Programme of the Partners, August 2014
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Programme of the Partners, August 2014
Programme overview of the partners Date of information, subject to change: August 2014 abc – art berlin contemporary Station-Berlin Luckenwalder Straße 4 – 6, 10963 Berlin www.artberlincontemporary.com 18 – 21 SEP 2014 Thu 4 – 9 pm, Fri, Sat noon – 7 pm, Sun noon – 6 pm With 110 single positions of contemporary art and an extensive programme, abc art berlin contemporary is being held this year from 18 – 21 September at the Station in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Numerous galleries – both young and established, national and international – will present mainly new works and premieres. The four day abc programme offers a packed calendar of performances, artists talks, sound pieces, films and theatre productions across the entire site. The programme is complemented by the abc gallery nights, openings at the Berlin galleries on Wednesday and Friday evening. Artists: Frank Ammerlaan, Harold Ancart, Christian Andersen, Awst & Walther, Enrico Bach, Wojciech Bakowski, James Beckett, Eric Bell / Kristoffer Frick, Diego Bianchi, Marc Bijl, Alain Biltereyst, Madeleine Boschan, Mike Bouchet, Fernando Bryce, Peggy Buth, José León Cerrillo, Douglas Coupland, Jigger Cruz, Walter Dahn, Eugenio Dittborn, Heinrich Dunst, Martin Eder, FAMED, Friederike Feldmann, Karsten Födinger, Brendan Fowler, Luc Fuller, G.R.A.M., Melanie Gilligan, Pascal Hachem, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Michael Hakimi, Zvi Hecker, Camille Henrot, Lynn Hershmann, Kathi Hofer, Adam Holý, Judith Hopf, Vlatka Horvat, Vladimír Houdek, Donna Huanca, Alex Hubbard, Volker Hüller, Yung Jake, Zuzanna Janin, Raimer Jochims, Johanna Karlsson, Tamas Kaszàs, Stefan Kern, Kristof Kintera, Tanja Koljonen, Jürgen Krause, Hendrik Krawen, Friedrich Kunath, Andrea Kvas, Jone Kvie, India Lawrence, Gonzalo Lebrija, Bernhard Leitner, Joep van Liefland, Little Warsaw, Natalia LL, Stefan Löffelhardt, Ernie Luley, David Maljkovic, Angelika Markul, Bernhard Martin, Jerry B. Martin, Marek Meduna, Jonathan Meese, Mathieu Mercier, Miguel Mitlag, Ingo Mittelstaedt, João Modé, Richard Mosse, Wilhelm Mundt, Robert Muntean, Paul Nudd, Miklos Onucsan, Florentina Pakosta, Grear Patterson, Guillaume Pilet, Nina Pohl, Cezary Poniatowski, Charlotte Posenenske, Tobias Rehberger, Sophie Reinhold, Davis Rhodes, Anca Munteanu Rimnic, Luciana Rondolini, Daniel Roth, Analia Saban, Benja Sachau, Yorgos Sapountzis, Yves Scherer, Kerim Seiler, Wiebke Siem, Kasper Sonne, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Fiete Stolte, Jiří Thýn, John Patrick Walsh III (JPW3), Sinta Werner, Stephan Willats, Mette Winckelmann, Martin Wöhrl, Sisley Xhafa, Guan Xiao, Haegue Yang. abc gallery nights 17 SEP 2014 7 – 10 pm abc galleries at Mitte and Kreuzberg Opening with barbecue 18 SEP 2014 4 – 9 pm Performances, artist talks, musical performances, film presentations 18 SEP – 21 SEP 2014 noon – 7 pm Sunday noon – 6 pm abc gallery nights 19 SEP 2014 7 – 10 pm abc galleries at Schöneberg and Charlottenburg Pressekontakt: Berlin Art Week c/o Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, Klosterstr. 68, 10179 Berlin Susanne Kumar-Sinner, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 849, [email protected] Vincent Schier, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 779, [email protected] Positions Berlin – Art Fair Kaufhaus Jandorf Brunnenstraße 17 – 21, 10115 Berlin www.positions.berlin 18 – 21 SEP 2014 Thu 6 – 10 pm, Fri, Sat 1 – 8 pm, Sun 11 am – 6 pm From 18–21 September 2014, Positions Berlin, the successor to Preview Berlin Art Fair, will present around 40 galleries at Kaufhaus Jandorf on Brunnenstraße. With the new fair format, gallerist Kristian Jarmuschek, for several years the co-director of Preview Berlin Art Fair, has chosen to rely on contemporary relevance and a broad spectrum of artistic positions. Together with a reliable team and many new partners and ideas, he chose the huge building in the Wilhelminian style whose architecture is integrated into the overall fair presentation. The former department store is striking not only due to its interior, flooded in light, and its representative, generous spaces, the venue also is centrally located in the city. The fair will spotlight Berlin’s contemporary art world, presenting upcoming artists from the city’s art schools, and showing the variety of art the city has to offer, by young artists and those more established, by artists from Germany and abroad. For many years now, Berlin has been the city that offers the greatest overview of current developments in contemporary art. Positions Berlin seeks to capture this overview and promote discourse again more extensively. Professional Preview 18 SEP 2014 2 – 6 pm (invitation only) Opening reception 18 SEP 2014 6 – 10 pm Video Positions 18 – 21 SEP Thursday 6 – 10 pm Friday + Saturday 1 – 8 pm Sunday 11 am – 6 pm At the Film Lounge, Positions Berlin presents a curated selection of contemporary video art. Berlin Hyp Positions 20 SEP 15 pm In cooperation with Berlin Hyp, Positions Berlin awards a prize for upcoming artists. Pressekontakt: Berlin Art Week c/o Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, Klosterstr. 68, 10179 Berlin Susanne Kumar-Sinner, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 849, [email protected] Vincent Schier, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 779, [email protected] Akademie der Künste Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin Tue – Sun 11 am – 7 pm www.adk.de Vertigo of Reality Exhibition, Events, Metabolic Office for the Repair of Reality 17 SEP – 14 DEZ 2014 Opening 16 SEP 7 pm together with the Opening of Berlin Art Week The exhibition “Vertigo of Reality” examines the construction and deconstruction of reality in the arts. The exhibition presents artistic strategies and methods of working which focus on the viewer’s perception. The artwork materialises only in and through the viewers themselves. Current developments in game art here stand within a tradition of artistic explorations beginning in the 1960s, in particular closed circuit video installations, as well as performances, participation projects, films, photographs, and mirror objects. On view are works by Marina Abramović, Art+COM, Herman Asselberghs, Alexander Bruce, Peter Campus, Andrea Clemens, Thomas Demand, Ariana Dongus, Olafur Eliasson, Valie Export, Christian Falsnaes, Harun Farocki, Rosa Feigs, Hamish Fulton, Jochen Gerz, Dan Graham, gold extra, Lars Harzem / Bastian Schmidt, Alex Hay, Jeppe Hein, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Richard Kriesche, Bjørn Melhus, Sarah Möller / Christian Brinkmann / David Wiesner, Molleindustria, Bruce Nauman, Julian Oliver / Danja Vasiliev, Trevor Paglen, Paidia Institute, Nam June Paik, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sophia Pompéry, Franz Reimer, Ulrike Rosenbach, Tino Sehgal, Tale of Tales, Nasan Tur, Bill Viola, Giny Vos, Thomas Wrede. In the midst of the exhibition, the “Metabolic Office for the Repair of Reality” takes up various issues posed by the show. Visibility Machines Artist talk with Trevor Paglen Moderation: Niels Van Tomme 17 SEP 2014 7 pm Hamish Fulton: Walking East – Walking West Public Walk 21 SEP 2014 2 pm Straße des 17. Juni, 10623 Berlin A walk with 800 participants along Straße des 17. Juni, between Brandenburg Gate and the Siegessäule. Pressekontakt: Berlin Art Week c/o Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, Klosterstr. 68, 10179 Berlin Susanne Kumar-Sinner, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 849, [email protected] Vincent Schier, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 779, [email protected] Berlinische Galerie Alte Jakobstraße 124 – 128, 10969 Berlin (The Museum is temporarily closed for renovation) www.berlinischegalerie.de Küchenmonument A social sculpture in front of the museum 15 SEP + 17 SEP 2014 opens from 3 pm In their work, raumlabor berlin combines architecture, art, and urbanism. The “Küchenmonument” is a social sculpture by raumlabor berlin and plastique fantastique, and takes up the kitchen as a site of communication. It expands the museum while it is closed into urban space, allowing space to emerge for temporary communities. Flussbad Berlin e.V. Talk with international players (in English and German) 15 SEP 2014 7 pm Berlin’s “Kupfergraben” as a natural swimming pool! Relaxing alongside the River Seine in Paris! Talk with international initiatives – Flussbad Berlin e.V. and Berges de Seine – about urban development potentialities Limited access, reservation required: [email protected] Diskursives Dinner with raumlabor berlin Dinner and talks in English and German 17 SEP 2014 7 pm Where and how can we experiment with buildings and places to live? Can structures be experiments? Cooking together, discussions, input from raumlabor berlin and guests. Limited access, reservation required: [email protected] C/O Berlin Amerika Haus / Hardenbergstraße 22, 10623 Berlin (C/O Berlin will be closed for Berlin Art Week) www.co-berlin.org C/O Berlin, a private exhibition space for photography, has been presenting a lively programme of international status and showing works by renowned artists, hosting events, promoting young talents, and accompanying children on visual journeys of discovery through our visual culture since its opening in 2000. Intense educational work on site and close cooperation with institutions around the world make C/O Berlin a unique site of cultural exchange. C/O Berlin reopens on 30 October after two years without an exhibition space, kicking off with four exhibitions. Grand Opening C/O Berlin at Amerika Haus 30 OCT 2014 Exhibitions: Magnum. Contact Sheets Portraits of Now. Magnum Photomaton Will Mc Bride. Ich liebe diese Stadt Talent 30. Arbeit am Mythos Pressekontakt: Berlin Art Week c/o Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, Klosterstr. 68, 10179 Berlin Susanne Kumar-Sinner, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 849, [email protected] Vincent Schier, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 779, [email protected] Deutsche Bank KunstHalle Unter den Linden 13/15, 10117 Berlin Mon – Sun 10 am – 8 pm www.deutsche-bank-kunsthalle.de Meschac Gaba: Museum of Contemporary African Art In cooperation with Tate Exhibition 20 SEP – 16 NOV 2014 Opening 19 SEP 7 pm (by invitation only) Meschac Gaba’s “Museum of Contemporary African Art” (1997—2002) is an installation consisting of 12 rooms. KunstHalle presents seven of these rooms, which critically question the essence of the museum and the perception of African art. Gaba’s museum is temporary and transformable, more a conceptual than a physical space. A provocation of the Western art world, it not only demands more recognition for African contemporary art, but also raises the question of why these cultural distinctions exist. The exhibition marks the start of a collaborative effort between Deutsche Bank KunstHalle and Tate Modern. In coming years, three exhibitions will be presented in Berlin as part of this collaboration, showing artistic positions from Asia and Africa. Meschac Gaba: Museum of Contemporary Art@Unter den Linden Temporary presentation 16 – 21 SEP 2014 10 am – 8 pm Selected rooms – Museum Restaurant, Museum Shop, and Humanist Space – from Gaba’s “Museum of Contemporary African Art”, will be presented at Deutsche Bank KunstHalle Unter den Linden, inviting visitors to engage with the exhibition and spend time there. Special bike tours are available. Haus am Waldsee Argentinische Allee 30, 14163 Berlin Tue – Sun 11 am – 6 pm www.hausamwaldsee.de Michael Sailstorfer – B Side Exhibition 05 SEP – 09 NOV 2014 As one of the most outstanding conceptual artists among young German sculptors today, Michael Sailstorfer (born in 1979) works with objects from nature, urban space, and art history. Strategies of reversal and reinterpretation are used to take up functions that he thinks through to the end, taking them to absurd lengths. He removes things from their original purpose, dissecting, deforming, and adapting them to reassemble them anew. In this way, powerful installations emerge that reveal the creative potential of our immediate everyday environment. Over the past fifteen years, Sailstorfer has created a significant body of work that has received international acclaim and marks a unique position in contemporary sculptural discourse. Pressekontakt: Berlin Art Week c/o Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, Klosterstr. 68, 10179 Berlin Susanne Kumar-Sinner, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 849, [email protected] Vincent Schier, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 779, [email protected] Yoga in art, Yoga for everybody 17 + 21 SEP 2014 9 – 10.30 am Open Sivananda yoga session at the exhibition, participation fee: 14 € Curator Tour 20 SEP 2014 10 am Dr. Katja Blomberg, director, Haus am Waldsee, gives a tour of the exhibition “B-Side”, followed by a lunch: 15 € per person Concert 21 SEP 2014 8 pm Mexican guitarist Pablo Garibay performs works by F. Tárrega, M. M. Ponce, A. José, E. Cordero. Garibay, who studied at Weimar’s Hochschule für Musik “Franz Liszt”, is the recipient of several international prizes. He teaches in Mexico City and is currently a guest in Berlin. Ticket fee: 20 € (18 €, advance booking), discounted 10 €, free entrance until the age of 12. Haus der Kulturen der Welt John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin Wed – Mon, 10 am – 19 pm www.hkw.de The Artist at Work – Adam Avikainen Open Studio 20 + 21 SEP 2014 4 – 7 pm For the painter and writer Adam Avikainen, all of nature becomes a crime scene in a continuing story that subsumes elements of his life in an extended artistic process. CSI DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES deals with the role of the natural sciences in our present, the artist as a medium and a detective, and painting as practice. Avikainen plays with academic methods and theories as well as with forensic methodologies, expanding them in a poetic way to a continuous narrative exploration. For the 333 investigative episodes of the new work, the surroundings of Haus der Kulturen der Welt will become a production site. The installation is part of “The Anthropocene Project. A Report”, the large-scale concluding programme of the two-year “Anthropocene Project”. Together with works by the Otolith Group and the “Anthropocene Observatory”, Adam Avikainen’s installation will be on view at HKW starting 17 October 2014. Pressekontakt: Berlin Art Week c/o Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, Klosterstr. 68, 10179 Berlin Susanne Kumar-Sinner, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 849, [email protected] Vincent Schier, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 779, [email protected] KW Institute for Contemporary Art Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin Wed – Mon noon – 7 pm, Thu noon – 9 pm www.kw-berlin.de Ryan Trecartin Exhibition 14 SEP 2014 – 11 JAN 2015 Opening 13 SEP 2014 5 – 10 pm For the exhibition at KW, Ryan Trecartin has produced a new, site-specific work, that continues to challenge the movie form and viewing experience. KW Institute for Contemporary Art is proud to present Ryan Trecartin’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany. His movie creates performance platforms for a cast of hyper intense characters that are simultaneously strange and recognizable, sometimes appearing as future hybrid-human forms, returned to a distorted and unreal present moment. In the exhibition context, a sculptural environment reflects the film’s narratives, and is created in tandem with the movie, positioning the viewer in a structure that oscillates between multiple perceptual realities. Kate Cooper Exhibition 14 SEP 2014 – 11 JAN 2015 Opening 13 SEP 2014 5 – 10 pm Kate Cooper, this year’s winner of the Ernst Schering Foundation Art Award, will open her first institutional solo exhibition in September 2014 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. Over the last few years, the British artist has investigated the way new technologies influence behavior. Cooper not only explores modes of online self fashioning as celebrated on the internet and the emergence of different forms of ‘agency’, but she has also managed to activate and perform them in her practice. Ilit Azoulay Residency Program 14 SEP – 09 NOV 2014 Ilit Azoulay moved into her studio at KW in June, 2013, and used her five-month residency to develop her interest in the archeology of cities. During her travels throughout Germany, she collected and photographed objects and architectural fragments. For her exhibition at KW, Azoulay presents the photographed objects in a site-specific installation. Artist talk with Ryan Trecartin and Klaus Biesenbach, introduction by Ellen Blumenstein 14 SEP 2014 4 pm Entrance fee 3 € Artist talk with Kate Cooper 20 SEP 2014 4 pm Pressekontakt: Berlin Art Week c/o Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, Klosterstr. 68, 10179 Berlin Susanne Kumar-Sinner, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 849, [email protected] Vincent Schier, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 779, [email protected] me Collectors Room / Stiftung Olbricht Auguststraße 68, 10117 Berlin Tue – Sun noon – 6 pm www.me-berlin.com EXOTICA… and 4 other cases of the Self Exhibition 17 SEP 2014 – 22 FEB 2015 “EXOTICA” circles around the question of the self in our time, using Wunderkammer Olbricht as its point of departure. In examining the individual as a cabinet of curiosities, new definitions of historical categories emerge: artificialia, naturalia, scientifica, mirabilia, and exotica become instinct, simulacra, mind, oddities, and exotica, enabling exciting and surprising relationships between the objects of the cabinet of curiosities and contemporary artworks. Artists: Marina Abramović, Eva Aeppli, Barry X Ball, Matthew Barney, Chuck Close, Graham Dolphin, Jan Fabre, Sylvie Fleury, Andreas Golder, Julie Heffernan, Krištof Kintera, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Terence Koh, Philip-Lorca di Corcia, Juan Muñoz, Eadweard Muybridge, Tony Oursler, Gerhard Richter, Collier Schorr, Cindy Sherman, Helmut Stallaerts, Otto Steinert, Werner Rohde, Paloma Varga Weisz, Erwin Wurm. Stanze/Rooms – Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection Exhibition 02 MAI – 21 SEP 2014 “Stanze / Rooms” presents works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection by outstanding contemporary artists that explore the subject of ‘space’. Artists: Matthew Barney, Julie Becker, Glenn Brown, James Casebere, Maurizio Cattelan, Thomas Demand, Saul Fletcher, Giuseppe Gabellone, Stefania Galegati, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Ragnar Kjartansson, Robert Kuśmirowski, Sherrie Levine, Sharon Lockhart, Sarah Lucas, Esko Männikkö, Paola Pivi, Laure Prouvost, Sergey Sapozhnikov und Albert Pogorelkin, Hans Schabus, Markus Schinwald, Gregor Schneider, Cindy Sherman, Hannah Starkey, Sam Taylor-Wood, Rachel Whiteread, Andrea Zittel. Wunderkammer Olbricht Permanent exhibition “Wunderkammer Olbricht”, with over 300 precious works from the Renaissance and the Baroque, revives the tradition of the cabinet of curiosities in Berlin, providing insights into the past and achieving what was possible 250 to 500 years ago: generating marvel among the show’s visitors. Youth workshop “Exotica” 18 SEP 2014 4.30 pm (in English, for registration please contact [email protected]) Curator Tour of “Exotica” 20 SEP 2014 3 pm (in English, for registration please contact [email protected]) Performance with Faye Green, Emma Waltraud Howes, Yurie Ido 20 SEP 2014 4 pm (for registration please contact [email protected]) Pressekontakt: Berlin Art Week c/o Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, Klosterstr. 68, 10179 Berlin Susanne Kumar-Sinner, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 849, [email protected] Vincent Schier, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 779, [email protected] Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Tue, Wed, Fri 10 am – 6 pm, Tue 10 am – 8 pm, Sat, Sun 11 am – 6 pm www.smb.museum.html Neue Nationalgalerie Potsdamer Straße 50, 10785 Berlin Moshe Gershuni. No Father, No Mother Exhibition 13 SEP – 31 DEZ 2014 Opening 12 SEP 2014 7 pm Moshe Gershuni is one of the most significant living Israeli artists. His oeuvre is uncompromising, and his prolific production of paintings, drawings, and sculptures is extremely evocative. “No Father No Mother” is Gershuni’s first solo show in a museum outside Israel. Ausweitung der Kampfzone. Die Sammlung. 1968 – 2000. 08 NOV 2013 – 31 DEZ 2014 The collection Part 3 “Modern Times” (1900—1945) and “Divided Heaven” (1945—1968), Neue Nationalgalerie now turns to the years from 1968 to 2000. The leitmotif for the new collection display is provided by the title of Michel Houellebecq’s novel “Extension du domaine de la lutte”. Artists: Joseph Beuys, Barnett Newman, Werner Tübke und Andy Warhol among others. Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart Invalidenstraße 50 – 51, 10557 Berlin Mariana Castillo Deball. Parergon Exhibition 20 SEP 2014 – 01 MAR 2015 Opening 19 SEP 2014 8 pm The winner of the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst in 2013, in the historic hall Mariana Castillo Deball shows a spatially expansive installation that she developed especially for this exhibition. In the exhibition “Parergon”, Mariana Castillo Deball explores the ‘biographies’ of things from the collections of several Berlin museums, especially those linked to the Nationalgalerie and its history. New developed works enter into a dialogue with historical exhibits. Harun Farocki. Serious Games Exhibition 06 FEB 2014 – 18 JAN 2015 Harun Farocki’s four-part series “Serious Games” (2009—2010), is being presented in Berlin for the first time. The artist engages with the use of computer games to rain American soldiers and reflects on the influence of visual technologies on our collective notion of war. Pressekontakt: Berlin Art Week c/o Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, Klosterstr. 68, 10179 Berlin Susanne Kumar-Sinner, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 849, [email protected] Vincent Schier, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 779, [email protected] A – Z. Die Sammlung Marzona.#3/9 GHI Exhibition 02 AUG – 16 NOV 2014 The exhibition “A – Z. The Marzona Collection” is a celebration of the conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s and offers a rich approach to works of conceptual art, Minimal Art, and Arte Povera. The presentation is altered every quarter of a year, taking up individual positions, important shows, and artistic genres. Die Sammlungen, The Collections. Les Collections. Permanent exhibition Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Chausseestraße 128/129, 10115 Berlin Tue – Sun noon – 6 pm, Thu noon – 8 pm www.nbk.org Luca Vitone. Imperium Exhibiton 20 SEP – 09 NOV 2014 Opening 19 SEP 2014 7 pm For his solo show at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Vitone has created a new series of works that engages with different forms of state power: economic, juridical, legislative, and cultural. Luca Vitone (born in Genoa, 1964, lives in Milan and Berlin) deals in his artwork with the construction and representation of sites and locations in various languages, describing them in all their geographical, political, social, cultural, and political dimensions. In a series of works presented at the 55th Venice Biennial in 2013, Vitone creates olfactory ‘scuptures’, which solely due to the presence of a smell in the space address the collective memory, triggering associations among those visiting the exhibition. Katharina Grosse Exhibition 20 SEP – 07 NOV 2014 Opening, 19 SEP 2014 7 pm Katharina Grosse (born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1961, lives and works in Berlin) is wellknown primarily for her large, spatially expansive paintings that open a space for the paint to transgress the usual pictorial dimensions. The forms of paint application she utilizes, which include brushes, rolls, or spray cans, are as varied as the supports she uses, and their spatial expansion over the floors, ceilings, and walls, over entire buildings, or as an intervention in the landscape. At n.b.k. showroom, the artist presents a work that refers to the premise of her specific painterly concept since the late 1990s, and at the same time complementing it with the complexity of the artistic approaches that have developed in her work since then: the experience of colour and a critical reflection of space. Pressekontakt: Berlin Art Week c/o Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, Klosterstr. 68, 10179 Berlin Susanne Kumar-Sinner, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 849, [email protected] Vincent Schier, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 779, [email protected] neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst Oranienstraße 25, 10999 Berlin Thu – Sat, noon – 8 pm, Sun – Wed, noon – 7 pm www.ngbk.de The Ultimate Capital is the Sun – Metabolismus in Kunst, Politik, Philosophie und Wissenschaft Exhibition 20 SEP – 16 NOV 2014 Opening 19 SEP 2014 7 pm The Greek word metabolē originally meant ‘to change’ and, literally, ‘to throw over’. The exhibition investigates the understanding of ‘metabolism’ in contemporary art in a dialogue with philosophical and scientific research beyond Eurocentric rationalization. Biological metabolism is a process that constitutes living beings in continuous exchange with their environment. Photosynthesis, for instance, struggles to capture and condense solar energy at the basis of the food chain that sustains the whole biosphere. For the parasitic relation of terrestrial life with the outside cosmos, the French philosopher Michel Serres in his book “The Parasite” once defined the sun as our energetic horizon and the very ‘ultimate capital’. Artists: Pedro Barateiro, Ricardo Basbaum, Paolo Bottarelli, Anne Dukhee Jordan, Wietske Maas, Amina Menia, Yves Mettler, Pratchaya Phintong, Timur Si-Qin, Sun Xun, Hakan Topal, Clemens von Wedemeyer among others. Preview: Symposium 25 + 26 OCT 2014 The Metabolism of the Social Brain – between Contemorary Art, Neuroscience and Philosophy The interdisciplinary conference “The Metabolism of the Social Brain: Between Contemporary Art, Neuroscience and Philosophy”, organized by nGbK in cooperation with the Akademie der Künste as part of “Vertigo of Reality”, will be held on 25 – 26 October. Artfi – The Fine Art & Finance Conference Verlagsgebäude Der Tagesspiegel Askanischer Platz 3, 10963 Berlin www.artficonference.com 17 SEP 2014 Conference 10 am – 5 pm Artfi, The Fine Art & Finance Conference, comes to Berlin for the first time on September 17th. The unique gathering, which gives a current snapshot of the global art market, will bring together leading names from the arts sector including artists, collectors, gallerists, art directors, and entrepreneurs. The Conference will feature animated talks, panels, interviews and round-table discussions, appealing to both art enthusiasts and professionals alike. It is an exciting addition to Berlin Art Week, giving visitors a rare opportunity to meet the key figures of this fast-changing industry in a vibrant setting. Artfi is an international Conference Series which shines a spotlight on both the local art market as well as the pressing issues affecting the art world at large. For up-to-date programme information and registration visit the website www.artficonference.com Pressekontakt: Berlin Art Week c/o Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, Klosterstr. 68, 10179 Berlin Susanne Kumar-Sinner, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 849, [email protected] Vincent Schier, Tel. +49 30 24749 – 779, [email protected]