk, laufen unter dem Titel «Here, but Invisible»
 

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Web We Want

November 28, 2014

Killyourphone and What is a pixel? workshops

at Web We Want festival at the Southbank Centre London,
Nov 29/30 2014
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End User

November 8, 2014

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End User
International artists take a critical approach to the complexities of the internet
Thu 27 Nov 2014–Sun 18 Jan 2015

Hayward Gallery

A group of contemporary international artists take a critical approach to the complexities of the internet. Their artworks examine how the web alters social relations and raises questions about identity, privacy, and the ownership of information.
End User includes work by Cory Arcangel, Aram Bartholl, Ami Clarke, Tyler Coburn, Jon Rafman, Erica Scourti and Liz Sterry.
Thursday 27 November 2014 – Sunday 18 January 2015
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/end-user-1000613
 

PAINT figure drawing class

October 13, 2014

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PAINT figure drawing class! with Aram Bartholl
Saturday, October 11, 2:00 – 4:00 pm @ EYEBEAM (new location)
FREE!! everybody welcome!!
Join us for the PAINT figure drawing class at EYEBEAM in Sunset Park NYC. We will draw live models on computers with mouse in classic paint! No antialiasing! No layers! Limited undos! Come and show off your mouse drawing skills in good old desktop drawing style. Bring your own laptop and very important bring a MOUSE!! No touch allowed!! Make sure you have paintxp, paintbrush or Gpaint installed on your book.

Requirements & Rules:

– bring a laptop (limited desktop computers available onsite)
– bring a mouse
– install paint (classic paint for win7, OSX, linux)
– no layers
– 3 undos
– 48 colors max
– no gradients
– no antialiasing
– mouse only, no touch!
– save as BMP!!
Put away you tablet and show off some true mouse skills at the ‘PAINT figure drawing class’!
Aram Bartholl 2014
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Documentation:

Thanks to all the participants for joining the class and proving their mouse skills!! Brilliant works! Lot’s of experimentation and many many mouse clicks. It was such a good atmosphere. :))  Thx to our professional models @gorgeousTaps & @AduAli for posing! And thanks to EYEBEAM for hosting the class on such short notice!!
ALL PICTURES HERE
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Hurt me plenty – Pictures & Press

September 22, 2014

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All pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bartholl/sets/72157647904042972/
Hurt me plenty
Exhibition: 13th September – 1st November 2014
DAM Gallery, Berlin
7:30: Introduction by Olia Lialina, Professorin New Media at the Merz Akademie Stuttgart.
In his solo show Aram Bartholl exhibits a new series of works inspired by the questions and developments engaging humankind’s ‘entry’ into the digital realm and the role of the first person as ‘shooter’. Bartholl deconstructs stereotypes about pixel imaging with unique large-scale works that are subtly combined with a series of pieces about issues of privacy, surveillance and net neutrality. With this exhibition, Bartholl proposes a new discourse that challenges the current debates about surveillance versus the seemingly antiquated ideas and images of ‘cyberspace’.

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Töte dein Telefon!!

September 21, 2014

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The KILLYOURPHONE workshop at Edith Russ Haus, Lange Nacht der Museen was super crowded and fun yesterday night!! We ran out of material at 9:00 pm. It shows most people really into it. It took the opportunity to finally translate the Killyouphone site into GERMAN!! :)))

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Individual Invitations

September 9, 2014

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Ein Beitrag geteilt von Ar@m B@rtholl (@arambartholl) am

Hurt me plenty

Preview: September 12, 2014, 19 – 21 Uhr
September 13 –  November 1st, 2014
DAM Gallery
 
 

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