Enclave
(found at Ackerstr, Berlin)
The World In My Hand
18. April – 31. October 2024
Gruppenausstellung, Alexanser Tutsek-Stiftung, München
Laufende Termine
Home Smart Home
8. March – 21. April 2024
Einzelausstellung, 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.
Decoding the Black Box
27. January – 2. June 2024
Gruppenausstellung, 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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Kommende Termine
Vergangene Termine
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.
Blog Archiv für Monat: März 2012
'Tumblr Art'
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
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
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'
Great exhibition concept by Hennesy Youngman 🙂 Will try to get a piece in there 🙂
Saturday Afternoon Graffiti Masterclass
(My son’s 1st graffito, ever 🙂
Ohne Worte
(…btw, today is the last day of ‚Reply All‚ last chance if you haven t seen it …. )
7UP!
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.