Aram Bartholl – Blog

Sort of spontaneous piano concert in the street during “Fete de la Musique” Berlin I stumbled into two days ago.  Public Space is just the best place for art.

(“Fuck you all!”)
Daniel Pflumm 2004
at MOUNT WARNING facade gallery,
on Auguststr. (across KW ;-) , Berlin:

One of the best pieces that gallery ever showed. It’s a pitty they are not active anymore.

This “Installation” looks like a Mark Jenkins piece, but the guy is unfortunately real and serious about his begging effort. I keept seeing him at Hackescher Markt Berlin lately. He reminded me so much of Mark’s  “invisible” sculptures. Nobody takes notice.

Great work Mark! Was goo to meet you at the Open City exhibition last year!

Skulpturenpark Berlin do have interesting public space exhibitions (and also made my Sanbox Berlin project possible, thx!)

“LANDSCAPES OF DESIRE” CONTEMPORARY ART STRATEGIES IN THE URBAN CONTEXT.

NOVEMBER 2007 – Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum

Wednesday 28th of November 7:30 pm

The Lecture will take place in the atelier and exhibition space of the artists
Neue Grünstrasse 20 Berlin-Mitte
Subway Stop U2 Spittelmarkt.

Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum is a project by five artists who founded KUNSTrePUBLIK e.V. Matthias Einhoff, Philip Horst, Markus Lohmann, Harry Sachs and Daniel Seiple. Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum is located on an urban wasteland which was formerly the “Mauerstreifen,” the military zone within the Berlin Wall. It remains vacant to this day. With approximately 5 hectares of open lots, it offers a vast space and unique history to host various socio-cultural activities. Modecentrum, a former fashion center, sits on the southwest boundary of this area. On the third floor, KUNSTrePUBLIK e.V. has rented an 800 square meter hall with windows which face this vacant land. Rather than encouraging “plop art” or following the tradition of many open-air museums, Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum is interested in sculpture as a process that has the potential to reveal and critique the social, historical, and structural contexts provided by the site. It is not interested in placing objects into an already cultivated urban or park landscape.
http://www.skulpturenpark.org

BNC in Bremen has organised a city tour questioning role of city planning an PR. And they laser tagged :-)

“move.it!!
An einem Abend im Oktober zieht move.it!! nach Anbruch der Dunkelheit an verschiedene Plätze der Stadt. Alle diese Orte prägen das Leben in der Stadt. Mit Projektionen, Geschichten, Licht- oder Toninstallationen etc. interpretiert und verändert move.it!! die ursprünglichen Funktionen und Bedeutungen dieser Koordinaten städtischen Lebens temporär…..”
link

pics on flickr

Nice urban intervention by Mexican artist ,Gilberto Esparza. Urban Parasites
via Jonah www.coin-operated.com

The ongoing Urban Interface exhibition in Berlin features some really nice public space pieces and performances. Tomorrow I will definately check out the Mitting performance by Oliver Hangl. I saw his talk at TESLA some days ago and his wireless headphone walk concept for 70 people seamed to be very promising. Who wants to join? By the way I like the name Mitting. A nice combination of Mitte and Wedding.

Thu, April 26, 6 pm Performance-tour Mitting, starting point: uib headquarters. Torstraße 161, Berlin-Mitte. The tour lasts 2-3 hours. the number of participants is limited to 70. Please bring your ID for deposit.

Mirjam and me during the opening event on 1.2.06 in front of the latest interactive fassade project “Magical Mirrors” made by Daniel Michelis and Hendrik Send. Nice piece. Rosenthalerstr. Berlin