A cooperation by the Institut für Raumexperimente and the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

‘The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.’ (James A. Baldwin)

The second edition of the Festival of Future Nows is taking place during Berlin Art Week 2017 at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin. This year’s cooperation between the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Olafur Eliasson and his Institut für Raumexperimente e.V. – as with the festival’s first edition in 2014 – brings together different works by over 100 international artists.

Over a four-day period, a dense cloud of creative energy and spontaneity will erupt and break free like a Berlin punk-opera-weather-condition, passing by and hovering over Hamburger Bahnhof. The festival program invites a young and diverse crowd to engage with the unpredictable nature of performance, action, music, interventions, dance, experiments, movement and perception exercises. Spontaneous choreographies, musical disruptions and overlooked encounters invite various forms of audience participation happening at flash-mob-like speed. Individual projects take place in parallel or overlap. The deliberate abundance forces visitors to take a nonlinear route through the festival. The principle of ‘density and diversity’ is applied purposefully. The Festival of Future Nows 2017→∞ brings together an experimental and inspiring mix of emerging practitioners interspersed with some more renowned artists under the banner of ‘The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.’

From 2009 to 2014 Olafur Eliasson led the Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute for Spatial Experiments), which was affiliated with the Berlin University of the Arts, together with Christina Werner and Eric Ellingsen. Working with the participants in the internationally highly regarded project, they experimented with new approaches to arts education and research. To mark the project’s end in autumn 2014, the institute created the Festival of Future Nows at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, just before the iconic building by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe closed for renovation. The second edition of the festival continues with a similar approach and is based on the broad artistic network around the Institut für Raumexperimente.

Choreographed by Sven Beckstette, Natalie Keppler, Christina Werner

The project is supported by Volkswagen Group and is made possible by Freunde der Nationalgalerie.

with:
&æ ACAD&C Adam Kraft Adrian Gutzelnig Ally Bisshop Alvaro Urbano Analisa Teachworth Andreas Greiner Anne Duk Hee Jordan Aram Bartholl Artúr van Balen Asako Iwama Aykan Safoğlu Care Less Claire Tolan Clara Jo CuratorLab Dan Stockholm Diana Sprenger Display Distribute Dominik Mohs Ece Pazarbaşi Elaine W. Ho Elisa Storelli Elise Eeraerts Eric Ellingsen Erik Sturm Euan Williams Fabian Knecht Felix Kiessling Fernanda Trevellin Friedrich Herz Gabrielle Mainguy Grażyna Roguski Günther Vogt Hans-Henning Korb Henning Aßmann Henok Getachew Ivana Franke Jacob Kirkegaard Jan Fiege Jan St. Werner Jeewi Lee Jeremias Holliger Joanna Warsza Jonas Wendelin Jorge Miñano Joris Camelin Julian Breuer Julian Charrière Julius Holtz Julius von Bismarck Jumana Ridha Kat Válastur Kirstin Burckhardt Klara Hobza Klasse Dynamische Akustik und Interaktive Medien Leon Eixenberger Lou Jaworski Lucas Buschfeld Lutz Henke Macarena Ruiz-Tagle Malte Bartsch Markus Hoffmann Matthias Sohr Merlin Carter Mihret Kebede Miroslav Großer Nana-Francisa Schottländer Natasha Mendonca Nico Arauner Nico Dockx Nina Schuiki Norgard Kröger Olafur Eliasson Paula Mierzowsky Quynh Vantu Rafael Ibarra Raul Walch Raul Walch Rike Horb Rike Scheffler Robel Temesgen Robert Lippok Rodrigo Maltez Novaes Rossella Biscotti SHIMURAbros Sarah Doerfel Sarah Rechberger Sophia Pompéry Stephan Klee The Kitchen at Studio Olafur Eliasson ThinkingHand Tiago Romagnani Silveria Timea Anita Ovarecz Tomás Espinosa Tue Greenfort Veronica Spierenburg Vinzenz Reinecke Vlado Velkov Xero Yuichiro Tamura Yves Mettler

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