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BERLIN ART NEWS: September - November, 2010
ART FAIRS
art forum berlin - The International Art Show
Opening Day October 6, 2010, 6pm - 9pm . October 7 – 10, noon - 7 pm
Leading galleries from the world’s most important art centres will present art from 1960 to the present day. 40,000 art lovers (collectors, artists, art dealers, museum directors and curators) from all over the world are regularly visiting the International Art Show. All the artistic means of expression are represented at art forum berlin. The repertoire ranges from painting, sculpture and photography to installations and to drawings, graphics, performance and video art. Sectors for young art (focus) and for cultural institutions and international art magazines complement the exhibition programme.
Fair Location: Exhibition Grounds Messe Berlin, halls 18-20, Palais am Funkturm, Entrance Hall 19, Hammarskjöldplatz, Berlin-Charlottenburg
Further informations: www.art-forum-berlin.de
PREVIEW BERLIN – The Emerging Art Fair
Opening reception: October 7, 2010, 6pm - 10pm . October 8 – 10, 1pm - 8pm
Since its foundation in 2005, the fair has offered national as well as international galleries and project spaces a platform to present the works of a new generation of emerging artists to collectors, experts and art lovers, and also set these up for discussion..
Fair Location: Berlin Tempelhof Airport, Hangar2, Columbiadamm 10, Berlin-Tempelhof
Further informations: http://www.previewberlin.de
BERLINER LISTE 2008 - Messe Für Aktuelle Kunst
Opening reception: October 6, 2010, 6pm - 11pm . October 7 to 10
100 international galleries, projects and artists will show their most innovative and sophisticated works. The repertoire ranges from painting, drawings, sculpture, photography, installation to performance and video art.
Fair Location: MÜNZE Berlin, Molkenmarkt 2, Berlin-Mitte
Further informations: http://www.berliner-liste.org
Exhibitions in Public Spaces (selection)
Examples to Follow! Expeditions in Aesthetics and Sustainability
Opening: Sep 2, 2010, September 3 – October 10, 2010, Uferhallen, Berlin-Wedding
A project by Adrienne Goehler and Jaana Prüss. The exhibition, showing more than 37 positions from art, design, architecture, and technological inventions, wants to sensitize to the fact that sustainability that understands itself as formative cannot do without the arts and sciences. We need to learn from them how to think in transitions, provisional solutions, models, and projects. The project is an initiative of Stiftung Forum der Kulturen zu Fragen der Zeit.
Further informations: http://www.uferhallen.de
O Desejo da Forma
September 3 – November 7, 2010, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg
Neoconcretism (1959-61) and contemporary art from Brazil
Further informations: http://www.adk.de
FRANK NITSCHE . Cocktailhybridconcept - feat. YVES NETZHAMMER
September 10 – November 14, 2010, Haus am Waldsee - A Place for the Arts
Haus am Waldsee is pleased to present, in Frank Nitsche, one of the most important contemporary German painters exhibiting at a Berlin art institution for the very first time. On his canvasses, the artist born in Görlitz in 1964 arranges the collision of the organic and the artificial. They are accompanied by works from the last ten years and complemented by two virtual spaces by the Swiss video artist Yves Netzhammer.
Further informations: http://hausamwaldsee.de
DOR GUEZ . Al Lydd
Opening: September 11, 2010, 5 - 10 pm, September 12 – November 7, 2010, KW Institut for contemporary art
Exhibition
Further informations: http://www.kw-berlin.de
RENATA LUCAS
Opening: September 11, 2010, 5 - 10 pm, September 12 – November 7, .2010, KW Institut for contemporary art
Recipient of the Ernst Schering Foundation Art Award
Further informations: http://www.kw-berlin.de
Zero 'n' One. Komponieren im digitalen Zeitalter - Musikfestival
September 15 – 18, 2010, Akademie der Künste / Academy of Arts, Hanseatenweg
Konzerte, Composer Lectures, Performances, Vorträge, Diskussionen
Further informations: http://www.adk.de
TIM LEE . String Project
Opening: September 16, 2010, 7 - 9 pm, Sep 17 – October 30, 2010, daad gallery
daad – Berlin Artists Program.
Further informations: http://www.daadgalerie.de
MAGNUM . Shifting Media . New Role of Photography . From Robert Capa to Donovan Wylie
until September 19, 2010 C/O Berlin Postfuhramt - International Forum For Visual Dialogues.
The exhibition illustrates the phases of modern photojournalism, tracing the more than sixty-year history of Magnum Photos alongside the changing demands of the mass media and its users. A focal point of the exhibition is classic photo reportage—a format traditionally printed on paper, as seen in book and magazine publications as well as exhibition prints. The expanding presence of photography in the print media is evidenced in the photographs and selected magazine publications of the four Magnum founders. After all, it wasn’t particular photos that made Magnum extraordinary, but the agency’s strong presence in the media as a source for professional visual material. The photographers Christopher Anderson, Jonas Bendiksen, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Antoine D’Agata, Thomas Dworzak, Alex Majoli, Trent Parke, Paolo Pellegrin, George Rodger, David Seymour, Alec Soth, Mikhael Subotzky, Ilkka Uimonen, Peter van Agtmael, Donovan Wylie.
Further informations: http://www.co-berlin.info
CEDRIC BOMFORD
Opening: Sept 23, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Gallery spaces at Kottbusser Str. 10
Exhibition.
Further informations: http://www.bethanien.de
CEDRIC BOMFORD
Opening: Sept 23, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Gallery spaces at Kottbusser Str. 10
Exhibition.
Further informations: http://www.bethanien.de
MARTINA HOOGLAND IVANOW
Opening: Sept 23, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Gallery spaces at Kottbusser Str. 10
Exhibition.
Further informations: http://www.bethanien.de
KARSTEN KONRAD
Opening: Sept 23, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Gallery spaces at Kottbusser Str. 10
Exhibition.
Further informations: http://www.bethanien.de
World Knowledge. 300 Years of Science in Berlin
September 24, 2010 – January 9, 2011, Martin-Gropius-Bau
In 2010 Berlin is celebrating its science anniversaries: the 200th anniversary of the Humboldt University, the 300th anniversary of the Charité, the 300th anniversary of the opening and first Statute of the Academy of Sciences and, in the following year, the 100th anniversary of the Max-Planck Society and Kaiser-Wilhelm Society respectively as well as the 350th anniversary of the National Library, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. The exhibition “WeltWissen – World Knowledge. 300 Years of Science in Berlin”, scheduled to run from 24 September 2010 to 9 January 2011 in the Martin-Gropius-Bau, will be the high point of Berlin’s Year of Science 2010. For the first time since reunification Berlin is mounting a science exhibition that represents the whole city and presenting itself as an innovative scientific metropolis that is open to the world and mindful of its turbulent history.
Further informations: http://www.gropiusbau.de
PETER LINDBERGGH . On Street . Photographs and Films 1980 - 2010
Opening: September 24, 2010, 7 pm, September 25, 2010 – January 9, 2011, C/O Berlin Postfuhramt - International Forum For Visual Dialogues.
C/O Berlin presents 120 photographs and films from the oeuvre of Peter Lindbergh—from his classics and icons of fashion photography to his invasion photos and the Vogue Berlin series of 2009. Including never-before published Archive-Polaroids as well as documentary films, the exhibition provides insights into the star photographer’s approach to his work. Travel to the “Peter Lindbergh . On Street” exhibition with Deutsche Bahn’s Kultur-Ticket-Spezial.
Further informations: http://www.co-berlin.info and http://www.bahn.de/kultur
HARTMUT BITOMSKY
Opening: September 24, 7 pm, September 25 – November 7, 2010, n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, showroom (first floor).
Exhibition.
Further informations: http://www.nbk.org
Who knows Tomorrow , Exhibition / Film / Discourse
until September 26, 2010 Neue Nationalgalerie / New National Gallery.
Who Knows Tomorrow - this piece of worldly wisdom, heard everyday over large parts of Africa, provides the title for a remarkable project held by the National Gallery, for which it has invited five internationally acclaimed artists, whose work is primarily shaped by their African origins, to join together in creating a major exhibition in Berlin.
Their works, completed and installed, for the most part, in prominent positions outside four of the National Gallery's separate venues (Old National Gallery: El Anatsui, New National Gallery: Pascale Marthine Tayou, Friedrichswerder Church: Yinka Shonibare MBE, Hamburger Bahnhof: Zarina Bhimji, António Ole), will together serve to spark a dialogue over questions that are now more topical than ever before, thanks to the radical upheavals currently sweeping political, social and economic systems that had, until now, been considered unshakeable. These questions include: is uncertainty over the future now the greatest certainty we have today? Whose history needs to be told and faced up to now? What is art's contribution to helping overcome (art) historical constructs, clichés and stereotypes?.
Further informations: http://www.neue-nationalgalerie.de
'Hoppla, we’re alive!'- KARL ARNOLD
until September 27, 2010 Berlinische Galerie / State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture.
During the years of the Weimar Republic, the Munich newspaper cartoonist Karl Arnold (1883-1953) regularly stayed in the German capital in order, as he wrote, “to capture the bizarreness of this crazy city.” He supplied Simplicissimus and the Münchner Illustrierte Presse with cartoon reportages caricaturing cultural and contemporary life throughout Berlin. With his assured drawing skills and the cool gaze of a detached observer, Arnold portrayed his characters and scenes from Berlin life for a wide audience.
Further informations: http://www.berlinischegalerie.de
MARKUS KLINGENHÄGER / CHRISTIN KRAUSE . Talents 21 . DarkWhite
Opening: October 1st, 2010, 7 pm, October 2 – November 30, 2010
Exhibition.
Further informations: http://www.co-berlin.info
The museum´s collection: Works of the „Brücke“ and extra-European art
until October 5, 2010 Haus am Waldsee - A Place for the Arts
In 1905 the artists' association "Brücke" was founded by four students of architecture - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - in the city of Dresden. In 1906 Max Pechstein and Emil Nolde joined the group, followed by Otto Mueller in 1910. The "Brücke" is therefore one of the earliest German artists’ associations which had a crucial impact on the development of classical modern art. The arists collectively created a style which was to be defined within 20th century art history as "Expressionism".
Further informations: http://hausamwaldsee.de
The museum´s collection: Works of the „Brücke“ and extra-European art
until October 5, 2010 Haus am Waldsee - A Place for the Arts
In 1905 the artists' association "Brücke" was founded by four students of architecture - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - in the city of Dresden. In 1906 Max Pechstein and Emil Nolde joined the group, followed by Otto Mueller in 1910. The "Brücke" is therefore one of the earliest German artists’ associations which had a crucial impact on the development of classical modern art. The arists collectively created a style which was to be defined within 20th century art history as "Expressionism".
Further informations: http://hausamwaldsee.de
abc - art berlin contemporary. light camera action
October 7 – 10, 2010, Marshall-Haus, HAU 2, Hebbel am Ufer
In its 3rd year, abc is once again the venue presenting outstanding positions of contemporary art and raising questions on the latest developments in art and in the art discourse. With the exhibition's title "light... camera... action! abc is devoting this year's focus to the complex field of the cinematic, film, film installation and to the related aspect of the performative.
Further informations: http://www.artberlincontemporary.com
A Gentil Carioca . An Art Space in Rio de Janeiro
until October 10, 2010 ifa-gallery Berlin, Institute for Foreign Relations e.V.
Artists: Botner & Pedro, Carlos Contente, Guga Ferraz, Laura Lima, Jarbas Lopes, Joao Mode, Paulo Nenflidio, Maria Nepomuceno, Alexandre Vogler. The second exhibition in the series "connect" presents "A Gentil Carioca", an art space founded by Laura Lima, Marcio Botner, and Ernesto Neto in the centre of Rio de Janeiro in 2003. Nine artists associated with "A Gentil Carioca" are showing a collaborative artistic installation that affords insights into the mode of operation of the art space as well as into the local art scene involving critical, artistic debates and playful, poetic landscapes.
Further informations: http://www.ifa.de
Ampersand . A Dialogue of Contemporary Art from South Africa & the Daimler Art Collection
until October 10, 2010, Daimler Contemporary
In the year of the Football World Cup in South Africa, the Daimler Art Collection aims to continue its long years of addressing and intensively promoting South Africa's cultural development with an international contemporary art exhibition in Berlin. The presentation is arranged in dialogue form, juxtaposing current performative, conceptual and abstract tendencies in contemporary South African art with selected works from the Daimler Art Collection. The presentation of our Ampersand exhibition includes site-specific installations and video art as well as paintings, drawings and photography. About 60 works are shown. While the exhibition does feature selected predecessors, its main thrust is directed at current works from recent years by younger artists (most of whom are between 30 and 40 years old). Works by fourteen international artists from the Daimler Art Collection (including one South African artist) are shown in a dialogue with sixteen South African artists. Artists from the Daimler Art Collection: Robert Filliou (1926-1987, FR), Marcellvs L. (*1980, BR), Robin Rhode (*1976, SA), Pietro Sanguineti (*1965, D) and others. Artists from South Africa: Zander Blom (*1982, SA), Dineo Bopape (*1981, SA) and others.
Further informations: http://www.sammlung.daimler.com
Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India
until October 10, 2010 Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin
The exhibition brings together a number of moving-image works by a select group of media practitioners who currently live in India and who are working in film or video rather than “new media.” These images do not serve as windows onto the world, nor point to any transcendent truths, but are presented as they are, distinguished by their evidence. The artist-filmmakers Sonal Jain and Mriganka Madhukaillya of Desire Machine Collective, Shumona Goel with Shai Heredia, Amar Kanwar, and Kabir Mohanty reveal a craft that is based on the principles of practice, process, and perception. In each instance, the singularly plural and plurally singular nature of being and of art remains central.
Further informations: http://www.deutsche-guggenheim.de
BRUCE NAUMAN . Dream Passage
until October 10, 2010 Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart / Museum for Contemporary Art
‘Dream Passage’ marks the first major retrospective by American artist Bruce Nauman in Berlin. The exhibition, hosted by the National Gallery in the Hamburger Bahnhof and set to open in summer 2010, has been occasioned by the successful installation of the spectacular architectural sculpture entitled ‘Room with My Soul Left Out, Room That Does Not Care’ from 1984 that was accepted by the National Gallery as a gift and which is now due to be permanently erected in Hall 5 of the Hamburger Bahnhof’s Rieckhallen in accordance with the artist’s own instructions. The whole-room sculpture intended for visitors to walk through is the high point of a series of works entitled ‘Dream Passages’ inspired by a dream dreamt by the artist himself. The work has not been seen since its first installation in 1984 in the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York.
Further informations: http://www.hamburgerbahnhof.de
HANNAH-HÖCH-AWARD 2010
Prize Giving Ceremony and opening of the exhibition: October 14, 7 pm, October 15, 2010 – February 8, 2011, Berlinische Galerie / State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture
In This year the photographer Arno Fischer received the Hannah Höch Prize of the Federal State of Berlin for his life’s work. Born in 1927, Fischer scored a big hit with his ‘Situation Berlin’ project (1953-60). Today this work is regarded as the most significant photographic comment on the division of Berlin in the early years after the War.
Further informations: http://www.berlinischegalerie.de
Positionen – GEDOK Berlin . 1960-2010
Opening: October 22, 2010 7pm, October 23 – November 28, 2010, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien.
A GEDOK Berlin exhibition funded by the Berlin Senate Chancellery department for cultural affairs, curated by Birgit Möckel 1960 marks the 50th anniversary of the refounding of GEDOK Berlin. The history of the association of German and Austrian women artists and patrons (Gemeinschaft Deutscher und Österreichischer Artists und Kunstförderer e.V.) dates back to 1926 when the Jewish patron of the arts, Ida Dehmel, launched Europe's only interdisciplinary association of women artists. Selected positions from the fields of fine and applied arts, music, literature and dance present a portrait of 50 years of art by women in Berlin spanning all genres and generations.
Further informations: http://www.kunstraumkreuzberg.de
Color Fields
October 22, 2010 – January 11, 2011, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin.
Large-scale canvases featuring flat expanses of color often stained into the support characterize one of the signatures of post war abstract painting and are exemplified by the work of Morris Louis, Frank Stella and Kenneth Noland. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum acquired these works at the time they were made and featured them in landmark exhibitions. In 1961, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presented the exhibition American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, a survey of current trends in art. This exhibition made apparent that there was more diversity to New York School painting than just the gestural canvases of Action Painters. The artists featured in Color Fields are among the many included in these past presentations who were working against the grain of late 1950s Abstract Expressionism and turning abstraction in new directions, all while American Pop art dominated the art scene.
Further informations: http://www.deutsche-guggenheim.de
JULIAN ROSENFELDT . Living In Oblivion, Vattenfall Contemporary 2010
until October 24, 2010 at Berlinische Galerie / State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture.
The Berlin-based video and film artist, Julian Rosefeldt (1965), who has now established an international reputation, has won the ‘Vattenfall Contemporary 2010’ award. The artist impressed the jury with his lavishly produced film installations, in which he portrays paradoxand irrational aspects of everyday life with opulent imagery.
Further informations: http://www.berlinischegalerie.de
GASAG Art Prize 2010 in the Berlinische Galerie
Opening: October 29, 7 pm, October 30, 2010 – February 1, 2011, Berlinische Galerie / State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture
2010 will be the first year in which the GASAG Art Prize will be awarded as a joint venture between the Berlinische Galerie and GASAG. This prize, which now has a change of focus, will be awarded by the partners every two years to Berlin-based artists whose work explores the interface between art, science and technology. Querying scientific methods and cognitive processes has now become an important aspect of artistic work in order to provide food for thought. Thus the resulting exhibition, for which the award winner will create a new work, will create a kind of ‘laboratory’ in the Berlinische Galerie that promotes artistic and scientific creativity.
Further informations: http://www.berlinischegalerie.de
Minimalism And Applied II . Dialogues of Contemporary artists with aspects of 20th century design and architecture
October 29, 2010 – March 27, 2011, 2010 Daimler Contemporary.
Artists: Martin Boyce, Sarah Brown, Björn Dahlgren, Eileen Gray, Gail Hastings, Ferdinand Kramer, Dom Hans van der Laan, Sylvain Lionni, George Henry Longly, Rupert Norfolk, Philippe Parreno, Charlotte Posenenske, Jean Prouvée.
Further informations: http://www.sammlung.daimler.com
László Moholy-Nagy – Art of Light
November 4, 2010 – January 16, 2011, Martin-Gropius-Bau
Pierre Soulages is one of the world's foremost abstract painters of recent decades. On the occasion of his 90th birthday he is being honoured by a Retrospective in the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Starting on 2 October 2010 Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau will be showing this exhibition in an altered form. In 1948, three years after the end of the Second World War, he took part in the then pioneering exhibition “French Abstract Painting”, which was also shown in Berlin. He was the youngest of a group of masters of abstract art, including such names as Kupka, Doméla, and Herbin. Over 70 pictures of all his creative periods, from the works with walnut stain (1947 to 1949) to the radically black paintings of recent years measuring up three metres high, are being shown, many of them for the first time in Germany. They illustrate the dynamic artistic development of this most famous of contemporary French artists.
Further informations: http://www.gropiusbau.de
FRED HERZOG . Pioneer of Color – Retrospective
Opening: November 5, 2010, 7 pm. From November 6, 2010 – January 9, 2011 C/O Berlin - International Forum For Visual Dialogues.
In the early 1950s, Fred Herzog began to revolutionize established viewing habits and existing orthodoxies. As a pioneer of color photography, he developed a profound visual sensibility for the ostensibly inconsequential. His subject matter included Vancouver streets, supermarkets, gas stations, bars, urban and natural landscapes—and again and again, people in their environments, visualizing the highs and lows of the (North) American dream. C/O Berlin presents the first German exhibition of 80 photographs by Fred Herzog. A catalog accompanying the exhibition is published by Hatje Canz.
Further informations: http://www.co-berlin.info
CARSTEN HÖLLER . Soma
November 5, 2010 – February 6, 2011, Neue Nationalgalerie / New National Gallery
The American artist Nan Goldin is a leading exponent of ‘subjective photography’. Her own life forms the focus of her artistic work. Goldin has repeatedly spent extended periods in Berlin since the 1980s. In 1991 she was able to spend an entire year in Berlin as part of the DAAD artist programme. With around 100 photographs, the Berlinische Galerie is presenting a comprehensive insight into her work created in Berlin, whereby it is also drawing on previously unpublished material from the artist’s archive, which has never before been presented. The exhibition is being supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfond (Capital Cultural Fund)..
Further informations: http://www.neue-nationalgalerie.de
NAN GOLDIN. Berlin Work . Photographs 1984 to 2009
Opening: November 19, 7 pm, November 20, 2010 – March 28, 2011, Berlinische Galerie - State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture.
During the years of the Weimar Republic, the Munich newspaper cartoonist Karl Arnold (1883-1953) regularly stayed in the German capital in order, as he wrote, “to capture the bizarreness of this crazy city.” He supplied Simplicissimus and the Münchner Illustrierte Presse with cartoon reportages caricaturing cultural and contemporary life throughout Berlin. With his assured drawing skills and the cool gaze of a detached observer, Arnold portrayed his characters and scenes from Berlin life for a wide audience.
Further informations: http://www.berlinischegalerie.de
SPOT ON: Fashion, A new format for young fashion design, Exhibition, Discussion, Video
until November 28, 2010 Haus der Kulturen der Welt / The House of World Cultures
With the new series of events SPOT ON: FASHION, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt focuses for the first time in 2010 on the creative potential of up and coming international fashion designers living in Berlin: Regarded as the European fashion city of the new millennium: radical streetwear, young, ateliers operating transnationally, high-quality hybrid design inspired by the transformative power of the metropolis. With the new series of events SPOT ON: FASHION, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt focuses for the first time in 2010 on the creative potential of up and coming international fashion designers living in Berlin. Aside from showing new fashion, Haus der Kulturen der Welt will look at such issues as concept development, innovations in materials and current changes in the market that commercial formats rarely take into account. Beyond the presentations, creative processes ranging from choice of subject to the finished design will be made transparent and comprehensible: as innovative exhibition, performance and video works. Participants include Berlin-based schools and universities.
Further informations: http://www.hkw.de
Worldtronics 2010 . Electronica Surprise - Concerts, DJ sets, Electronic Trade Fair
December 01 – 04, 2010, Haus der Kulturen der Welt / The House of World Cultures
"The title alone sounds sporty, in fact, Worldtronics is a kind of Olympics for electronic music," writes SPEX. Since its successful debut in 2007, the festival of global electronic music has been on the lookout for the most exciting musical developments from the wide electronic world beyond Europe and North America. (...) In addition to live acts, each issue of WORLDTRONICS provides a platform for labels, record stores, clubs, professional journals, software and hardware producers to present their music and more, for more information click on: Electronic Trade Fair. In 2009, the trade fare was as popular as the hands-on workshops, mixing and remixing demonstrations. Aside from the concerts, the meeting place will be an exciting highlight of the festival this year too.
Further informations: http://www.hkw.de
ALICE SPRINGS
until further notice at Helmut Newton Foundation.
her own photographic oeuvre began with a bout of influenza suffered by helmut newton in paris, 1970. june newton had her husband show her how to handle the camera and light meter and in his place photographed an advertisement for the french cigarette brand gitanes. the portrait of the smoking model would be the jumpstart of a new career. in the early 1970s, alice springs shot several campaigns for the french hair stylist jean louis david; the photographs appeared under her byline as full-page ads in renowned fashion magazines. 1974 saw the first alice springs cover image adorning french elle.
Further informations: http://www.helmutnewton.com
Modern Times . The Collection . 1900-1945
until further notice at Neue Nationalgalerie / New National Gallery.
The true extent of the wealth of artworks owned by the National Gallery is to be revealed as never before. From March 2010 onwards, paintings and sculptures from the classical modernist period up to 1945 will go on display to the public. This will be followed by a second show featuring works from the period after the Second World War. There are few other museums where history has played as instrumental a role in shaping the collection as it has done in the National Gallery in Berlin. Most damaging of all in the pre-war years was the splintering of the collection by the Nazi campaign against ‘Degenerate Art’ in 1937. Countless Expressionist masterpieces such as Franz Marc’s ‘Tower of the Blue Horses’ vanished from the collection and are still sorely missed to this day. The most important of these lost key works will be integrated into the great showcase of the collection in March in the form of a ‘shadow gallery’. The partition of Germany also manifested itself in the differing strategies adopted in maintaining the collection: while in West Berlin the formal innovations of various avant-garde trends came to the forefront, in the East Berlin National Gallery, the emphasis lay firmly on the art’s content. The merger of the two collections resulted in several groups of works complementing each other, as seen in the abstract artist and Bauhaus teacher László Moholy-Nagy, whose work is now juxtaposed with that of Oskar Nerlinger, who uses similar elements in relation with people and machines to illustrate the city, technology and work.
Further informations: http://www.neue-nationalgalerie.de
Admired, feared and Desired . Emil Nolde Paints Women
until further notice at Nolde Stiftung Seebüll Dependance Berlin.
With works by Arnold Böcklin, Eric Fischl, Pablo Picasso, Edvard Munch and Andy Warhol. "The people are my pictures. Laugh, exult, cry or rejoice," Emil Nolde writes in his autobiography. Although in all of his creative phases the painter focused again and again on woman as a motif, the feminine sex was never comprehensible for him. "In becoming accustomed to the innermost nature of women" lies the origin of his pictures, notes Nolde. "So much is incomprehensible - but I don't need to know.".
Further informations: http://www.nolde-stiftung.de
"You’ve come to a Famiky of Perfumers"
until January 31, 2011, Libeskind Building, Rafael Roth Learning Center at Jewish Museum Berlin / Jüdisches Museum, Old Building
"You've come to a family of perfumers" – this is how Fritz Scherk (1918-1995) was enthusiastically greeted by his family at his birth. He grew up amidst perfume bottles and powder compacts; the Scherk cosmetic company in Berlin flourished under his father, Ludwig. The Albersheims, who had owned a perfumery in Frankfurt since 1892, were also part of the family. Both firms survived "Aryanization," the war years, restitution, and reconstruction and were continued into the 1960s. The cabinet exhibition takes visitors on a journey through time with the Scherk and Albersheim family and company history. Alongside family history exhibits, numerous products will be on show, among them 100 on loan from a private collector.
Further informations: http://www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de
Special Projects
MAJA WEYERMANN . Real Time Nomads
Audio-Visual Presentation: July 2010: Warsaw (THE KNOT), September/October 2010: Berlin (uqbar), October 2010: Berlin (Zentrum danziger50, CHB). Exhibition and City Walks: September 24 Berlin (uqbar) (tentative date of the opening).
The objective of the project is to reveal an unknown aspect of the cultural diversity of European big cities; to analyze - from the point of view of people with immigrant backgrounds - the multi-dimensional spaces in which we move and to reflect these in a multimedia-based installation. Swiss artist Maja Weyermann will interview shopkeepers and foodstand owners from different cultural backgrounds in Berlin and work with them to reconstruct their memories of rooms and spaces from their childhoods in their countries of origin. Then the artist will virtually simulate these reconstructed rooms in 3-D. The completed installation will combine elements of the remembered rooms and the current workspaces of the interview partners. The medium of 3-D simulation allows for the creation of virtual space rooted in private memory. This process will make these realms, in which perception and imagination are merged, accessible to others. Thus, the possibilities of communication and the boundaries of inter-cultural understanding are explored in the act of (re)producing space.
The final installation weaves the different facets of the remembered rooms and the current workspaces of the interview partners into a dialogue with each other. The installation consists of three elements: 1. the renderings of the virtual memory rooms; 2. sound collages; 3. short video loops which combine the memory rooms and the current business premises of the interview partners into an artistic portrait.
Further informations: http://www.real-time-nomads.com
Kontakt: kontakt@real-time-nomads.com
The project is supported by European Cultural Foundation: http://www.eurocult.org
